With us and former president ial candidate Mike Huckabee and chairman of Laffer Associates, art laffer. Weve got an amazing lineup. You dont want to miss it. The top story is china trade. U. S. China negotiations picking up again tomorrow. Robert lighthizer and Steven Mnuchin arriving in china, theyll meet tomorrow with chinas vice premier. Talks this time are around what theyre going to look at Agricultural Products and huawei technologies. Jack, i want to go to you first. A lot of controversy over huawei being included in these talks. Its so interesting, because seven months ago i dont think too few people knew what huawei was in america. Or how to pronounce it. Im still learning. What do you make of the new trade talks with lowered expectations. If youre a stock investor, i think this is a good starting point for you with expectations low. We had past talks where we expected a big, grand deal. I dont expect anyone talking about that now. Theyre talking about Agricultural Products an
Before the Senate Finance community, topics include rural melt care and telehealth flexibilities. We are meeting today to discuss with senator becerra, the budget and the department of services. The budget comes down to a simple proposition, helping working families and the middle class get ahead. Reducing the federal deficit, they are not mutually exclusive. Today, we are committed to doing both. When it comes to health care, that means protecting medicare for the next generation by making sure that the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes, strengthening medicare, negotiating the cost of medication, and investing and priorities Like Mental Health care, and the health care workforce. Thats sharp contrast to the republican approach to the federal budget. Since the beginning of the year, there has basically been a demand for secret negotiations on unspecified cuts to specified programs wall hosting hostage the full faith and credit of the United States government. Budget chair Committee
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Recordbreaking day for the stock market we cross one more millennial, have more to go . The president is talking about 30,000 who knows where were going. The important thing is to note how broad the rally is, not just tech stocks, in fact, theyre not necessarily the most important part of the rally. Lets look at the sectors moving financials is been big Interest Rates have been moving up materials, thats a rally thats continuing to ratchet. Energy strong with oil over 60. Even Consumer Staples are leading. You know whats not doing anything anything thats Interest Rate intensetive. Real estate, investment trusts, utilities lagging for a long, long time. Of course, those are bond proxies. A lot of new highs in financials as the higher Interest Rate scenario is helping the banks out. This is a small spattering i could go through American Express, etrade, key corp, suntrust, all sorts of banks all the Major Money Center Banks as well as the super regionals at 52week highs a cyclical rally,