Snapped last week. European markets, lets look at them as well and see how they are faring at this time. You can see down across the board including italy and spain, thanks and france is the worst performer at this hour crude was up a tiny bit, wti kind of a quiet story last week, 56. 76 and theres the 10year yield at 2. 38 lets get to our road map this morning on squawk on the street squt General Electric slashes the dividend by 50 . John flannery outlining his new vision and a Major Corporate revamp plus, wall street pullback, you saw stock futures pointing to a lower open investors still closely watching earnings and any progress on tax reform going on amongst our lawmakers on capitol hill. Toy takeover, shares of mattel surged on friday jim and i will get into that and into the official rejection from qualcomm of broadcoms bid, a lot to get to actually lets get to ge now. Its investor day, just getting under way started at 9 00 a. M. The dow component announces it is cutting Quarte
This is the time frame of guns at the scene the movie for the germans at the time dominate the mediterranean. The british are operating on a shoestring level with the americans and they occupy several islands like barros, for instance, in the germans counterattack the parachute operation and they take over these islands and is quite interesting. Taylor infiltrates inside the islands, delivering critical supplies and also rescue the man. I say probably about 10 years researching the story, 10,000 documents. On the island of cms, taylor deliver supplies and coordinates of the archbishop is a British Intelligence agent. Theres an incredible story. This book is rich with characters, interesting tourist that are all unique in one of those people, for instance his sterling hayden, the hayden, detailer anoraks with. If youve ever seen dr. Strangelove, for instance, this is general jack ripper. Taylor in world war ii is an amazing individual. He changes his name to John Hamilton to sort of clo
Blair henry turnaround is the name of his book for also the dean of New York University with this glove business who was leonard stern . The benefactor of the School Started with the Company Growing into of realestate empire began to is a very generous benefactor to the school and then gave a very large gift of 25 million that provided the graduate school and the internet program. Is that stern school of business have a philosophy . Our mission is to transform the challenges of the 21st century. In use the tools of business it turnaround losses for first world growth . What can they learn . In to to learn from history from the struggle has we whole discipline and clarity and a trust. So what does discipline maned . So with fiscal austerity with fiscal policy with sequestration with the Slower Growth in the economy. The reason i ended that way in the first place that of the fiscal side when times are good and when times are bad. Fiscal policy because copper prices are rising. Em with th
Blair henry sat down to talk about his book turnaround were third world country said the example set by many developing countries today. Repressor henry was interviewed in cspans new york city studio. This discussion is part of book tedious college series. You are watching booktv on cspan2. We are up in our new york city studio and we are interviewing professors from New York University about some of their books. Joining us now is Peter Blair Henry. Turnaround. Hes also the dean of new york universities leonard stern school of business. Who is leonard stern . Leonard stern is a dirt. Hes an investor in new york city. He started with a pet food company, grew into a large real estate empire and served in the past and is currently in the board of overseers and is a very generous benefactor of the school innate sine die with the very large gift to 25 million that allowed the business school, which is then provided to the graduate school of the other graduate programs a unified up one place
The country is about to come apart at this seems the Prime Minister the private sector said we cannot have this we will reconvene the third party talks have of the breyer knitting column together. They took a lot of heat but they got the policy through. The stock market rebounded in roaster prof in favor voted out of office the next election but when asked in retrospective to pay too high of crises that i paid a small price to save the country. That is clarity of purpose that leaders need to demonstrate to move the country forward. Host so what with the issue be . What would you like to see the issue be . How do we upgrade the skills of the workforce for the 21st century . The manufacturing jobs that did disappear in the United States those jobs are not coming back if you worked in manufacturing today you need to understand a computer and data and in numbers so not just how to bring back those manufacturing jobs of the 70s but create them for the 21st century but to do that you needed