Welcome back to the halftime report. I'm Dominic Chu with today's ETF edge. Now, we've got a new Fed nominee for the chairman.Key jobs data on tap. Riskoff trading in some areas of the market. So, is this a setup to start playing a new kind of long game.Joining me now is Joanna Gyos, the co-founder and COO of Bond Blocks. You guys specialize in a lot of different option strategies with regard to how the fixed income markets move, right. How exactly is the current environment visa v.Kevin Morris is our new F ...

Kate Rooney, back to this in just a moment. I do want to get to Washington where we have breaking news from Aean Jabvers who's at the White House. Aean.>> Yeah, Scott. That's right. [music] President Trump uh posting on social media just a short time ago that he has spoken to Prime Minister Modi of India.He says they came up with a number of agreements in that conversation. The first one is that the president says that India will stop buying Russian oil. That's according to the president's social media post ...

A social media site where only AI agents are allowed going viral in tech circles this weekend. Moltbook, which has already seen AI bots conversing, organizing, sharing stories about quote their humans. Our dear DBosa has more on that in today's tech check.Morning De. >> Hey, good morning Carl. It's hard to look away from it, even if a lot of it does become unsettling.It's also worth noting that humans are banned from posting. We can, however, read the posts and see things like this. An agent who named himse ...

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A social media site where only AI agents are allowed going viral in tech circles this weekend. Moltbook which has already seen AI bots conversing, organizing, sharing stories about quote their humans. Our dear DBosa has more on that in today's tech check.Morning D. >> Hey, good morning Carl. It's hard to look away from it even if a lot of it does become unsettling.It's also worth noting that humans are banned from posting. We can however read the post and see things like this. An agent who named himself Dun ...

Kevin Worsh's expected nomination, the Fed chair, has been met with high praise from those who think the Fed has made big mistakes and worse has better ideas and can fix them, but also been met with deep concern about potential far-reaching changes at the Fed, uncertainty and rhetoric that for some has not always been entirely consistent. On the key issue of Fed independence, Borch has been a strong supporter. Says a less active Fed will be more independent from Congress.The risk here, a few Trump appointee ...

Not everyone though is a fan of the president's pick. 314 Research co-founder Warren Pi is writing on X that Kevin Warsh was the worst pick of the four candidates and will not garner trust from the market. Warren joins us this morning to talk more about that.Warren, appreciate the time as always. Good to see you. >> Good to see you.>> Uh you're not alone either. I think Ren Mack has been fairly critical. What do you think is the problem with this pick.Yeah, I I as I laid out there, I think that he is workin ...

Warner Brothers. Guys, we got a new amended proxy. Why am I mentioning that.It was filed this morning around 8:30. Because the timeline is moving quickly here on Warner Brothers Discovery and that shareholder vote that is the center of course of what are still Paramount's hopes to get current Warner Brothers Discovery uh shareholders to vote down the Netflix deal. By the way, you're not voting on a Paramount deal. You're just simply going to be voting on a Netflix deal up or down.that vote is coming closer ...

joining us now on what the charts, what the technicals uh are indicating in the markets, Katie Stockton and Fair Lead Strategies, a founder and managing partner. I said the same thing to Tom Lee. You you both were looking for some near-term um angst I think in equities and and not a a move higher. And I think it sort of confirmed what what you were uh looking for.Is it um we still in that period. >> I think so. Yeah.I mean, January was pretty firm for the major indices and we had this tugofwar almost, right ...

We might need a groundhog here to tell us exactly when the shutdown's going to end. Tomorrow is Mike Johnson's hope, but the fact of the matter is that the votes might not be there. You know, Johnson, he initially hoped to be able to fasttrack this bill that passed the Senate last week with a strong bipartisan majority tonight, but then House Democratic leaders signaled that many of their members are set to oppose the bill.That means Republicans are going to have to see if they can move it with their razor ...