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Due months chairman and ceo is stepping down after six years in the post and five months after winning that proxy battle against an activist investor. Freeport trimming its board and reviewing Strategic Alternatives for its oil and gas businesses. Pepsico lasting its full year outlook. First up, futures indicated near the flat line a day after the s p saw a fivesession winning streak. All the s p sectors finished monday in the green led by industrials, up almost 3 . Jim, from fridays low, the dow is up 762 points. This is a market where a lot of people were caught leaning the wrong way before this rally, carl icahn, very noted investor, sounded an alarm. I think people were short betting that the number would be strong on friday, and we would have this calamity that didnt develop. At the same time peoplecloses ye negative news out of china, and glencore was able go up large. Took a breather, now the earnings start. It used to be alcoa. Today its pepsico. And if you start with pepsico and look at it, you say, wow, this is a good quarter. P pmcsierra, positive stuff about dupont. Can we continue the round . I dont know. I think were overdone. Is this the chance to sell stuff you wish you could have sold at 1870 . I think theres industrials that have gone up a great deal that went up in part because people said nelson peltz bought ge, were fine. We have not heard negative news about china lately. China comes back october 8th, nelson peltz did not buy an etf for industrials. He didnt. What do you mean . Ge is not a proxy for him taking a position in all the industrials that rallied. Not at all. Kind of the opposite. They made it clear, its a mispriced security. We will see if that proves to be a correct statement over the next couple of years. I would expect them to own the stock for at least that long. I do wonder. September was just terrible. Right. I got hedge funds, i havent pursued some of them. Closing down, huge redemptions. You have guys down double digits. I dont know how much flows matter or not. No, youre so right. The flows. The new fiscal year for some new mutual funds. Mutual funds had to sell. I dont know to what extent that played into this ralliment. At the old trading desk you would say big dog, but the mutual funds did, indeed, had so to do some taking of profits. The hedge funds were very much hurt. The last dip down was about redemption. What i feel im concerned about, if you look at dupont, well talk about it, you may want dupont as a break up. The line items of dupont were terrible. Yeah. By the way, brazil . You have business in brazil, youre down 40 because of the currency. Yeah. A lot of guys do business in brazil. Even though well do dupont in a second, we have made up for septembers losses, and then some. You were worried in september, this rebound has done nothing to assuage those concerns. I was worried about glencore, i still am. China has done nothing. The Mortgage Rate cut was big for me. It says our housing bubble is over. This wynn and Las Vegas Sands is a major reversal of the communist party that tried to crack down on this excessive party. Theyre making credit easier and going for excessive spending. Thats prescription for not hating china as much. You saw german factory orders today, big miss. Really bad. Part of my theory why they can come back is that europe has got to be better. This is not what you want to see if you want the dollar to go down. If you look at pepsico, theyre saying maybe weve seen the peak in currencies away from the dollar. When i look at the globe, you need to see china better. Did i get that . No. But thanks for calling back now. Is it the wife . No. Thank you. The wife knows not to call. The kids have soccer. Last hour and a half im trying to get this person. Dupont announcing that ceo Ellen Coleman is stepping down october 16th after holding the top jobs since 09. Edward breen who oversaw the break up of tyco taking over as interim ceo. Kullmans retirement comes five months after they won the proxy battle over nelson peltzs tria trian. Man, i tell you, i remember nelson peltz saying there will be another big cut, right . He did. This was not a big cut this was a meekly through the proxy fight, he pointed out how many times they had not met previous guidance. Here we are again, theyre saying brazil, its bad but is it just brazil . Then huge cost cutting theyre talking about moving into here. The Conference Call was unreal, frankly. Why . Hey, we had another good quarter. Ellens doing good job. Things are good. Okay. We missed big. Thats all right, its brazil. Guys, it was a bad call. Dont put lipstick on that one. Questions now, of course, we can debate certainly ms. Kullman, sevenyear ten youre, was cut short. Theyll say fired, shell say retired. You have an interim ceo. Will ed breen be interim or permanent . They are undertaking a search in all seriousness, but ed breen ran tyco, motorola. He created so much value with tyco. This fits with his lifestyle. I thought that he was interested maybe in one more gig as a ceo. Only 59. I will be interested to see whether he chooses to stay on and is given the ceo job permanently or whether he really is interim. I dont know the answer. But you could make the case he would be permanent ceo. The question is, he know house to sell things, move assets around. He did that at tyco, created value there as well. Let me ask you, something joe asked me earlier. She won the battle, lost the war. Right. No doubt. How did that happen . Because of a missed quarter . Yeah. Listen to ed garden yesterday from trian. He turned the question around, but the first part of the answer is interesting because it lends to the idea that they werent done at dupont and the board must have known that. The dupont story is far from over. But let me make an observation, you know, its all about Revenue Growth and margins. In the case of dupont, we were talking about a separation at dupont. Not for the sum of the parts, but because it made no sense to us that as part of an am amalgamation the places that make up dupont have worse operating metrics than small standalones. You have to wonder if that narrative will have more currency in the boardroom now. How about if they put nelson on the board. What would happen . Nothing says they wont. If she had just said, listen, we need these guys. Do you think it would have been a different outcome . I think she would have kept her job. You do . I think so. Really . She could have said im not happy with my performance. I need help. Here comes help. I segue to that because i think the freeport ceo will keep his job because theyre open minded. You have been doing some work on activists, but the journal today looks at 71 instances where an activist gets involved. Of those 71, outperform their peers, not by a lot, but by five points. Very interesting piece. Its almost like the term doesnt work. The term activist doesnt work. Its very broad in its nature, there are a lot of different strategies that we pointed out. I was talking about this the other day, given the size of positions and how bad september was for some activists, who own valeant, we talked about jeff ubb, enormous positions, longterm holder. Many of these guys are longterm holders. Carl icahn owns these stock force years. The trian guys own stocks for years. Thats one set. There are another set of acti activi activists. Its not always ended up rosie. We have to come up with a better term. Breaking news from twitter, unveiling whats been known as project lightning. Calling the much anticipated feature moments. This is dorseys vision of a slimmed down version of the project as a way to attract firsttime users to the platform. Its twitters first attempt to curate the 500,000 tweets sent a day. The floods in South Carolina will be a package of photos, tweets taken by residents. Behind the scenes i have been pushing, pushing, give us this. Could we make it so we can follow topic and make it known no not catsthatpurratdogs. But give us something meaningful. They kept promising. They kept promising. They said it would be out early october. This is something they promised and delivered and a lot of us wanted. This will make it so this should be your newspaper. This could work. The manager overseeing this particular product says what were trying to do is get the content directly in front of you without you making decisions. Thats smart. They got to make it easier. I was with my daughter this weekend. She hijacked my twitter feed. Dad, well do something new. Well thank people and put smiley faces for saying things nice. Why would we do that . Its nice. When we come back, ginni m Ginni Rometty. And pepsi beating guidance. Mores s isquawk on the streetm post nine in a moment. Pepsi had a nice earning beat. Shares on the rise. Sara eisen joins us early this morning with more on that. Good morning. Good morning. Pepsi out with Third Quarter results beating on the top and bottom line and raising its full year outlook, raising margins. Joining us now is hugh johnson, pepsico cfo and vice chairman. Good to see you again, hugh. Great to see you, sara. Good morning. So the strength came from north america, both on the beverage side and on frito lay. Should we take it as a good sign for the u. S. Consumer . Yeah. I think we feel good about that now. I love the way you guys closed the last segment. Beverages, snacks, profits. I couldnt say it better myself. I think theres two big thing going on. Number one, the pepsico portfolio is working. You know, previously europe and asia, middle east, africa were growing more quickly as north america was slower. Now that north america picked up, you see all of the businesses. North america beverages, frito lay and quaker are all performing well. Maybe a good sign for the u. S. Consumer. We saw revenue up in the Convenience Store channel up about 7 . Thats terrific sign that at least the u. S. Consumer who likes our product is doing well. I think thats story number one. Big story number two sara, is the combination of enhanced productivity which i think weve been seeing over the past couple of years. Weve invested in automation, in market restructuring and shared services. Weve been putting that money partly into the bottom line. Operating margins up about 60 basis points. And partly into research and development and market and advertising. Were growing sales faster than pierce. Thats enabling us to drive more productivity. I wanted to ask you about that, hugh. Your boss spoke about the productivity savings on the call right now. Why is productivity so important to pepsico right now . No. I think weve actually been at it now for several years. I wouldnt describe it as a 3 g effect. Though we have respect for what they do. We invested in capable to drive continuous productivity improvements. Part of it is smart spending, managing zero based budgeting, but also running the operating system more efficiently. We invested in systems to give us more visibility and now investing in capability to drive costs out. Part of that is going into the bottom line, part of that is going back to growth. Thats a wonderful value creating formula for the investor who wants to stay in for the shortterm and longterm. Hugh, jim cramer. Good to see you. Hi, jim. Weve got a series of stories that come out about carbonated soda drinks, diet or regular. How has your company been able do well in the liquids category despite that bad publicity . Its a great question. I think even there we have a formula thats working very well. First of all, we were somewhat ahead of the curve in terms of investing in noncarbonated beverages. We have the leading sports drink with gatorade. We have the leading tea with lipton. We have the leading coffee with starbucks. We have the leading orange juice with tropicana. As consumers shift from carbonated soft drinks into noncarbs, we are the beneficiary. For the quarter, noncarbs were up 10 . Thats why we saw such terrific north american beverage performance. I know you took over quaker. Thank you. We are doing well in the cereal category. We posted a quarter of 2 Revenue Growth, 2 profit, if you take out the gain from a profit year, profits were up 17 . Combination of share gains, pricing and productivity are working in the quaker business. Hugh, thank you very much for joining us. Hugh johnston of pepsico. Diet volumes were down 6 to 7 this quarter. They released their new diet pepsi without aspertame and consumers did not go towards it yet. Coming up, we will count down to the opening bell. We did not talk about tesla, federal express, freeport, mcdonalds all day business. That and more when squawk on the street comes back. They come into this iworld ugly and messy. Ideas are frightening because they threaten what is known. They are the natural born enemy of the way things are. Yes, ideas are scary, and messy and fragile. But under the proper care, they become something beautiful. Awe believe active management can protect capital long term. Active management can tap global insights. Active management can seek to outperform. Thats the power of active management. Where are we . Is that house music . Thats horrible. Were clubbing. We will be clubbing the people shorting pm krspmcsierra. They are being bought by skyworks. Skyworks has the innards of every cell phone. David spent a couple billion dollars in cash to buy this. David, during the great heyday of 2000, p pmcsierra going up. It makes the company more diversified. That stock has been not so hot of late but up here. It looks like theyre getting way more than the 52week high. Theyre doing good thing to diversify. Preannounced a better than expected quarter. Lets look at skyworks, particularly in this market where we have seen stock prices not respond as positively as they had previously. Thats a barometer for the health of the mma market. Give than they preannounced, you would expect them to be up more. People are technicians and looking at this as k2, where its very dangerous. Thats where all the accidents happene happened. Not a lot of oxygen up there. Exactly. Illumina, this is gene sequencing. People thought there can nothing that can go wrong with illumina. Its a red hot stock. If you look at ilmn, look at that. How do you like that . This was a name wasnt roche after them for a while . Yeah. Everybody loved it. Theres a lot of pressure on biotech. Just illumina is the losing share and losing business. They have the box right, they can sequence you quickly. People in the business say this is a very this is the break through company you need to use. Eventually well carry around other genom on the phone. Absolutely. Everything you need for your vitals is on your phone, but you want to find out whether your genes will yield some sort of genetic proclivity for a terrible disease, and you need illumina. Do you buy it on this weakness . This took everybody by surprise. Wait until is settles. When its down that much, that means theres a second day. Made me think of the apple watch, you could have your gene on the watch. Hes back to his breitling. We have not talked about freeport yet. More squawk on the street after this. Here at the Td Ameritrade trader group, they work all the time. Sup jj . Working hard . Working 24 7 on mobile trader, rated 1 trading app in the app store. It lets you trade stocks, options, futures. Even advanced orders. And it offers more charts than a lot of the other competitors do in desktop. You work so late. I guess you dont see your family very much . I see them all the time. Did you finish your derivative pricing model, honey . For all the confidence you need. Td ameritrade. You got this. Youre watching cnbcs squawk on the street live from the Financial Capital of the world. The opening bell in about a minute. A lot of various news cycles. Some news from big industrials, Large Cap Companies like pepsi, dupont and fedex. A lot of mma. A lot of food news, whether its cheerios, general mill, yum tonight. Wendys, mcdonalds all day breakfast. Mcdonalds i think has been going up because of breakfast all day. They created a lot of drama about it. Easterbrook is turning that company around. Mcdonalds remains a buy. People have been saying sell it. No, the reason why pepsico did well is not soda. Mcdonalds, breakfast is better than people think. It matters. Its good. If mcdonalds can get another 80 cents or so, you have go all the way back to last summer, july of 14 to see levels above 102. Hes real. I think it will be a huge engineering challenge. Already people upset that hash browns are not available everwhere. Well find out more as it rolls out today. Theres the opening bell. At the big board today, olin corporation. King of chlorine after the dow deal. King. At the nasdaq, baldwin and lyons, a Property Casualty insurer specializing in the transportation industry. Speaking of transportation, fedex upgraded. They say theres been a enough guide downs in a slow economy, they can make the things work. And surcharges again boosted for u. P. S. Im looking at the price of heating oil, natural gas for the winter is the lowest in a long time. Putting a lot of money in consumers products, but it goes to fedex because of raising oil no. No. Come on. Im pro these companies. I didnt get that. You think thats its a way to make money. Im just being hard on them. United parcel got together. They didnt hire a lot of people as i thought they would for the holiday season, but i think they got an algorithm for getting rid of the boxes that take up room in the truck. I want to get to freeport in the faber report. I wanted to get to baker hughes. They did amend their 13d reporting. They intend to have conversations with members of management and the board to discuss way to enhance value. Topics include board composition, which may include whether it makes sense for a value act employee to be on the board, operations, asset allocation, dividend policy, financial condition, mma strategy, a lot of other things. Trying to buy halliburton. Yeah. I dont know. I like slumm halliburton, i dont know if thats what you want when Oil Companies are strapped for cash. If they do that deal, the cost saves will be enormous. They will represent a true competitor to schlumberger. Soup to nuts. Schlumberger is an amazing. Its a buy. Oil prices have bottomed here. I know the goldman 30 call, i dont think it will happen. Production cuts are too great, particularly in north dakota. Product t production cuts are massive in north dakota. I cannot believe how the ratchet backed it up. The journal referencing smaller sites still proliferating out there. Still, you know, people drilling the sweet spot. These companies, the credit will be shut down. Contra raised money, thats smart because so much property will be for sale. Freeport, i dont know if theres buyer fors freeport, i dont know if theres buyer for for that. Valeant has contributed to the success of the firm over time, and purchasing square, a huge holder of valeant. Vrx down another 10 yesterday. Just wanted to look at it this morning. Its flat. Its caught up very much centrally in this growing debate about rising drug prices. An interesting story in the wall street journal today about avinex and its maker biogen. Its a 20yearold drug for the treatment of multiple sclerosis, they have raised the price dramatically over the last few years. Its a strategy for many of these companies as they watch values come down. Valeant acquire companies and then jack up the price of the acquired drugs where theres not a lot of generic competition. It has come up in the mylan fight. Wait until theres a jenngeneri competitor to the epi pen for mylan. Look at how much they have raised that price over the last four years. Dramatic. Basically saying our numbers are fine, i mentioned that on mad money. They raised up actar had been right. Had been around forever. This is the kind of thing they can say all they whine about owl business is good there, but they made some mistakes. Do you think this ends up somewhere or are investors being emotional when they sell these names and the idea that there could be price controls . Seems like youre going down a dangerous road. I had Michael Weiss on last night, a banker who runs tg therapeutics, he said there are real guys who are gouged, theyll be found out, theyre bad eggs, the rest of the egg carton is okay. I think it will be forgotten about. Saying that Hillary Clinton almost destroyed the biotech industry in 94. The dramatic decline in biotech. No one wants that to happen again. They save too many lives. But its ba battle for now. If valeant can have any rally that lasts a day sunedison was up for a few minutes. Few minutes when . Yesterday or today . This morning. Its cloud edison again. Citi initiating cisco with a buy this morning. They see 15 upside, 30 target as margins increase as the revenue model shifts. They do initiate a sell on f5, thats the biggest loser on the s p 500. I think chuck robins is doing a remarkable job. Youll see a lot radware had a bad number last night a software security, you know, all this stuff, cybersecurity. Cisco is offering a soup to nuts cybersecurity situation that the Services Providers like. Watch big Service Providers come back. I think theyll spend again. You do. I do. Theyve been absent from spending for a long time. Theyll come back. They spent. They just have kept the spend relative they spend. You mean growth. Theyll put some orders in. How about that . Okay. Im looking at the list of week to day gainers. Top five, transocean, marathon, alcoa, micron and number one is dupont. 15 for the week to date. Wow. Value value created there. I mean, you can still question whether trian was better off having sold when they got beat. Right. Right . Stock was 70, wasnt it . Higher than that. Yeah. But 57 looks better than 45. Well, yeah. Yeah. Actually 47. Thats you like that. You did ann algorithm. Cant get anything past me. The oil, oil has bottomed. They are the worst of the oil and worst of the drillers, the ones that were most stretched. I know oil was down 25 in q3, i think that oil is finding a bottom, and that does matter. Oil turned up on friday. Thats when the stock market turned, not from the employment number. It was oil turning. Right. Yesterday, oil started go down. The market was turning down. Oil turned, then the s p 500 turned. Its in charge. How much of this move in depoi depoid dupont is much the expectation that breen will undertake maybe they do something with ag. Dow chemical may want that unit. Do you think thats part of why this is more than people might have anticipated. Dow is flushed with cash. Olin, they own 50 . They have a lot of cash. Andrew livers said were buying back stock. Thats our plan. Breen did create ive done this study at tyco. Breen, thatdestruction. There are health and safety businesses thats good. Electronics business, materials electronic businesses not that good. And brazil, brazil. Look at venezuela and pepsico . Uh. Latin america. Remember latin america . Vaguely. As jim and david say, the dow would easily be negative without dupouupont helping. Lets get to mary thompson. Mixed picture here on wall street. This on the heels of gains in asia overnight and a turnaround in europe as markets shrugged off disappointing factory data from germany. Look at the s p 500. Yesterday it hit 1989. Thats been an area of resistance. 1989 to 1993 for the s p over the last month and a half. Well see whether or not it can break through the levels. Those are some of the levels that traders are watching. Today pulling back having gained for the last five trading sessions. Couple of groups were watching, semiconductors who have been performing very nicely on the heels of better than expected earnings last week from micron. Today getting some support from the news that skyworks is buying pmcsierra for 2 billion in cash. Were also watching energy. You heard jim mention it earlier, talking about oil bottoming. One interesting thing about the S P Energy Sector it crossed above its 50day moving average yesterday, which would expect shortterm move to the upside. It was the first time in 92 trading sessions that it moved above those levels. Energy getting a lift from crude oil today, which is higher thanks in part to weakness in the dollar. Transports were watching. A big day yesterday. They opened lower, but now are trading higher thanks in part to federal express, following the lead of u. P. S. And adding a fuel surcharge. Those are contributors to the dow transports gains early on. Biotech, has been showing a little bit of strength the last couple sessions, well see whether it can weather this guidance by illumina. Biotech index down about 2 now. Quick check of thats not good. Off 19 for illumina. After the company said that weaker european and japanese markets are going to result in the company cutting Sales Guidance for the rest of the year. A quick check of the materials group. These are the stocks well be watching. Dupont, providing the support to the support to the dow, up 39 points now. The company cutting guidance and upping cost cutting measures. Freeport freeportmcmore ran exploring energy alternatives. The dow up now 44 points. Thank you, mary. Lets get to the bond pits. Rick santelli is at the cme group in chicago. Good morning. Good morning. Even though you might look at rates and see were only up a basis point or so, when you look at it in the context of a twoday market, really jumps out at you how much distance weve traveled in the last 24 hours on Interest Rates elope. Alone. Fed meeting, 917, theres so much talk about, you know, everything is doing well. The fed just doesnt want to upset the apple cart. The fed is in control of the apple cart. This is not me talking. Lets use 917, the second day of the fed meeting and look at some global markets, see how the patterns look. Lets look at 9 17 bunds. Keep that pattern in your brain. Now tenyear, look similar . Dax, also looks like stencil. The euro versus dollar. Same thing. Everything is core rating. A lot of it is correlating on that point in time where the fed surprised some by not receiving some accommodation. If you look at the spreads, flattening most associated with the fed, but theres a lot of moving parts all along yield curve. Its whats on the feds Balance Sheet, whats going on in europe, the euro may buy us rates to the down side. You saw what our exports have done. You saw the trade deficit today. Oneyear steep on 30s minus 5s, we have not been at 156 since last october. David faber, back to you. Thank you very much. On to freeport, a maim we mentioned many times over the last few months as we watched that stock suffer dramatically in both as a result of the selloff in oil and copper. Yeah. Its well placed this company. Really well placed. This morning, you dont see this too often. They reduced the size of the board of directors from 16 to 9. Now have seven independent directors led by their lead independent director, gerald j. Ford. They have madonna on the board. That would be john madonna. Oh. I got his attention. The question is what will carl icahn think . Mr. Icahn owns 8. 8 of the shares in freeport, having increased his stake to 100 milli million. Back at the end of august, he indicated he wanted to have discussions, its unclear if any have taken place. The way this has been described is trying to meet his objections and trying to keep him happy and or at bay. Well see whether that works or whether mr. Icahn will still threaten to or will undertake a proxy fight to get more of what he wants. The changes are dramatic. 16 to 9 on the board of directors, seven independent board of directors, and they have undertake than Strategic Review of oil and gas businesses. They basically said well consider doing anything. We thought we would potentially spin off a minority interest, sell a minority interest. Theyll look at anything at freeport. This is deep water gulf of mexico. Yeah. They bought at the top. Could they be selling at the bottom . Deep water gulf of mexico is something that chevron excels in. Chevron has the capital maybe to do something. These guys are uniquely challenged in terms of their timing of things. And i could say that this was a disaster. They bought that oil company and it was a disaster. Terribly done. And they would be okay without it. Now theyre scrambling. They have the Balance Sheet from haitis, and they will sell that oil company at the bottom. They will. Theyll sell at the bottom. Thats just who are. Icahn bought an awful lot of stock. Hes no dummy. The value, frankly, if you think chinas comiing back, it a great play. Copper 40 of the worlds copper goes to china. Obviously people feel that oil can be bottomed because of china. If you think china is turning, you have that natural call. Otherwise, stay away. Yeah. Yeah. A disaster. 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Because at scottrade, our passion is to power yours. Good tuesday morning. Welcome back to squawk on the street. Im Carl Quintanilla with sara eisen, simon hobbs, and david faber. S p trying to make it six in a row to the upside. We have not done that since june of 2014. A lot of corporate news. Oil helping out at 47. 28. Look at dupont as well. The Company Announcing that Ellen Kullman is stepping down october 16th after holding the top job since 2009. Dupont, the best performing dow component this month. Coming up later, ibm is working on a new unit betting big on artificial intelligence. Ginni rometty will join us live for an interview. Lets get to our road map for the next 60 minutes. Stocks mixed after five days of rallies. David kostin will join us with his take on where the markets are heading nows for the rest of the year. Price hikes help pepsi beat the street for the Third Quarter. The companys cfo speaking out. And the l. A. Dodgers becoming the first pro team to fund a tech incubator. The teams president will join us live to talk about that and, of course, the Fantasy Sports scandal. We have headlines here hitting the wire. The imf cutting its World Economic outlook. We knew this was coming. We have the numbers. Global economy is only expected to grow 3. 1 according to imf. Thats down from last years growth. Its also down from the last imf forecast. The main reason the imf is lowering the outlook, china is lowing. The biggest cuts from imf go to brazil and russia in terms of economic growth. The imf on china leaving its forecast interestingly unchanged. 6. 8 growth. Not worried about china. 6. 3 growth in 2016. The imf says on the Chinese Markets and their impact on the economy, no sizable Macro Economic disruptions. Playing down the china equity moves and the chinese slowdown. The imf does warn that inflation is going to be a problem in the advance the world. Seeing it here in the u. S. Its likely to remain low in advanced economies. We will talk to the author of this report. He used to be on president obamas council of economic advisers. He will join us in the next hour. I think you sound good like that. A little fast. Will you make it through . Im trying. Lets get more on todays market action. We are up 69 points on the dow. This is now a sixth day of gains for the markets, at least for the s p, which means that in that period of time of time were up 5. 5 , 5. 6 . A strong rally. The Vice President and client Portfolio Manager of Jp Morgan Funds is here with us. Youre an asset allocatorment. Yes. When we have this strong rally from the lows, we know august was bad. Does that change your view of where the markets are going . You are like, this is big . The u. S. Was our preferred market. Its been that way for about a month now. I think the two things that the fed look at were high yield spreads and Commodity Prices that hurt sentiment. Those two things have somewhat stabilized the past few days. Voila, we have a rally in the equity market . Is it about the fed . Some of it is about the fed. We think december. Thats earlier than other Market Participants say. Why do you think its december . Clarity. I think september 17th, a lot of Market Participants, were talking about the fed going. The fed wasnt talking about it. Now were getting to see some fed officials coalescing around december. Thats a big difference. The one that we thought was really important was John Williams from san francisco. Before the payroll number that came out at 142,000 that folks thought were bad, he said 100,000 in payrolls is enough to produce, shrink labor slack and be enough for them to move rates this year. Thats important. But isnt and theyve repeated that mantra. Many in the market dont think theyll move. They also think that the fed is captive to the markets. In other words, if i think you wont move, you wont move. If they do then move, thats going to upset a lot of people. A game of chicken going on. The market is winning it. The fed keeps pushing and pushing. However they have two jobs. Labor, full employment and price stability. Full employment theyve met. Averaging 200,000 jobs. The inflation one, two things that held inflation down. Commodity prices over the last year, dollar, the ferocious rally in the dollar. They believe the pace in those two things are slowing. So you have reduced your exposure to equities in this environment. Yeah. You added selective high yield sectors. Thats right. That will be counter untietive to people watching now. Theres a cloud of uncertainty around the fed. If you think about august and september when there was pain in the equity market, the barclays aggregate index gave you 50 basis points of performance in two months. So we reduced there because youre not getting the same benefit of diversification and fixed income. The high yield call, just get the client to pay rent. Get some carry in yield in the environment while the volatility clouds are over the market. Im looking at the imf global forecasts. Cutting again Global Growth to 3. 1 saying the risks are tilted to the down side. Do you think this is priced in globally in stocks, bonds, currency currencies, commodities . The chinese stock market went down 19 . They cited that. High yield spreads have widened. Certainly you mentioned it in the open. Its not new news, folks thought Global Growth was going to slow. The number on china being more upbeat should be a Silver Lining coming out of that report. I thought it was interesting that they left their china forecast unchanged and upgraded the u. S. I know youre decreasing your risk to u. S. Stocks, wouldnt the u. S. Attract safe haven flows . Again, the u. S. Is like our blanket. Were going there. But were reducing it because youre not getting the same diversification from fixed income. The barclays ag is not giving you that diversification. The u. S. Is going to lead the growth engine. Auto sales, Third Quarter auto sales were off the charts. Before we let you go, somebody said overnight that they felt ameremerging markets once in a generation guarantee. We have some for income accounts, but emerging markets will be a good trade. But tactically speaking over the next six months we dont want to have exposure just yet. We would rather be in the u. S. , europe and japan where theres stimulus. Good to see you. Thank you for your time. Microsoft kicking off its event here in new york city. Just a few moments ago the Company Planning to unveil a couple new devices. Josh lipton is there live with what to expect. Hi, josh. Carl, the event actually just snow getting underway. Microsoft officially launched windows 10 in july. So now the tech giant wants to really drive adoption of this operating system by showing all its advantages on a range of new devices. So this morning the expectation is that microsoft will unveil new lumia smart phones. They could support new features like windows hello or facial recognition. This is a tough category for microsoft. Stakes are high. The Windows Phone only runs about 3 of the worlds smart phones. Also expected, a new surface pro 4. Lighter, thinner, larger display. Competition in this category certainly becoming a lot more intense with apple just introducing the ipad pro as well as forming partnerships with ibm and cisco, moving harder into the workplace, which is microsofts bread and butter. Timely, microsoft wants to capitalize on that wearables trend. Be on the lookout for the microsoft band two. Could boast a curved display, greater fitness tracking capabilities. Right after the event, ill have an interview with microsofts vp of windows and devices. Well wrap up all the news we hear this morning. Stay tuned for that. An option to log into a phone using facial recognition, josh . Im sorry, simon . An option we think to be unveiled to log into your phone using face recognition . Thats right. Thats one of the rumors. The idea is that we should expect to see two new lumia smartphones. One of those features could be just that, biometrics. The idea you can log in using your face. Many people think the company will mention that. Josh lipton, thanks. Up next, pepsi beating the street with its quarterly results. The stock is in the green. Hear what the companys cfo had to say about the quarter and the health of not just the u. S. Consumer but soda consumption. Squawk on the street will be right back. If you want get to mcdonalds before 10 30 a. M. But you still have to have that egg mcmuffin, fear not. Today mcdonalds starts serving allday breakfast. Not all of your favorites are on the menu. Ron mott is live in boston are more. Reporter were just north of boston in the town of gloucester. In the good old days, ie yesterday, if you showed up at this mcdonalds or any other one, one minute past the time they cut off breakfast service, you usually got that dreaded, sorry, were on to lunch. Thats all changed starting today. You can come here any time of the day, 3 00 in the afternoon, 9 00 at night, you can get a plate of hot cakes if thats what youre craving this is done because of social media. The company were pressured by fans and customers on social media saying would you please extend your breakfast beyond 10 30, which is most of the time when mcdonalds across the country cut off breakfast. This mcdonalds had been serving traditionally until 11 00. Mcdonalds not just doing this because it wants to be nice, they have to change their fortunes literally because they had a ceo change here earlier this year. Guest counts, the number of people coming to mcdonalds is down 4 . Most important, revenues off 5 . They want to put some energy back into this chain. They think this is the way do it. Because people love their breakfast. Its the strongest part of their menu offerings. We will talk to some folks here after 11 00 to see if theyre excited to get those mcmuffin and that egg sandwich this so crave. There was a Big Conversation with the franchisees about the additional cost of doing this as an innovation and whether the kitchens can cope. I hear there may be a problem with the hash browns because they occupy the fryer where the fries are made later in the day. So, there may be a cut off for some people around the country with the hash browns about now. Well, you know, one thing one of the things that people thought it was an excuse for why mcdonalds didnt extend breakfast past 11 00, they claimed the grill was not large enough to grill hamburgers and sausages for breakfast. The hash brown items are popular. Well have to see how that will work with the fryers and all the frefr french fries they need to fry. It doesnt look like Mcdonalds Restaurants have changed their kitchen outline much in the way of adding more grills to the lineup or extending the size of grills, bringing on new fryers. Well have to see how this all works. They know people like breakfast. They know some people really want an egg sandwich in the afternoon. A new fryer is a big capital expense, though mcdonalds said 90 of restaurant als will have hash browns all day. Ron mott, thank you. Pepsi out with results this morning beating on the top and bottom line. Also pepsi raising fullyear outlook. Profits were hit a bit by the stronger dollar and International Weakness in venezuela but Strong Performance on margins and sales growth. We talk to the cfo, Hugh Johnston earlier on squawk on the street. He talked about this global shift in terms of where the company is seeing growth now. Have a listen. The pepsico portfolio is working. You know, previously europe and asia, middle east, africa were growing more quickly as north america was slower. Now that north america picked up, you see all of the businesses. North america beverages, frito lay and quaker are all performing well. Maybe a good sign for the u. S. Consumer. We saw revenue up in the Convenience Store channel up about 7 . To me, thats terrific sign that at least the u. S. Consumer who likes our product is doing well. Analysts says that bodes well for cocacola and Tobacco Companies as well. I thought it was interesting that volumes in beverages were up 3 . Jim cramer asked about that where the strength was. It was in noncarbonated beverages, gatorades, bottled water. Pepsi has been shifting out of the colas. It add its new dietwith jo without aspertame. Its a tough macro environment for these companies. Coming up, were keeping our eyes on dupont. That stock up over 11 now in the wake of the news that its chairman and cfo will retire. Plus ibm chairman and ceo, Ginni Rometty joins us for an exclusive interview. Find out what big blue is trying to do now. patrick 1 whats it like to be the boss of you . patrick 2 pretty great. patrick 1 how about a 10 raise . patrick 2 how about 20 . patrick 1 how about done . patrick 2 thats the kind of control i like. And thats what they give me at national car rental. I can choose any car in the aisle i want without having to ask anyone. Who better to be the boss of you. patrick 1 than me. I mean, you. Us. vo go national. Go like a pro. With the dow cutting its losses to 18 as the gain on the session. Lets send it over to Rick Santelli for the exchange. Today we learned that the trade deficit grew to 48 billion and change. Exports, threeyear low at 185 billion. Its the perfect day for the 35th commerce secretary of the United States of america, former commerce secretary carlos gutierrez, 2005 to 2009. Thank you for taking the time. Always a pleasure. You heard what we came into the piece with with regard to the trade balance information. Tpp, transpacific partnership. 12 countries, 11 pacific rim countries plus the u. S. , is it a good deal . What are the details youre aware of . Maybe you can give us a glimpse of your thoughts on the topic . Sure. I think it is a good deal, rick. 40 of the worlds gdp, but more importantly we are woefully underrepresented in asia. So this is at a time when china is leading the creation of a trade block of an Asia Pacific Trade area. So, you know, we run the risk of getting shut out. Its trade agreements wont happen tomorrow. But five, seven years from now they are already building roads, going down from china through vietnam, laos. This is happening. This is a strategic necessity. I would hope it goes through our congress and is ratified in the other countries. You know, mr. Secretary, as a free market guy, i think trade, fair trade, its just theres no way around it. Its a great thing. It is always the devils in the details. Are there any details to this that give you an idea that were getting a good deal . Is this a job creator . Job destructor . One of the biggest things i like about this deal is that it opens up access for ecommerce. And, you know, the u. S. Leads the world in ecommerce. Thats a very important aspect of this deal. But, you know, no one is totally satisfied. So, you know, the Dairy Farmers in new zealand would have wanted more. The Biotech Pharmaceuticals would have wanted more time for protection. Some companies are against it because we didnt have any currency rules. You know, its never a perfect deal for everyone. But i think its a good deal for our economy. Its a good deal for the World Economy at a time when we just dont see at least i dont see a big catalyst for growth. This can be that catalyst, especially since other countries will be motivated to move ahead with their own trade deals, maybe this will spur the europeans to move forward on the trade agreement with the u. S. So, this is this creates the kind of momentum that doha never was able to. I will switch gears for the last 30 seconds. One of the issues of late are countries trying to keep currency weak to build export markets. Weve seen a touch of that in todays report. How much of the Foreign Exchange will take away from any deal, whether its a good deal or an average deal . Your final thoughts. I think were looking at a year where the dollar is going to continue to strengthen. And that is just, you know, part of the reality, especially with the you know, Interest Rates going to be raised at some point in the future. Everyone knows that. Thats going to put additional pressure on foreign currencies. So, you know, its the year of the dollar. Its probably 12 months of the dollar. But thats not going to be permanent. This is a deal thats going to take years to implement. So, you know, longterm, beyond currencies, this is the right move. Mr. Secretary, thank you so much for your thoughts. Carl, back to you. Well see you later on. When we come back, the s p jumping 5 in the week since Goldman Sachs cut its year end forecast for stocks. David kostin will join us at post nine to talk about that. With the dow now up only 14. [ male announcer ] eligible for medicare . Thats a good thing, but it doesnt cover everything. Only about 80 of your part b medical expenses. The rest is up to you. So consider an aarp Medicare Supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. Like all standardized Medicare Supplement insurance plans, they could save you in outofpocket medical costs. Call today to request a free decision guide. With these types of plans, youll be able to visit any doctor or hospital that accepts medicare patients. 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Residents reporting that the missiles were fired at the gate of the hotel. 15 people were killed. A video of a dog being rescued by animal aid unlimited in india has gone viral on social media. The dog was found by aide workers in the street, obviously in tragic condition and nursed back to health over the past two months. That is our cnbc news update. Back to you, simon. Thank you very much. Markets are flat on the heels of that strong global rally and ahead of Third Quarter earnings. Joining us now here at post nine is Goldman Sachs chief u. S. Equity strategist david kostin. You gained headlines a week ago saying you were lowering your forecast. Where are you . My forecast is the s p 500 will end the year around 2,000, and will rise next year to about 2100. The argument behind reducing our target for this year was really the fact that the chinese Economic Activity is coming slower than we had originally anticipated. And energy prices, as you know, the Energy Earnings from Energy Companies have declined pretty significantly. So, the argument behind a reduction in earnings, basically is what drives the reasons for a lower price target. If you want to keep that in a simple mind, looking at 109 of profits this year, down 3 . Lower earnings generally relates to a somewhat lower market. The idea of the lower market is lower relative to our target. Our target had been 2100. Lowered that slightly. You also said the multiples at risk. Think about this. The fed, baseline forecast, the fed will increase Interest Rates in december. And that is generally associated with a compressing multiple environment. So as we look into next year, expectation is youll have a slowly declining multiple, where the economy grows slowly with rising earnings. That offsets a relatively flat flattish kind of a market. What if they dont . The bet now, is that those chances get pushed into 2016 and this giant rally that we have seen over the last few days has been on this idea that theyre going to be on hold. So, if the fed doesnt raise rates, that would suggest that the economy is weak. That suggests you dont get a lot of sales growth. It also suggests theres not a lot of inflation, and not a lot of ability to increase margins. With a lack of top line growth and flat margins t suggests a lore multiple than you would in the contrary conditions. I think the idea of this environment is more conducive to a slowly declining multiple than increasing multiple. Overtime a pe expansion phase, the market is associated with falling Interest Rates and falling inflation. We think the opposition is likely to take place looking out to next year. I would hate to have do what do you for a living. Were 19 pointses away from your yearend target. As soon as you change it, the market shifts, and it looks like what do we do for the next three months . Trade sideways . I believe youll genuinely trade in a size ways fashion. What should we be thinking about from a Stock Selection point of view . First, the split and those Companies Selling domestically have continued to perform well from a price action perspective and from a fundamental perspective. Those companies exporting, exporting their end market sales have had big, negative earnings revisions and share prices have gone lower. I believe thats a trajectory that will continue. That trend will persist. Domestic revenue facing company also outperform. I understand the call is a topdown call on earnings. What about the argument that actually we may have over we have been overly pessimistic as a market about where growth is going, not just in china but in this country and there appears to be value in certain parts of the market. Theres value in some area, but the overall market is higher. That argues for better quality. Where do you see the value . Where we see value, those companies returning cash to shareholders would be an area a debate about whether should companies be investing more in Company Spending or returning cash to shareholders. The idea of a rate environment thats uncertain, that would suggest Higher Quality stocks and stocks that are returning cash to shareholders. Dividends and buy backs, those are undervalued and under appreciated by many Portfolio Managers. If domestics are going to outperform, why is the russell so far away from the others . Stronger Balance Sheets, larger caps you want big domestic. Big domestic, stable earnings. Basically more Quality Metrics would be consistent with a market outperforming the market in this environment. Apple as an example. Macys. Examples of companies that meet some criteria domestically facing quality, more Quality Metrics that would, in my view, tend to outperform in this environment. Pepsi this morning has 40 of sales from abroad. Its getting an 11 headwind from currencies, and yet still managed 7 organic growth. My belief is that the consensus expectations for earnings are too high. I believe expectations of margin enhancement and expansion is overly aggressive. Weve seen four years where companies have not been able to raise margins. Theyve been flat, at just under t 9 , that would suggest that companies are finding it difficult to raise margins, maintain them, to be fair, but have not increased them. Going forward, expectation that people have, they will go higher is unreasonable. Fwhere margins have plateaue, weve seen layoffs, corporate restructurings. Would you expect layoffs to be a big thing in the next quarter . Companies are looking to maintain margins. One area is investing in technology to try to enhance productivity. If thats not the case, other shedding divisions not shedding divisions, but spinoffs and restructurings is probably another arrow to be used or arrow in the quiver to be used. More outsourcing. I think there are strategies that managements are trying to employ. You see that in the Conference Calls. Over the next couple of weeks well get the Third Quarter Earnings Results and then management Conference Calls. I expect them to talk about the guidance. The guidance will probably be lower, not higher that puts it as a risk. One last question. When you tell people to drive towards companies that are returning cash to shareholders, in other words, they have excess capital, is there also a fear that we may have a credit problem coming into next year . Would suggest that stronger Balance Sheet stocks ought to do better thats my belief. Because there may be a general problem with credit and high yield onwards . In a rising Interest Rate environment that would suggest stronger Balance Sheets over weaker Balance Sheets. Thats part and parcel of the quality metric story. Good to see you. Nice to see you. David kostin joining us from goldman sacks. Up next, a live exclusive interview with the chairman and co of ibm, Ginni Rometty. Squawk on the street will be right back. Here at Td Ameritrade, they work hard. Wow, that was random. Random . No its all about understanding patterns like the mail guy at 3 12 every day or jerry, getting dumped every third tuesday. This happens every third tuesday. We have Pattern Recognition Technology on any chart, plus over 300 customizable studies to help you anticipate potential price movement. Theres no way to predict that. For all the confidence you need. Td ameritrade. You got this. Its here the most advanced iphone yet. Get the new iphone 6s at tmobile. The network thats double its lte coverage in the past year. 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Gaining about 11 on that news that the companys ceo, Ellen Kullman will step down. Freeport, lyondellbasell and Newmont Mining also moving up. Back over to you. Thank you very much. Ibm doubling down on big data today. Its announcing a new practice that aims to capitalize on the watson offering. The 2,000 Consulting Group will be called cognitive Consulting Solutions and advise companies how to use watson to their advantage . Will it be enough for ibm . Here to break it down for us, Ginni Rometty, the ceo of ibm. She joins us from orlando, florida. Very nice to have you. What do i get if i hire your Cognitive Business Solutions unit to come in and advise my company . David, let me back up a second from there. In the end, what you get is differentiation. But just to back up and to many conversations you and i have had, this builds on a foundation that we have been building for quite some time. And as we talked about the strategic comparatives that form the base for any Company Becoming a digital business. You know we built big franchises around analytics, cloud, around mobility. In such that they are 25 billion and 27 of ibm at the end of last year, grew 20 , 30 again in the first half. Thats the foundation. That is about becoming a digital business. But, when everyone is digital, whats differentiating . To your question what do you get when you think of cognitive . Think about digital business, married with digital intelligence, you get cognitive. What i was here to talk about, in addition to a practice, this is an era. Cognitive era. Its an era of technology and an era of business for companies. And you have ads to that point, of course that are starting, even on our own network. A wash in data is a world that needs to be reinvented or is being reinvented in code with cognitive computing. You are using watson in ways that you had not a year or two ago. It seems to become a much more important part of your strategy particularly for these imperatives that you describe. Is that the case . Thats absolutely correct. In fact, if you think about cognitive as an era of technology, watson understands information. When you talked about a wash in information, its not just the amount. Think of a statistic that 80 of the data in the world is actually dark to computers. Meaning it may hold it, but it doesnt know whats in it or understand it. So, these new cognitive systems, watson, it both understands it, it can reason, it can learn, and then in the end you can actually take those characteristics, thinking, learning, and then embed it in a business. Thats what cognitive and what watson really starring in that picture does. And youll remember when watson played jeopardy. That was 2011. And at that time, just to show you how far weve come, watson did one thing question and answer. Underpinned by five technologies. Today thats 28 different things, going to 50. And, in fact, its a platform. So think of these in this world many people think about how you create function as you compose it. The technology word would be api. Watson is all these functions that you pull cognitive into every part of how a company operates. So this now takes and allows everyone to differentiate not only with information outside, but all the assets inside and turns you into a thinking business throughout everything that you do. A silver thread, both in my company and for our clients. Right. The last time you and i sat down was a number of month backs. You spoke about these Strategic Imperatives, and you put a target out there saying we will have 15 billion in incremental revenue from these businesses. Six months on, are you on tract do that. 40 billion, in the first half grew 30 . We will continue on those franchises. The most Important Message to get across to clients today, when you talk about an era, an era doesnt happen in a minute. Its a long period of time, not only is it a Technology Era but changing the way a business operates. So, if i can circle back when you say im confident about the impact, not only on ibm, the impact on our clients. Thats the most important thing about differentiation. What i believe cognitive will do for business is at the heart of it changes how you engage with clients, it allows you to scale expertise, you will build thinking into all your products and services. You will build a cognitive supply change in operations. In the end, you will completely change how do you discovery. The kinds of results were seeing, i think, are quite astounding. Whether its the idea that a supply chain drives anywhere from ive seen with clients 2 to 10 more sales, five points more margin or on the other side, when theres cognition in learning and how you engage and fill out an insurance form, nine points higher sales. To me that forms a foundation that is all about what we do for our future success and what makes our clients successful in the future. We are talking about the future, but in terms of the present right now, some of the head winds youre facing, whether its currencies, given your International Exposure or emerging markets which are an important part of your business, are you seeing continued weakness there, whether it be china or brazil or some of the other major markets . And will that have an impact on yourer in t your nearterm earnings. Around the world there are different head winds we deal with t requires a different strategy for all different parts of the world. We talked about currency in a number of these things before. These are all things that are part of the Global Dynamics that were managing now, david. So, that is all part about being a global business, its all part about being, you know, having a view on the longterm as well, a view of what it is we do to reinvent this company. Thats what today has been all about, to stay at a steady course, those Strategic Imperatives form a straight Solid Foundation that well continue to invest in. As we talked about, continuing to shift 40 4 billion of spending into those Strategic Imperatives this year. And as i said, first half, cloud, 70 . As saw data analytics, big number. Up 22 . Mobility, as you saw, four times. So, this is whats forming the foundation for the ibm company as it transforms. The next era is all around cognition. Right. Getting people to focus on it. I noted you had time to spend there with the premiere from china when he visited. Theres a lot of tension, whether its cyberespionage or protectionism. Did you have an opportunity to talk to him . If so, what did you talk to him about . You also have a lot of employees in china, not just selling a lot of stuff there. We have a business in china, employees as well. I thought the visit was quite productive. Not the first time that we have had meetings. Quite productive. I think it was a good dialogue between the companies from both parts of the world talking about what Everyone Needs to be successful. Well leave it there. I know youre running tight on time. Ginni rometty as always, appreciate you checking in with us. Chair, ceo of ibm joining us. When we come back, the l. A. Dodgers winning their Third Straight nl west title, heading east to take on the new york mets. They became the first pro team to fund a tech incubator. Dodgers president stan cashin will join us to talk about that and the ongoing scandal in Fantasy Sports. St surprise we heard you got a job as a developer its official, i work for ge what . Wow. Yeah okay. Guys, ill be writing a new language for machines so planes, trains, even hospitals can work better. Oh sorry, i was trying to put it away. Got it on the cake. So youre going to work on a train . Not on a train. On trains youre not gonna develop stuff anymore . No i am. Do you know what ge is . The l. A. Dodgers winning big making the playoffs, becoming the first pro team to fund a tech ink baiter as well. Our jane wells is live with president of the dodgers. Hey, jane. Hey, carl. Stan, thanks for joining us. Stan caster, president of the dodgers. Were here in plya vista. Well talk about baseball Fantasy Sports and tech. Congratulations third year in a row. Thank you. Thank you. Last two years the team has collapsed in the postseason. Why is that not going to happen this year . Well, we have a very different team. We have a mature team and a good blend of both veterans and youth. Terrific starting rotation to go along with a very effective bullpen recently, and i think we have the elements that can go a long way. How much pressure is on everybody, especially kershawn. Theres pressure every year to win it all. The fact that were in the tournament in the postseason is a thing that were very proud of, but no one feels weve accomplished our goals if this is as far as we go. The latest vegas odds give the mets a slight edge, which, of course, im going to bet the other side on that, but how do you get past the mets . First of all, we dont bet. We have nothing to do with betting. I understand that. Yeah. They have a terrific young team and a young rotation thats very good. Were going to have to spend a lot of time this week scouting them and preparing the game plan, which im not going to divulge here. As i said, theyre a good young team. What we think well be able to prevail. Speaking of betting, one of the startups here you are funding has a Fantasy Sports related app. Theres huge controversy now about draft kings and fan dual. I was interviewing the ceo last year, and he said of course its bet, and he thinks it should be regulated like gambling. What do you think about Fantasy Sports . I have nothing to do with any of that. Theyre in the advertising world, and that matters. Im learning like youre learning whats going on in this end. The daily fantasies that were seeing with draft kings and fan dual is a new thing. Really emerging the last year or so. I think were all learning about the stories last night and today. Were all trying to figure out what thats about. With any new eamericaning businesses or industries, there will be bumps in the road, and i cant tell you whether they should be more or less regulated. Is it gambling . You know, the legislators so far have said it isnt, and ill go with that for now. Meantime, youve got ten startups here. 120,000 investment by the dodgers in, i dont know theyre all sort of sportsrelated, but not necessarily folding back into the dodgers. Why are you doing this . We thought we had an opportunity here to get beyond somewheres the business that we have of playing baseball on the field. Weve touched businesses that are in the sports field and performance and also in some of the analytic stuff and some of the consumer stuff to help them grow. Really have ten Diverse Companies here that we are helping. Some are brand new startups. Some are a little more advanced going into their second round of financing. The additional advantage we had if we helped these teams was that were a proven readymade laboratory. We have 47,000 people at Dodger Stadium that we can help shape the eventual we thought it was a good fit. We thought our brand would attract dozens of applications from new startup companies. By the time we were done, we had 570 applications. The interest was robust, and its been a great experience. Give me one in particular that interests you . I cant do that because that would be like picking out one of my children. All ten have interesting futures and bigtime you get a 6 equity well, that changes depending on the amount of the investment, depending on whether its a brand new startup or depending whether theyre a more mad mathure company, but thats roughly the average of that. The mo important thing is these are all companies with great futures, and any piece of them is go that will be good for the dodgers, good for our customers, and good for, you know, people in general. Stan, thanks. Well have more of it, guys, online later, and im also going to continue the conversation to skip out why for the first two we finished no the second regular season. L. A. Cannot watch the games on tv, but we can now in the postseason. If you say so. And i will be at the game saturday, and they are going to beat the mets. Go dodgers. Not. No, theyre not. Go, dodgers. Go, dodgers. Go, dodgers. Lets go mets. Lets go mets. Go dodgers. Go dodgers. Lets have a look at whats coming up on squawk alley. We have a big show coming up for you. For months what was project lightning is now twitter did hes will it move the needle for the stock . Microsoft pulling back the curtain on some brand new devices for windows 10. What will they look like . We will take you there live . And the debate rages on over how exactly to police Fantasy Sports given this ongoing scandal between draft kings and fan dual. We will ask noted sports agent drew rosenhaus. All that next on squawk alley. patrick 1 whats it like to be the boss of you . patrick 2 pretty great. patrick 1 how about a 10 raise . patrick 2 how about 20 . patrick 1 how about done . patrick 2 thats the kind of control i like. And thats what they give me at national car rental. I can choose any car in the aisle i want without having to ask anyone. 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