Yeah. So here are the facts. Facts are i dont know whether were going to win or lose tomorrow neither does adp, so when i saw fabers report i was kind of puzzled by it, so i looked the top ten investors own 32 of the company. 75 of those shares have not been voted yet, and why is that . Because the big institutions wait until the absolute 11th hour to vote because they dont want to get lobbied by management or us want to put their votes in and have it be definitive. I dont know if theres any way someone can call the election and point out under the proxy rules its illegal for either side to indicate how the vote is going. Now, obviously mr. Faber is going to report whatever sources he gets, but, you know, i certainly have no incentive to have him report that were losing so clearly someone on the other side perhaps it suggested that. Its just not appropriate behavior the bottom line we dont know today, and and, you know, well just talk about what the proxy contest is about whether we wi
Weve been lagging in financials. They have been not really participating in this. We get any participation from that, scott, think about the momentum that could push into the marketplace. Obviously weve gotten through these earnings. Tech has a leader. They have been an absolute work horse in the market. And each and every day we seem to see it. Its not just the big fang names, its across the board all way into the Semi Conductor world, but technology itself is leading. We mentioned, joe, 2400 on the s p was a significant hurdle to get over. We closed above that and now were at 2412. The significance of that . How much momentum do you put behind that . Technical breakout, same thing that happened at 2300. Got above 2300, really never fell back again. I think youre witnessing that right here. I think whats adding fuel to it is the amount of pessimism and negativity that we had especially last week when the markets were down 300 plus that one day. There were many who went defensively. I
Slightly. The Chinese Markets were closed for the dragon boat festival holiday. The nikkei ended flat. Down by 4. 5 points. In europe, some of the early trading, youll see right now it looks like things are flat for the dax. In germany the cac is off, and in london stocks down by a third of a percent. Crude Oil Prices Last week were all over the map. Ended up down 50. This morning down to 49. 57. Several headlines out of europe this morning. It is the euro moving following comments by mario draghi. Draghi signaling the bank is not yet ready to unwind simplus measures decemb s simplus st s measures. Lets look at the euro, at 1. 11 right now. A greek government spokesman denies that greece will opt out of the next bailout payment. Athens was weighing the option, but the greek spokesman said there will be a solution reached when european minute centers and minute centers and i sglooifrnlgts ministers meet. British airways saying Computer Networks are operating normally today after an outa
Good tuesday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Jon fortts on assignment. Hes headed out west. A bunch of big names on that guest lit starting tomorrow. Well hear from steve ballmer, and a lot more over at code over the next couple of days. In the meantime the dow is down 32. Amazon broke through to 1,000 for the First Time Ever as tech stocks continue to rally in the First Six Months of the year. Bertha coombs with the latest. Hi, bertha. Amazon stocks helped lift the stocks to a new high. They have helped Large Cap Fund managers achieve outperformance to the overall market. Theyve really sort of caught up in that area. Active Fund Managers are now about 24 overweight in large cap tech. Thats the largest overweight they even been since 2008. It doesnt hurt that amazon and fail bet are at alltime highs. Facebook has been a little laggard in this group, near 8 gains with other fang members. Apple, they dont really touch on, but coming into this month, ubs noticed that most Fund Managers
This case. I know the facts of h case like the back of my hand, you told me and theres nothing wrong thats been done. Why did you settle . Well, it was very simple. My lawyers told me winning would be very high. The golden partner, hedge fund manager, im wealthy, enough factoids and impress juries and that the cost of the trial would be 15 to 20 million and go for an a couple of years. We would likely see appeals, but let me make it clear. I vented into whats called a no admit, no deny settlement, which prohibits me from commenting on the governments allegations, where theres strength in my defenses. B i believe it speaks for itself and ill leave it at that. Do you worry some will see this settlement and think youre guilty . That you did something wrong because you settled . Theres always that b possibility. But i think you know, you get due process was extraordinarily abusive. This is one of the reasons im sitting here. Id like to prove things for others who are afflict nd the future