Ideas. The Investment Committee is ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. It is did to hais good to hh us joe terranovterranova joins us lets kick it off with stocks. Record highs for the major averages, volatility, the lowest since the summer the question now does it clear the decks for a major move higher by the end of the year, josh brown, that question goes to you first hey, judge, how is it going how are you heres the big picture. Take the s p and the dow out of it look at the etf for atwx, global stocks without the United States in it, or look at the efa index, theyre both hanging at new highs. That is something that not a lot of people expected going into this year. There was a conversation about how the trade war would be damaging to europe and brexit would be damaging to britain what if i told you german stock market is up 25 year to date, japan is up 17 , the United Kingdom is up 28 . You wouldnt have expected those things to be happening that back drop is importa
itinerary but there is rumor she will visit it. bill: she would be the highest u.s. ranking official since gingrich did it in 1997. here is what newt gingrich said earlier today. the chinese communist dictatorship doesn t tell the american speaker where they can or can t go. you have to stand up to them or they will interpret it as a sign of weakness and they will grow even more aggressive. bill: greg palkot begins our story in london. big story. hello to you. big story, a lot of developments. nancy pelosi has started her asia trip that could include the taiwan stop and guess what? china is still not liking that at all. house speaker was in singapore meeting with its president and prime minister and scheduled to visit malaysia and south korea and japan. on the way she could make that visit to taiwan. continued some aggressive military exercises over the weekend. live fire drills off the coast in the direction of taiwan which is only about 80 miles away. its government
along. dana: it s the brand-new fox news power rankings predicting republicans will win 225 house seats. it would give the gop a seven seat majority. bill: factor in the toss-up seats. many by the way. that margin could grow to as high as 37 as of today. dana: feeling that potential red wave is a lack of enthusiasm for the president and his policies. that is me having the gift of understatement. a new poll shows a mere 13% of americans say the country is on the right track. bill: more than 60% of democrats do not want joe biden as the party s nominee come 2024. dana: we re covering this from washington and we kick it off today. when we talk about the nomination, we have to talk about age. right now president biden is preparing for his trip to the middle east which is controversial in its own right but this trip was originally supposed to be combined with his visit the europe next month. 10 days was considered too taxing for the 79 yeerd. peter baker wrote mr. bide
and white house denying that the president brought up genocide during the call on thursday. and the latest developing story from the white house. hey, david. good afternoon to you, aishah and everyone watching right now. the speaker is en route to asia. she has some pre scheduled trips to singapore, japan, south korea, but the big question, the suspense, will she go to taiwan? she wants to go. some republicans who are her political enemies in congress are agreeing with her, they want her to go. some democrats are saying don t go. the white house is being mum on it, but the communist party in china is saying absolutely do not go. listen. well, i don t remember talk about my travel because as some of you know it s a security issue, it s a security issue for every member of congress travelling, especially abroad, but for the speaker, it is additional security issue and for those travelling with me, not just members, but staff, et cetera. it s an interesting issue because
stations and the people that operate them. on twitter, biden proclaimed my message to the company s runnin gas stations bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you ar paying for the product and do i now. this tweet, so egregious that even the owner of the washingto post responded, inflation is fa too important of a problem for the white house to still keep making statements like this. it s either straight ahead this direction or a deep misunderstanding of basic marke dynamics. to be honest, it s probably both . just justice and from earlier today. watch. how do you go from leaming high gas prices from food into small business owners? here is the thing about that. when you look at as of this morning when you look at the crude oil. retail gas prices have early decline just about 3 percent over the same time period as we have seen with the crude oil prices and the wholesale gas prices. they are doing what is possible in bringing back the cost fo