Stocks after the worst day for the averages in two years . Does it make sense to bail on the market when the dow just plunged 1032 points, s p 500 plummeted 3. 35 , and nasdaq nose dived 3. 17 is that the right thing to do or should we treat in melt down like a buyable pull back honestly, it depends on five factors. So lets check them down one, do you have enough cash to buy or do you need to borrow to make that happen if you dont have a decent amount of cash on the sidelines, you shouldnt do any buying. Do some selling in a moment of strength history suggests we could bounce tomorrow take advantage of that lift, do some selling promises are not going away. Look at your bank account, do you need that money in the near term, say the next 12 to 18 months, if you dont think youll need it and you havent bought anything yet, then i think it makes plenty of sense to start putting that cash to work but only if the market gets hit again. Do not buy a rally please. Get a rally, you missed it it
Saying it was on hopes for a rate cut on friday we talked a lot on friday about just whether and i made a joke that the market shows pricing the quickest sell off. Maybe the one individual that said, i got it and felt sicker it just seemed to subside a bit. Thats right. Human bee haflor is weird. Going into a twoday weekend except the good ones where you could have gotten 1,000 new cases. Up another 1,300 showing a bit of change. I love this graphic friday doesnt really sum it up it came back that was the end of the month. Some of that extra pressure was in the systematictype trading and there is an upside air pocket i think that the fed statement on friday sent the message we are here and probably dont have a very high threshold. It wasnt needed same as december of 2018 it was words that did the job for months until we got a rate cut. The bond market was very interesting. Instead of the bond market leading the stock. Take a look at treasuries. The 10year yield hit an alltime low yeste
Cooperman joins us for the hour. The Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Welcome. Good to have you with us on this tuesday. Our Investment Committee here today, josh brown, stephanie link also with us from boynton beach, florida, leon cooperman, we will get to the selloff in the market today, the fall off for apple first a story thats new at noon today. It is a new position position for David Teppers appaloosa intel sat is negotiate with the fcc. Tepper writing the governments proposal is quote manifestly unfair to the company in part because the terms are difficult to meet. Tepper projecting accepting the proposal would take on serious financial risk he wants a new agreement with the fcc or face the possibility of bankruptcy or litigation from shareholders i spoke with tepper. He said, quote, he want a smart agreement for all parties and this isnt smart for anybody you can see the stock there is a big mover today, up more than 17 . It has been a lose
Maria and our top story this hour 2020 democrats facing off on debate stage in charleston, candidates taking aim at frontrubber South Carolina days before South Carolina prime aye and less than a week before super tuesday, Hillary Vaughn with all the highlights, hillary. Good morning, maria, democrats on stage did not pull any punches, mayor Michael Bloomberg fended off attacks over billionaire status as painting status as unelectable and warren as mayor Pete Buttigieg drilled sanders over the math behind medicare for all. Elect bernie, bernie will lose to donald trump and donald trump and the house and the senate and some of the state houses will all go red. Mayor bloomberg has strong and enthusiastic base of support, the problem is they are all billionaires. Everybody in this room imagine moderate republicans going over and voting for him and you have to do that if you cant win. Aggressive agenda is popular, mayor bloomberg, he cannot eastern the trust of the core of the Democratic P
Sure hope it z whidoes while we wait for that, the numbers hospitalized in china and the number that are released and die. Its going up to 20 of the nasdaq is up 2 that is where we should rollout our game plan for next week. First off, as you know, were closed for monday for president s day. China is very much open. I fear another awful set of statistics i dont know why more people arent investing in this they want people to go back to work they dont want to let people down so it cant be too discouraging. The whole world is hanging on the numbers. If this outbreak gode badly, it could turn into a crisis for the globe. Youll have executives fearing for their lives. Thats right, their very lives the infections will keep climbing and again, remember what i said from the very beginning. No one listened to me. Trust no numbers out of china. Dont trust them walmart reports. This comes with an Analyst Meeting this time. I heard a bunch of people predict this week that the quarter might be wea