Well, ceo of farr, miller, and washington hope everybody is doing well lets check on the markets today. Give you a look at what stocks are doing this hour. 2. 66 down for the dow nasdaq still down 2 and the russell seems to be either the outperformer on the upside or the down side and that is where we find ourselves today. So steve weiss, let me turn to you as we begin our debate on stocks today i is a uh you said earlier today in a note that youre surprised that were down as much as we are today. Why . Well, you know, none of the news dish mean, the numbers were new and maybe slaps you in the face when you see them versus what your expectation is, so the reality sometimes takes you lower. Look, we have so many pundits and strategists come out and say, im so bullish now or im more optimistic, et cetera it brought some weak hands into the market im not surprised that weve sold off a little bit. Thats the kind of market were in but im surprised we took it down this much however, if you l
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Concerns over production of the 737 max jet. And positive news on the housing front, as home builder confidence jumps to its highest level in two decades coming up next hour, former treasury secretary jack lew will join us to discuss trade and the economy. You do not want to miss that and with us for the whole first hour of theshow, dan nathan from risk reversal advisers. Dan, good afternoon. Thanks for joining us. Great to be here. More optimism on trade or whatever you want to put it down to is a lot of this news not already out there . Are you surprised to see ongoing rallies to new highs yet again at the end of the day, you like to see followthroughs. So friday, we had a muted react. A lot of investors expected some kind of surge, similar to what we had at the end of 2017 after the big tax cut. A lot of this was priced in. I think the continuation of last weeks rally into this week is obviously pretty establibullish. Also fairly seasonal as we are looking down the barrel of a week
Slumping and Global Growth concerns back in the headlines, as chinas Economic Data comes in weaker. Joining us for the entire hour, final hour of trade is keith bliss, managing partner and ceo of iq capital usa. Keith, welcome thank you very much you and i were just chatting about the fact that you were noting that youre kind of surprised that the stock market isnt down even worse. I think its really resilient and speaks to the trend weve been seeing throughout the last 30 days for sure and ive been a big believer that well continue to trend higher throughout the rest of the year but think of Something Like this that happened 45 years ago, when we did have real supply concerns and the kingdom of saudi arabia was the big player in the market now its much more dispersed we were not a big player. At all. For a variety of reasons i am grateful and pleased at the resilience of the equity market on news like this today. Even some energyimporting nations like china, for example, you didnt see
After the Islamic Republic seizes a tanker in the strait of hormuz. Healthy growth phillips beats Sales Estimates for the Second Quarter as the ceo gives bloomberg his take on the trade war. These trade wars that are , as ave in the world strong believer in what globalization has brought to the world, i hope that we can see coming closer to each other. That will be good for the world economy. We had some outflows. If i had that back, we are actually within the target range. If i look at margins and revenues compared to the second half last year, they have substantially recovered. A very more welcome to the European Market open, everybody. European markets opening what . 28 minutes time . There or thereabouts. Futures suggesting we will be a little bit weaker at the start of the trading day. European markets expected to be a little bit weaker, apart from the 3100. I should point out, seen as a bit of an outlier, and that could very much the case in oil markets. Futures dewpoint slightly