Trade, the president declining to provide more details on the negotiations with china this morning, saying, quote, well see what happens Broader Markets at the moment down about 0. 6 on the s p the dow is down 192 points the low of the session for the dow 250. So we are off the loan he lows t recovering a little bit in that final hour of trade. Joining us for the full first hour of the show is bespokes paul hickey. How you doing . Good. Do you think it makes sense well start on a soft footing given the great run we saw in november we saw a big strong run to close out the month of november here and dont put too much weight into the first trading day of the month. I dont know if you recall, but last december, we were up 1 on the first trading day of december and i think we all remember what happened the rest of that month. If we can get the opposite of what happened last december, ill take it fair enough lots to discuss with paul throughout the full first hour of the show. Lets focus in
Slumping and Global Growth concerns back in the headlines, as chinas Economic Data comes in weaker. Joining us for the entire hour, final hour of trade is keith bliss, managing partner and ceo of iq capital usa. Keith, welcome thank you very much you and i were just chatting about the fact that you were noting that youre kind of surprised that the stock market isnt down even worse. I think its really resilient and speaks to the trend weve been seeing throughout the last 30 days for sure and ive been a big believer that well continue to trend higher throughout the rest of the year but think of Something Like this that happened 45 years ago, when we did have real supply concerns and the kingdom of saudi arabia was the big player in the market now its much more dispersed we were not a big player. At all. For a variety of reasons i am grateful and pleased at the resilience of the equity market on news like this today. Even some energyimporting nations like china, for example, you didnt see
Yield. Oil down for a Third Straight day. Back into the low 80s on wti crude. Small caps had been outperforming much of the day. Banks, though, continue to lag. They have certainly been pulling up the rear for much of the last several months. We begin with our talk of the tape. Is the threemonth market pullback driven by macro and Interest Rate concerns running its course as the final earnings season of the year gets under way or will the bolts remain penned in by higher rates and fears of slowing growth and whatever else we can think of. Lets ask adam parker, cnbc contributor. Adam, i dont know, people trying to look on the not so negative side. Yesterday, a bit of a failed rally. Today, yields are quiet, markets able to maybe seize on some of the fundamental news. Are weable to go from macro to micro at this point . During evenings season, some stocks give you four updates a year. The rest of it is all macro or factor betting. I think were getting some mixed to positive results on ag
Performance award, whatever you want to call that, do you is not sending veterans to the outside to private care, is that part of the metric . And no one has answered that question. Is it yes or no . Congressman, i dont know. And ill take that for the record. Okay. Thank you for that. You mention, at least its in the evaluations that you have, the elements outlined for as leading change, leading people, business acumen, building coalitions and results driven. Those are the metrics that you go by. What are the specifics in there . I mean, how they set up. Thats fine. I mean, all that sounds good. But what do you actually have to do to get a 10,000 or in some cases 60,000 bonus . Congressman, in each of the performance plans, there is a template that goes out that says the guidance for the strategy of v. A. And what the employees must do to tie their organization and individual performance to the strategies of v. A. That is how it is determined. And if they exceed, there are different cr
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