david rosenberg, thank you very much. good to talk to you. and there is -- it's a good debate on wall street, hard and soft landing. >> as for today's take, degrading. ten years close to cycle highs. vix close to 19. dollar the highest since november. we'll watch it this afternoon into micron. to the judge. >>> carl, thanks very much. welcome to "the halftime report." i'm scott wapner. front and center this hour, the road ahead for stocks, which are now on pace for their worst month of the year. the investment committee mapping up their strategies for the month ahead. joining me for the hour today everybody here at post 9, joe terranova, jenny harrington, jason snipe, and jim lebenthal. let's check the markets, see what we're doing today. we're red across the board as you can see. the dow down 136, the s&p a quarter of a percent, the nasdaq is weaker. there's the ten-year note yield, 4.58. so, joe, we're headed for the worst month of the year, as i said, but here is something from bespoke. this is how i want to kick off the conversation. the