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Lets begin with the markets today. The dow marching closer to that 20,000 level as everything from the transports to small caps, nasdaq hitting record highs today. Josh, what, if anything, is still cheap is the question i pose . You have 40 new stocks hitting 52week highs in the s p today. You had 112 yesterday. Is anything cheap enough to buy anymore . Let me start by saying this is a great environment for people who didnt panic during all of the big bad event that is we had this year starting from the things that went on in january and february related to china, continuing through, you know, the brexit drama this summer, italian referendum. The election here. If you stuck to your guns skpurks owned cheap stocks, you are doing very well. Value is outperforming substantially. Small caps that couldnt get love for two years are also doing well. I dont understand why we would say that thats going to stop. The its important to point out the four best sectors in the s p were all negative in
They used to force companies to buy stock. Now its prohibited. Earlier in the week when we did 300 i messaged you and said, this is definitely it. We have to call the top here, definitely. This has got to be it. They keep going. Another 142. Hope springs eternal. 19756. What is interesting is that, you know, things havent even been done. So we dont know whether deregulation and cutting taxes and progrowth supplies, we dont know whether they are going to put them in. But there was a question recently about whether those things even work. So now were seeing this, we dont know if they are going to do it, but just the possibility we might do them is worth 2,000 points on the dow. And dont you think every single cabinet member he names leads you to the conclusion that it is going to happen. Its got to be the most probusiness cabinet since ronald reagan. I had a great talk with al gore. It was interesting, it was nice, we got along really well. And he picks the Oklahoma Attorney and its been
Sure, but not overly expensive. Are there some risks out there . Of course. The tenyear rate is probably reaching the threshold. Its at a 27month high today. 2. 5. Probably you now have to start worrying about it. The damage has been done so far. Its not turned off the Housing Market, which is the one worry you would have, and if it did turn off the Housing Market, you can bet that the fed would back off the peddle a little bit as far as rate hikes go. They dont want the Housing Market to crater at this point in time. Steve liesman, you got the fed meeting this week. Whats the risk in the red rick th that came out of the fed . They embrace what this market is thinking about the future when it comes to rates and when it comes to inflation. What the fed has told me in interviews leading up to this is, hey theres a risk if they do that, and then you see the fed outlook with higher rate outlook and higher inflation outlook. I feel like were getting to the point where almost everybody wants
Off of 11week highs in europe. Lets look at the action in the crude markets. Opec members have agreed to cut production. Wti down today 1. 2 . Brent down 1 . Taking a breather. Its been a torrid run in the oil market. U. S. Federal reserve will announce the latest Interest Rate decision. The fed expected to raise rates for the second time in ten years. Also expecting an updated economic and Interest Rate forecast. You can watch all of this, the full coverage of the fed announcement and Janet Yellens News Conference on cnbc. There are a few other key reports to watch today. Heres whats happening. 8 30 a. M. Eastern time, the Producer Price index and retail sales come out. At 9 15 a. M. , Industrial Production and business inventories for october. Thats at 10 00 a. M. Eastern time. Now lets talk a bit of politics. President elect trump will be holding a roundtable summit with Tech Industry leaders today. Among those expected to attend, the man who put this together, peter thiel, bet on t