Dow and the s p 500 putting in a new record highs, but the nasdaq the laggard today. So far not another record high. Everyone has been talking about the string of records. Can this be the longest bull market ever . Goldman sachs is saying the evaluation is stretched to levels not seen since 1900, and pain. This may end in they also talk about the idea that a 6040 portfolio, typically in a retirement portfolio, 60 stocks, 40 bonds, a very balanced portfolio. There turning 12. 86 vs. 7. 1 since 1985, and 4. 8 over the last century. Certainly the returns matching these record highs are seeing. The question is when and how might it end. Fed chair janet yellen will be testifying shortly. We had a reaction to her preprepared remarks. The 10year yield, up six basis points. The incredible that the fed is likely on the path for continued gradual rate hikes. We have the other havens selling off, including the yen, gold, trading lower, supporting the riskon tone we are seeing to some degree. Of c
Committee will come together without onbjection. This hearing is for the purpose of receiving the semiannual testimony of the chair of board of governors of the Federal Reserve system on Monetary Policy and the state of the economy. I recognize myself for 3 1 2 minutes to give an Opening Statement. Not with standing the greatest monetary and fiscal stimulus, the economy limp aid long for eight years averaging 1. 6 gdp growth. Wages remain stagnant and failing since the 2008 financial crisis. New phrase by leftleaning academics in an attempt to rationalize the phenomena namely secular stag nation. Far more descriptive phrase is high taxes and heavyhanded regulatory policy. Fortunately with the election of donald trump and passage of tax cuts and jobs act that has all changed. Employment is now at a 17year low. Wage growth is the fastest in companies all over america are anow ns bonuses to employees and skpap expansions in their communities. Economic growth is averaging 3 . There is grea
Half hours time. It looks like investors do not anything germanic ahead of that on a macro basis because the s p and dow slightly lower. The nasdaq slightly higher here today. Gross closer to resuming and surpassing its record high. Take a look at my bloomberg terminal. I the intraday moves going back to six months. The record high was reached back in july, july 20 to be exact. We are 1 below that level. Indo see a rally for stocks december. We could see not only the nasdaq but other averages once again surpassed those records. Today, yahoo ogy is in focus. The wall street journal reporter that the company was considering a sale of its main core internet business, leaving olli alibaba states. Qualcomm is an outperform after coming to an agreement with xiaomi. It is a 3g and 4g patent agreement that will allow for royalty fees. This is important because qualcomm had said last month that it was maybe having issues with negotiating those speeds with its chinese customers. You can see the
The center of that story for weeks. Bob peck, the analyst with sun trust. Bob, its good to have you back. Thanks for having me. The board is considering a spin or a sale of the core assets or maybe other things. Whats most likely to happen . A couple of these. We think when yahoo did not receive its public ruling from the irs that that would be taxfree, but that was a material adverse change. The board right now is doing what it should do prudently looking at all the other options that maybe more taxrisk averse. With that you have a spin of the core and absolute sale of the core. You have a sale of the asset. You could even do a cash rich tax free spin with alibaba. Theres a bunch of alternative theres, and we think theyll ultimately look to maximize their sharing responsibility. Taking it a step further. Tell me what you think is likely. Probably most likely, most simple and we point in our note today, you could just flat out sell the core, which we think could generate 6 billion to 8
I think its completely crazy were doing substantive work on the 17th of december. I cant imagine were holding real conferences here right the week before christmas, but we are, but thats because theres so much to talk about, and im so glad to have you all come. Thank you, thank you all for being here. My name is john hamre, im the president at csis. I wanted to say special thanks to Julio Friedmann who is a friend. We have known each other for many years. Hes fortunately in town serving in government more directly. Hes a government guy, hes out at Lawrence Livermore labs but were so pleased he can be here leading at a crucial time when we need to be thinking through a lot of important issues. For a very strange reason, recently i have been doing some personal reading on the history of philosophy, and i was recently reading about Thomas Robert maltous, a british cleric who in the early 18th century who was a very provocative philosopher because he had very dark views about the future of