katie: one stock we are keeping an eye on is daimler truck.ng record highs after a strong outlook earlier this month. for a deeper dive, we are joined now by abigail doolittle. abigail: they have been on a tear over the last two weeks. put into the context of competitors, it's a nice rally for this space overall on the year. up 38 and. volvo, 38%. two more companies are up 58% year-to-date, a big rally in the space. relative to dime itself, positive things happening, including the company seeing demand for trucks normalizing this year as they aim for a 15% reduction in operating costs. what investor doesn't mind that? they are saying that transition, not surprisingly, to e-trucks, somewhat costly. investors, be on the rally for the year, they are looking at increased dividend to 190 euros. by 2031 they are expected to be at 270. nice growth, there, along with this years's growth in the stock. katie: thank you there to abigail doolittle. for more, we are joined by martin daum, the ceo of daimler truck. let's talk, of course, about the revenue f

daimler truck with a beat on the full year.he company said it sees revenue being close to flat in 2024 amid tough economic conditions. we will be hearing from the ceo martin daum at 11:45 cet. that's a first on cnbc interview. >>> swiss logistics group posting a 49% fall in annual operating profit which was worse than analysts expected. the company said it has seen weaker performance. take a look at the shares which are off by more than 10% on the smi. >>> italian defense company leonardo posting a full-year revenue growth up 3.9% to 53 billion euro. it discussed a possible venture with the german company. the ceo emphasized the importance of space technology in a range of industries. >> it is one of the most important things for the future. you have to consider that technology. you have global monitoring which is accessible to everybody. you can have signals through space. for a communication, this is very important. exploration is important for the future. sooner than later, we will move somewhere else. this will not happen o

it was a joint german-swedish project between daimler bends air space and the swedish concern bofers.kers, ammunition depots, and naval targets at a distance of over 500 km. they can be launched from various platforms, land, sea, and aviation. the main carrier is the f-16 fighter. the length of the rocket is 5 m. the launch weight is more than a ton. it is equipped turbojet engine of small size and thrust. the main part of the flight takes place at low altitude, which makes it difficult for systems to detect it early. the air defense warhead has two charges: the first penetrates the concrete mount, the second hits the target. the mass of the warhead is 480 kg. when installing a multi-mode fuse, the rocket can detonate both upon contact with the target and inside it. it is believed that the german air force has about 600 of these combat missiles, similar to the taurus. these are british-french stormshadow missiles, which have already been delivered to ukraine. in nato armies they can be carried by the f-16, tornado, mirage or eurofighter, but in ukraine their main carrier is the su-24

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katie: i want to talk about input costs because i spoke the ceo of daimler trucks and it sounds like it is a wash for them. some costs are going down and some have risen. what does it look like when it comes to the cost of raw materials? claudio: that is a bit better anyway. -- in a way. energy price was high in the past and raw material increase. actually it is a bit of a relief now. it is not yet in europe, the energy price going to what it was, but actually it is better. and so that is helping in order to keep a proper balance within prices and margin, and actually we are in a strategy caused -- called raise the bar and we are targeting much more profitability than volume and it is very important to keep that between prices and costs. katie: a bit of relief when it comes to input cost. let us talk about financing because they are quite high and starting to come down, but from this high level how does this affect the high end brands? claudio: of course, financing is important. so in many countries, even high end motorcycles have financing to make it more difficult anyway. a very hi

know, we announced last year that we're going to be manufacturing battery cells in partnership with daimlerck, packard ev energy here in the u.s. to support commercial vehicle electrification. so a lot of exciting things happening. liz: well, that is the point, isn't it? i mean, you look at your customer base, and you have very big names, some of which you just mentioned. we can put up a whole bunch here that include volkswagen, volvo, stellantis. and, obviously, you're doing this because, sure, it's good for the planet. but it's the also important for business. >> well, yeah. liz: and it appears to be working here at least in that case. >> yeah. i mean, first of all, you know, those customers that we're selling to, those are commercial trucks. those are with uses, construction equipment right there at the hart of the u.s. economy. our customers count on us to provide the right solution for them to run their businesses and serve our needs. and then we looked at how we grow our business through meeting those varying customers' needs. now more than ever our customers want us to bring them a p