Of those around, yes, cloudy looking skies and at times thick enough for the odd spot or two of drizzle. All the details coming up a little later. Good morning. Its sunday the 24th of november. Our top story the conservatives will pledge not to raise the rate of income tax, National Insurance or vat when they publish their election manifesto this afternoon. Borisjohnson has also said he wants to bring his brexit deal back to the commons before christmas, if the conservatives are returned to power. Our political correspondent, nick earley reports. What would he do with power . This afternoon Boris Johnson what would he do with power . This afternoon borisjohnson will what would he do with power . This afternoon Boris Johnson will unveil the conservative manifesto. His basic message, deliver brexit and move basic message, deliver brexit and m ove o nto basic message, deliver brexit and move onto domestic priorities. He will pledge that the bill that will deliver brexit will be brought ba
Stock higher from here the Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Great to have you u with us on this wednesday, the day before thanksgiving. Our Investment Committee, joe, jon, steve and jenny Stocks Holding steady, but enough for the dow, s p and nasdaq to hit new highs. The nasdaq trying for its 25th record close and its 11th this month alone. Tech, industrials, consumer staps, all hitting record levels we continue to buy into this rally, joe yes, we are in the middle of a melt up. Thats what with we can call this its being powered by significant dispersion on many sectors. Technology, health care, financials, so you can find opportunities in each of these sectors. Are we pulling forward some of the gains from 20 . B potentially, but thats not a concern we have now. We think a lot of it is predicated on the basis that the consumer is strong when you look at Balance Sheets and you think of governmental ambulance sheets, corporate. What better Balance S
Jimmy oh, thank you very much hot crowd. [ cheers and applause wow. I love ya. Welcome, everybody welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show. Youre here. [ cheers and applause thank you for being here what a show we have for you tonight. We are here on a sunday. [ cheers and applause you know, after spending 12 hours on thanksgiving eating, drinking, and watching football, it was nice to relax today with 12 hours of eating, drinking, and watching football [ laughter ] there were some big matchups today. You had oakland versus kansas city. San fransico versus baltimore. And americans versus their bathroom scale [ laughter ] americans lost [ laughter ] but tonight on nbc, the new England Patriots played the Houston Texans thats right for the texans, it was the biggest game of the year for the patriots, it was a a short layover in houston on the way to the super bowl. Steve oh [ laughter ] jimmy but this is cool i read that the Houston Texans have one of the biggest jumbotrons
Points that key level broached 3100 for first time ever. The nasdaq is higher today all three of the major indices are on track for more record closier close closers. President trump said trade deals with china could happen. Eamon is there and has the details. Reporter thats right. The big question going into the speech today was would the president say anything specific about china give us any dates or locations any indication of where this signing ceremony might take place. The answer is no he didnt give us any specials. Here is what he did say. Were the ones that are deciding whether or not we want to make a deal were close. A significant trade one deal with china it would happy it could happen soon we will only accept a deal if its good for the yiet for our workers and great companies. A little vague there on the specifics. The president also really lashing out at some of his critics including democrats on capitol hill and the Federal Reserve. The president saying he wants to see n
The final hour and we did get some strong earnings from industrial names like Rockwell Automation and speaking of the president s speech, we will have the first reaction from the white house right here on closing bell. A live interview with top economic adviser larry kudlow in just a few minutes from now. And we will ask him for some clarity on china and the status to have the trade negotiations joining us now for the hour is steve grasso from stuart frankel. Kind of a quiet market day here, but perhaps a little bit of upward bias for a while until just the last several minutes. I think its about everything that you just touched on i think its the majority was President Trump, the expectations coming out of that speak that speech at the Economic Club. Was he going to unveil anything that the market didnt already know so once you get through it and there was nothing new that the market could bite into, the market sells off sort of an anticlimactic feel to the whole day. So we had some a