Double Nickel News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Our Investment Committee here today. Pete, give me an idea of how the market has moved lately. 23 of the s p 500 at or within three percent of new 52week highs. Seven of 11 s p sectors within three percent of their high. We have made moves as we continue to kick around the question of whether we will have the breakout. And the negativity was pretty high. Going back to the time when we heard from the banks and then the technologies and semis, when you look at 70 that has reported, that says something about how negative everybody was and the surprise that this is. We were trading in ranges proba...

Manus 6 00 a. M. In london. I want to bring your mind back to 2018. Exuberance after the g20. Then we faded to black. Im talking about the drop in the s p 500. Is it deja vu . From the did hear global times yesterday saying there is a will to make a deal. Then in bloombergs reporting, we are talking about the fact china wants december tariffs to be lifted. We are still waiting. Also looking ahead to bank earnings. Big questions over what we are going to see in terms of costcutting. The one positive is the u. S. Consumer. Low rates certainly not helping. Manus let us talk about the various poli...

Where the stock goes from here the Investment Committee is ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome good to have you with us on this thursday our Investment Committee at the table, joe terranova, steve weiss, the najarian is here, megan chu with Wilmington Trust and also with us our senior economics reporter steve liesman. We begin, where else, where the story is stocks following the worst day of the year. Big concerns that the trade war is threatening to push the u. S. Economy over the edge so weve got 60 of the s p, a little more than that in correction territory. Thats 306...

Background checks. This legislation with desperately needed Immigration Reform. Still not clear what all of that means. Thats why were waiting to hear more from the president. Whats your sense . What are you hearing from white house officials about what does the president mean when he says strong background checks are needed . Reporter they are not going to answer that right now because the president will have to answer that for himself. Aids aren aides arent clear what he means by that. He has mentioned this in the past. Democrats have treed to strengthen the checks before. Lengthening the ti...

Because i think you have a free pass. Unless you have something y absolutely rouse in the next quarter, everybodys looking forward to the launch in september. So why not . Its one o f the safest stocks out there. I think the especially thuz y enthusiasm is going to continue to build. To petes poind. Yeah, pete. That strong. It was okay. It was fine. Almost everybody on this desk other than rich is either buying more today or thinking about buying more. But its also within the context that im not wildly enthusiastic about the market. I want market exposure. So ive got to market exposure through...