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Since late april. Our question is this, whether a market that has largely ignored the controversy in washington and if it is finally paying attention what that means to yo your money. Kevin, people have been surprised at the complacency of the market. Is today a sign all of that is about to change in a big way . I dont think so. This is just the pause that refreshes. Weve been waiting for a correction like this. Its not a big deal. This whole thing with trump and the circus around it is to boil ...

Back with more. The markets hanging on to just a slight gain at this point. The dow is being helped by walmart, dragged down by cisco. With that, well turn it over to scott wapner and the halftime. Thank you so much. Well keep our eye on things taking place in the nations capital. The market, a nice little comeback after the worst day of the year for stocks. The dow only up about 17. 5 points, s p up less than 4. It is the nasdaq up 20 points, still hanging above 6000. With us for the hour today...

Is this a buyal . Financials catching a bin today, up by more than 1 . That fear trade that really spiked volatility on the big sell off, we talked about how weekly futures had gone into backwa backwardation. Higher than the front than out the curve, that has reversed comple completely, so theyve taken b that fear out. Whether it was trump being impeached that caused people to hit the sell button. Thats gone now. Virtually vaporized. Were down to a vix barely holding in the 12s. Yeah. Did you bu...

Fast enough. Why is there a lack of trust . I think every day, theres negative headlines. You talk about the middle east. North korea. Whats going on in washington. The trump fade. Theres so much negativity in this market, but yet, we saw strong earnings, housing is strong. Youve seen employment strong and then if you add to that, this rush of indexing with all the money coming up to push up and propel the stocks, if you are taking the behavior rall view we do, dont p pull out yet. Its a slow cr...

Nobel winner, jails robert shi yales Robert Shiller. I didnt mean to cause jaws to drop. Why this call . Well, its not that different. Stocks have generally outperformed other investments through history. Theyre highly priced now, which means i dont expect them to outperform so much, but for a longterm investor, and most people are, i think there should be a place for stocks in the portfolio, and they could go up a lot from where they are now. They could also go down a lot. Thats the problem, bu...

Weve been lagging in financials. They have been not really participating in this. We get any participation from that, scott, think about the momentum that could push into the marketplace. Obviously weve gotten through these earnings. Tech has a leader. They have been an absolute work horse in the market. And each and every day we seem to see it. Its not just the big fang names, its across the board all way into the Semi Conductor world, but technology itself is leading. We mentioned, joe, 2400 o...

Business insider ceo is joining us this morning. A lot to get to with henry. First off, shaking off the amazon effect, shares of a number of retailers moving hire this morning, but all eyes are on best buy, 52 week highs after glowing past estimates on the top and bottom limenes. And sears and Williams Sonoma getting a best on earnings. Henry, this is interesting because so much obituaries have been written because of amazon. Some people are arguing are finding ways to move around it. Some are, ...

Investors, whether u. S. Stocks are really still the place to be and lets waek in jeremy with us once again live from philadelphia. Professor, welcome back. Good afternoon, scott. Professor schiller at the beginning of the week saying stocks could go up another 50 from here. What do you say . I said are you bullish . It could go up 50 . It could go down 50 . The word could does not really mean that thats what he expects. But you know, the momentum is there. The earnings momentum is is there. I t...

Slightly. The Chinese Markets were closed for the dragon boat festival holiday. The nikkei ended flat. Down by 4. 5 points. In europe, some of the early trading, youll see right now it looks like things are flat for the dax. In germany the cac is off, and in london stocks down by a third of a percent. Crude Oil Prices Last week were all over the map. Ended up down 50. This morning down to 49. 57. Several headlines out of europe this morning. It is the euro moving following comments by mario drag...

Holiday shortened but jam packed week. Futures are lower. S p on a sevenday win streak. Europe relatively mixed, tenyear 224 income and spending in line. Case shiller in line as well. Our road map begins with the president back on twitter, reigniting harsh rhetoric with germany. It is a tech led rally. Amazon and alphabet getting near the 1,000 mark. The summer movie season, is it in trouble . The shortened Holiday Market week see if the s p will extend its win streak to eight. The president wro...