That House Democrats may be too afraid, too afraid to transmit their shoddy work product to the senate. Mr. President , looks like the prosecutors are getting cold feet. Neil whether it is cold feet or whatever, the fact of the matter, it is unusual, not unprecedented for the house after impeaching to say, wait a minute, well see exactly what the senate plans to do before we pass along the articles of impeachment to the senate. Wall street journal Global Economics editor jon hilsenrath, democratic strategist capri cafaro, exactly how long the markets will ignore this uncertainty. It is rather remarkable, if you think about it, jon, by and large, actually throughout this process the markets have focused on everything from trade, corporate earnings, the strength of the consumer, the market, housing, not a one, not a one on impeachment. What do you make of that . Well i mean i think the market sees an economy that is doing pretty well. Were going, were in our 11th year of economic expansi
Well and apple. That event is just wrapping up now. Announcements shaking out in the stocks of different competitors. Were going to fill you in on all of that action but joining us for the hour is steve grasso from stuart frankel. Steve, great to see you. Good to see you its amazing. Not necessarily a major move for the averages today or right now. Everything is slightly lower and actually, if you look at the week, the dow is actually flat so far to start off the week and yet theres been this great rotation talk to us about that. The rotation is coming out of growth into value. How long does that last is how long the market will be under pressure and for now, it probably will last a little bit longer, but get a trade deal, throw everything i just said out the window and you see everything rally back people are making the analogy back to 09 and 2016, with this rotation that lasted for a couple of weeks. I dont think it will be that long do you really think were going to get a trade deal
Rate decision. Apple also in focus as wall street reacts to its launch event, including a new iphone lineup. Meantime, china insists it has not issued a ban on the companys flagship product. Were going to get into all things a. I. With tech ceos meeting with lawmakers on capitol hill to what Salesforces Marc Benioff told jim about that technology. Lets begin with cpi. Obviously, core, bit of a disappointment to the bulls, jim. Gasoline is more than half of the headline, up 10. Car insurance, up 2. 5, but lodging away from home down 3. I was listening to Steve Liesman break it down, and i agree with what steve was saying, its just empirical. Theres nothing that says that gas and oil and have necessarily trickled into the rest of the combination. We do know ive been talking with major insurers who are using, believe it or not, Artificial Intelligence to actually get prices to where they are lower, and i wonder whether that wont filter in as part of a larger conversation about trying to g
A positive upward momentum we had recently. Be one of the reasons we are seeing a pause. Stocks have gotten too overheated levels, according to several measures. One of them is the 14weak relative strength index. We have a chart of it here for the s p 500. Line,y, this of her red when this goes over that redline it indicate stocks are overbought. On the bottom you have a green line that indicates oversold typically. So we have a record level for this 14weak indicator. If you look at the 14day rsi come it shows the highest since 1971. Momentum indicators have gotten a little overheated, and that is something investors have been talking about. Individualk to the stocks, watching some of those financial earnings as they come to a close. Morgan stanley, which has been bouncing between gains and losses this morning is holding onto a gain of half of 1 as the companys Wealth Management fees climbed to a record, raised its target for return on equity. On the flipside, bny mellon reported inlin
25 dragging the rest of the building sector higher. Standard charter trades higher in hong kong after pretax profit jumps 17 5 beating forecasts. Sky shares rallied to a 17year high on news that comcast entered the bidding battle the u. S. Cable giant unveiled a 22 billion pound offer this morning representing a 16 premium to the dealready on the table from 21st century fox. Because both companies create and distribute content, it is said the combined group would be stronger than if 21st century fox takes full ownership of sky. However he says he is willing to coown the company as long as he has a 51 stake. Lots of ins and out. Steve, what can you tell us . A lot of analysts have been looking at this one for a large amount of 2017 comcast is the owner of this company, as you said we want to keep reminding people of that. They need to diversify away there are great pressures on the cable industry neil campo saying the revenue and annuity stream could be of primary appeal to Brian Robert