While they pause today given the market wide pullback, dows singing 189 points. Nasdaq dropping 1. 47 . Its worth asking if this might be the pause that refreshes the old smokestack. Let me set the scene. Conventional wisdom has been if oil goes higher, its a good day for the market and if oil goes lower, sell, sell, sell. Its a bad one. So, it went down two bucks. Got hammered. We saw the urgency of that formula writ large today because we learned jpmorgan has 44 billion in oil and gas exposure. Thats 44 billion in oil and gas exposure. Kind of like making it the exxon of banking with hopefully exxons discipline. Oddly given the plumeting price of oil, only 15 million in loan loss reserves. Even though 19 billion is loan portfolios. Say firms with junk bond status. Boo. And 39 of it was made to Exploration Production companies. The wos f the worst when it comes to who is paying anybody back. Jpmorgan said the Energy Company could cost them. Hey. 20 billion. But to me, having lived tla
He was he was krzyzewski before krzyzewski. Sir Alex Ferguson shares his secrets to successful leadership. Indeed. But we do begin with that biggest tech deal of all time with dell buying data storage and security giant emc for 67 billion. The ceos of both companies on cnbc speaking about what this merger means for them and for investors. But this mega deal also raises questions about who is going to be next. I hope youve been doing some digging and you have some answers for us josh lipton in san francisco. Well, mandy, lets walk through first just how this deal will actually work. So dell will pay 33. 15 a share for emc. Thats cash plus tracking stock linked to emcs interest in vmware. Michael dell will lead the combined company as chairman and chief executive. The deal, which needs approval from em c shareholders expected to close next year. The company will be a powerhouse in the data storage industry. Thats a 36 billion market according to idc. Brent braceland, an analyst at Pacifi