Units. The shares of hp are jumping up over 6 in the premarket. John thwart is joining us this morning. And i said to john, should meg whitman have done this three years ago . I was going to ask either one of you experts, when was the first time that it was positive or suggested that hp should split into a combination of businesses . I think its ten years, isnt it . Well, they actually did turn into a combination of businesses 15 years ago in 1999. Agilent is getting ready to split off, too. But heres there looking around, what do i do . How about splitting the company into two . It seems like old is new, new is old. When she first came to the company, they had positive guys. And he said no. Her predecessor in the ceo seat wanted to sell the pc business off entirely. They couldnt find a buyer at the price that they wanted. Lenovo was rumored to be sniffing around and ended up picking up she said they were staying together definitivety at that point, right . At that point but that was e
Here are techstars ahead of the closing bell. Today is the busiest day on record for health care deals. Four deals already today and that is over 17 billion worth. Striking a deal for 30 billion for catamaran. And then Horizon Pharma agreeing to beat hype to buy hyperion. Tesla shares rising after elon musk set on twitter that a major new tesla product line will be unveiled april 30. He did not give any details about the products. Glenn tiltons three decade wall street career was dealt a blow by wall street regular disparate her firm had caught the 200 Million Dollars of payments to which she was in an title. The agency accused the selfproclaimed billionaire of law a fraud. In a letter of investors they disagreed with the secs claim. We have less to an hour to go. Lets go great that go right to the breaking news desk. Looking at the action up wall street area wall street. Scarlet as you mentioned it is the dows triple digit point move in over a week. Stocks are higher for everyone that
Results. Home builders and Energy Companies lead the ftse higher. Sygenta jumps as it rejects an offer from its u. S. Rival. Welcome back to Worldwide Exchange. What an extraordinary set of results weve had coming in over the last 11 or 12 hours. The first exit polls sending a surprise across the u. K. With the conservatives doing much better than expected and steve, as we approach the final results coming through it is plausible now that Prime Minister David Cameron will hold an absolute majority in the house of parliament behind us. Were seeing figures confounding expectations. We cant underestimate what a seismic moment that was in the entire election. Up until 9 59 p. M. Last night every single poll that had come out had put them within a tight range of each other. The most recent polls were saying the toris may get 280 seats and labor would get 270. That was not the case. And the conservative feelings throughout this and people like lord bell talking to you and i on wednesday thou
Fired. We begin with Julianna Goldman and a preview of president obamas manufacturing initiative. Good afternoon. Thats right. Later this afternoon, president obama is going to be unveiling two new manufacturing hub scum also fulfilling a promise from his 2013 state of the union. These manufacturing hubs will be led by the pentagon and are being built just outside of detroit and also in the presence hometown of chicago, will annoy come of partnering with a number of companies. 41 to be exact. Including boeing, lockheed martin, honeywell, General Electric and caterpillar. It has also been a busy day at the white house. Earlier today, president obama met for the First Time Since the end of 2012 with House Speaker john boehner. A pretty broad and somewhat vague they met for an hour in ae oval office and covered range of issues coming clean manufacturing, trade promotion authority, and here to discuss with us that meeting, we can see if we can get any more details of it yet we have Nationa
As well as a look ahead to jcpenneys results after the bell. She is looking at the entire troubled state of retailing today. Here in the studio for the next hour, my guest house, restructuring guru who oversaw Hostess Brands and is now heading a wide range of companies that he will give his take on turning around retailers to overhauling taxes to hiking minimum wage. First, to you on this data breach and the impact on target. It definitely had an impact on target. Not only did it take charge to fix the data breach, the bridge of credit card information at the comedy, but in addition, a depressed traffic, because people, after hearing about the data breach, did not necessarily want to shop at target. The company is a saying in the Statement Today that it is not sure what the future effects are going to be. It is not sure how long this is going to last. All of this said, the companys earnings did top profits estimates. It seems like that is. Share this morning. In addition to the fact th