Softbanks masason in favor of unseating. First Lady Melania Trump coming to the nyse, set to ring the opening bell to help highlight her be best campaign we start this morning with this ongoing drama, increase drama at wework. The company we followed closely in weeks past because of the expectation it would soon go public thats no longer the focus at least of the current stories involving the company. More so the future of its founder and ceo and Controlling Shareholder adam newman. This morning we can tell you much remains in flux at the company in terms of the future of its Senior Leadership with a number of significant Board Members and shareholders moving to oust mr. Newman as the companys ceo, move him into some sort of other more ceremonial position, nonexecutive chairman or something along those likes. As of early this morning, it was unclear what mr. Newmans future would be there is some division on the board, im told, by people familiar with the situation where representatives
Has been a tumultuous quarter. Plus, a rough quarter for ipo shares of ab inbev and Bernie Sanders corporate tax, the 2020 president ial hopeful out with a new plan calling for a tax on companies that pay their ceos way more than their workers it has been a roller coaster ride for stocks in the Third Quarter as we enter the final trading session of q3. Dow and nasdaq aiming for a Third Straight quarterly gain. Mike, awe kn mike, as we know, we went into the month thinking big, bad and scary. I think thats actually the story for the quarter too, the market held itself together and preserved these levels it was at, just about at old highs. Without really a ton turning for the better the way you can look at it is the cost of two and maybe a third fed rate cut was not that steep in the way of suffering through really bad growth or any real stress in the Financial System just yet. So but it does feel tenuous, feels as if the market is sort of maximized what it had to work with to get to thi
Investments ever. Were closing in on new records in the markets, this amid new optimism for that potential china u. S. Trade deal as you saw stocks are set to open higher. And the tech lash heads to the states a major multistate investigation into antitrust practices at google, set to be announced later on this afternoon. David, kick us off on t. Interesting here. In so many ways. 3. 2 billion as you said the stake from elliott, the largest single investment i believe they made at the company, a long letter comes out this morning detailing the reasons why this could be a 60 stock within lets call it three years or so, 2021 is what theyre talking about. 65 or so upside to todays stock price. They believe 5 in dividends and 55 stock price, you could get to 10 earnings per share grower with significant margin improvement, what theyre calling for. And buyback. Something i want to make sure people understand here, it is interesting, people who know the company well, but sort of are vaguely
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Overshadowing the iphone 11. Do either move the needle for investors . Plus, quote, bone heads, president taking on the fed, calling the extcentral bank naie and telling them to cut to zero. Is wall street afraid of Elizabeth Warren more from jim on what hes hearing from leaders in the financial industry about the 2020 president ial race start with apple, though, shares rising one day after the big product event, not only did the company unveil a new line of iphones, and other devices, created lots of buzz with news of apple tv plus that this is what tim cook had to say on stage. Were excited to tell you first shows will be available on november 1st and will be thank you and will be adding more apple originals every month and apple tv plus will be available in over 100 countries that launch and it is just 4. 99 per month for your whole family were going to talk to Morgan Stanleys katy huberty the event was compelling to a large degree because pricing was aggressive. I went through ever