Johnson quote industrial heavy at wage we think it should 100 years of history is kicked down the junkies main stuck it. In his will and lets do business Irans Nuclear deal continues to fall apart when the United States pulled out reintroducing sanctions iranian leaders threaten to crank up the centrifuges thats exactly what they said to do from tomorrow claiming its only for peaceful purposes a 15000000000. 00 loan from france to compensate for sanctions looks increasingly unlikely russia is mulling support for the oil industry already hit by washingtons punitive measures and you sanctions target Oil Smuggling all in all the economy is. Theres always a feeling of anticipation want to ship docks in irans harbor its the same. On the other rainy and ports in the persian gulf the ships unload food and Household Items particularly washing machines televisions and other electrical appliances. Traders like abdullah safari have been among the 1st to feel the pain of fresh u. S. Sanctions its
Im sara eisen look at whens driving the action higher. A thaw in the trade war again. U. S. And china resuming tariff negotiations in october. Strong Economic Data helping ease some recession fears and the s p moving back above the 50day moving average. Key technical level. Tech stocks are leading the rally. Two big interviews coming up on closing bell. Box Ceo Aaron Levie and with Consumer Staples near alltime highs kimberlyclark ceo michael hsu will join us see both interviews only right here on closing bell. Joining us for the entire final hour of trade is stephanie link. Welcome back, stephanie. Thank you. So are you a buyer on this trade rally . I bought a couple things today. I added to a few positions, nothing new, nothing big, but i think the debate will continue are we going into a recession or seeing Slower Growth i have been saying i think Slower Growth mode and a lot of that because the consumer has been quite strong. I know a lot of people talking about that i spent this w
Would you fix your tie, please . David people wouldnt recognize me, but ok. Just leave it this way . All right. David i dont consider myself a journalist. Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on a life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Did you think at the beginning that you were going to change Television History and the history of comedy when you were starting that show in 1975 . Lorne i dont think i thought of it in those terms, but i thought if we got on the air, and did the show, that the people who were doing the show would stay home to watch. I thought there were enough people like us, because we all come from the audience. I was the person who had the most experience in television, but most people, it was the first time they had been on television. David you were only 30 years old . The others were in their 20s . Lorne i think dan
Boris johnson is now then you british Prime Minister. He vowed that the u. K. Will leave the e. U. On october 31. Well tell you why his job is harder than he may think. Carol plus, our conversation with the hilton ceo, chris nassetta, on how the trade spats are affecting his company. Jason but we begin with Bloomberg Businessweek editor joel weber. Joel, lets start with the International Cover. Its a look about the bond market, debt, whats going on . Joel cheap money has been around for a decade now, and it is having a profound effect in the Global Economy. We look at the ecb this week and negative rates. Negative rates has been an untested policy tool that japan was using. And now its starting to spread. It was going to go away, and now its back almost, and its just a profound idea that a bondholder would invest in something that, if you hold that for duration, youre going to lose money. It just goes against the principles of, like, investing, right . This is investing 101. Carol who
A slew of upgrades on facebook is it a big thumbs up for the stock from here . The Halftime Report starts right now. Its great to have you with us on this thursday. Our Investment Committee today, joe terranova, steve weiss and john and Pete Najarian and Portfolio Manager ann brown. Alphabet, amazon and intel all set to report earnings after the close. It could be a big day for the markets tomorrow, depending on what these three say pete, your feelings on amazon. I think it will be very interesting because of the fact that everybody weve watched this thing move all around it, and now all of a sudden youve got sort of the government kind of coming at them in some ways as well. I think its going to be very interesting how they put this out there. I still think you look at aws. That really is what amazon is, and because of that, they are a cloud company, the biggest there is and how well are they doing there, and if they do as well as i expected they would after you look at microsoft and