Good morning for our audience worldwide, this is bloomberg surveillance on tv and radio alongside tom keene and lisa abramowicz, im jonathan ferro. Just about positive on the s p 500. Tom not your father strike. When i saw it, they nailed it about the 10 00 p. M. Stock. This is an original strike going back over to uaw history, back to 1958. Into real challenges before world war ii. It is an original strike, a selective strike, that is what is new. Jonathan gm said they offered unprecedented package. From ford, the union made little movement. Rambo, we have not heard from this white house, have we . We are waiting for a statement from the president. Lisa hit the he did speak with the leaders and auto manufacturers. What did he tell them at a time where his policy is contradictory . In one hand hes pushing for electric pickles and a lot of the vehicles are pushing back on yet they are helping some of the auto manufacturing with those. On the other hand, it is it is the most prounion in
Getting worse. Wayfair shares are sinking concerns about the Online Furniture companys margins and its plans to increase ad spending weighing on the stock, down a little more than 5 off those record highs that it hit earlier. Not to mention potential competition from amazon. Well talk about all of this with the ceo in an exclusive interview coming up this hour. Who, by the way, does not consider himself in competition with amazon. He feels like their niche furniture cannot be replicated. So far neither do investors this has been one of the hottest stocks in the Retail Sector this year. Momentum stock. The question is what does amazon have planned . Dow component disney reports earnings well tell you what to expect and, yes, a first on cnbc interview with ceo bob iger and, of course, everybody is wringing their hands, of course, over espn lets bring you up to date on the markets here the dow down nine points we all know the dow has been up 10 consecutive days. Nine of those have been a
Businesses in vanguard of Haiti quake response
Feb 01, 2010 The business world has rallied to pledge relief to Haiti following the earthquake there that has killed more than 100,000 people. Dozens of firms have donated money and resources to charities and relief services working in the region after a tremor measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck just outside the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince. Some companies already had disaster response mechanisms in place that have now sprung into action. The United Nations, for example, asked Ericsson to deploy its ‘Ericsson Response’ organization to aid relief work in the area. Ericsson has now sent some of its volunteers, who were on stand-by, to re-establish mobile communications in the country.