Year can it keep rolling on mad moneys jim cramer is with us for the hour the Halftime Report starts right now. It is great to have you with us on this monday. Our Investment Committee today, joe terranova,ster know, and jon najarian and cnbcs jim cramer, host of mad money. Always great to have jim on the desk earnings economy and Rate Decision front and center and President Trump firing off on the fed once again tweeting that the fed raised rates too early and too often and said a small cut isnt enough meanwhile janet yellen giving her thumbs up for a cut. Although the u. S. Is doing well, i would be focused on wanting to keep it doing well, to keep the expansion on track, and i think in light of the risks, i would be inclined to cut a bit. I wouldnt see this as the beginning unless things change, of a major easing cycle. Cnbcs senior economics reporter Steve Liesman is here as well to give us his two cents and much more, i hope. Its a foregone conclusion in terms of what the fed will
41 puts it in a socalled bear market. Alphabet shares on the rise. Energy giants on the move this morning after earnings, this, as oil sinks further into bear market territory. And, man, those exxon numbers werent good. And the dnc wraps up. Economic growth coming in well below consensus. 1. Versus 2. 6 expected. Gdp in europe disappointing overnight. S p and dow up a little bit. The best month since march but the first down week in five, perhaps. You had to go through a gauntlet. Apple. Facebook. Alphabet. And, amazon. And, i gotta tell you, 4 for 4 is pretty impressive. You see the nasdaq holding in there. Playing catchup. I didnt think we would go through the gauntlet unscathed. I felt one of them would screw up. I think the worst one was amazon and that was pretty great. It was not as huge an upside. And i have to tell you, their Conference Call has gone back to this opaque nature i cant stand. You know why the quarter was good . A fly wheel. Fly wheel . Thats like isnt that like p
Coming up, two guys who are facing off each other in the ring when it comes to puerto rico. Jim millsteen, renowned restructuring attorney, advising puerto rico. Well talk to him about puerto rico. He was at treasury during the financial crisis. Knows a lot about that is go on with the European Banking system. Well discuss that with him as well. And ambac could lose a lot of money if jim millsteen gets his way. Well talk about that coming up. What is happening in puerto rico, guys, emblematic of what is happening in the world. Too much debt that people, governments, companies, cant pay back. Tyler, back to you. Thank you very much. Enjoy the warm weather down there. About 22 up here in englewood cliffs. Janet yellen getting grilled on capitol hill. The verb we always use when somebody goes up on capitol hill it seems, saying negative rates are not off the table. Lots of red numbers right now. Lets look at the dow, which is off by 322 points, not the lows of the day, but nevertheless, b
Discussing recession yet again today if oil hadnt reversed course and roared back which caused the dow to rebound from down 265 to up 53 points. S p advanced. 44 . Nasdaq gained. 87 . When you look at the link to the price of oil, the idea we could be headed into a recession has become a powerful fiend. A whispered under current in this environment that services when oil take as dive. When oil goes up we stop worrying. When oil goes lower, the story is back on the table. Then i get a second whisper. It goes like this. If we are talking about going into recession, why the heck does the fed feel the need to raise Interest Rates. How can that be on the table . Why are people so worried . So many like to grab a mike and tell us how great things are now. These conversations should be combined to sound like this. You mean to tell me we are going to have a recession and the fed will raise rates or just an out and out declaration. Well have a recession because of the fed. Like this morning the
Today if oil hadnt reversed course and roared back which caused the dow to rebound from down 265 to up 53 points. S p advanced. 44 . Nasdaq gained. 87 . When you look at the link to the price of oil, the idea we could be headed into a recession has become a powerful fiend. A whispered under current in this environment that services when oil take as dive. When oil goes up we stop worrying. When oil goes lower, the story is back on the table. Then i get a second whisper. It goes like this. If we are talking about going into recession, why the heck does the fed feel the need to raise Interest Rates. And how can it be a march rate hike . Why are people so worried . So many like to grab a mike and tell us how great things are now. These conversations should be combined to sound like this. You mean to tell me we are going to have a recession and the fed will raise rates or just an out and out declaration. Well have a recession because of the fed. Like this morning there was a piece of resear