Very active in and out and another analyst gets bullish on disney. The Halftime Report with scott wapner starts right now. Good to have you with us on this thursday. The biggest stories of the day thus far steve weiss, john and pete are here and jenny harrington, the portfolio managing stocks have been boosted to new highs after a lead in boeing, caterpillar, as the president meets with chinas vice premier today midst with headlines whether close to making a deal the question is, what would a deal real palestine to yoly mea . Its not. Its not priced in. You believe something is close . I think were getting close to an announcement and then we need to hear what the details are, which i said all along. I believe that will be enough once we get what the details are and where its going to impact we suspect strongly, of course, it will impact agriculture products whether it is the machinery that goes into harvesting stuff like john deere or whether its cargill and ad plays in the u. S. I th
Very, very comprehensive deal and very complete. Discuss everything we talk about everything when we first started and people said youll never talk about a vast array of elements every one of them is not only talked about, but highly negotiated and whether its our farmers or our technology people, all of them will be really happy, and i think chinas going to be very happy, too. [ inaudible question ] what would you like to see happen with tariffs . I dont want to say that to you, but i will be discussing with the vice premier in fife minute, as soon as you leave, and just a lot of good things are happening. A lot of great things are happening. What is important is the relationship with china is very strong, probably the strongest its ever been in a sense and yet were negotiating a strong deal, but i think our relationship is at a point at about the highest its been and thats not a bad thing. Thats a very good thing [ inaudible question ] yes do you plan to remove all tariffs . When you
Fire gold hitting its highest level in a year, copper and paladium also even the fed said that growth here in the u. S. Will slow in 2019 why are we seeing materials rally . What could this meanfor the markets, guy i think a couple of different reasons. People think, yeah, were at this slowdown but the time to buy these stocks are during the slowdown hoping for the reacceleration which could come on the back of a china deal, which quite frankly i dont think is coming any time soon. Gold market has been had a bid to it now for the last month, month and a half. A stock hitting its highest level of the last year theres clearly something going on i happen to think the move in gold is predicated on the fact that Central Banks globally have done more than global banks. I think the lack of volatility is pushing people into riskier assets. If you look at bond volatility, between what happened in the last six years effectively, were at october 4th levels on the vix right now but more importantl
this is rowan bridge in mold in north wales, where an amber weather warning for significant ice and snow could bring disruption through today. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. at least nine people have been killed in ukraine as the country has again come under sustained russian missile attack. there s been severe damage to parts of its energy infrastructure as well as residential areas. the mayor of kyiv says 40% of the capital s residents are without heating. shelling overnight in southern ukraine has damaged the only functioning power line used for electricity to cool the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which is occupied by russia. the ukrainian military said more than 80 mostly missiles were fired at areas, including these shown here. just under half are said to have been intercepted by air defences. 0ur diplomatic correspondent james landale reports. this is what a cruise missile can do. a residential part of lviv in the far west of ukraine. homes turned to rubble, str