Up well dig into that. Celebrity chef eric ripert joins us live. It is going a big hour ahead but we begin with that massive shakeup in whats called the corporate story of the year. The most important stock in the dow. Boeing firing ceo over the 737 max crisis and poor communication with investors and regulators it cost his job. Removal is effective David Calhoun will take over as ceo in january some might say this is a complete 180 from what 180 and muhlenberg just said last month. From the Vantage Point of our board dennis has done everything right. From the beginning remember dennis didnt create this problem but from the ginger knew that mcas should to be done better. Have you ever satin company and thought you should leave i thought about it. To be frank thats not what is in my character. I dont see running away from a challenge, resigning as a right solution lets bring in our airline repo reporter and our cnbc contributor. Right move by boeing, right timing, overdone, too late a l
Turbulence in the Airline Industry has seen a spate of bankruptcies. Carriers face headwinds from increased competition, particularly among budget carriers, to rising fuel prices at a time when the Global Economy is slowing. Later today we find out how budget carrier easyjet, which posts results, is faring. 17 airlines have gone bust worldwide this year, with bankruptcies increasing at the fastest ever rate. Among the most high profile to collapse, indias jet airways, British Travel group thomas cook, and brazils avianca. Many airlines have also been hit by the grounding of the entire boeing 737 max fleet following two fatal crashes. That has driven up waiting times and prices for new, second hand and leased aircraft. And a recent survey suggests one in five travellers is flying less, perhaps fuelled by the swedish concept of flygskam, orflight shaming, as people foresake flying for the sake of the planet. There is a lot going on impacting the industry. Adrian yanoshik is Equity Resear
Barbara doran from b88 Capital Partners good to see you, barbara less than two weeks until the official u. S. China trade talks kick off and a new wrinkle as to what will actually happen when both parties meet. It is definitely a new wri wrinkle today. For me the bigger concern emerging is what happens to the consumer all of the consumer data this week was pretty terrific, except for Consumer Confidence numbers. Housing, et cetera, we continue to have strong wages, growth, that sort of thing but for the first time, were seeing Consumer Confidence down a little bit, consumers and surveys are saying, hey, trade issues have crept into their head and, you know, my real concern is the margins of companies, if they start to do layoffs, that hurts Consumer Confidence, and stops spending and that is the underpinning, which by all accounts, we all agree. By the way, the china has got markets spooked. Nasdaqs down 1. 6, the laggard of those indices. Bob is with us for the full first hour, which
Dow fell about 150 points as President Trump says this morning theres no trade deal with china just yet. Shares of p g, Procter Gamble, up 4 after its Earnings Report. This is a record high for this stock. Well have much hoar on that later on thank you very much with the dow just above 27,000, the president this morning saying we would be 10,000 points higher at 37,000 on the dow if not for the feds actions. So with 24 hours to go until the fed decision, we know the president would give jay powell an f for his performance as fed chair, but how did chair powell do in the cnbc fed survey . Mr. Liesman knows. Steve. Yeah, im not doing the grading. Our panelists. About 40 or so economists and fund mangers in the survey, giving powell a bminus. You can see how this compares with the final grade of yellen, a bplus, and bernanke at a straight b and you know what, powell had to navigate hikingerates and then going to hold and then going to what looks like a cutting modality here, mode for the
Good wednesday morning, welcome to squawk alley. Im carl quintanilla, obviously a big day for earnings were watching the hill, the ftc and facebook is the big news a News Conference on that 5 billion fine over data privacy issues is going to start in awe if moments. Were going to take you to washington when that begins, but the swirl of agencies circling the company, ftc, who knows what the doj has in mind and well get a clearer picture of what the quarter looks like tonight. I dont know why it feels like something shocking is happening. Weve known this fine is coming for a long time, a big fine, but somehow to see 5 billion written down then more interesting to me, the restrictions and the oversight, the committee within facebook that looks like maybe its been structured in a way where Mark Zuckerberg doesnt have total control over this piece, you know, the ftc making the case that Mark Zuckerberg has to certify this privacy compliance every quarter, and this time if he slips up, ther