Communication twun jona, but the firm is trying to engage the ceo. The interesting part of this story, jana was once short whole foods in 2014. It knows the company and its business quite well result of that campaign. In this case, im told jana is focusing on two tracks here. Operational improvements and b possibly a merger, depending on what offer might be out there. Im told januaa wants to put al the opgs on the table. Jana said to be heavily focused on the board, which has had one new member since 2008. Shares have lost half their value in the last many years. Have lagged the s p 500 over the past year. Leslie. Great reporting, now, Jana Partners took massive stake in whole foods. The firm said that it intended to speak with the company and underperformance in whole foods stock. A refresh of the board and Senior Management as well as how it can optimize real estate and improve its technology. Now, the activist firm came armed with a slate of potential nominees, each of whom took the
Wednesday. Until the end. 8 1 2 pounds, youre ready. Thats a good, healthy weight. Anyway, we wish becky the best. Well be talking to becky im sure a lot. Hopefully well see becky, but probably not for a little while. A little boy and a girl. Its totally rounded out. In the meantime, we have so much to talk about. Well start with u. S. Equity futures and well get to the debates in just a second. Take a look at this, the dow jones up 77 points after last nights performance. The nasdaq up 21 points and the s p 500 up ten points higher. The asian markets in hong kong and japan are close d for the holiday. Youre looking at the european equities right now. As we flip the board around, were seeing everything up pretty much across the board. Finally, well take a quick look at crude, wti right now this morning. Youre looking at 49. 60. Yeah. So down about a half percent. It was down on friday. Pierced 50 for the First Time Since june last week. Well watch the saudis comments on that. Well get
Here, possibly suicide which wouldnt require the fbi but the reason the fbi is here is because of the proximity of this plane crash to pratt and whitney, which is a defense contractor. They build jet engines for the u. S. Military. You see why there may have been some thinking this could have been intentional, there could have been a motive, a terror motive behind this to try to hurt the people building aircraft that were using in war and thats completely understandable. This News Conference were expecting to get here any minute should clear some of that up we understand. That twin engine plane went down yesterday afternoon on main street. It missed the headquarters of pratt and whitney by 200 yards, slamming into a power pole. Two people on board, an instructor who is in Critical Condition with severe burns in the hospital and then the student pilot whose name is ferris, he was killed. The instructor telling investigators that this crash was intentional but no word on whether or not i
To make it harder on an incoming president when the guy replaced wont shut up . Absolutely. Can you imagine any job do you want the last person that had it opining on your performance . And i tell you what makes it even richer. Barack obama really has had no criticism from george bush, even though he threw him under the bus every opportunity he could. George bush didnt say anything. He didnt comment. The economy was he never he had so many chances. I can see the first year, but nothing for eight years. But really to say somehow hes going to keep donald trump in check, hes some sort of a, you know, alternative out there, some sort of social conscious that will make sure that the new president does the right thing is absurd. But it does speak to his ego. What do you think . Well, i remember when jack welsh gave picked jeff immelt to run ge. Afterwards that was jacks pick, but afterwards they didnt get along. Right. Very much at odds about the management of the company. Immelt used to say
So, charles payne, is it going to make it harder on an incoming president when the guy replaced wont shut up . Absolutely. Can you imagine any job do you want the last person that had it opining on your performance . And i tell you what makes it even richer. Barack obama really has had no criticism from george bush, even though he threw him under the bus every opportunity he could. George bush didnt say anything. He didnt comment. The economy was he never he had so many chances. I can see the first year, but nothing for eight years. But really to say somehow hes going to keep donald trump in check, hes some sort of a, you know, alternative out there, some sort of social conscious that will make sure that the new president does the right thing is absurd. But it does speak to his ego. What do you think . Well, i remember when jack welsh gave picked jeff immelt to run ge. Afterwards that was jacks pick, but afterwards they didnt get along. Right. Very much at odds about the management of