Signing of that phase one trade agreement later this week. Joining us is charlie from aerial investments charlie, welcome. Thank you for having my well, you have to go specifically s p 500, which is protectly where you want to be right now. Frankly its starting to get expensive for us they continue to run, but at some point growth will have had its day, and value still looks tractive growth does not look attractive to me at this point. Interesting to hear you say that mike san tollist pointed out that in many ways the market is right where it was in 2018 does it feel that way . Yes, different from 2019. Last year there was gloom, a lot of talk about trade wars right now theres not a lot of bad news i say unfortunately, because the best time to invest is when people are worried about things. Right now theres just not a lot to worry about in the meantime lets focus on the big were covering dave calhouns first day wilfred has a preview of the banks earnings, and mike santoli has the marke
Sectors, however, employment was steady to rising in most other sectors. And throughout the nation, labor markets are set to remain tight. And widespread labor shortages were actually reported wage growth, however, something that weve talked about for a long time was modest to moderate home sales front, moderate variation. Now, prices rose at a moderate pace however, some businesses were indeed passing along tariff increases to consumers and i want to take you through a few of the regional comments which we got which in many cases represent an aboutface from the prior beige book in new york, sectors plan to raise their sale prices in 2020. And it rose significantly and they anticipate higher prices among manufacturers. One last thing here, in cleveland, retailers said tariffs put upward pressures on costs. So we have these districts around the country reporting that these tariffs are still working their way through the economy. It could potentially put some upward pressure on inflation
2020 the Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Welcome good to have you with us our Investment Committee with us today. Jim, the brothers, megan and cnbcs jim cramer. He, the host of mad money. Stocks up for the first time in four days. Trade headlines again the stories, still the worst week for the dow in four months investors getting whip saw ed b the deal no deal drama jim, just call me when a deal and im done okay i cant deal with this day in, day out. Theres a deal, theres no deal. May not wait, may not have one before the election. Were close, were not close i was a judge on the apprentice for many years. There are always two sides i have to tell you, many time, sworn about what happened in the actual room, but we wanted these guys to be pitted against each other. The ratings wouldnt go down if it was just resolve like this. We had to kind of have an eliminati elimination. You got kudlow schwartzm schwartzman, navarro perhaps. So what happens is t
Decision easterbrook, of course, took over as ceo in march of 2015 before todays move, the stock was up 96 under his leadership since he took over under that tenure, the company sold off many of its company own stores to franchisees and previeded over the launch of alldaybreak fast and mcdonalds named usa president the new ceo of the company but a lot to talk about there. Joining us to have that conversation right now about leadership change at mcdonalds, jeff simonfeld and cnbc contributor. This was a huge surprise, jeff clearly made a mistake but it was a consensual relationship and we now had a handful of these situations how do you read it well, we do see a trend here that of these roughly 90 ceos who left office last year is 40 of them was for misconduct we havent seen numbers that high 40 for misconduct and most of that misconduct was had to do with improper relationships at work but you make an important distinction, this was consens l consensual we say Harry Stonecipher at boei
Elected president in my opinion, the market drops 25 . We are americans. We believe in making these investments to create lots of opportunity. We are happy to do it. All were saying is if you make it big, i mean really big, i mean one tenth of 1 big, pitch in two cents so everybody else gets a chance to make it now lets welcome in Lee Cooperman, joining us today from florida, should let you know we invited senator warren to take part in this conversation with us today and we have not heard back from her campaign Lee Cooperman, as you can see is here its good to see you thanks. Youve created all the problems for me the whole thing started at delivering alpha im not a political analyst, im a financial analyst. It was your words, not mine, lee. Yeah. The only i would like to modify my words a little bit first of all, i want to say the significance of an event for the stock market is a function of what the stock market is discounting at the time the event occurs the market at 3,050 whereve