Halftime Report -- CNBC -- October 18, 2024

Locator: 48598HTR.

HTR: a mix of facts, factoids, opinions from various sources -- often not cited -- while listening to "Halftime Report" on CNBC.   

Definitions (1):

• hard landing: Fed goes back to raising rates, time line -- through end of 2025
  
• no landing: Fed -- no more rate changes in 2024 / 2025
• soft landing: Fed continues to drop rates, time line -- through end of 2025

It sounds like a lot of folks are "mis-using" the terms "soft landing" and "no landing."

It appears some folks use this:

Definitions (2):

• hard landing: Fed goes back to raising rates, time line -- through end of 2025
  
• no landing: Fed continues to drop rates, time line -- through end of 2025
• soft landing: Fed -- no more rate changes in 2024 / 2025: 

I prefer  Definitions (1).

Still no talk about huge drivers:

• RMDs
• inter-generational wealth transfer
• DINKs now in their 60s

25-year-old in 1985 are now ... wait for it ... 64 years old. So much money.

Car prices collapsing. Link here. Folks focused on $100,000 Teslas and $100,000 pickup trucks and feel they are out of the car market for a new car. In fact, it's easy to find any number of makes/models in the $31,000 to $37,000 range. Three-year loans, free money, at 1.9%. Five-year loans not much worse. In fact, looking at monthly payments where interest rates play such a big role, it's hard justifying a used car at 9% interest vs a new car at 2%. Some hyperbole, but not much

"Generational opportunity" -- phrase used by Jensen Huang. In other words, folks in their 20's, 30's, and 40's may never see an investing opportunity like we see now. Again, Jensen's words, not mine.

LDCs: hard to fight "this stock." "This stock" being Nvidia.

Apple: "the Judge" has it exactly right. A lot of folks have been burned fighting the Apple story. Most notable: Carter Worth and Dan Nathan on "Fast Money," CNBC.

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Energy Transformation

Electrification continues.

Driven by the fourth industrial revolution.

$4 trillion between now and 2050.

Energy: the US has checked the "all-of-the-above" box -- wind, solar, natural gas, nuclear.

Utilities up almost 40% year to date (need to fact-check).

Power: GE Vernova, Vistra, Quanta Services, Eaton Corp PLC.

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution 

AI in all its various forms.

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