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so kevin o'leary is that what happened yesterday? did janet yellen give you reasons to keep buying stocks? >> she gave me no choice. it's that simple. she has kept the entire fixed income and told me have to go equity if i want 3.4% yield. but getting into stretched evaluation. >> you certainly seem to bring more clarity to what was a convoluted feel about where we were. look at the markets today. biotech crossing the 50 day moving average. emerging markets up month to date. what do you see? >> she's making these statements after the s&p comes back 12% from the early february lows. the lesson over the last two yea years, the upper end of a 20 month trading range. it's not to get overly bearish near the lows. we have been trapped in this range for about two years. the russell hasn't made a new high in 30 months so just being a little bit stead wrer and not overreacting and keep in mind that this is happening against the context of most people not being fully invested. you had $130 billion come out of open end mutual funds over the las

kevin o'leary disagrees and joins us now. why would the donald be better? of what the constituency wants as an investor, i would like to see corporate taxes cleared up and tax code attacked. it looks like over the last 15 years the established politicians have done everything except that. i'm going to make the assumption that hillary will be more of the same and lately she's been doing it including last night, a lot of wall street bashing, which most people assume she'll pull away from because of what bernie is a saying. i'm going to speculate and i'm also putting on my own positions. i'm going to speculate the old crusty grants aren't going to work. i think the hillary brand is going to fail. as a result everything she put pressure on bioterk and pharma, i go long. >> those are same things donald trump tends to bash. >> i think the 15% corporate tax target and cleanup of the tax act itself, if trump were to win would actually happen or at least have a higher probability and that is very friendly for america earnings and s&p in general. i think it takes the

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it is a point of view that the shark tank star kevin o'leary made for quite some time now. >> when iback over the last six years and look at the returns i've made in investing in companies that are private, midcaps, small cap companies, not some of my returns, ought of my returns have come from companies that are either owned or run by women. now, this is just facts for me. i'm not trying to look at gender as one is better than the other, anything like that. i'm talking about performance. return of capital from companies run by women has been remarkable. i've had phenomenal returns from it. >> two financial giants agree with kevin o'leary, betting big on women and business. with the new etf. "power lunch" exclusive with christie mitchum. ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us. want to start with you. you're starting a new etf, the symbol is she, she, a gender diversity index, why are you doing this, what's in it? >> study after study has shown that women make a difference. more balanced teams actually deliver better results. and that's operating results and share price apprec

today joining us, jim, josh brown, pete and steve lease man and kevin o'leary.man and halftime residence debit sharp. the mayor avrnls at the highest level of the year. spurred on by the speech from the fed chair and more dovish comments today from

kevin o'leary is here. and one manager tells us where he's getting up to 6% on his money.le versus the fbi, what role does silicon valley have in helping the government fight terrorists? a startup joins us. >> we'll see you in ten minutes. welcome back to "the halftime report." march madness under way and so is our market madness. we whittled the field down to two stocks. today we head out west for first round of matchups. apple versus microsoft. let's get the gang's pick. >> apple, shocker. we talked about it. it is very cheap. it is down from $144. i like it has some catalyst as well, not just cheap for cheap reasons. i like you have a potential for upside. >> is anybody here picking microsoft? >> by the way, i own microsoft. i like it. it was hard for me to choose. but the valuation is so compelling at apple first microsoft, but i like microsoft for the long-term, i think they're doing a great job in the cloud. the stock is moving higher. >> i agree with steph, i like apple against microsoft short-term. >> josh brown? >> the only one picking microsoft. >> i like apple.

performance of the market so far they have been tracking far more closely with the banks and i think kevin o'leary yesterday hit it right on the head when he was discussing with us the banks are intertwined with about everything possible that we can imagine within the market itself i think it's going to have to have the financials participate. >> if this is a bull bear debate whether you think the transports that have lead the market down are now coming back and helping to lead the rally or the banks which have done nothing? >> i feel like pete's point has a lot of merritt but i'm on the other side and the reason why is i think that banks are not really a risk thing that was spooking the markets. >> 16% off their lows. this week will make it six if what we're seeing now continues. so i'll give a little bit more to the transports. >> the transports telling us that the markets going up here or are the banks telling us that the market is going to go back down. >> they still have pricing power and margin upside. if you get a little bit of the lift in the u.s. economy these stocks can take off because

kevin o'leary was on here yesterday talking about the same type of names because i want the fundament fundamental story to be there and i don't want it to be a yield or buy back strategy out of the company that's financially engineered. i want to see a consistency for decades and yields and so forth. that doesn't mean that i'm not occasionally going to have -- yesterday i bought ak steel. this is a dash for trash kind of names. what started to rachet it up? take a look at u.s. steel and the run that had. look at gold and silver. there's places in the market we have seen that dash and incredible run. i'm not going to chase those but if something comes up on my radar, i'm going to buy a long. >> stay with what's working or switch it up? >> it's a combination of both i'm going to wait and maybe i'll nibble. earnings season is coming. there's stocks that will get cheap again but i'm not getting aggressive. >> how about the names within the dow? the best dow components over the quarter. verizon up 17%. caterpillar up 13%. so you get the gist here, maybe defensive names in a telco but cat,

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a senior scholar along with shark tank regular, kevin o'lea o'leary.., do you think appropriate levels? do we have a healthy market and you're saying that the risk here is that sort of the shorts and a lot of the high frequency guys get pushed out and that's bad for everybody? >> what we're seeing right now, a lot of increasing rhetoric from washington, it's very suspicious of some of the strategies that private funds and engaging in activist have pushed forward. we've seen yesterday or this week rhetoric from democratic senators at an sec confirmation hearing, very except tickal of stock buybacks. and we see it on the campaign trail. hillary clinton has been very suspicious of activist hedge funds and saw in 2008 when a republican sec chairman stopped short selling for a period of time during the panic. i think we've seen that rhetoric increase recently and i found it kind of surprising and counterproductive frankly. >> kef vip, i was going to ask, if you agree both about the direction this is all going and also about the negative consequences it will