A Critical Week for Stocks: Your Next Move 7/13/26

Summary

Halftime Report – A Critical Week for Stocks: Your Next Move

CNBC | July 13, 2026
Host: Scott Wapner
Guests: Joe Terranova, Stephanie Link, Jim Lebenthal, Surat, Dominic Chu, Kate Rooney, Steve Liesman, Matt Bartolini, Pippa Stevens

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Episode Overview

This episode of Halftime Report zeroes in on a pivotal week for the markets as Q2 earnings season kicks off amid heightened volatility and sector rotations. The team of veteran investors, led by Scott Wapner, debates market leadership—especially Apple’s new highs, the outlook for semiconductors, the ongoing mega cap “rotation game,” and expectations for the approaching flood of earnings (notably among banks and tech). They also tackle breaking macro news, regulatory shakeups, and company-specific calls, offering listeners a dynamic front-row seat to Wall Street’s pulse.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Apple’s All-Time High: Market Leadership and Rotation

• Apple hits an intraday all-time high ($320), sparking fresh debate on whether its momentum can last amid an ongoing rotation out of semiconductors and into mega caps.
• Jim Lebenthal describes his Apple positioning as a “tactical trade,” noting he’s “been buying the breakouts,” but says current momentum is “a little bit stretched,” preferring to pause and “let it take a breath” before potentially adding after earnings (02:08).
• Joe Terranova points to renewed Apple optimism: “After so many wanted to criticize this company for being behind the curve on, on AI, which of course they were. There’s no saying that they were not. But now, a belief that they’re going to get it right and it’s going to lead to a really robust upgrade cycle…” (03:05).
• Surat emphasizes Apple’s “safe ship in a storm” status: robust cash flow, buybacks, pricing power, and resilience in a CEO transition (04:18, 04:44).
• Stephanie Link connects broader sector rotation with valuation: “A lot of these mega cap tech stocks are frankly trading at value territory… I could look at Meta, I could look at Microsoft as two examples of that… You have to stay true to your knitting. These rotations… have been coming fast and furious.” (05:37)

2. Mega Caps and The “Rotation Game”

• Jim Lebenthal highlights sector rotation benefiting “the overall index itself,” with specific focus on Apple and Nvidia as stocks benefiting from internal shifts in tech leadership (02:08).
• Stephanie Link and Joe Terranova discuss different approaches to riding volatility: Stephanie emphasizes holding through rotation, “not to get too wrapped up in day to day rotation” (06:54); Joe praises her conviction in adding to positions like Micron even amid sharp drawdowns.
• Valuation spotlight: Nvidia’s forward P/E has come in significantly, now “the cheapest it has been in seven years” (09:12). Stephanie calls the stock’s fundamentals “really hard to replicate,” despite competition and a “horrible” chart (09:19).

3. Semiconductors: Risk, Reward, and Patience

• Stephanie Link: “You want to have exposure to semiconductors... I just bought one and I own Marvell. I have been trimming Marvell because it’s up a whole lot, but I still like it very much. Broadcom—I think they have $20 in earnings power. So there are places within semis, but they kind of trade as a whole right now. And it’s every other day it’s either semis are winning or software is winning.” (16:21)
• Joe Terranova and Scott Wapner discuss the whipsaw nature: “It’s driven people crazy. What’s down is then up. What’s up is then down. It’s made you feel foolish for doing stuff at both ends of that spectrum.” (16:58)
• Joe on hyperscaler capital expenditures: “We’re going to see 800 billion from spend from the hyperscalers. I think next year it could be easily 1.6 trillion.” (17:19)

4. Bank Earnings and Financials: Pre-Print Moves and Risks

• Sector strength: “Financials... is in the top two performers over the last month. Health care is the other one that’s done quite well.” (19:59)
• Scott Wapner notes positive bank fundamentals: “Net interest income is expected to grow 9%. Loan growth of 7 to 8%. Deposit 7%... We’re going to see 26% in investment banking with a plus sign next to that.” (20:17)
• Concerns: Expectations for financials have moved “from low expectations to now high expectations… in literally a 30 day period” (21:34, Lebenthal). Stocks like Wells Fargo, Capital One, and Amex discussed as potential opportunities or comeback candidates.

5. Regulatory and Political Breaking News

• Megan Casella (CNBC) breaks news of a Florida judge voiding the president’s IRS settlement over leaked tax returns: “The case was a sham to win immunity for the president from tax audits and for using taxpayer dollars to fund what was going to be that $1.8 billion anti weaponization fund.” (23:29)
• Market impact: Unclear on immediate implications for policy or markets, but notable for political risk and possible further legal entanglements.

6. Tech Drama: Apple vs. OpenAI, Musk vs. Altman

• Kate Rooney covers escalating disputes: “Elon Musk did chime in on the news Friday... [Apple] is suing OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets. Last year, Altman paid about six, six and a half billion dollars to acquire iPhone designer Jony Ive’s startup... Musk used that Apple headline to reprise a nickname he’s used before, Scam Altman. That got Altman’s attention. He responded saying, ‘Homeboy, you’re the one selling public market investors on short-term space data centers.’” (28:23)
• Ongoing rivalry: Musk and Altman’s “feud” is now intertwined with both legal battles and competitive launches in AI.

7. Interest Rates: Fed Shifts More Hawkish

• Steve Liesman covers Fed Governor Chris Waller’s speech: “A pretty hawkish concept here… the Fed has to be ready to tighten monetary policy to avoid mistakes of 2021/22 with inflation above target... The FOMC will need to consider tightening monetary policy in the near term if the CPI this week is hot.” (31:41)
• Market reaction: “Now July is up to 47% [probability of a hike]... I think I saw yields on the 2 and 10-year both inch a bit higher as well and maybe another leg down a little bit in the stock market on this.” (33:49)

8. Small Caps & ETF Trends

• ETF Edge segment with Matt Bartolini: “Small caps are outperforming in ways they haven’t in years… 9 billion of inflows into small cap ETFs over the last three months… all 11 of the GICS small cap sectors are beating the large cap sectors, and that hasn’t happened in over 30 years.” (39:13)
• Small cap tech in focus: Benefiting from the AI CapEx ecosystem and positive earnings momentum.

9. Disney Debate: To Stream or Not to Stream?

• Wells Fargo call: Recommends Disney exit streaming, arguing it could lift shares by 40% (41:38).
• Stephanie Link: “I don’t think this is the move to make because if you get rid of streaming, then you’ve got the melting ice cube of linear TV... The streaming business is more of a crown jewel at this point in time.” (41:38)
• Jim Lebenthal: “I think it has an identity crisis more than anything else… they’re just sitting and spinning their wheels.” (42:40)
• Debate over causes of lagging share price: Geopolitics, studio releases, pricing pressure at theme parks, and the role (or lack thereof) of ESPN as a growth driver (45:01–47:04).

10. Notable Stock Moves & Final Trades

• Surat: Bought Ferrari (“high quality company that’s down double digits”), Stryker (“higher quality company”). Sold Zoetis and Zimmer.
• Stephanie Link: Likes Capital One (“at seven and a half times earnings. Really. Too cheap”).
• Jim Lebenthal: Picks refiners.
• General sentiment: Opportunities abound in select names amid volatility, but conviction and adherence to personal investment style remain key.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Stick to your style of investing. If you’re a fundamental investor, if you’re price aware, maybe a GARP investor, a value investor, there’s plenty of opportunities out there.” — Stephanie Link (08:04)
• “After so many wanted to criticize this company for being behind the curve on, on AI... But now, a belief that they’re going to get it right and it’s going to lead to a really robust upgrade cycle…” — Joe Terranova on Apple (03:05)
• “This is a stock that investors want to hold on to as opposed to kind of taking profits from the others.” — Surat, on Apple’s resilience (04:45)
• “Any serious policy rule calls for raising the policy rate... No matter how you cut it or what measure you want to use, inflation is up this year.” — Chris Waller, via Steve Liesman (33:49)
• “If you get rid of streaming, then you’ve got the melting ice cube of linear TV... the streaming business is more of a crown jewel at this point in time.” — Stephanie Link on Disney (41:38)
• “I think it has an identity crisis more than anything else.” — Jim Lebenthal on Disney (42:40)
• “Small cap tech is massively outperforming large cap tech… there’s opportunities further down the cap spectrum as this capex buildout starts to really pick up steam.” — Matt Bartolini, ETF Edge (39:57)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• Apple’s momentum, sector rotation: 02:08–06:54
• Mega caps valuation, Nvidia, conviction through volatility: 08:04–10:33
• Semiconductors, capital expenditure trends: 16:21–18:03
• Bank/financials strategy ahead of earnings: 19:30–22:24
• IRS settlement voided (breaking news): 23:29–25:03
• Apple vs OpenAI, Musk vs Altman feud: 28:23–29:39
• Fed Governor Waller’s hawkish speech, market reaction: 31:33–34:27
• ETF Edge – Small Cap Outperformance: 37:59–40:26
• Disney’s business model debate: 41:38–47:04
• Final trades, notable stock moves: 47:17–48:24

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Takeaways

• Market remains volatile with leadership shifting rapidly among mega caps, semiconductors, small caps, and banks.
• Apple and Nvidia seen as pivotal stocks to watch, both for their fundamentals and for what they indicate about broader sector rotation.
• Earnings season expected to drive volatility, with investors closely watching initial results from banks and soon after, the tech giants.
• Macro backdrop is tense, with renewed Fed hawkishness increasing rate hike odds and contributing to choppier trading, particularly in long-duration assets like semis.
• Conviction and investment discipline are essential: Both momentum and fundamental styles can work, but sticking to your edge and thesis is critical in this volatile environment.
• Watch for evolving politics, regulatory headlines, and company-specific catalysts (like Disney’s business decisions or legal moves in tech) as likely swing factors for the rest of the summer.

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Transcript

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[Jim Lebenthal]

Yeah, it's a tactical trade and I've been buying the breakouts when I see them last doing so on Thursday somewhere around $310. I'm going to sit back here and not buy further. I see the near term momentum is a little Bit stretched. That doesn't defeat where I think the long term target is, where Apple continues to be one of the leaders as it relates to the max 7. I think Apple in video is benefiting from a little internal rotation maybe away from memory and semiconductors. I think that's what's unfolding right now. And I think collectively the market continues to exhibit this game of rotation among sectors and sub industries to the benefit of the overall index itself. But as it relates to Apple, steady as she goes. Moving forward. Sit back, let it take a breath here because we've had very strong momentum and then after earnings I'd be interested

[Joe Terranova]

in buying more Surat Optimism continues to bloom in this name Target365@Citi I told you the Josh Brown$400 of last week they sue OpenAI. That news comes out Friday after the close. What do you make of the run that this name has had? You pull the chart back guys. Look at it over there it is, look at that. Like you know, year to date. It just had a great move after so many wanted to criticize this company for being behind the curve on, on AI, which of course they were. There's no saying that they were not. But now a belief that they're going to get it right and it's going to lead to a really robust upgrade cycle along with some of the new products they have coming out. Whether it's the foldable phone or otherwise, you're underpinned by a robust buyback even in a period of CEO transition. This stock has looked beyond that and it has looked through any bit of uncertainty in ways that other companies might not have exhibited in the stock market. You tell me that someone like Tim Cook is going to be leaving in his role as CEO and then the stock is going to hit new all time highs a few months later. I think some people would have said, well I'm not sure.

[Surat]

Yeah. And add to that that they basically said we're raising prices. Right? I mean companies said we're raising prices. Demand is going to be strong. And I think Scott, one of the things that when you look at the Fab 7 or the other stocks, they're all spending money to grow and going to have negative cash flow while Apple still got positive cash flow will have support for the stock and the demand for their products is still increasing. So this, it's like a safe ship in a storm right now where you can.

[Joe Terranova]

Spending storm.

[Surat]

Yeah, spending storm. Where they can actually say our shares are too undervalued, we'll buy them back or we'll actually do something to grow. And I think investors are looking for that and also looking for the lack of volatility when you can buy an Apple that's proven over cycles that they can innovate. And I think as AI comes to them, as opposed to them going to AI, this is a stock that investors want to hold on to as opposed to kind of taking profits from the others.

[Joe Terranova]

Okay, so. So how do we view the mega caps today? This nice move? They've had money coming out of semis. It's found a place in a lot of the mega caps. Right Matter had this massive move last week. It's down a little bit today. Put in video in a separate category. It's not thought of as the hyperscaler. The hyperscalers are spending on Nvidia. Amazon's green. Microsoft is green. What do you think?

[Stephanie Link]

I'm going to bring together two thoughts that we had last week, Scott. One is a lot of these mega cap tech stocks are frankly trading at value territory. I could look at Meta, I could look at Microsoft as two examples of that. And I think this is a time that you have to stay true to your knitting. That's the second thought. These rotations and Joe, you've been all over them for weeks and weeks. These rotations have been coming fast and furious. From semis to software, from large cap to small cap, from the market market cap weighted ETFs to the equally weighted ETFs. Pick your style of investing and stick with it. And I do think this is a time when many styles can work. So somebody who's more, I'm going to say price aware as opposed to price sensitive like myself. I can find plenty of bargains out there. And the thing that I have to do though is I have to hold them through whatever the volatility is that on a day to day basis comes up in terms of the rotation. So if just as an example, I bought Micron over the past three weeks and today I'm not looking right at the second, but it was down about 5% earlier this morning. I'm not thinking of getting out of that. I'm not paying too much attention to today's downturn. We got Taiwan semi coming up in terms of earnings at the end of the week. That'll be the first look at near term earnings for the semi space. And I think Micron is going to do fine over the intermediate to long term. My style of investing is not to get too wrapped up in day to day rotation.

[Joe Terranova]

No, you put your Face right in the middle of the volatility on that one. You know what I'm saying?

[Stephanie Link]

Kind of. You ever know me to shy away?

[Matt Bartolini]

No.

[Surat]

Yeah.

[Joe Terranova]

No.

[Stephanie Link]

It's what endears me to you, I think.

[Joe Terranova]

But really, rather than just sort of taking a back seat and saying, you know, this is. This thing's gotten a little too volatile.

[Stephanie Link]

Yeah.

[Joe Terranova]

The willingness, if not ability, to sort of double down on your position, which I think you basically did.

[Stephanie Link]

I did.

[Joe Terranova]

Even in the face of that volatility is noteworthy.

[Stephanie Link]

Well, and also fundamental investors. So one of the things I've said to you, Scott, I've said to our viewers is I think it's important that pretty soon there's going to be an anniversary of the CHIPS act, after which Micron can start to return capital to shareholders. I like that. That's something that I look for in companies that I own. So that sort of fundamental bait, if you will, has me has me nibbling at it. Although now it's about a 3% position. So it's more than a nibble. I do think that. Look, if you're a momentum investor, Joe, you're fabulous at it. Fine. There are opportunities here. And what you've done with Apple has been nothing short.

[Surat]

Genius.

[Joe Terranova]

Don't patronize him. But go ahead. What I said don't patronize it. Just go ahead.

[Stephanie Link]

Tell him I think he's wrong. No, but I'm going to go back to what I said. Stick to your style of investing. If you're a fundamental investor, if you're price aware, maybe a Garp investor, a value investor. There's plenty of opportunities out there. I'm looking at Stephanie, your Meta. I mean, how could I not be looking at your Meta?

[Joe Terranova]

You should be looking at her for the Nvidia, which is the newest buy, which was the. The move that was noteworth so noteworthy. Right. Last week for us.

[Kate Rooney]

Yeah.

[Scott Wapner]

Because I've never owned it before, so. And I just think the valuation has gotten so attractive at 18 times forward estimates and the company is going to grow revenues something like 80% and mid-70s gross margins, free cash flow is going to double. So I'm looking for opportunities where I either I have positions and I have more conviction because the valuations have come down. To your point, Jimmy, I added to Amazon to the one I'm not adding to is matter because it's a bit frustrating, but I'm not going to sell out of it completely. I do recognize it's very cheap, but they have to show better monetization for that stock to really Take off and I think they eventually will stop. But that's a timing kind of thing. I think there's more upside in Amazon. I think there is more upside in Nvidia and I have a lot of other technology stocks that I like to.

[Joe Terranova]

What was the Nvidia stat that the valuation was like the cheapest? It's been 7 years, 20, 19. 7 years or something like that, right?

[Kate Rooney]

Yeah.

[Scott Wapner]

I mean and this is a company that has 97% percent of the GPU market. Okay, fine, they're getting more competition but that's not going to go to below 90. And I think this company has proprietary software that actually also is really hard to replicate as well. So I think there's a lot of ways you can win with this one and I just think it's really out of favor right now. And that is very interesting to me. I know the chart looks horrible, but it's really interesting to me that it's kind of found its footing around these levels.

[Joe Terranova]

It has. It's up three and a half percent month to date and it still is, to your point, 12% off of its 52 week high. It speaks to the. This thing's kind of gone nowhere. Yes, but it's had a nice little pickup with the other mega caps.

[Jim Lebenthal]

So it's actually, if you're looking at it, just predicated solely on price. We understand the strong fundamentals about the company but now you have what's known as a return to accumulation and you're seeing that after sitting sideways for a multi month period and the beginnings of the return to accumulation, accumulation rather are unfolding. I still think that Apple has the capability to be the All Star in 2026. And one of the reasons is, Scott, if we could show it again from last week we showed that analyst chart just how low the expectations are and the 12 month average price target.

[Joe Terranova]

You asked. Why are you asking me if we could show it again?

[Jim Lebenthal]

The 12 month target for Apple.

[Joe Terranova]

Fabulous production team in the control room.

[Jim Lebenthal]

Thank you for showing.

[Joe Terranova]

Can we show that again please?

[Jim Lebenthal]

So we are, we are sitting at now $320 for a 12 month price target for Apple relative to all the generous price targets that we see for the Amazon, the Nvidia, the Alphabet and only a 61% buy rating. So the analyst community has this embedded skepticism which is remarkable to me about Apple and their ability to actually embrace and execute well some form of tangible.

[Joe Terranova]

I think they're torn on the growth rate relative to now what is a more expensive valuation.

[Surat]

It's a P to growth rate for Apple that we've had for the last many, many years. And what does Apple do? They'll come back and buy shares or they'll innovate. Now they're raising prices. Right. The negative on Apple was how much of the can you keep on raising prices? Well now they just said we're going to raise prices and we're going to see what the elasticity of that is. But to your point, also the same thing with Nvidia and Apple, it's having the same story. People don't believe that they're going to keep on growing. And to Stephanie's point, it is now shrunk to a P level that we will see. Now what are they going to do in terms of execution of earnings as the P will shrink even more if earnings keep on going higher? Kind of like what happened to the semiconductor memory stocks.

[Steve Liesman]

Right.

[Surat]

The difference between an Nvidia and an Apple and memory stocks is you get to reinvest and into R and D, which is your forward looking. Right. The memory stocks as we know it. Jim and I are very familiar with cyclical stocks. And you look at commodities, whether it's a Freeport or you know, Micron is. We know the supply is not catching up.

[Steve Liesman]

Right.

[Surat]

I mean it's just. That's the story.

[Stephanie Link]

I do think we have to address the news from late Friday, the Open Air lawsuit and because there's two ways to look at it and the first is one that I don't agree with, which is that Apple is in some way fearful of Open Air, in some way encroaching on the iPhone with whatever device, product they may come up with. That's something that's been put out there. I've read that in the media over the past couple of days. I don't believe that at all. I think this lawsuit is just routine protection of intellectual property. If you're in business, you're not going to let somebody encroach in any way whatsoever. But I don't think it's from a position.

[Joe Terranova]

Somebody, I mean that you realize who, who left.

[Stephanie Link]

I do realize.

[Dominic Chu]

And who.

[Stephanie Link]

Product manager. What is it that Tam Tang is his name.

[Joe Terranova]

No, I'm talking about Johnny.

[Kate Rooney]

I.

[Surat]

Okay.

[Dominic Chu]

Yeah.

[Joe Terranova]

He's not just somebody. Well, I, or anybody.

[Stephanie Link]

I do realize that.

[Joe Terranova]

He's the body.

[Stephanie Link]

I got you, Scotty. I got you. But so I'm gonna, I'm gonna.

[Joe Terranova]

What are you saying?

[Stephanie Link]

What I'm saying is I don't think this is a position where Apple is in some way fearful because this was talked about I was reading this a lot over the weekend that people were comparing this to when Tim Cook went after Android models coming out of Samsung because that was somehow a real threat that they perceived at the time to the iPhone. That's the comparison that's being made here. I'm saying I don't think that at all. I don't think Apple's in any way afraid of open air.

[Joe Terranova]

You don't think Steve Jobs protege if you want to put Jony I've as that characterize him as that going to OpenAI and then other people sort of following suit with rumors of a hardware product you don't think is a potential threat to what Tim Cook thinks is the foundation of his company as he's about to take a step aside. This is almost a protect this house move.

[Stephanie Link]

But yeah, so my, my comment back to you is I don't think it's that dramatic. Do I think it's a threat? Of course it's a threat. And anybody who's in business is always, always evaluating competitive threats. But I don't think Apple woke up one day and say oh my God, what are we going to do about this? I think this is just routine protection of intellectual property. There's these stories about hey, you know, they had interviews with candidates and they told them to bring a particular hardware to take a look at. That seems like just business as usual in terms of interviewing in the Valley. So look, it makes for a splashy headline but what I'm saying is I don't think Apple's looking at that as an existential threat at all. There's a long road, a hoe to get to the point position where iPhone is reasonably threatened by another competition.

[Joe Terranova]

I've made my case. I'm going to stop arguing what I think is the obvious, but it is

[Jim Lebenthal]

a critical almost founding member of the Apple franchise. Jony, I've. So that in itself you have to say is somewhat disturbing. I agree with Jim from the standpoint point of there have been others we're still waiting for. Remember I think it was in 2014 we were getting the Facebook phone that was coming. So there are others that have said okay, we are going to challenge Apple with some form of hardware but it is, it is relevant news for sure. I don't think you could dismiss the news, Jimmy, because Johnny Hyde, that's. That is a, a significant founding member of that franchise.

[Stephanie Link]

I don't want to give you the wrong impression.

[Jim Lebenthal]

Impression?

[Stephanie Link]

I'm not dismissing it. I'm putting it in its place and you know what else is also putting it in its place is the Apple share price today. All right, The Apple share price is saying, we're not too worried about this.

[Joe Terranova]

Why? Okay, well, let's move on. Because I didn't want to. I didn't want to spend a whole lot of time discussing something that moved on Friday after the close that, you know, whatever the move in memory.

[Steve Liesman]

Okay.

[Joe Terranova]

See how you got them. You got it right. You might as well start drinking the next one because I'm on my way back. The move in memory and what's, what's happened in semiconductors. What do we do with this trade now? What do we do with it? Well, I mean, I just sit in sidelines and say I'm going to let all this play out kind of.

[Scott Wapner]

I mean, I think you want to have exposure to semiconductors. Obviously. I just bought one and I own Marvell. I have been trimming Marvell because it's up a whole lot, but I still like it very much. Broadcom, I think they have $20 in earnings power. So I think there are places within semis, but they kind of trade as a whole right now. And it's every other day it's either semis are winning or software is winning. It's crazy. So I think you have to take a barbell approach and own both and have, you know, a lot of conviction in the ones that you own. And then on these ugly days, maybe add to. I will continue to add to Nvidia if we still see the semi trade

[Joe Terranova]

unwind, certainly not nearly as volatile as these others. And the problem, as we've said multiple times too, is the idea of, well, if it dips, then add to it. It's been, it's driven people crazy. What's down is then up. What's up is then down. It's made you feel foolish for doing stuff at both ends of that spectrum.

[Scott Wapner]

Hundred percent. But capacity is going up for fourfold. And so this story is not changing anytime soon. Fourfold we're going to see between now and 2028. And when we see that all of these hyperscalers in the capex keeps going higher and inching higher, it's going to continue, Scott. And I think, I think I'm on record saying this year we're going to see 800 billion from spend from the hyperscalers. I think next year it could be easily 1.6 trillion. One analyst today went to 1.2.

[Joe Terranova]

Yeah, they went. It was Morgan. Stan Stanley said there's more. They're going about 1.2 to 1.4 trillion in 27 and 28. They're raising their capex expectations for both Metta and Amazon. To your point, this spending is not going anywhere but up.

[Scott Wapner]

No. And last week we talked about how at Metta that there was a rumor that they are going to go spend 200 billion. So now, now it's 250 billion. I mean the numbers are crazy and it kind of makes my head spin but at the end of the day I know why they're spending. And again it's this capacity increase, it's the whole data center rollout and it's not going away. And eventually these companies are going to see a return on their investments. It's not going to be this year materially which is why I haven't really been adding to Metta. But I do think Amazon is in a much better position of strength with a lot of their various different businesses. Advertising, compute retail, us and the valuation makes a lot of sense to me. So that's the one that I of the hyperscalers that I would be buying more of.

[Joe Terranova]

Surat. We're not going to get hyperscaler earnings for a couple of weeks, right? We're going to kick things off tomorrow with the banks. We already know because we've said it so many times that earnings growth is going to be robust to say the least. Okay, 24 and a half percent is what is predicted today. Those estimates have been rising. Ed Yardeni says great earnings, great expectations are going to lead to even greater stock prices. Evercore today says 7750 by year end because they raised their earnings estimates. Savita Subramania bank of America says it's more than just a mega cap story. Earnings momentum is likely to continue. I think everybody is building their own bull case based on the same bit of information. Earnings.

[Surat]

Yeah and we're going to get the earnings in the next week in terms of the financials and look we're coming into this quarter stronger than we have in previous quarter. So the question is going to be as expectations ahead or are we going to see The Morgan Stanley's JP's and Goldman say things are steadily improving not just in capital markets M and A wealth management but we're seeing our backlog improving and I think that will provide a floor and in fact could help the price appreciation a lot of these

[Joe Terranova]

financials most Citi upgrades the financials now to overweight sector by the way is in the top two performers over the over the last month. Health care is the other one that's done Quite well over a month. 5.1% for health care, 4.8 for the banks. That shows you what these stocks have done.

[Scott Wapner]

I think the banks are a buy and they always trade crummy around earnings and so you make your shopping list of which ones you want to buy because they are up a lot into the print. But net interest income is expected to grow 9%. Loan growth of 7 to 8%. Deposit 7% and then we get to fees. Fees go lower and we're going to see 26% in investment banking with a plus sign next to that. We also are going to see M and A at 9%. You have global. M and A is up 57% year to date. So these companies are all going to benefit. And you know Morgan and Goldman, they're the obvious plays. But I think you want. I'm looking at Wells Fargo, I don't own it anymore but I'm looking at that because that has lagged and if they can deliver tomorrow, I think that's certainly an interesting one because of the asset cap lift. This might be the worst quarter for

[Joe Terranova]

this was at one point, honestly this was your largest position if I recall.

[Scott Wapner]

Yes, it was. Yes it was.

[Joe Terranova]

Now you don't even own it, any piece of it.

[Scott Wapner]

But because the last two quarters were really disappointing and I think that you're coming to the end of that now. The NII I think is probably bottoming in this quarter and then you go, you can actually see an acceleration and the asset cap lift is a very big deal that is going to lead to much better growth. And the stock is down I think about 6% on the year. So it's really lag. So that's on my radar screen. To add to what do you think

[Jim Lebenthal]

the concern that I have and I added JP Morgan over the last month I added CBOE as well. I'm a little concerned. And Steph, you and I talked about this before the show that the expectations have gone very quickly in literally a 30 day period from low expectations to now high expectations. Expectations for the financials.

[Scott Wapner]

Not all of them.

[Jim Lebenthal]

Well, there's select names as we discussed. Like an Amex and a Capital One.

[Scott Wapner]

Yes, but I mean even like bank

[Joe Terranova]

of America's both got upgraded today by the way.

[Scott Wapner]

Yeah.

[Joe Terranova]

Cap one to buy at HSBC. Underperformance looks overdone. Amex upgraded at JP Morgan to overweight.

[Scott Wapner]

Capital one is trading at seven and a half times earnings. It's crazy. It's been, it's down 17% on the year and this Discover transaction is going to be enormous for this company.

[Pippa Stevens]

Company.

[Scott Wapner]

And they're going to see something like $2.6 billion in synergies, which is totally not appreciated in the stock price. I don't own the Amex.

[Jim Lebenthal]

You on the I own Amex. Amex has had a little bit of modest underperformance relative to the sector itself. So maybe the expectations to your point, Steph there that are embedded are not so high. So I think Amex continues to work in an environment where the we know the economy is really strong. We know the economy, the affluent consumer is out there spending. That's a name I think you can focus on. I'm just saying there is a lot of embedded good news in the money center banks and without question in the financial exchanges.

[Joe Terranova]

David Solomon, by the way, Faber is going to be with him tomorrow. So you're going to hear from David Solomon in a CNBC exclusive in the noon hour. Warsh is on the Hill, remember? So we're going to get all of that kind of coinciding, but we're just perfect. Time to hear from David Solomon. Right. As you know, these earnings get underway this week. They report on the 14th on Tuesday. So it'll be nice to hear from him then. We do have some breaking news out of Washington. Megan Casella is at the White House with those headlines for us. Hi, Megan.

[Pippa Stevens]

Hey, Scott. A US Judge in Florida says now they will be voiding the president's recent settlement with the IRS over the le leaking of his tax returns. They say now the case was a sham to win immunity for the president from tax audits and for using taxpayer dollars to fund what was going to be that $1.8 billion anti weaponization fund. Remember, all of this stems from that lawsuit the president filed against his own government against the IRS for the leaking of his tax returns that initially was going to confer settlement on the president, his family and his businesses from all tax audits on any taxes filed before May of 2026 when the settlement was made. But the judge saying today that in this case there was never any adverseness between the parties. There was never a question as to who would prevail. And she goes on to say that this case, she says, was an attempt to use the court to provide some legitimacy to this settlement. So this is happening now because after the case was settled, 35 retired federal judges wrote to the court, filed a motion saying that they thought this was a product of the collusion and a manipulation of the judicial system. The judge then agreeing to revisit the case, asking the president's lawyers to respond in kind. As for what happens next, possibly some disciplinary action for the president's lawyers in this case. That includes Todd Blanche, now the acting attorney general. It's not immediately clear whether this will lead to a full reopening of the case, but for now, the settlement at least, Scott, is voided.

[Joe Terranova]

And no word from the president yet on this, this news, correct?

[Kate Rooney]

Not.

[Pippa Stevens]

Not yet on this one. This was just filed, I would say about 20 or 30 minutes ago, 56 pages here for us to read through. So I'm guessing the president and his team are reading through it as well.

[Joe Terranova]

All right, Megan, thanks. Megan Casella. Still ahead, the battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman's heating up again. Are Kate Rooney following the latest in that feud. She'll have the details next.

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[Dominic Chu]

All right, we are back on the Halftime report. I'm Dominic Chu with the news alert. Right now on shares of Ken View. Earlier this morning, we told you about a federal appellate court's decision to revive some of the lawsuits against the Tylenol maker with regard to some cases being brought against it. For the link or alleged link between autism, ADHD and the use of acetaminophen products, we now have a response from Tylenol parent company Kenvue that says the procedural ruling today does not change the fact that credible independent science shows no proven link between taking acetaminophen and autism or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Science matters. And we stand with the many public health and medical professionals who have reviewed the science on this topic and agree we now have another opportunity to show that the plaintiff's experts opinions are unreliable and should not be allowed in this case. We stand behind the safety of our product and will continue to defend these cases. So Scott, those shares of Candy right now just checking down roughly 2% in your session lows. That is the formal response from Ken View with regard to the US Appellate court's decision on Tylenol. I'll send things back over to you.

[Joe Terranova]

SCOTT all right, Domino, thanks. That's too Told you. The feud between Elon Musk and Sam Altman ramping up again following Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI to traded social media barbs over the weekend. Kate Rooney has been tracking that and joins us now with more. The story that doesn't end.

[Kate Rooney]

KATE that's right, SCOTT. Yeah. So Elon Musk did chime in on the news Friday. That app that Apple I should say is suing OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets. Last year Altman paid about six, six and a half billion dollars to acquire iPhone designer Jony I've startup and then a deep bench of former Apple executives to now build an AI device. Apple does now say that team has been stealing intellectual property. OpenAI though telling us in part they're not interested in other companies trade secrets. But Musk used that Apple headline to reprise a nickname he's used before scam Altman. That got Altman's attention. He responded saying homeboy, you're the one selling public market investors on short term space data centers. Musk was a co founder of OpenAI unsuccessfully sued Altman and the company accusing him of quote stealing a charity after OpenAI moved away from its original nonprofit structure. Musk and Altman now do compete fiercely in AI. Both companies rolled out new versions of their AI models last week. And Altman says benchmarks now suggest that OpenAI has the best model in the world right now. But he tweeted this. He said the most reliable way to tell that is Elon is obsessed with me again. This Apple lawsuit is the latest legal headwind for OpenAI as it does look to go public.

[Joe Terranova]

Scott okay, Kate Rooney, thank you. We'll follow it doesn't seem like it's going to go away, so we will have no choice but to do that. That's Kate Rooney reporting. I want to call your attention to shares of Oracle. Can we show those please which are at the lows of the session turned lower. This stocks has had a really rough go. I just wanted to bring it up because if you look at it, It's a new 52 week low. Everybody but Stephanie owns it in some form or fashion. Joe, you have it in the tee. So I don't want to get your take on it first because you're sort of locked. You're locked for the moment but Seurat, you own it and I haven't heard from you on this name in a while. Why do you think this chart continues to look the way it does? Does and what leads you to believe that this story is going to look different anytime soon?

[Surat]

So when Oracle announced the big news a year ago, stock kind of jumped, went radically up. We sold about half our position. We kept on it because we still feel that Oracle can make the transition and have earnings power. But they're doing what the Fab 7X Apple are doing is spending into the business and the transition is going to occur really when they show that. But they don't get any credit for this at all. So we like it still at these levels it's painful. We're holding it.

[Stephanie Link]

So I agree with Sirat on the fundamental picture here in terms of why is the stock down over the last several sessions including today. I think this has a lot to do with the Monmouth Monumental debt offerings that have been coming from the likes of Amazon and Space X. And if you think about Space X, Whether that was two weeks ago, whenever it was that they did a $2025 billion offering, the spreads on those offerings have been going wide, wide, wide. I think the yield to worse is over 7% on one of the longer dated issuances. And it's basically just the debt market is having a tough time digesting all this debt issuance which includes Oracle which has used a lot of debt financing on their data center build outs.

[Joe Terranova]

Okay, well we have some breaking headlines from Fed Governor Chris Waller. Steve Liesman, our senior economics reporter has that. What's he saying Steve?

[Steve Liesman]

A pretty hawkish concept here from Fed Governor Chris While he said the Fed has to be ready to tighten monetary policy to avoid mistakes of 202122 with inflation above target, he says the labor market stable and near full employment. Quote any serious policy rule calls for raising the policy rate says the FOMC will need to consider tightening monetary policy in the near term. If the CPI this week is hot and he's concerned about the elevated pace of core inflation questions whether the Fed should even look through these one time price increases from energy and from tariffs. Says we're past the point where we can attribute large price increases to earlier tariff hikes. If upward if the upward inflation trend continues it'll be hard to push inflation back to 2% with the policy level at with policy at its current rate. Increases in core quote are quite broad and he points out nearly 70% of core service categories are up more than 3%. There is another side to his is is talk here Scott where he says there's still a credible case for inflation declined to target at the current policy rate and there's a greater risk now that tighter policy could drive up unemployment and risk recession. But he also says it's an equally plausible case of the need for tighter monetary policy. And I'll just leave you here Scott with one quote which I have here from this speech is very very hawkish speech where he says and I'll just find that for you in a second here they have it in the back but a but I'm, but I'm where is it? There it is. No matter how you cut it or what measure you want to use, inflation is up this year. Even accounting for the likely temporary direct effects of the oil price shock. It's running at levels inconsistent with the FOMC 2% objective. So there's a very important governor being very hawkish and talking about raising rates for you Scott and I'll just take go ahead sorry And I was going

[Joe Terranova]

to say not necessarily a surprise given where his his point of view has has seemingly moved over the last many months like he was in favor of getting rid of the easing bias in in the most recent statement. So this is sort of doubling down on what the market had already assumed was a more hawkish view by Mr. Waller.

[Steve Liesman]

I think doubling down and taking taking it another step if you will Scott. I mean this is a very explicit warning about the potential need to raise rates and I will tell you that I guess it was last week sometime where about a 63% probability of September rate hike. Now it's 77 but maybe more interestingly now July is up to 47% so that's a that's on the table right now. So there's the first cut and the second cut being priced in for December as well. So the market definitely taking a message from this I think I saw yields on the 2 and the 10 year both inch a bit higher as well and maybe another leg down a little bit in the stock market on this.

[Joe Terranova]

Yeah. I mean the 10 was at 461. All of this, of course, the backdrop of Fed Fed chair Wash on the Hill this week. Right.

[Steve Liesman]

And, and I ask myself this question, Scott, was this speech run by Fed Chairman Warsh and did Kevin said go ahead Chris, do this, I want you to do this, or was it him saying, you know, what we don't know is who the intellectual pulling guard is for this new chairman. Right. Sometimes it was the vice chairman. It may be Chris Waller. He's one of the most respected economists on the FOMC board right now. And does Kevin Warsh give another pile onto this tomorrow morning or does he walk it back a little bit? But certainly this message from this Fed governor is one that says there's sort of an equal probability we're going to be raising rates sometime. Very dependent though on tomorrow's speech, tomorrow's CPI report and subsequent ones after that to show core inflation getting back under control at the current rate.

[Joe Terranova]

Oh, you raised some really great points. All the reason why tomorrow takes on maybe a bit more of a spicier turn. Steve, thank you so much for that. Steve Liesman, I want to get a quick reaction here on this 461 for

[Jim Lebenthal]

a 10 year approaching the high for the year. I had said that rates, the high for rates are in for the year and I think I am representative of the financial services community that while they hear a hawkish tone, they really doubt in reality that we are going to see a rate hike this year. I think the bond market is pushing up against that and telling you wait a second. In fact you might actually see in reality that rate hike and I think that's why equities are falling.

[Joe Terranova]

Well, especially the semis, right. It's the duration, the longest, the longest of long duration assets. If you look now like a lot of the semi names are at the lows of the session now. I mean they're already having a, a weekday obviously, but Marvell's down almost 8% now. Micron's down 6 now. Intel's down 6 and a half now. So that, that's what you're, you're dealing with. We'll do ETF Edge after the break.

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[Pippa Stevens]

We're back on halftime. I'm Pippa Stevens with your CNBC News Update. California's attorney general is leading a 12 state lawsuit to block Paramount's $110 billion deal for Warner Brothers discovery. The lawsuit says the merger would combine two of Hollywood's five major film distributors and hurt competition. State officials warn it could mean higher prices, fewer choices and less cost content for movie and TV audiences. At least 27 people are dead and more than two dozen are in critical condition after a fire tore through a Bangkok bar overnight. Thai authorities say many of the victims were found trapped in windowless bathrooms near one of the exits where they likely went to escape the flames. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, and US Officials say three unmanned surface vessels hit the Iranian port at Bandar Abbas Naval Base last night, marking the first US use of sea drones in combat. CENTCOM says the strikes degraded Iran's ability to attack commercial shipping. Scott, back to you Pippa.

[Joe Terranova]

Thank you, Pippa Stevens. Dom Chu has ETF edge. Hey Dom.

[Dominic Chu]

So Scott, small cap are outperforming in ways they haven't years. So joining me now is Matt Bartolini, head of Spider America's Research at State Street. Matt, an interesting point here. Scott and the committee were just talking about the rise in interest rates rates during the course of what's happening for the past few months. How exactly does the small cap trade react knowing that interest rates might be going higher now for the more near to medium term at least?

[Matt Bartolini]

Well, I mean today we've seen small caps trade off just slightly, a little bit less more or less so than large caps. But if we zoom out and take a step back on why the Fed may be in boil to raise rates is that it is due to some stronger economic growth and we look at small caps, there is that macro momentum helping supporting their case right now. If you look at manufacturing, it's been positive, consumption has been really positive which has been driving some of that inflation. So I think small caps can still weather through if the Fed does continue or actually decide to hike rates either in September or thereafter.

[Dominic Chu]

Have you seen flows support this? Are people now buying into literally and figuratively into the spit into the small cap trade? Are they putting their money where their mouth is?

[Matt Bartolini]

Yeah, there definitely has been a turn in sentiment. So if you look over the last three months, we've seen 9 billion of inflows into small cap ETFs, which is basically 90% of all the flows they've gathered in 2026 because they only have about 10 billion of inflows. So we've seen investors gravitate towards small caps right as they've had strong earnings momentum with earnings revisions being risen or raised for Q3, Q4 and full year 2026. But also that relative price momentum too, where small caps are beating large caps. And what I think is interesting is that all 11 of the GICs small cap sectors are beating the gigs large cap sectors. And that hasn't been happened in over the last 30 years.

[Dominic Chu]

And one quick point before we go, are there specific places within small caps you like better than others?

[Matt Bartolini]

Well, I think it's interesting is that small cap tech is massively outperforming large cap tech. And I think that speaks to this CapEx buildup where the AI beneficiaries in that CapEx ecosystem are gaining that cash flow now and that's boosting their bottom lines. So I think not so much what we like or don't like, the broader small cap asset class I think is favorable, but I think it just speaks to how there's opportunities further down the cap spectrum as this capex buildout starts to really pick up steam over the next couple of months and years.

[Dominic Chu]

All right, Matt Bartolini, thank you very much. We're going to continue this conversation over over at ETF edge.cnbc.com Matt's going to be joined by Phil McInnes, the chief investment strategist over at Avantis Advanced Investors. Scott, I'll send things back over to you guys.

[Joe Terranova]

All right, Don, good stuff.

[Matt Bartolini]

Thanks.

[Joe Terranova]

Don Chu. Up next, full stream ahead, Wells Fargo making a bold call on Disney's business model. They say it could lift shares by 40%. We have owners of the name. See what they think next. All right, welcome back. The call that we teased is from Wells Fargo, which asks a question. Should Disney exit streaming? They cut the price target to 125 from 1:46. They lay out the case for Disney to return to its old business model of producing versus distributing. We think it could add up to 40 or around 40% to the stock price by de risking earnings and tightening management's focus to IP and experiences.

[Stephanie Link]

Farmer Jim I'm going to applaud the analysts for recognizing, as I do too, that something bold needs to happen at Disney. I mean, the share price is has been more abundant being charitable by using that word. However, I don't think this is the move to make because if you get rid of streaming, then you've got the melting ice cube of linear tv. I will give him credit that saying this now is a lot different than saying it two years ago when when the streaming business had barely turned profitable. But I don't think this is what's holding the company back. I think what's holding the company back over the last year is on ongoing geopolitical concerns about what higher oil prices and conflict in the Middle east means for the theme parks, for the experiences. Don't forget that Disney about a year ago announced that they are going to build a resort in Dubai that's obviously held in abeyance by what's been going on with Iran. I think if you get geopolitical things to calm down, that's really what may put a little bit of lift to the stock. I wouldn't. To me, the streaming business is more of a crown jewel at this point in time, really.

[Jim Lebenthal]

Crown jewel? I'm not sure I'd call it that. Jimmy. The stock over the last five years down 47%. I think this note is a reaction to that. To your point, I think everyone's just trying to figure out what this company ultimately could be in the future. I think it has an identity crisis more than anything else. I think if you. And by the way, at the end of April, we bought it at 103, and I'm not happy that we bought it and it's in the Jyoti. I think the balance sheet looks worse than it did five years ago. They're spending way more money. They're not really making any strides in streaming. And we heard five years ago they were going for growth, right? They were going for growth via streaming, but yet it seems as though they're just sitting and spinning their wheels in that regard. So more than anything else, when you think about this company in the future, what is the identity of the company and why as a shareholder would you ever want to pay a premium for a company that's balance sheet looks worse?

[Surat]

So I think there's a bigger thing here. I mean, look, we talk about Disney, we got through the succession, nothing happened to the stock. Right now we're focused on the streaming. But you look at streaming altogether, look at Netflix, look at what Comcast is doing with NBC. The streaming that we thought, Joe, to your point, five years ago and then we had Covid was, you know, huge right now. It's the quote is fun inflation, right? How much can you really charge for all these things? So I do think we need a catalyst there. I don't know if this is the right one, to Jimmy's point, but I think there's a lot of value there. And I think you could see consolidation. I'm not sure which way it goes, but with theme parks, with streaming with these assets that are really cash rich, but it is just not being utilized the right way.

[Jim Lebenthal]

In the last five years, the biggest catalyst for the stock has been activism.

[Surat]

That's the whether it goes up or

[Jim Lebenthal]

Nelson Peltz, that that was the catalyst and that's when the stock moved in both instances. So look, I'd love to see it have the turnaround story, but I just don't know what it is.

[Joe Terranova]

So let me, let me say this. If Disney's Problem stock's down 15% year to date is because of geopolitics are somehow hindering people from going to the theme parks, tell me why Marriott's stock price is up on the year. Tell me why the airlines have done so well in the face of geopolitics and rising jet fuel prices. Because there seems to be, at least in my mind, a disconnect from your explanation.

[Stephanie Link]

Yeah, well, you know, to me the answer to that, Scott, is that the opportunity is there in Disney. But I think that the price increases that we've seen, particularly at the theme parks and have been even more than the price increases than we've seen that we've seen at Delta. And I don't know Marriott that well, so I've got to put that to the side.

[Joe Terranova]

But I just use it as an example. You're telling me that the reason the stock hasn't done anything is because the geopolitics, all geopolitics. Well, I gave you an example of a hotel name that's done well. The airlines have done really well. It seems like a specious excuse for why the stock is down, for lack of a better word.

[Stephanie Link]

Yeah, I mean, just, just remember, Scott, before we had the war with Iran, when oil was at $60 a barrel and gasoline was wherever it was, $3 a gallon, there were still concerns right then, before this conflict started about the inflation in theme park tickets and had Disney squeezed all of the juice out of the orange of the consumer. And now we've got even more pressure on the consumer consumer from gasoline prices. I do think that's what the distinction is. I don't think we were having that same discussion about Delta. And I can't, again, I can't talk about Marriott because I don't know it as well, but certainly Delta, we weren't talking about the inflationary prices before the war with Iran built out. Now, I will also say there's another aspect here and I don't think streaming is a problem. I got to just go to that really quickly. All right. Because that went from a Money loser to probably earns about $2 billion over the next 12 months. Like let's not give that up. What has been a problem in addition to this is the studio releases just haven't been that good. I mean we need, you know, if you want to know where I'd like to see a little bit of oomph. It's getting better. Studio releases.

[Joe Terranova]

Okay. But now we've, we've come to other things on the list. You don't love the studio releases. Geopolitics, the streaming about espn.

[Jim Lebenthal]

I mean that was. Dan Loeb said spin it off.

[Surat]

That's.

[Jim Lebenthal]

That's the crown jewel. Where are we on espn? I don't think they've been able to leverage that asset at all.

[Stephanie Link]

I will agree with you. Unfortunately.

[Surat]

Okay.

[Scott Wapner]

All right.

[Joe Terranova]

We'll take a break. We'll do finals next. All right, before we go, we have some moves from Surat.

[Surat]

Yes.

[Joe Terranova]

So you bought Ferrari and you bought Stryker Ferrari first.

[Surat]

I did. So high quality company that's down double digits this year. They had a misstep I think with the ev. But they're going to do really well going forward because this is a car that you can't get enough of. They are sold out for two more years and the stock price gives the opportunity.

[Joe Terranova]

Man owns what he obviously drives. You bought Stryker, you sold Zimmer and you sold Zoetis.

[Surat]

I did. So close out the positions there. Zoetis was a mistake. They kept on misstepping and then if you look at Zimmer, I rather own Striker. Higher quality company, much better management. Team leader Robotics, they're having an issue with cyber. So this is the time to get to high quality companies.

[Joe Terranova]

Should just listen to Steph when she sold.

[Surat]

I should have. I told her. I did. I ate it.

[Scott Wapner]

What's your.

[Joe Terranova]

What's your final trade?

[Surat]

Morgan Stanley. I think the catalyst could be the

[Joe Terranova]

wealth management business farmer Jim Blackrock.

[Stephanie Link]

We see what happened to asset prices in the second quarter. That'll show up in earnings.

[Joe Terranova]

Yeah. And they were report this week. I think it's Wednesday.

[Scott Wapner]

Stephanie Link Capital one at seven and a half times earnings. Really?

[Kate Rooney]

Too cheap.

[Jim Lebenthal]

Take your pick on the refiner, Joe.

[Joe Terranova]

All right, well, we'll see what this market does. I will see you for the final stretch on the closing bell. The exchanges now.

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