Gone red as weve gotten more guidance on Net Interest Income on the conference calls. Yeah. Absolutely the banks are in focus as this first day of earning season in earnest really kicks off one of the names im actually focused on that reported this morning is fastenal, distributors, thats what they make and they provide those distributors to quite a variety of industrial excuse me industries and end markets, early indicator of the state of the industrial economy, youre seeing those shares pop today in part because at a time where so Many Companies are cutting their dividends they actually raised their dividend and they noted that theyre seeing product produced significant shifts in business mix and that march sales of the fastener products declined 10 on a daily basis as industrial activity slowed but their safety business grew 31 as they were sourcing and delivering critical ppe supplies to the marketplace why do i bring this up this is essentially what were seeing and i have a feelin
Year yield. Really talking about when you look at the 10 year yield, you look at the charts, it is starting to make an uninversion of the yield curve. When that starts to happen, call your mom or head for the exits. Again, 4. 2 a and new home prices, nothing much to say there. The big story we are continuing and some ofbrexit the key crosses here on sterling. The headline is we are weaker on cable, but if you take a trend from 124, it is something we are trading right now. Lets stay on for brexit now, Boris Johnson will make a fresh attempt to deliver on his pledge to deliver out of the European Union. Supporters say he has enough votes to get a deal out of parliament. The u. K. Prime minister has formally, but reluctantly asked the eu to delay brexit until january 31. Here, justheadlines bring us up to speed. Saturday, he faced a defeat and parliament when he was supposed to be able to bring forward his boat, a meaningful vote to get parliament to this side whether or not they were on
Ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. It is great to have you with us on this wednesday our Investment Committee today, joe terranova, jon and pete najarian, carrie firestone, kevin oleary, and also with us on set, Kathy Entwistle weve got a full house of advice today. Stocks on track to recover their losses from last week. Being driven by strong earnings from target and lowes target hitting alltime highs topping 100 bucks for the first time ever. Do we continue to bet on this consumer, carrie are there enough unknowns in the back half of the year to make you cautious its a great question and what the market has been telling you for the last year is that its a battle its a tugofwar between deal or no deal recession or no recession. Interest rates up or down. And do we put the money in the mattress or the market this week its the market. So if you have earnings growth, which weve been seeing this quarter, and the consumer is strong, people forget that we dont have a trade d
Off more than 10 of its staff globally, ceo elon musk saying the company is looking for cost reductions and to increase productivity. Financials in focus again. Goldmansachs topping firstquarter estimates fueled by trading and Investment Banking. We begin by kicking off a new week for the markets, geopolitics on the front bunner. Were watching some of the risk premium in oil, back below 85. Brent, off 90 once again, but what an eventful weekend. I think some people might be surprised to come in and see Oil Prices Lower after the events of the week. Eurasia group says the size and scale of the assault by iran is greater than Eurasia Group anticipated, but there is hope, as you say, carl, and potentially some signs that we might have a diplomatic sort of response by this. Its certainly what the u. S. Is encouraging. Unclear what israel is going to do. Obviously, the next few hours and days will be decisive, because wall streets trying to figure out, is there going to be an escalation of
Build. Buzz starts to build. We are minutes from the end of the tuesday session. Longest winning streak since april for the european benchmark. Tech stocks are the big gainers today ahead of apples unveil her of its big iphone. It could get a share of components manufacturing. There is any positive catalyst. We are witnessing the record high once again for the world index. Lets look at the currencies. The most interesting currency today with day today is sterling. It is rising today. U. K. Inflation raised higher than forecast today. The last your was 2. 6 did it sets up boe meeting on thursday. There is a one in three chance the markets hold a rate hike by the end of the year. Ande got average earnings unemployment figures tomorrow. Its going to be a fascinating week ahead of that centralbank meeting. This is what is happening as you can see, money moving into equities and the pound. All yields are rising prices are lower. There is an appetite for risk across europe today. Julie, hows