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Wednesday night, the mondelez sale was for quote, rebalancing as the position crew outsized come paired to other holdings like valeant that dropped in value. That sparked wild speculation about whether he might have gotten a margin call or something else. I reached out to him this morning for comment and to give him the opportunity to set the record straight on the current state of his firm. Ackman telling me we dont use margin leverage. Never have and never will. Others speculated he might be p...

Cutting the number of rate hikes it expects this year in half. What that means for the markets. Shares of fedex are up on earnings and company taking a shot at amazon on its call yesterday. Plus jim cramer spoke to target ceo about competing with amazon. How hes positioning his company against jeff bezos. First up something that would have been nun thinkable. Dow and s p down 1 for the year after the fed reduced the number of rate hikes it expect this year from four to two. Futures moving lower....

10 of wells fargo, that is major money were talking about right there. And the fbi hacking into the iphone of one of the San Bernardino phones without apples help. Its the outcome and is it a bigger black eye for apple or the government . Well have both sides of the debate. Who loses the most in the outcome of this whole situation, apple versus the fbi . The Broader Market is getting a nice boost after janet yellen said caution is warranted. Gold rallying under comments dollar went low are and y...

Thats a built in part of how we invest for clients. Youll never see us top ticking whatever did the best over the last few weeks or few months. Youre more likely to see us adding to what hasnt been working. You would be buying health care stocks, financials, discretionary, tech . Yeah. Look, the s p is up 6. 5 this week given all the issues were dealing with. Just unimaginable. Thats the state of play. 15 of the last 22 days positive. Again also unthinkable. But quality is probably going to cont...

The stock market is up. America is great again lets get to Brian Sullivan in the Baaken Oil Fields in north dakota. The temperature is up. One of the reasons were inside is we were here last year, i got in the rental car, negative 21 degrees. It is supposed to be 70 degrees today and 90 degree swing. We took our chance, were still inside here at the bakken. Oil is up today. The stock market is up today. The spirits here are up a little bit. Lets be clear what happened here, guys, the price of oi...

Item on my agenda than going after them and defeating them. The issue is how do we do it in an intelligent way. What has been working is the air strikes that were taking on their leadership, on their infrastructure, on their financial systems. And heres what we know. Identifying two of the suicide bombers in yesterdays attack, Ibrahim El Bakraoui and his brother khalid who blew himself up at the train station. One of the attackers still on the loose, french Prime Minister says European Union mem...

The attacks in paris killed 130 people. What we know now is there are reports that two people have been arrested and are alive. Thats from an nbc news fixer on the ground there. We do not know whether one of them is the person you saw in that mug shot, which is Salah Abdeslam. There are reports hes one of those arrested. Nbc has not confirmed those at this point. But there are various belgium reports he is one of those suspected, but were waiting for nbc news confirmation on that. Both are repor...

Roughly where they are. And any motion there is going to be slow and deliberate. Lets get to bob pisani on the floor of the new york stock exchange. It is the newest leg of this rally, Dow Jones Industrial average at a high for the year and much of it is being fueled by that weak dollar set off by the fomc announcement yesterday. Want to show you that dollar index. Dollar lost 2. 2 against other currencies just in the last 24 hours or so. Thats a huge move. Big move and big help from materials a...

Question. How should one thing about the slower normalization being allocated among three factors . Is the fed more worried about the outlook than the scenario i just described . Is the fed modifying its reaction function, or did Market Participants really understand the way the fed started normalization . Okay. Thats a great question. Let me try to address it. So, you started by pointing out that essentially the u. S. Economy is doing well. We are close to our maximum employment goal with a 4. ...

May have to raise rates very quickly in the future. And she says that due to raising rates are not raising rates due to market volatility is something the fed should be very wary of. She says she reduced her rate path for the fed funds rate from december to march. But says now the economy has shown considerable resilience. Recent inflation data, she says, has been somewhat encouraging and she expects wages to accelerate as the labor market tightens. She sees strength in Consumer Spending with st...