Tariffs on china came in the wake of an 11 30 a. M. Meeting with secretary mnuchin and robert light hauser, the u. S. Trade representative, who briefs him on how things went in shanghai this week the president issuing this tweet suggesting that hes frustrated with the talks and frustrated with chinas lack of follow through and also to stop the sell of fentanyl in the United States the president saying that china had agreed to do that and it never happened and as a result, americans continued to die, so as a result, he says on september 1st, yithe united stae is going to put a small tear i have on the remaining goods coming in to our country from china. He says he looks forward to continuing positive dialogue with china and a comp help sieve trade deal and ends on a positive note saying he hopes the future between the two countries will be b bright this sets up a dynamic with the trade talks in washington which is going to have a little edge to it as the u. S. Side and the chinese sit down the president s leaving himself some wiggle room here by putting in this 10 rate he could increase it from there if he doesnt like how things go in that september negotiating session. This is the president sending a a trade shot across the bough here to the chinese side well see how they respond, if at all, later today. Can we conclude the talks that were just concluded in shanghai didnt go well . I note they ended 45 minutes early. T never a good sign. Number one number two, the comments out of the Chinese Foreign ministry were pointed and seemed to take aim at the president and some tweets that he had issued prior to the talks i mean the president issued those tweets just as the two sides were sitting down to dinner in shanghai this was all going on in real time. You had the negotiators in shanghai sitting down facetoface the president tweeting his suspicious the chinese were stalling on him and trying to wade him out through the 2020 election the president says he thinks the chinese would rather negotiate with a democratic successor than with this president. Not clear thats whats going on on the chinese side although theyd have reasons for trying to play this out the president gets a report at 11 30 from his top negotiators then we see this tweet following up you can connect the dots between the two and say the president didnt hear what he wanted thanks very much and if you hear anything more, i know youll holler. Down to bob pi sani on the floor of nyse. Were now reeling for the second straight day here. And down yesterday and up this morning on the ism. Whats it worth, 10 about 40 point on the s p 500. Were down 15. Just sitting near the lows of the day. Up essentially 25 earlier in the day. Number of sectors affected here. Rerk dollar down, Interest Rates down and generally, thats not good for the bank so all of the big banks and it doesnt matter whether youre talk iing about money center banks, regional, fifth third or the big banks like citigroup all are down 3 or 4 the big dwloebl trade names, boeings, caterpillars, all down about 2 to 3 . Everythings town about 3 Global Industrial names na that group. The vix, we just moved up here, were at 17, almost 18 thats about a two month high for the vix and i think the bigger problem the markets have is just the backdrops. Talk iing about all day, going into august. Youve got a a market thats up 20 on the year. You got flat earnings. That means its pricey a bad month for the dow. Trade tensions ratcheted up and rate cuts unstecertainty. Trade and rate cuts that have f moved the market most in the last two day, not good news on them Little Wonder were down today back to you. Thank you lets break this down more talking about what led to the president s announcement just a short while ago. What it means for further trade and negotiations joining us on the newsline is fred kemp, president and ceo of the Atlanta Council and fred, you know on the one hand, we had indications all week this was not going well on the other hand, it feels like it came out of nowhere this is a big step to expand 300 billion a lot of these Companies May not have had to deal with this at all yet, rig this is going to come as a surprise to a lot of people b and most of all, the chinese it wasnt expected, but it is consistent with the way President Trump has approached this clearly the message his cabinet members are bripging back from china may be willing to wait him out. What trump said is im not going to let you wait me out im going to hit you with further tariffs. You have to understand, its not just tariffs its the separating of these two economies. So you have a lot of american suppliers ranging to go pro to apple and others already changing their supply chains and taking a lot of business away from china and giving it to other countries in the region and mexico and vietnam and other places so theres a knock on him and this is taking place just after the chinese announced that their Economic Growth had deacceler e deaccelerated to its slowest pace in decades. Since 1992 so this is really interesting move on behalf of the president. Now we have to see how the chinese respond. My guess is that if you ask the president , if you poured truth serum into him, he would say what better time to hit the chinese with tariffs their economy is weakening ours is strong and may be strengthening. Why not do it . And he wouldnt be wrong about that, would he he wouldnt, but the one thing thats interesting is is they have weapons they can use in an undemocratic system so actions they can take against u. S. Companies on the ground operating outside of the trade system tariff system that we cant really undertake in the United States. So they have weaponry they havent used it and they could do that. The other thing thats taking place now and i dont think this is something the chinese think is unrelated there are protests taking place in Hong Kong China released a dramatic video today showing off its armys capabilities as the head of the armed forces in hong kong said the up rest in the prons had seriously threatened the life and safety of the people and shouldnt be tolerated so you have a political situation in hong kong where the chinese have argued that the United States is dark hand of course we arent, but thats what theyre arguing so this is not just an economic test this is a test between two powers, one of them authoritarian capitalist, the other democratic capitalist. Its a systemic struggle and could go op for decades to come. While that play is out, we saw the u. S. Manufacturing surveys, the competence measures take a hit when we ratchet up to 25 . What do you think the fallout will be from this 10 . Is it going to be relatively small because its just 10 and companies are starting to get used to this news flow or do you think it could be quite large . I think the direct impact will be large enough, but its the indirect impact thats going to be larger people looking who used to look at the Chinese Market as the market that was going to drag their growth and theyre going to have to reassess and look at political risks Going Forward and say you know, this is going to go on for a while so i have to look for other solutions. Once you move a supplier from china over to somewhere else, youre not likely to move it back anytime soon. Youre going to find china doing more to pump money into its market looking more, getting domestic demand pumped up infrastructure projects. They have a lot of liquidity, but they build up quite a bit of depth trying to get themselves through this period of time. So i think the knock on impact i think the tariff impact is is dpoipg to be large i think the knock on impact in this sort of new almost cold war situation is going to be even larger fred, thank you appreciate your time, response and thoughts this afternoon. So is the trade war still the biggest risk market or does this almost ensure a more aggressive policy of rate cuts from the fed . Scott bren is a senior Global Equity strategy with wells fargo. Art hogan is chief Market Strategist with National Securities lets pick up there and talk about what this could mean over the next couple of months to Equity Investors as we now have tariffs coming on september 1. Another set of talks in september in washington. But tariffs now take center stage once again they do and of course its in a real bad place Monetary Policy doesnt help whats about to happen and the real problem is when we step back and look at evolution of tariffs in china, the remove to 250 billion worth of goods sort of landed in the middle. It was intermediate goods. Wasnt the finished goods. You look at the basket the remaining 300 billion is directly affects whats going right with the United States economy. 80 of that basket directly hits the consumer of the 300 that will now be subject. And they had not been hit before thats why youre seeing the u. S. Economy consumers actually been the corporation and had great deals but had been hit much harder i think this strikes at the strength of the u. S. Economy very hard and theyre turning the time where the u. S so i think this is something Monetary Policy is not going to fix if we continue to educatisc in time, the markets going to have to go a lot lower it goes beyond. 100 . Scott, the market was up 300 plus points today and a bounce back after yesterdays swoon now down 200 on the dow. Is there any way to overstate how important tariffs are right now . Well, you know, ty, in your segment before, the top of the hour, you know kelly said her reaction was holy cow. And my reaction was very, very similar. Not exactly similar and i cant say what it was on television, but i mean you know may have come from cows thats right. We had a great bounceback day going. It made sense to me what the s p 500 was doing. After yesterday and into today but clearly as art said, this trade situation, it is a huge deal and the market is is going to rt very negative ly to trade news now do we believe that if its negative trade news. Do we believe theres going to be a trade deal . We do. We dont think the market is required why do you say that now everything, everything right now does not point that direction at all. Well, now i think that you know for us, basically, these two economies, we kind of need each other you know theyre big markets, the two biggest economies in the world. You know we have one controlled economy. Ours is not controlled by the government but this is very important for confidence for supply chains. For overall trade. You can see in the earnings that are coming through not only here in the United States, but globally, i mean this has been a head wind for earnings look at companies in taiwan and south korea that export into china. Tech companies their earnings are down 25, 35, 40 in the fourth, first and Second Quarter here. This is a big deal with 40 of the revenues in the s p 500 coming from outside the country. We need help from these other economies for our s p 500 companies to meet these earnings expectations this is a big deal we dont want aadditional head winds op trade that said, art, the reason why look at walmart stock again. While its reverse lowered today, again about a to to three percentage move. Its almost positive were you know, theyve mitigate ed their exposure the to china its not huge. They sell a lot of food. 10 tariff on finished goods, are you going to see u. S. Suppliers pushing back saying were not taking that price or maybe absorb half and pass half along or because the economy is so strong, we dont notice does it continue to hurt Business Investment more so than actually have a real impact on the u. S. Economy absolutely to the extent you can get that accomplish ed and either find another source for that good or push back and try to split that. Its still affecting your margins and it affects to a larger extent the lack of confidence that businesses have right now. So much larger part of whats going on in the u. S. China trade war is is not the math the economics of what 25 is on 250 billion. Its the confidence factor thats just not there. You stop making decisions. You put off decisions until theres an end game to this. This feels like this just move ed that out. This is a much more elongated u. S. China trade war the market was able to conpartmentalize this and say as long as we dont escalate, we can deal with what were doing and now the markets been thrown out. Theres lots of speculation in the market right now, ill ask you, whether you think because this president is frus trayed the fed didnt do more yesterday in saying heres a way to get you to do more. Is that reading a little too much into what is is played out this week . I think it is i mean i think every president wants lower Interest Rates its just that pump vocalizes that strongly. So i think that the trade negotiations were frustrating. You mentioned that lighthizer and mnuchin, the meeting was cut off early. The president had his briefing and reacted. I think these are different issues, but certainly, the president is well aware that in an easier Interest Rate environment, that may cushion some of this blow, but you know, you look around the world. Weve had very low Interest Rates. It hasnt necessarily produced the jai gragigantic growth that basically zero Interest Rates would have produced in any other cycle. So this could be a pit pushing on string situation, but what we dont want to do is is we want these global economies to stabili stabilize. Increased trade frictions not going to help that happen and is is probably going to make it deteriorate. So were going to see positive headlines, negative ones like we just say you have to be ready for that in the coming months and probably into 2020. One good thing is you do know the Central Banks are on the market side. I want to get quick answers from both of you art, you first then scott. You. In light of this, and in light i think its fair to say that the trade tensions just got a little worse. Over the last three days what do i do with my portfolio that i might not have done on monday ill tell you this. I think this makes you more defensive if you werent already. With things hanging out there, brexit utilities health care i think thats appropriate has been for a bit but i think even more now because this is going to drag out. The biggest concern the market has longer we dont want them getting defensive. We want them nor neutral and we want to look for opportunities well see what happens at the 200 day moving average, which is 27. 90 in the s p 500 it feels like theres probably a good chance were going to see h that level i tell you the phrase that stood out to me in this first block here 16, 17 minutes in from fred kemp was we are in the middle of a systemic struggle that could play out for decades to come. I dont think that understates it thank you. Thanks, guys. Retail stocks are falling today because the president has said these additional tariffs are going to be imposed on china. I guess the key thing here is that an additional 10 tariff on china will make their goods more costly and thats perhaps why were seeing a notable reaction in a number of retailers that source of produce goods inside china. Look at walmart starting with the Worlds Largest retailer basically now flat on the day although you saw the intraday reser value on shares of walmart. Nike china is the Fastest Growing market with greater sales accounting for a large . Shares of nike off the lows, but still down about 3 then restoration hardware, remember this is wup of those names that in its past earnings report, the company said its going to be moving some production out of china because of higher related costs associated tariffs which got two upgrades today is now down 2 and then sharp declines in best guy and kohls youre seeing notable weakness in those two names best buy down nearly 9 . Tyler, you and i were discussing two days ago were seeing this push by u. S. Companies to diversify their supply chain out of china, so you have to think this tweet will really accelerate that need to broaden their production outside that country. I think thats true the diversification and not just as we were talking a couple of days ago, not just to vietnam. Not just to vietnam countries like malaysia, thailand, philippines, all of which have been trying to court these u. S. Companies that are looking to diversify their production thanks. 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[ laughing ] [ screaming ] zblnchs welcome back. Welcome back to power lunch with a dramatic afternoon. Stocks making a huge reversal when the dow was up 00 points. We are down 200 now. Apple, boeing, caterpillar hard est hit by the president s announcement that he will be imposing new tariffs on china starting september 1 phil, its not that these companies are hit directly by these expanded tariffs, theyre the names most sense the tiff to this idea theres not a trade truce per se with china. Correct boeing gets about a quarter of revenue from china, Chinese Airlines theres always been a concern with investors that as you look at the trade negotiations and whats going on with the discussions about huawei, whether or not the chinese retaliate in some fashion and if you were going to retaliate, who would you go after in the United States the biggest exporter to china, ths boeing not to say thats going to happen, but thats the concern that you see trade tensions ratcheting up and shares are down almost 1. 5 almost 5. Thats the concern thats bringing down boeing and when you look at the automaker, theyre largely down in siympathy with the rest of te market in fact, a good example of that is is General Motors earlier today, they reported q2 earnings beat the street by wide range on the bottom line by 20 cents. Also beat on revenue they were up earlier in the day. Now you see gm along with ford and chrysler trading lower lets look at shares of tesla. The reason tesla has turned negative is because the concern is this is a company thats building in california exporting to china and yes, they are building a plant in shanghai it will be up and running later this year, but until then, they are selling u. S. Made vehicles in china looks like we lost phils uplink there so were going to take a quick break. Up next, the trade iing nation a will tell us about the one sector that could be the key to the markets next move i bet they didnt plan on what theyre going to be talk iing about an hour ago. Energy getting slammed as trade tensions rise adding to the pain the sector has seen this year and a top anysalt will tell us whats next on that. Lets go they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps. Com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the Amazing Services of the post office only cheaper get our special tv offer a 4week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps. Com tv and never go to the post office again welcome back to power lunch. Ia swift reversal for the semis tanking after President Trump announced the next round of tariffs. The trade sensitive chip stocks tracking for their worst week since a may sell off and after being up this morning. Lets bring in your trading nation a beacon of where the market and risk appetites might go. What are they telling you right now . Well, no question for 25 years, its a great indicator for the entire market, but the last two years has been particularly so. It topped up last year then led the market higher in the first half rally this year the problem is you know it looked really good for a while broke to a new high, but only a slight new high. The its curled back over and as of last nights close, the it was testing its trend line from the june highs, but now its broken below that with the news. I would have said an hour ago that its not a big a deal weve had a 25 rally over the last two months, so pulling back 5 is not a big deal now were below that trend line. Thats a b problem problem the mat d chart is is curling over in a negative way, so this new thus is something we have to keep a close eye on. Whatever lows we make today are going to be important that we told them. Its not going to be good for the group or the market in general. We still got month to go before these tariffs are imposed, but well see what happen, but this is a concern at least the yellow light mark, looking company by company, sub sector by sub sector what stands out to you within i semis . I guess all it takes is one tweet to derail two months of positive momentum. The semisoftware relationship is important to watch when semis are out perform iing, thats typically bullish thats been the case over the last few months. Not so over the last week or so. Within the sector, there are some countries that are crushing it you need to be selective the way we like to play this is to find a company that has exposure to thehighest Growth Markets we want to play. Ai, autonomous vehicles, Gaming Center that company is nvidia still 40 off oits its october high and has ability to play catch up got whacked because of some cry crypto exposure. Probably just over 160 bucks right now. So i think theres upside from here nvidia is not one thats recorded earnings. Guys thanks for checking in. For more, head to our website or follow us on twitter at trading nation thanks. Stocks are continuing their major reversal the dow is down 226 right now. All the major averages down. 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I dont want bills like to to go directly to the floor and for seven week, ive tried the best i know how to find a breakthrough and i was unable. So ill blame me if nobody else, but i am not going to stop with the process. It is now time for us to move forward and get this bill out of committee. And while cleaning out some ips from his childhood home, scott amos stumbled upon a bag with an old video game in it it was a 1987 sealed copy of the nintendo game, kiddic russ it was a Christmas Gift his mother forgot to gif him it could fetch as much as because it wasnt opened cash will be trash. Thank you. Market losses are accelerating the dow industrials off more than 200 points. Lets go to bob pisani for a quick check on the markets bob . Its cost us b about 50 points on the s p. Almost 500 points on the dowment just take a look hejust in the last hour. Were back to where we were in start of july. You can see some of these stores, some of the electronic retailers like best buy. Notably weak here today. I think its important, buys ceo came out a few weeks ago and said the impact would be felt in terms of highest costs to consumers. So buys weak and Department Stores are weak as well. Banks, we got lower rates and affecting all the banks. Doesnt matter whether youre dealing with regional banks or whatever Big Money Center banks like citigroup on the weak side caterpillar was 132. 132. 5. Its down to 128 or so 126 even more in the last five minutes ive been standing here. Finally, the vix at 18 its been a few months thats not surprising. Remember the two things that have moved the market most this year, the direction of Interest Rates and tariffs and trade both in the news and not in a good way in the last 24 hours back to you. Gl thank you very much oil, big fall sharply. Leslie picker is following it. Hey, tyler. Oil plumet iing today. Wti down 8 right now. 53. 92. Thats the biggest loss for wti on a oneday basis going back to all of 2019. Same thing with brent. Down 7. 1 . Biggest losses for those two in the entire year. These accelerated losses come after trump announced those additional tetariffs on septembt the escalation of the trade war is spark iing concerns that demd for oil will falter in a weakening global economy, but oil is already down earlier in the day and that drop came in response to the feds decision yesterday to cut rates contributing to an overall risk off environment. Guys leslie, thank you were going to talk much more about this oil is sinking on the latest shot in the trade war. Its dealing a blow to the already battered Energy Sector how will Falling Oil Prices impact things further . Paul is is here. Help us understand what is happening today. First of all, the dollars weaker crude is crashing. It had its worst day since 2015. Your stocks were terrible even before that move so what do you think is really going on here . Well, chinas been the dprout driver of oil for 15, 20 years now so anything that goes bad with china is is going to exacerbate concerns that were significant about demand and the fact we have too much supply so the other extraordinary thing weve seen here is the situation in the middle east extremely tense, but oil cant get out of bed because theres so much capacity and so much u. S. Production growth capacity is going to sit there in saudi, middle east. What we have to also get rid of is some of this u. S. Production growth thats b probably going to take lower. Were going to hear from chevron, now 2 . Also from exxon tomorrow, but today, one of the better names in the sector, down huge what is that telling you b about everybody else well were hoping to hear from chevron well see. No it was a shock theyre a highly regarded company. Good play on the perm yum and management have just misjudged how to manage Market Expectations it was a shock at results last night. The market was shocked at what has been b a premium stock so the issue was that highly regard aed therefore its coming off a higher base and when you have these misses or disappointmented in terms of what they reported, thats why we got such an erratic sell off in the stock this morning is there anything on the horizon that would regress the fundamental problems in this crime, which is a lot of excess capacity and falling you know what the cure price of those rates looking scary. The side the very mature not with standing chinas importance the fact is is a really strong year for demand would be 1. 5 Million Barrels a day. So you can really only expect around a million at best a variation in that metric in demand, which is the most important thing in terms of how the market sees the world because Everything Else follows from there the moment we arguably got a Million Barrels day too much supply growth. Wow u. S. Supply growth because nothing else is is growing that much theres also non non opec growth the total looks as much as a Million Barrels a day without further concerns the way youll balance that because the other supply coming is very long cycle big mega projects that are going to start up and run is some of the short cycle stuff and thats where the concerns center around we were just showing the price levels brent is barely above 60. Wti is around 54 and change. Down 7. 5 today. So what levels are we talking about . A major reset. Lower or what happens if we stay where we are today well, its fascinating b about 55 is the fascinating price for wti because thats the point of zero Free Cash Flow for the average u. S. Player. So the markets down at this point. Of challenging the strategy of the managements in terms of what are you going to do at 55. Are you going to generate Free Cash Flow . Keep growing at 20 plus percent. The question will be continue to be asked by the market obviously to the downside potentially if we dont see some tempering of growth and reduction in cap. The market is begging these companies to spend less and grow less what if im long some of those companies that are exposed . What do i do here, its very tough a good example is con cho because they have such good assets it is very, very important for the future of global oil so i think our view is that one way or the other, whether its concho getting itself out of its mess and have a good 2020 or the potential for m and a is there for the case of o the names. But its been a tough break. I wouldnt advise you to sell it here at all. I would do the opposite. But we were certainly disappointed by last nights results. Is this going to slow texas at what point do if youre saying the market wants it to spend less to grow less. Are these regions going to remain strong or start slowing for year, ive never been able to quite prove this, but ive argued that High Oil Prices are good for the u. S. Because of the importance of the primary aspect of investment in oil in places like texas and the fact that the potential is there for u. S. Consumers to become more efficient in using oil so it wouldnt be bad for people to have a bit higher prices in my view. It would be more efficient so you know, were looking at a very interesting balance in market one thing i didnt mention is its pretty depressing because this is about as good as you get in oil were in the mid f of pique demand in summer and things get weaker throughout the year and finally, youve got to think about the dollar it indicates oil prices as well. So its pretty strong. Were sorry pretty scary take out there for us im afraid to say paul, thank you really good to see you to the bond market shall we. Rick santelli is tracking the action there and with that dollar hi, rick yesterday after the announcement, they all sold off taking the ease iing away now look at a twoday of september. But more important, a twoday of december remember, its log jam a building 30 h day contract one after another. December gives you that glimpse. The headlines regard iing ta tariffs, they tarted to rally asking for more easing look at a twoday of twoyear note yields. They are down as they sit now about 15 basis points. Tenyear, down about 12 at 128 189. November of 16, tenyear closed here and as for the dollar index, lets be nice to the guy thats still winning it settled at 98. 52 yesterday, but 98. 01 on friday. Down on the day, still up on the week back to you. Thank you very much lets talk about apple it is falling down more than 2 right now. And we will tell you what anorheart,orhade tensions could me f t mke f tt company and much more after this quick break. Dow down near session lows down 300 points. Thats about a 600point reversal from the highs earlier today. What about apple those shares down 2 has President Trump has threatened to issue, hes announced hes going to put further teariffs o china. Hi, josh so tyler, apple stock did drop after President Trumps tweet there that the u. S. Is going to put this additional 10 te tariffs on goods from china. The company does all it design work here in the u. S. So thats in cupertino, in austin and the displays come from japan and korea. But it does assemble products in china. Meaning fiphysically putting together different parts that work does employ millions of chinese, so like many other companies, that does make apple potentially vulnerable to price increases if you saw this tariff placed on chinese exports, but its uncloer which apple product would be really affected here. Analysts remind us apple has successfully argued its case last year when the ustr removed devices that receive and transmit data, that would have included the apple watch and air pods sending a letter to the government saying a tariff would hurt its contribution to the u. S. Economy back the to you. Thanks. Well switch gear to a news alert on facebook. Julia boorstin has the latest there. Whats happening facebook shares moving to fresh session lows and a wall street journal report that the ftc is is examining whether facebook brought companies to yutallize rivals facebook disclosed last week the ftc had been conducting an antitrust investigation. The investigation is is reportedly focussing on the acquisition practices, looking at purchases of instagram, which was acquired for 1 billion and whats app the question is whether Mark Zuckerberg purchased these companies to e prevent them from challenging facebook sources say facebook is likely to argue these companies were able the scale as quickly as they did because of facebooks ownership. Weve reached out to both facebook and the ftc they have no comment back to you. This is separate from the matter they settled over privacy a couple of weeks ago and takes it off in a different direction. Exactly yes, so we reported a couple of months ago that the ftc was looking into whether they would be investigating facebook from an antitrust perspective they split up the investigation so the ftc was in charge of the ante trust examination of facebook then facebook disclosed last week when they settled that 5 billion fine, they also billion they disclosed the ftc was, in fact, investigating antitrust, potential antitrust violations, at the company so thats when we learned there was an antitrust work under way on behalf of the ftc this is totally separate from the 5 billion settlement that is about consumer and privacy this is about antitrust. Thank you very much, Julia BoorstinRetail Stocks hit on the iccod f these tariff headlines whh ulbe most at risk . We will dig in on that one next. lively music [student] my degree from snhu has helped me tremendously. The flexible class schedules allow me to run my catering business and be a mom and parent. Breakthrough at snhu. Edu. Welcome back President Trump has announced new tariffs on china beginning september 1st, expanding them to 300 billion worth of goods. Look at the reaction across retail especially for nike and best buy best buy shares are down nearly 9 brian nagle is on the line from oppenheimer. Why is best buy taking this so hard good afternoon. I think the easy answer is, when we think about additional tariffs, particularly the last round which is much more consumer than industrial focused, in many ways best buy is in the cross hairs of that. Were across retail and ive discussed this on your show in the past so far these retailers, for the most part, have been dealing pretty well with the tariffs this last round is much more consumer focused with best buy sells the category that is largely imported, a big chunk from china we dont know how much its more of a price sensitive category than other areas such as Home Improvement or autoparts and categories such as that. So 10 sounds like a lot, but it is also a little in the grand scheme of things, frankly. And what wiggle room would best buy have with its suppliers either to pass these costs on to consumers, to eat them, or to share them with the supplier thats a great question, and as investors in this category, weve been watching this for a while. We are trying to make sense of the 25 tariff on these last 300 billion tyler, 10 is not as bad, likely much more manageable the question for best buy is going to come down to exactly what you said. Where do they have Pricing Power . Where could they pass these costs to consumers or could they push back or negotiate with suppliers . Thats what theyll be deciding. Youre correct when you say i dont want to minimize the 10 its not the 25 we were fearing. Not to mention best buy would seem to have earned the reputation for being one of the players with market power, with Pricing Power, one of the market leaders. After everything theyve done to fend off amazon and make it in todays retail environment, why is it when a stock like home depot is negative on this best buy is perceived as taking a bigger hit is this a direct translation to your forecast for earnings, revenue and so forth well, look, a lot of it goes back to the nature of the category i agree completely best buy is very much the last man standing within the Consumer Electronics category a very well run company. Within Consumer Electronics it is more of a discretionary purchase and weve seen it across the sector with online commerce, a Price Transparency out there consumers look more at the price of Consumer Electronics. Home depot, they have a lot more ability to pass along higher prices without the consumer really even knowing. They sell a wide array of products products are geared towards projects theres items within the projects, nails and most people dont know how much they cost anyway no, thats fair enough. Like you said, everyone else, meanwhile, has the comp screen of their flat screen cost when they make the purchase thanks, brian, for phoning in and joining us today appreciate it. Brian nagle of oppenheimer with best buy down. A wild day for the market. The dow has been trading in a 600point range. Were way down from the highs, lower by 200 points. L t you set up for the close after this weve had a lot to digest the last couple of days. Certainly have. If you thought it was all about Interest Rates and the fed, today was a wakeup call certainly the fed was pointing to trade tensions as one of the reasons it did what it did yesterday. I suppose if theres a Silver Lining there, the trade tensions are still there, it might mean more rate cuts are on the way. By the way, the jobs report tomorrow morning thanks for watching. Closing bell right now. Good afternoon welcome to the closing bell. Stocks plunging interday this brings consumer stocks into the bargain. Nike down, near the bottom of the dow, seeing a 600point swing. Welcome, everyone, to the final hour of trade. What is driving the action stocks plunging after President Trump set a new 10 tariff will be placed on the remaining 300 billion worth of goods that come