The half. Im scott pop ner the next flicks numbers hours away now, those earnings coming up can the beaten up stock get back on track it is 12 00 noon and this is the Halftime Report. Announcer netflix facing its final quarter of calm before the streaming wars with apple and disney begin, but investors need to tune into retail sales falling for the first time in seven months are cracks beginning to form in the consumer and what does it mean for the market . Amazon getting a huge price hike ahead of its earnings next week the traders take their position. The Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Good to have you with us on this wednesday, our Investment Committee, joe chenova, steve wise the count down to the netflix numbers, competitors lining up to do battle with that company pete, you own it. I do. I think you are the only one on the desk who does doc, you do. John, pete its not the same we have a lot of different strategies going on. There is competi
Getting thanks for joining us this is our international. Irans foreign minister jeffords a reef has tweeted that america despises diplomacy and wants war after washington introduced major new sanctions on tehran including against the country supremes leader ayatollah escalation comes in response to irans downing of a u. S. Military surveillance drone which the Islamic Republic claims violated its airspace. Todays action follows a series of aggressive behaviors by the Iranian Regime in recent weeks including shooting down of us for own. Rollers i guess everyone saw that one and many other things said and many other things aside from the individual drone use of the tankers and we know of other things that were done also which were not good and not appropriate. At least on quarter joins me in the studio. I guess everyone saw that when the shooting down the drain well actually no they didnt and things arent always that obvious when it comes to sanctions theyve imposed many sanctions in the
Committee chair chuck grassley, former fda commissioner Scott Gottlieb and others. [ applause ] hi, everyone. Thank you for coming. And thanks to pfizer for sponsoring the event. Just to reiterate, if youre into hash tags, go ahead and use axios 360 and we can have fun on the social networks together. And if youre also inclined, go to signup. Axios. Com to get our news letters, especially vitals, written by my colleague, Caitlyn Owens. We try to keep things short and light. And real quick, logistic, if youve never been to one of our events before, we try to keep things short and sweet. Four segments of interviews. We want you leaving here feeling smarter about what we talked about. And this in particular is about drug pricing in america, which obviously will continue to be an issue going into 2020. So with that in mind, id like to welcome our first guest, senator chuck grassley. [ applause ] good to be with you, bob. Thanks for coming. All right. I think its only its a good place to st
Culture, the idea of seeing the man in front of the tank, many of us have all seen that, at least if your speedy we believe this hearing to go live to discussion from axios on Prescription Drug prices. Well hear from Senate Finance amity church are progressing but first former fda commissioner Scott Gottlieb and later senator Debbie Stabenow of michigan. This is live coverage on cspan2. And real quick, it could have been to one of our events before, we try to keep things short and sweet, four segments of interviews. We want you leaving here feeling smarter about what we talked about, and this particular is what drug pricing in america which obviously will continue to be an issue going into 2020. So with that in mind i like to welcome our first guest, senator chuck grassley. [applause] good to be here with you, bob. Thanks for coming. All right. I think its only, its a good place to start by talking about your constituents. What are they still telling you about their own drug prices in
Its exactly didntly resilient. And that etf on a bitcoin would maybe open a market that hasnt been there before. Lets start with the market and the impact of bond yields. The rise in yields has put a damper oron what has been a strong year for equity markets generally. What does it all mean and where do we go from here . Also with us the manager partner with the cla, he is our guest host for the hour. Welcome both of you. Good to have you here. Let me begin with, with your thoughts on bonds generally. Theres been some talk. I mean lately youve been paid to keep your maturities very short, whether youre in the treasury market or elsewhere. Are we getting to the point where it might be time to go out a little farther on the duration curve . Well, i think people are beginning to realize that the Interest Rate regime is now going to be higher for longer, and therefore those people then very, very short can begin to move out just a little bit because yield curves normalize. Were in this sit