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Its the xpi, the ibb, the ones were talking about, and theyre down 4. 13 . Many of them rebound the maybe 25 , 30 off of the bottom that is they put in right when that tweet came out. Of course, the stocks were under pressure. They have bounced a little bit. Lily is, like i say, about 50 cents or so off the bottom that it put in, and still well above where it was in the after hours the other day. I think this is a lot to do about nothing. We would all like to see many of the Health Care Costs co...

Antitrust violations without getting into specific, and Washington Post ran an article saying trump posed as a publicist to generate stories, a claim trump denies. Bezos would offer trump a ride to space. Would he field any questions at the meeting about trump . Well wait for that. The brawl has not worried investors yet. Look at amazon stock, outperforming the market this year, and still up more than 60 over the past 12 months. Adding to the drama today, though, ultra violet, a Group Fighting s...

Take a look at the splash, there is positioning that is starting to take place in anticipation of what could be, maybe a fed Interest Rate increase. Hedging their bets tachlt a look at this one. The two year note yield for u. S. Treasuries, already over the korts of the past week, moving higher. It was near 80 basis points about a week ago. Now its up towards 90. Again, look in the grand scheme of the year to date period, eliminatively on a low basis here. One place where that battle, that hedgi...

Well, you know, some people just get so tribal about the politics. It is a hate hillary or a hate trump, and we refuse to look at the actual data, and we refuse to look at the actual issues. We make these things flashpoints and then we stop digging if in. You know, i have said it before about donalds campaign, and it is the seinfeld campaign, the c campaign about nothing. He se smart, because the more he gets into the details the more the followers and the tribe, their eyes glaze over and so it ...

Stock s are reacting some turbulent traffic ahead. And is that welcomed . Yes. It is, because of the optimism for the economy itself, and the appearance of inflation, and the 0. 4 on the pricing index is for anecdotal because we have Domestic Companies with sales that are up 30 over last year. We are are rocking it in america right now. And im telling you that there is no recession, so why not a rate hike, because we could take 25 basis points right now. And doc, neutrals on the stocks in the ne...

It is currently below where it is trading now . Well, it is affecting the direction of the market that wanted to point higher. When it relate s s to apple wit sitting at 89. 80, and make the short trade and go against the big Balance Sheet . I am not sure it is something that you want to do, and if you believe it is the right move, you have to hope it is getting to 80 and not going to be buying back the stocks. And on the longer term basis, i believe in apple and the story and the the vision and...

Intel and qualcomm are ones that we own, and they are nicely yielding stocks with multiples of 11 to 13 and depending which one you are looking at, and is cisco with the 3. 5 yield, and intel is the same, and qualcomm with the 4. 5 yield, but we have talked about it before, is old new . But looking at a name like qualcomm, and in particular, you are seeing the the breakout that you have not seen this year, and this time last year in the high 60s and now in the low 50s, but i believe it can get b...

And in one weeks performance, and macys, and nordstroms and kohls all down double digits, and coming in short on the topline, and only macys beating on the bottom line. And jcpennys, and daillards ae down on the bottom line. And macys, and nordstrom put up the worst comparable sales in nine years, and jcpenney is also down, and jcpenney missed the comp sales estimate base wide margin, but it is holding the guidance due to the recent comp trends in the last two weeks in ape are ril. I spoke with ...

Joining me, and our guests as well. And good to see you. And jeff bezos with another alltime high up 40 in the last three months bringing the stake from up to 48 billion. And amazon and macys going in different direction, and what is your take on the Department Store drama . Well, clearly the market is saying something is secular and something faster is going on than we were considering before, and clearly not the weather or the fashion cycle or the apparel, because that is one of the concerns, ...

And this thursday morning, it is kayla tausche, and jon fortt, and joining us is hep ri blodget. Tech is up 0. 75, and the nasdaq is still down 2 , and not that far off, henry, from nasdaq 5,000. Is this what is going on with the buy in may and go away. Well, we who own the indexes are happy about this. And looking at apple, we went through the period of where all of the bad news was priced in and now looking forward to the iphone launch in september, and lot of excitement about that, and probab...