joining us now for the hour, josh brown, jim leventhal, and pete najarian, and head of u.s. equities strategy, also with us. everybody, stick around. we'll get to everybody on this important day, but first, let us set the scene at what is no doubt a very tense capitol hill, where kayla tausche is standing by ahead of the health care vote. kayla? >> brian, house republican leadership are rushing back and forth, scurrying about with a lot of pre-scheduled items on the calendar. but, just a few moments ago, the house majority leader was shrined by reporters here in the hallway and asked three separate times if he was committed to bringing this health care bill to the floor for a vote, regardless of whether it looked like there was enough support for it to pass. his answer was, why are you guys always so negative? he didn't answer the question straight on. reporters kept asking and he just accused the press of being negative and only focusing on the negative. that's important, because this vote is supposed to take place in a number of hours. nonetheless, republicans are still tr

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with us josh brown, steve weiss, john and pete najarian around in a moment. two hours until the fed delivers that big decision. there are the markets, in the green across the board. dow jones industrial up 48 points. that is the big question, is the market ready for a hike? >> the market is asking for a hike. the market is sitting up and begging for the hike, do the hike. you have a window. you have incredible momentum in the way people feel about the economy, all of the soft readings and things like small business confidence, home builder confidence, consumer confidence. this is the time to do these things. don't wait until the next geopolitical whatever, which is probably right around the corner. i think the market wants it and expects it. >> if the market for some reason doesn't get it, do you think the market is going to sell off, right? >> i think it would. i think it would come back pretty quickly. it is not only about the hike but about the language that accompanies the hike. in my view, not only do i agree with josh in terms of market wanting and bein

. >> up next, pete najarian is tracking an unusual energy name. first your check.s show it to you. discretionary at the top of wall street. we're back after this. kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin trusted advice for life. kevin, how's your mom? life well planned. see what a raymond james financial advisor can do for you. i work with people everywhere on sea, on land, and in the air. inspecting towers way up high avoiding turbulence in the sky. personalizing treatments with dna and recommending who should play. a dress that thinks, which crops to grow, tax prep to help keep payments low. you can find me on an oil rig, i answer questions small and big. hello, my name is watson. their leadership is instinctive. small and big. they're experts in things you haven't heard of - researchers of technologies that one day, you will. some call them the best of the best. some call them veterans. we call them our team. >>> all right. we're back with the promised ununusual activity with pete who's always tracking the market for signs of unusual trading.

we sent pete najarian over to the telestrator as usual for a look at the options market today. te, what do you see? >> it's interesting, scott. you can see csx and how it kind of plateaued and was hanging out here. it's actually dipped a little bit for recently down to these levels where it is. and that little dip is actually from the 50 area, called towards 46. somebody today making a statement today, coming in and buying the april 46 calls. 5,000 purchased today. around $1.84 whether they made this purchase, scott. a nice bump in the calls. they also sold calls on the up side. right where the stock had been at that $50 level. they sold twice as many up there. what does all of that mean? the buyer of those calls is expecting the stock to move up towards 50, really not much through 50. the expectation is back up towards 50 by the end of april. if that occurs, that's a nice big trade. huge volume there. i put in a bid, i'm not in it yet. i might be in by the end of the day. i'll let you know. >> this has been a subject you have talked about before, because of the activism. >> rig

pete najarian joining us. we'll go to the pits next. >>> welcome back to "the halftime report."il rallying nearly 2% on disruptions to oil supply in libya. this as officials made comments suggesting opec will extend production cuts to the end of the year. we're also seeing crude rally despite a stronger u.s. dollar. can the dollar cap crude's gains here? >> we also have to remember crude went 15% lower in the tune of a couple weeks. yes, the disruption in libya matters. yes, the talk of adherence matters, too. if the dollar settles below that 99 level the market will look at is the dollar weaker out of the range it had been in and that could support crude as well. i think there's a couple things that could push crude higher. >> jeff, do you see crude continuing higher here in the short term? >> i do, dom. crude known as black gold does have the possibility of moving higher. $48.60. and to jimmy's point earlier, that march 8th selldown, that low was $51.03. there's a the lot of air on that chart. go back to $51.03. >> thanks for the thoughts there. for more futures now check out

with us josh brown, steve weiss, john and pete najarian around in a moment.ours until the fed delivers that big decision. there are the markets, in the green across the board. dow jones industrial up

joe terranova, pete najarian, michael farr, the president of farr miller in washington.ohn along in a few moments. also today, three all-stars, mohamed el-erian, dallas fed president, firichard fisher. mohamed, goldilocks fed. i've heard people refer to what the fed did yesterday as that. and maybe that's why they think the stock market could continue to go higher. >> goldy lock fed, because most announcement, we got higher stocks and lower yields. that is why people are calling the goldilocks fed. and that's why i like to call it the beautiful normalization of rates. you can normalize rates without disrupting risk asset. having said that, scott, don't lose sight of two things. one, the market was technically positioned for higher migration in the dots. it didn't get that, especially for 2017 and '18, therefore had to cover. that was a technical reaction. second, don't lose sight that there is an ongoing transition in fed policy. this is a more confident fed. this is a fed that's going to lead markets rather than follow them. >> yeah, it's an interesting point. richard f

joining us now for the hour, josh brown, jim leventhal, and pete najarian, and head of u.s.trategy, also with us. everybody, stick around. we'll get to everybody on this imrt

i also say this, and i think i'm skating in pete najarian's lane, but even on a pretty wicked down day lower with lower sales, so volatility index is telling you people, whether they're complacent or enthusiastic, you can put your adjective in there, the volatility index is telling you that the market wants to continue to grind hard in my opinion. >> guy, backing out a little bit, what do we think here? trump was elected, we went on a huge run. we've kind of been running in place for a little while, still not far from the all-time highs. how much depends on washington? how much may be the earnings season about to get under way here and other factors? >> i'm hoping earning season plays a big role. bob casoni has been talking about it for weeks now. i'm hoping earnings takes the baton, but i'm of the belief so much is predicated on the hope, at least, that president trump can push forward the agenda he has basically ran on. i think people are hoping that obviously tax reform comes, dollars repatriated comes, and the regulations that have stifled business have lifted. so to me most of thi

. >>> jon najarian is at the telestrator with what is moving at the options -- >> a lot of the semiconductors have been the focus of many of us on the desk, intel, one that petehat's $4 higher. they bought these 39 calls in big numbers. >> so i met them, i probably -- like the up side here for this particular stock, even though like i say, down about 12 to 16 cents today. >>> cap pillar facing explosive new allegations. with one goal in one -- to keep its stop price going up. "new york times" breaking the story after fed agencies raided the headquarters. you say this was a report commissioned by the government, and done by a -- at the dartmouth business school? >> billions offshore, the subsidiaries, as a way to avoice u.s. tax. as long as the money remains offshore. when you bring the money back to the u.s., you're supposed to pay takes on it. the professors's bringses brill onof dallas back to the u.s., for tax purposeses in its financials. the professor is a -- i'm quoting -- i believe the company's noncompliance was deliberate and primary with the intention of maintaining a higher share price. the actions were fraudulent rather than negligence gent it's a