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The Investment Committee is ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome. Good to have you with us on this friday our Investment Committee here today joe terranova, john levanthal, josh brown, and marc lasry is here. Lets fwin with the markets. Stocks extending gains, more trade optimism marc, good to see you again. Thanks for being here. Ill turn to you first were looking at the major averages dow is about 70 points from 28,000 what do you make of the markets in the here and now ....

Year yield. Really talking about when you look at the 10 year yield, you look at the charts, it is starting to make an uninversion of the yield curve. When that starts to happen, call your mom or head for the exits. Again, 4. 2 a and new home prices, nothing much to say there. The big story we are continuing and some ofbrexit the key crosses here on sterling. The headline is we are weaker on cable, but if you take a trend from 124, it is something we are trading right now. Lets stay on for brexi...

Street, pretty lackluster. The bond market is where the action is. Us the flattening of the yield curve taking place. There is almost this final push for this to happen. Yield on to an tenure treasuries just 50. 6 basis points, closing to this decade low which is reached on december 6. A small part of this really coming from markets shifting to a new benchmark, one of the biggest single session shifts. The final flattening push, it appears to be Money Managers that essentially want windowdressin...

One to watch today but if you look at the initial signals, we are lower on the stoxx 600. It was a strong session yesterday for the dax up close to 1. 8 , clearing fresh hurdles, well above that 13,400 level rough day to follow up on some of though gains. Lets see what were seeing elsewhere. Telco is at the top, healthcare is at the bottom most of the markets really showing sectors are declining out of the starting position in terms of that sector, couple of reports in there including sanofi the...

We have a lot of breaking news. We need to literature treasuries and the markets. Im interested in what japanese treasuries are doing today. Oil stockpiles rose in the First Quarter despite the opec cuts. Lets see of its having an impact on the price of crude. You can see its unchanged at 52. 96. We have that report that is extremely important. I am trying to filter through what we know and what we dont know. Despiteles are rising the opec cut. Thats the one significant thing. The Oil Market Nee...

Says a hike wont cause a correction until u. S. Stocks are back in the bubble. The u. N. Calls for the halt for detention and ill treatments of migrants as germany imposes emergency border controls saying it can no longer cope with the influx of people. And welcome to worldwide exchange. Lets take a look at the Chinese Industrial figures we got over the weekend. This is the reason we saw a heavy selloff in the shinnin exchange. It grew by 6. 1 in the month of august. Its raising concerns about t...

Barons. Early data suggests that apple is already selling out of its iphone 6ss in china with wait times up to four weeks. So i think everything this week is going to come down to the fed, isnt it . You think so . Fed, fed, fed . Fed, fed, fed. Roger federer lost last night. Yes, i like that. Youre a big fan. I feel for that fed. Really . I also feel for the other fed. This is going to be a busy week. It is a busy week. A lot of people are saying theyre probably going to do nothing. Their hand h...

Company, about succession and more. Apparently that race is down now to two guys. Yeah. Well take a look at who they are and why they are potentially his successors. Lots of good questions there. Meantime, stocks are rallying on the first trading day of the month, and even though they are coming off the best month since october 2011. The big market story here is the nasdaq hitting 5,000. Remember, it was 15 years ago this month on march 10th 2000 to be exact when the nasdaq hit its peak. March 2...