Confidence ticking lower in november though still largely positive. Joining us for the hour is mark tepper from Strategic Wealth partners mark, welcome. Thanks for having me. Even as i just went through those different points that are driving the action today, weve got records again for the dow and the s p, albeit just barely. Right, yes. I mean, all investors are pretty much still riskon and whats most surprising to me is you have this news coming out of china where china is potentiallily bay lbalking at ae deal, but were at a new alltime high. The market has shifted from one of economic deflation to policy reflation and thats typically good for stocks, right a low inflation, Slower Growth economy is good for stocks over the next six to nine months, now would not be a good time to be underweight equities. You want to be pathetics right now. Is the trade deal priced into this market . I think completely, almost fully priced in right now. I think weve seen quite the runup over the cours
Over. 1 treasury yields, this morning were taking a look and youll see that its trading at 1. 5 . 1. 543 to be precise the two year a little higher than that in terms of the yield. 1. 518 this is no way to run a business, obviously. Im talking about torte reform and things like that when one judge can say yeah, 17 billion he didnt. No, he didnt but he could have thats what we deal with in todays with trial lawyers. Now to get to a developing story this morning, i got my editorializing out even before. Started at least. Thats what the story was Major Court Ruling this is just one state too this is oklahoma we know about the Opioid Crisis. It was against Johnson Johnson. The judges ordered them to pay 572 million for country bouting to the opioid economic in oklahoma under the public nuisance law theres 50 states by the way. Theres also municipalities. Think about it. It says j and j and its unit repeatedly down played the risk of addiction doctors were targeted as key customers. It cove
At 53 basis points and well discuss. David . David time for an update whats making news in the business world. Good morning, emma. Emma 40 People Killed and dozens wounded this morning in the suicide bombing in the Afghan Capital of kabul. Explosions walked the center and afghan news organizations. Interior Ministry Spokesman said the exact number of attacker is unknown. Islamic state claimed attack. Bility for the in the u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson written an oped defending u. S. Foreign policy under donald trump. He lauded the attack. In the president s move against north korea and Islamic State in his first year in office. Tillerson wrote, quote, in spite of the challenges i remain optimistic about the power of diplomacy to resolve conflict and advance american interests. President trump rejected reports earlier this month he was about to replace tillerson. Nd the u. S. Endured 15 weather related disasters costing 1 billion or more through the month of october. According
A few days ago it was the nasdaq at 7,000 overnight in asia, the nikkei, if you think these numbers have been good here, up by more than 3 . It had been closed for a bank holiday over the last two days so it had some catching up to do right now you can see the hang seng closed up by a half percentage point as did the shanghai if you look at whats been the early trade in some of those european markets that we watch closely, up across the board gains of almost a percent for the dax in germany and the cac in france. Ftse hanging in there. Still in the green with italy and spain, each up by 1 and look at crude oil prices yesterday a rally in crude oil, up by 2. 1 this morning additional gains of 11cents. 61. 74 a barrel for wti big corporate stories of the morning. Tesla is still struggling with production the carmaker releasing Fourth Quarter delivery numbers that fell short of expectations again, pushing back production targets for the model 3. Tesla delivered 1550 units of the highly an
The dow is the story today bet than 1 gain the russell, small caps trailing a little bit bob pisani on the floor with more were reversing that trend. We used to sell off in the middle of the day, but friday we diplomat and today we are holding onto our highs its very important. Three trends ive seen thats happened in the last two days. Number one, the healing continues. S p regained 20 of the losses were finally seeing new highs appear and familiar names are on that list. Finally, the Leadership Group since the bottom is the Leadership Group getting us into this, and that is cyclical stocks look whats leading today. Boeing, 3m, apple, cisco, these are all cyclical names lacker eds, coke, mcdonalds, johnson johnson, General Electric not doing too much overall s p new highs, old faces weve seen time and time again on the list amazon, netflix, adobe, hewlettpackard, jpmorgan chase. We continue to see the rally move forward not going back to that idea of selling off late in the day. Well s