Dennis muilenburg, replacing him will be the former chair, technically chair, will step out of chair, become president and ceo, David Calhoun he becomes president and ceo effective january 13th what was the final straw that broke the camels back in large part, the relationship between boeing and the faa which is completely broken down over the last several months. I learned from sources that this morning David Calhoun called the head of the faa, steve dixon it was a short but amicable phone call in that call calhoun said to dixon boeing welcomes rigorous oversight. He also said boeing wants to be regulated. This is a big change in tone for boeing compared to where it was a few months ago but in terms of whether or not Dennis Muilenburg was not going to be in the job for long, it was expected for some time his tenure would be short. This is our conversation with him in the halls of capitol hill just a couple months ago have there been discussions with the board maybe once this is certif
Investment committee is ready to go Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome good to have you with us on this thursday, the first trading day of 2020. Our Investment Committee here today. Lets begin with the markets its the first day another record setting day for the major averages there you go right now dow off its best levels, not by much new record high, 28720 nasdaq back above 9000 s p 500 positive as well the russell is a drag. But for the most part, its the same story semis hitting fresh new highs. Apple extending its record high. The beat goes on. What im particularly excited about are the International Charts i know a lot of american investors say what do i have to Pay Attention to that for . Its note worjnoteworthy were g with countries in europe up around 1 , looking better than our markets. Germany is up over 1 . European banks this morning as a group are up 2 . European Technology Names as a group are up 2 . This is noteworthy emerging markets is up double what the s p is
Out to new highs deedra bosa has details on alphabet. Larry page stepping down as alphabet Ceo Sundar Pichai ceo both of google and alphabet in terms of day to day unlikely to see major changes which is why you may missouri not see a lot of change in the alphabet stock. Under google umbrella pichai ran advertising cloud devices, software he has been ceo since august of 2015 since then alphabet stock has soared relative broad are market but underperformed wig tap peerings remember the split from alphabet to google. Alphabet was the place where the moon shot including way missouri, selfdriefgt stores internet balloons and health care projects. Perhaps the question now is what happens to those moneylosin initiatives . Will we see more financial zmin under pichai and ruth porat from wall street mo has been known for financial dplin. As pichai steps up does he step away from those and the traditional businesses like advertising paying for them. Deirdre bosa wove been tweeting over this news
Behemoth consolidates a space under going massive upheaval it started with smaub cutting commissions to zero. Sparking a flurry of headlines over the frantic race to the many bottom. With the news of the deals between the two giants mass the race to zero become a sprint for survival guy. I dont know. Hello, mel. Hello. I dont know if its a race to zero or sprint to survival. Its genius by schwab. Dan nathan alluded to it a few weeks ago. Schwab was genius, cut rates to zero watched the keters go to zero in terms of stock td amerd trade went from 50 to 32 in a straight line. And then making this announcement they are probably buying the stock or company at levels they wouldnt have been able to buy them a month or so ago good for them. This makes schwab a huge forepersons in the business. And the play. They are a force. Even more so now. En and quickly i think people say etrade next to go not so fast. There is room on the downside. The Second Derivative play, Morgan Stanley, for example,
Alphabet apple price target up to 300 couple upgrades at nike, goldman. A lot of research to the up side. Facebook and google in particular have been in the penalty box over regulation concern, trying people in front of congress, having to answer questions. As that was going on, we saw earnings hold up i had the question how long before the numbers outweighed some sentiment while the upgrade seems to be happening. Speaking with all of the market strategists dayin and dayout, they talk about the new trend of cyclical growth, not new per se, but some of the themes theyre focused on while these companies play into that theme. Interesting timing with the upgrade. Seems like theyve seen Sundar Pichai assuming the role as one that would lead to Brighter Future for the company you know, also in terms of valuation, seems like thats another thing that they look at as being a net positive. The other element, facebook in check by the hsbc call that says 40 of market cap could be at risk. Definite