Maker soaring today. Now up almost 90 this year. The stock just got a huge upgrade. Its our call of the day Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome good to have you with us our Investment Committee at the table, joe terranova, the brothers are here, and meghan is here as well, Senior Investment strategist at the wilmington trust. One of the best performing large cap tech stocks of the year, microsoft. Beating on earnings and revenues the shares are moving higher pete najarian, everybody owns it at the desk. You get the first crack because youve been the biggest and longest believer. I continue to be a believer this all started with it went in the right direction what has he done we talked about how great the focus has been on cloud but the monstrous acquisition they made with linkedin everybody was critical about and that is starting to be another one of those verticals we talk about when we talk about names like apple and other names we talk about what are some of their areas they w
Fortune magazine summit in aspen colorado. This at two hours. Thank you. Moving on to our opening interview. This at one of our themes in our next story and conversation. I want to welcome the ceo to post mates. So far you appraise a court of billion dollars. Facing challenges in introducing us to a new friend. Please welcome bastion lehman. [applause]. Bastian hello. Welcome. Your Business Model at Pretty Simple. There are a few other business out there in the same area thats doing pretty well. Can you explain a little bit about how you approach innovation. Bastian good morning first of all thank you for having me i am excited for being here. We would like to compete not dollar for all dollar but at its innovation. I think in many cases at the smarter way to compete. Money at one angle and i think an important one but if they are not the most wellcapitalized player, i think you have to find alternatives. Thats what we do as a company at estimate. One of the innovations that we have he
Think of the Fire Department. What if a Fire Department responding to a fire alarm gets into a car accident and somebody gets hurt. There is always potential danger. Thats why its against the law. The sfpd says shes on the job while they conduct an administrative duty. The case appears to show a serious lapse in judgment. If they are not exercising good judgment in personal life or on good duty, that puts you on notice to look and see is this the right person for the job . Reporter i pulled the dispatch recordings from the day. Engine 72 fire alarm manuel pull. Reporter it was a busy everything. Serious medical calls came in. A 57yearold male with a stroke symptom. Reporter and a 45yearold heart patient with chest pains, a 97yearold woman having difficulty breathing. The Fire Department also had to respond to this false alarm. 72, we made contact with the pacifica pd. If you can pull an Emergency Vehicle out of one area and away from the next emergency that comes in and thats dangerous
All outfitted, they are 1 million apiece. V. P. Covington thank you. I think it would be helpful to have a photograph of the hose tinders for our next eating, if you could . Thank you for that. Lets see. We need 20 . That would be another 15 million. Okay. I think this is going to be a topic of an ongoing discussion. I wanted to know, how long has it been since there was the the chief of health, safety and wellness, that you are proposins other entity that you said had gone dormant for a while. The health check we stopped doing it three years ago. Again, there was issues with information transferred from the unit and the agreements on how that information was there. We are bringing her back again with the benefits of members, knowing what their issues are. V. P. Covington those issues where privacy issues . Yes. The information when they received it they would go to our doctor, or did . In our opinion what we need is raw data. What types of issues, stress or whatever it is we are exper
V. P. Covington i think that would be helpful. For that to be the largest category, it seems as if there may be some things that could be broken out and itemize for us. And, the comments made by myself , commissioner alioto veronese i could see why he would think that three would be low, i also thought the same thing. Thought also brought up the question regarding the new chief of Health Safety and wellness. It is part of charge for that person going to be actively trying to change part of the culture in the department so that people feel more at ease in coming forward with things they are dealing with that my fall under stress . That is absolutely the core of the issue. Absolutely. The culture change is one of the major factors. Years ago we had a culture that we had a code, season firefighter, that has it is a culture change that takes some time. V. P. Covington when i would visit the scene, people would encourage me, rub your back up against the wall, your turnout coat looks clean.