Carol and we hit the red carpet to celebrate the bloomberg 50. It is our annual list of those whose 2019 accomplishments stick out. Jason but first, the biggest ipo, saudi aramco. Shares surged to a market value of at their peak. 2 trillion carol a culmination of a fouryear effort from the kingdom. Talking about this, with a lot of questions. One thing to point out. Now it is publicly traded and it it is an ipo, a publicly held company, but only a small percentage, 1. 5 is out there in the public in terms of the company. Reporter the ipo has not turned out the way they expected it to happen. If you remember back to 2016 when they initially announced plans for the ipo, the plan was to sell as much as 5 of the company. What we really have to look at is what is the purpose of the ipo . It is seen as a means of diversifying saudi arabia away from its Oil Dependent economy, to raise money from International Investors and to deploy that on projects outside of the core energy industry. Valuat
Communicating well as the year ended. Faarecent surprise is the was not ready to review the boeing until mid february to finish the review. Dennis muilenburg could be back in fleets by year end. This disconnect surprised a lot of people. That was the beginning of the end for denniss career at boeing. Kevin in terms of the shareholder response and the washington response, how have people been reacting to the news . George we have seen shares up. Was about this act trying to keep any further slippage in the timeline, trying to keep the max in front of the faa and reviewed and cooperated and looking like youre cooperated with the faa. I do not think it accelerates anything. I want to follow up. What is interesting is this is a company that is known for its checklist. For pilots talking to engineers, we have a great story in Bloomberg Businessweek on this and how there was a breakdown. What needs to change. Is it a big change within the boeing culture going back to where it used to be . Ge
The nasdaq was the laggard. Nasdaq down 0. 7 . The philly stocks index ended up the session, really dragging things lower with the semiconductors. Romaine cloud flare, five below, peloton. About 5 on the day. Lets dive deeper into the action with our markets reporters. Renita i am taking a look at axum therapeutics. It rose to a record high at some point today. Acutempanys drug for migraine treatment met its endpoint. Significantlyd improved migraine pain and most bothersome symptoms versus a placebo effect. The new drugfile approval with the fda and the second half of 2020. Hd wainwright raised the price target as a result while maintaining the buy rating. A couple of other analysts out there. Cantor fitzgerald raised price targets. William blair reiterated outperform ratings. Be over christmas may but i still have got santa on my mind. This chart suggests the quote unquote santa claus rally may not happen. And read, we have the dollar. Risk risk on, the s p 500. Stocks are going high
Process. Carol and we hit the red carpet to celebrate the bloomberg 50. Our annual list of those that have measurable accomplishments. But first, the biggest ipo, saudi aramco. Shares surge to a market value of 2 trillion. At the peak. Carol a culmination of a fouryear effort from the kingdom. We are in wanted to talk about this. A lot of questions. Now it is publicly traded and it is an ipo but it is only a small there ine, 1. 5 is out the public in terms of the company. Reporter the ipo has not turned out the way they expected it to happen. Back to 2016er when the initially announced plans for the ipo, the plan was to sell shares of the company. What we really have to look at is what is the purpose of the ipo . It is seen as a means of diversifying saudi arabia away from its Oil Dependent economy, to raise money from International Investors and to deploy that on projects outside of the core energy industry. Theevaluation did valuation did not get close to what they wanted but it is a
Softbank vision fund. What is going on . Of new reports. And 2019, the year in review. ,he plans for Cryptocurrency Facebook felted all. What is the strategy going into 2020 . First and the top story, shares of micron up after they reported betterthanexpected top and bottom line numbers for their fiscal firstquarter and the forecast strong numbers for the current quarter. Gross margin is something i have been eyeballing all day. They are coming in more than 27 . At the ludlow ed ludlow is here to break down the numbers. What is your key takeaway from this report . Reporter with these numbers, that is the optimism across wall street. The memory chip market will rebound probably at some point in the second half here. When we talk about dynamic random access memory, we are referring to the memory change that goes into computers, pcs. You look at the chart, prices trade like a commodity. They have been trickling as new Technology Comes into the market and capacity comes into the market. Th