Road map begins with a meg amerger in the works, qualcomm considering but re, a deal with broadcom, plus softbank in the failed talks to get together with tmobile, betting the Wireless Network will prove critical to support future growth and ill have more on their future plans. 11 royals arrested as the crown prince moves to consolidate power. The news of the morning that was broadcom confirming the unsolicited byover bid for qualcomm they acknowledge receiving the offer and david has been all over it all morning long. The question now will be when not if they reject the bid because they rereject. The only question is how long they take. They need to review it and need to be fair they have not spoken to broadcom, as i reported last night, there had been an attempt made by broadcom when it began some months ago to engage in talks with qualcomm. That was quickly rejected. There was never a formal proposal made, they were given the heisman so early at broadcom they wshts going to get anyw
Shares of ge sinking premarket on the heels of the biggest decline in almost a decade John Flannery will join us later this hour. Hurricane boost for home depot, raises full year guidance reports. Buffalo wild soaring premarket, getting a buyout offer from york capital. Well talk about that in a moment 7 drop, the biggest one day fall since 09 on monday they outlined the turnaround plan and announced it is cutting its dividend in half. Were going to talk to John Flannery exclusively later this hour lots to get to on the portfolio, on the influence of trian and dividend itself and what the message is going to be from here. Totally agree i think there are some issues about the way they are going to build the cash flow issues about the way 2018 is supposed to go and yes, theres a bit of a truth in reconciliation needed about how the company could have been so wrong about its own numbers in 2017, about how to tend to switch to real acting as opposed to the suboptimal form of accounting. Th
Overnight in shanghai down almost 4 as the yuan sits near a sixmonth low. The roadmap begins with the markets, the s p starting off shy of the fresh record high and the nasdaq beginning from right around its highest level in 14 years. Home depot is posting quarterly profit above expectations and boosted dividend. Different story with macys and shares slipping after same store sales came in below expectations. And jpmorgan expected to announce job cuts in its mortgage and consumer business. The bulls off to a good start, the dow jumped more than 100 points and closed at 16,207 and the s p hit 1858 before pulling back and closing at 1847. Thats a point away from its alltime closing high. And as we said, the nasdaq reaching a 14year high before closing off its best levels. Jim, you said last night you would try to play the role of the skeptic. I do not like to see the nasdaq at a 14year high. I took to heart some of the comments we said on yesterdays show which is when you Start Talking w