That. Stuart nice to meet you, nigel. I dont know the song or the guy. Mr. Wonderful walked on the set and hes not going to disturb us and well get on with things till he sits down quietly. Welcome. Look at this, look at that, dow is up 160, nasdaq up 263 and s p up 64. I like it all. Big tech please. Losers in big tech this morning . No, theres not. Apple, meta, amazon, even microsoft is up this morning. Making a noise on the set there, jimmy. Check the 10year treasury yield. Are you happy to be here . Very happy. Stuart okay, 433 on the 10year yield and keeps going up a bit. Its not hurting the nasdaq. Okay, now this. Four years ago, we were all locked down, covid had arrived and the government responded with draconian shut down policies. Now we can see what went wrong. A lot went wrong. The committee to unleash prosperity with a scathing report and this is a fairly conservative free market organization, very different from the health bureaucracies around the covid show but its a long list of failure. The lockdowns did not substantially reduce deaths or stop the spread. The psychological effects of isolation from friends and family was for many traumatic and masks of little or no value and didnt stop you getting it and mandatory mask wearing was disruptive and resented. Perhaps the worst mistake was the forced closure of schools and it was dropped and in many areas not fully recovered and tens of thousands dropped out and never came back. Honesty and experts and took advantage of the crisis and there was some excuse because we didnt get rid of what we were dealing with and didnt learn. The authorities were not transparent. Looking back on it, it was bewildering. If you were unvaccinated or objected to masking, you were vilified and if you didnt conform, you could lose your job and thousands did. In hindsight, covid produced so Many Public Health failures and me question is next, the play of death rate 20 or 30 and in that extreme situation, wed probably go back to the same covid19 policies and it would be panicked like we were four years ago. Third hour of varney starts now. Stuart kevin oleary here with me in new york city. If it were to happen, the next time it happens, if there were a death rate of 2030 , wed be panicked. Thered be more confidence for those that believe in vaccines that we could come to the solution in some kind of cure and relatively quickly with new technology we have and the politics remain and we havent resolved anything as you pointed out. Theres mistaked and i thought lets lose the vaccine and vaccinated five times and im still here and thought id grow hair back but didnt happen. Stuart did you get covid . I did but had no symptoms so maybe the vaccine worked for those that got it. Stuart that was the problem. Youre mandated to get the vaccine, but didnt work. I believe in science, stuart, i said what do you got, give it to me. Im that kind of guy. Worked for me a. Lot of people talk about the side effects, et cetera, et cetera, we have accepted vaccines for so many other diseases. What was it about covid that freaked everybody out . I dont understand that. Stuart good point. Theres also talk of recession. Actually the talk is dying down, especially in corporate america. 47 companies in s p used recession and that low since 2021. Where is the recession, kevin . We dont have one and engineered First Time Ever a soft landing and i see this for my own private companies and employees 550 million in sales and softer than 24 months ago revenue wise and the collapse we anticipated to build the right amount of inventory and one thing thats remarkable, rates have gone up, stayed up, and yet the market, the s p 500 absorb that had because people have to remember, 20 years ago, this was the norm in rates and i was 6 , 7 , you know, cost of capital was not extraordinary for decades. Here we are back at that, and were absorbing it so im not sure the fed is going to make a move at all this year. Everybody is saying when will they cut three times. Theyre not cutting anything. Stuart the market could rally even if they dont cut. Everyone should stop whining, they did a great job. Stuart no whining on this program. This is up our street now, i saw a tweet you dont think people should merge their accounts with their significant other. Are you talking about married couples who should have accept rale financial accounts . Yes, every couple that cohabitats regardless of gender. In this society, you must maintain your own financial identity, you have to. 50 of marriages end in divorce for Financial Stress over the first five years of marriage and even if you have a long term situation and anything would happen to your spouse such as death, i hope that doesnt happen, but it occurs, if you dont have your own financial identity, youre in the wilderness in america. You must have a credit raiding and a financial Credit Rating and physical identity and own financial accounts for your own survival and when people tell me were merging our account, i say are you nuts . Absolutely not and i forbid in my family and force prenumbers and cohabitation agreements and i want financial Due Diligence and im a realist and i deal in the real world. Stuart how do you get to a successful marriage where youre unified as one and separate accounts and one has a lot more money than the other . How do you handle that . I solve it this way, third date, second glass of wine, you talk money. Thats how it works because if youre going on a third date, youre interested. Youre sniffing around here, stuart. You know that. Both sides are looking at it. If you dont discuss the financial obstructing cerumennives. Stuart i know the romance. You know me, this is financial information. Stuart you havent solved the problem, unequal financial accounts. Thats a different problem. Stuart that wasnt the question. Thats why you need a prenumber. Why you need it. Im invested in a Company Called hello prenumber empowered by women lawyers and forces you to ask questions of the potential partner, do you have debt, have you been bankrupt . Is your family bankrupt . These are questions of love. They are. They are because if youre building that financial pillar together, its because you want that harmony to last. Id argue that prenup helps amore. I really do. Stuart not talking about 30s 40s, 50s or wherever. Were talking youngsters, 2t23 years old and just falling in love and going to get married. Youve got a prenup for kids that age . Absolutely, 100 . Whats your responsible than discussing your financial future together . Before you even have your first child, you have a baby, its called money. Its sitting right at the table with you every day. Every day for breakfast. Hows our financial situation, money . And money looks up and smiling if you have some and crying if you dont. Its that simple. Stuart stick around. Weve got a lot to talk about today, kevin. Itll be such fun. I want to bring in jason katz. Hes a Financial Adviser what go you tell them . Premarital inher tense and gifts should be inhair tans and gifts inheritance kept separate and commingling theyre subject to division and you have this estate tax exception getting cut in half or may get cut in half at end of 2025, which is another reason to have assets titled in each spouses name. Stuart i seem to be in a total high norty on this program today about this but im going to move on. Lauren im with the boys. Sorry. Stuart you agree with the guys . Lauren yes. Stuart i am moving on. Ive met a lot of people, jason, unwilling to sell their stock. Theyve made a lot of money but unwilling to sell and dont to want pay a whopping Capital Gains tax. Do you meet a lot of these people, dont want to get out . Most people let the tax tail wag the proverbial investment dog. Look, a lot of people have a high class problem, investors that is. Theyre victims of their own success. We have clients that bought large cap tech in the last year and up 50 . They sell that and thats a 50 percent tax. What about our clients that own these stocks for the last several years, up 1,000 plus percent and 23 tax. Nonetheless, stu, its important not to let the taxes entirely drive ones Investment Decision so we are pairing back a little bit in that arena, redeploying and more cyclical parts of the market and frankly i think are coiled springs. When you get that first rate cut, youre going to see a mayor rerating of other parts of the market that have been left behind. Stuart we shall we look forward to it. Jason, thanks for joining and yous well see you again real soon. Jason katz, everyone. Thanks, stu. Stuart lauren, netflix . Lauren price raised to 700 from 585 and one of the highest on the street and competitive environment for netflix is easing and Traditional Media Companies with streaming services increased prices good for netflix. Stuart talking about weed as in marijuana and pot. Cannabis growth and canadian marijuana, why are that up 20 . Lauren its cheap stock and up on expectations that the dea will reclassify from a schedule 1 to schedule 3 subtans meeting tax burdens for businesses that sell eliminated and paves the way for eventually opening up banking for cannabis. Stuart got to beat the black market first and walk around new york and smell is everywhere. Lauren everywhere. Stuart before i get bogged down in marijuana, talk to me about tesla. Lauren still the worst performer on s p 500 this year but up 6 right now on price increase for the model y by 1,000 beginning april 1. What that does is pull volumes into the First Quarter from the second and that could help their earnings overall. If this 1,000 price hike sticks, thats estimated to be worth 1 billion a year for tesla. Stuart nice bounce, 6 , well take it. Thanks, lauren. Coming up, you heard my take on our failings during covid. Does dr. 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You can see in the drone video here, a fire fight erupting as the Israeli Soldiers entered the hospital and the top spokesman for Israeli Military said israel is acting on the hospital and he had this to say overnight. Hamas is hiding in hospital. Surrender immediately. Medical facilities should never be exploited for terror. Reporter our understand asking the Israeli Soldiers are still operating in alshifa at this hour and hamas released a statement condemning the incursion and israelis killed more than 20 militants inside the complex. I spoke last week with a doctor working in alshifa hospital and said the conditions are difficult and doctors have resorted to giving their own blood to treat patients. Some food, water and supplies are reaching the hospital, this doctor says its not enough. As for extent of hamas ordinary personses in the 4079, its not clear how many militants the military believes are hiding in the compound. Weve reported extensively from shifa and seen a tunnel underneath the fade pattern tilty and weapon facility and weapons in the area and not seen the command center the israelis claim is there. What will todays operations will bring and how many hamas fighters will be killed and we understand one israeli soldier was killed in the bat sol far. Stuart. Stuart trey yingst, thanks very much. Stuart watch this. Biden is so bad for israel, they should have never been attacked. If biden were good to israel, they wouldnt have been attacked. If he were supportive of israel, the Iran Nuclear Deal would have never been signed and israel would have never been attacked. What would be your message if you talk to netanyahu . Finish it up and do it quick and she get back to the world of peace. We need peace in the world. Stuart former state Department Spokesperson mo Morgan Ortagus s with us now. Seems like trump is in full on support of israel and wants them to simply beat hamas. Thats his position. Clean cut; right . And it makes sense. I dont think anybody including the leadership of israel wants a prolonged war. Thats one thats certainly not good for the hostages and not good for the israeli people. Youre talking about hostages by the way that have been held captive by this terrorist organization and by hamas for over five months now. I think President Trump is right, this did not happen under his watch. This type of attack wouldnt have happened, and i can tell you as being apart of several hostage negotiations while i was at the state department in the trump administration, the fact that we still have five americans left behind is untenable. Were also watching on the news today as cory mills, the congressman from florida is rescuing american citizens from haiti because our government has left them behind. We still dont know the number and state department has never given us the number of americans left behind in afghanistan and this is the pattern around the world. Its close to thoroughly defeating hamas. The rest of military and hamas military forces left in rafa and contentious right now and ill caution the Biden Administration from doing this and remember, its the same thing as president obamas Foreign Policy and a decade ago, they stopped the saudis and meraudis from finishing off the houthis almost a decade ago. Whats happened a decade later when the saudis werent allowed to finish off the houthis and baaick drone and advance weaponry that attack the u. S. Troops on the daily basis. Whether its in the red sea or whether its the acco militias killing our Service Members in jordan and dont finish off the terrorist groups or the job, thats what decades that happen for a decade later. Stuart change the subject and donald trump refuses to place any blame on putin for a Alexei Navalnys death. I could say probably but i dont know. Hes a young man so statistically hed be alive for a long time. How could anything like that happen without putin and high ranking kremlin officials sanctioning it . I dont know. You centerly cant say for sure but that would look like something very bad happened; right . Stuart trump seems unwilling to outright condemn putin. I think thats probably because hes used to as president getting intelligence reports, getting intelligence briefings, and knowing exactly what happened. Hes a candidate right now. Hes not getting those. Youre right, he did say hes a young man and that i mean, obviously we all know that nothing happens in russia without putin knowing about it. We seem to fixate over trumpappointed parsing words. I would prefer that we fixate over biten Foreign Policy and has the russian ruble trading higher than when it began and exporting daily on International Markets and has iran sending again suicide drones we were talking about and Ballistic Missiles and reportedly sending that to russia and the economy, gdp did better last year than that of the United States and Energy Exports are flowing and their banks are flowing and iran and north korea are openly sending them military aid. In my opinion, instead of fixating on trump parsing words, fixate on biden Foreign Policy, thats utterly failed and enriched the russian economy. Stuart got it. Morgan orlikowski tay gus, thans for being here. Ukraine la