a big company like at&t can't create a company like that to bring people on vacation. but other groups can. >> that make sense. can you speak to what, if any, stopgaps remain on international influence on the trump team? >> there really aren't any. us citizens have the right to petition their government under the first amendment. that extends to their clients. there lots of lobbyists who write about the middle east were countries in africa who are accused of human rights abuses and all sorts of problems. lobbyists in the u.s. have a right to represent them before the u.s. government and there is really no rules to prevent that. all there are are disclosure rules. if you're a lobbyist represent u.s. companies, you need to fill out a disclosure form once per quarter that's a plea says, here's my client, here's how much money i make and the issues i'm lobbying on. if you are lobbyists for foreign country, to disclosure forms are more extensive. have to write down every single person who you contacted including reporters. on behalf of the client. that means most lobbyists

the employee is the companies who are looking for reliable, high quality quality, the companies with an average manufacturing volume of 121-0000 units. because of this new new brands, i put a premium on technology for all of us for means that they're going to see if there are other bike manufacturers elsewhere in europe. of course. but port your goals, bike valley knows how to play to it. strength. yeah, they've got one company had a problem with their frames which couldn't be solved in poland to them and they sent it to us because they knew we could solve the problem. and we zip it seems quiet, even sleepy here in bike valley. but appearances are deceiving, the economy is booming. about a 1000 people work for the bike companies and compared to other industries, their jobs are suff. tour. unemployment is low and companies make an effort to appeal to workers. our employees, good friday afternoons, off and have a longer weekend and my that really helps us with recruitment in like the way that product it's a winning formula. bike valley is also drawing workers from south america these d

here's another one looking at a at a company town and the company the company store also being a critical point of of tension with in company towns themselves. does anybody why anybody care to explain or have an idea of why? yes, very bad. i believe you said it was common. they didn't actually pay with actual currency. they use a company currency, kind of a fake money they could only spend in the company town at their source. yeah, right. so they there was company money, right. in this case it was, you know, stone mountain stole stone mountain corp or asian company money or otherwise, you know, by the popular name scrip sca or ip, what scrip is is know essentially it is money that the companies printed themselves is what they paid their workers in and it's what their workers then in turn used to purchase things them even pay their rent and pay their mortgages right in this company scrip, it was scrip being that it's company money that it can't be used elsewhere. right. you can't take that money and go over to to the next town or go to charleston, west and pay right in stone mountain dolla

we are seeing new investment in chip companies, into industrial software companies. widened the focus in europe beyond just fintech into traditional enterprise software. there will be a net in a fit for the ecosystem as we look out two to four years. ed: in the context of technology what is the future for london's equity capital market? is there evidence that in the post-brexit world it is a great place to do it tech ipo? matt: it could be a great place to do it tech ipo for the right company. if it is a british-based company that has a global footprint, a very naturalistic location will be the u.s. it has the deepest investor base. it will get you the best valuation. that was a huge success for arm. if it's more european, more u.k.-centric, it has to come up with a sizable offering and a lot of liquidity. there is an investor base but it needs to be the right type of company to go public in the u.k. at the right time. caroline: let's talk about arm. they have often taken questions as to whether they are doing another offering, a secondary listing in the u.k. we are

so how can companies retain sions, ease? one of the things we do differently here compared to a traditional workplace, is that we offer things like gym memberships and they gave me says welcome gang tattle, regular team events once a year for team. if that's a settlement from last year, we took the entire team of 25 p bye to maverick caching, and rented a small space there location. we had a 5 didn't work case on there all as a team. i was supposed to be in town. let me, let me find it wasn't, it was lesson of the situation. is the bus dr. team building most of the more free time than their parents? most pressure at work, an open door to opportunities. does germany's gmc have it made people own say we should be the happiest generation of all that we've grown up with so many more privileges than our parents have, collections and i from but we're also facing the biggest challenges in a lot of my friends for example, are practically paralyzed by all the many crises on our doorstep under the some by the climate crisis. and delor

i am interested in a company. it's an ep toll company. it's joby aviation. >> they just raised capital, and that capital is going to let them -- they've got enough money to be able to last for some time. so i'm going to countenance buying it until that money kind of runs out. i think they're okay for now because of the 40 million shares that they sold at 505. that's not far from here. but if it gets to 7, i would take the money and ka-ching, ka-ching. let's go to sam in massachusetts. sam? >> caller: jim, listen, it's pretty unusual you get a stock down 81% year to date, but that is exactly what the case is with solar edge technology. >> well, sam, i'm going to give you some positive news about solar edge technology. i've been in this business a long time, and i have learned one thing. stocks stop at zero. let's go to jay in oklahoma. jay? >> caller: boo-yah, mr. jim. hey, man, you are a rock star. >> well, okay. >> caller: on qs. they recently put out their latest solid state technology battery to their customers for testing. have you he

chip companies thinking about global semiconductors.e monitoring supplies of quartz after hurricane helene halted production in north carolina mines. why does high-purity quartz matter to chipmakers? >> i'm glad to geek out about this with you. quartz is a prehistoric material, hundreds of millions of years old, developed in a time when there was very little water around on the planet. because of that scarcity of water, fewer imperfections in the material which means when it is used in this chipmaking process, it imparts fewer imperfections onto the eventual chip. ed: its role in the manufacturing process is multifaceted. quartz wafers are used in frequency control. one thing i've learned about the industry the last few years, it is good at stockpiling stuff it needs. is that the scenario playing out here? dana: indeed. we reached out to major chipmakers on different continents, tsmc, samsung, all of them delivered comments that seemed unbothered. they seem to be thriving off of stockpiles. that said, two these two mines in north caroli

, for a biotech company. he's spending millions of dollars on lobbying. he's very successful and he's got tons of expensive cars and porsches and houses. his $300,000 boat that we talked about. and then one day he's playing golf and gets a call from. the boss and the boss says, you know, i'm coming to d.c. tomorrow and, clear your schedule. i want to talk to you. so evan morse knew things were bad and he knew he was stealing money from his company. and the boss says, we need to meet. so he comes into the office the next day and met. not with his boss, actually, but lawyers for an outside firm, the law firm that company had hired to investigate him. it turns out that the company had gotten a tip on a letter an anonymous letter saying, you know, this guy is up to no good. basically. so evan morris meets with the lawyers, realizes the lawyers are on to him abruptly, excuses himself, gets in his paws and drives his favorite golf course. we're trying figure out well, presumably try to figure out what to do. his wi

there is only one only one company that makes that. it is a company on lake george in new york. i called the company to figure out more about this lobbyist and what he was like. the guy who answered the phone was the president of the company and he stiffened up pretty quickly and said, i'm not talking about that lobbyist. when the fbi called, i gave them everything i had and i'm not talking to you. at that point, i knew i had a story. it turns out the lobbyist was involved in a kickback scheme with a consultant. he was writing fate contracts to another consultant who would send money back to him. i realized at the time that the story of his dramatic rise and dramatic fall was actually a great way of teaching people how washington has changed and how corporations have amassed power in washington. we sort of used him as a vehicle for fooling people to learn how washington has changed. we are writing about topics that can be dense. you know, lobbying campaign donations and corporate power. we tried to right about this guy and other characters who are interesting to tell stories abo

so the cable company was becoming your phone company and your internet company and eventually wireless was coming in. so we saw all of this happening and, i was assigned the lovely to pretend i was a lawyer and an economist and represent cwa on telecom communications policy at the fcc and on some legislation and eventually around mergers in front of the doj. so i was seeing was happening under competition and deregulation at the front line work force while i was seeing the policies that both democrats and republicans had adapted to subsidy to competition as the way to incent lower prices and innovation instead of regulation. and what that meant that our employers which were at&t verizon and other regional will companies our employers which had been for decades, were now competing with comcast last spectrum time warner t-mobile, sprint mci all of these not nonunion, anti-union, that big regulators were giving favorable so that they would encroach upon the markets of the union companies. so while we at one point were as labor struggling against our employers we were also seeing that in t

or if the government doesn't, a particular company, they can enforce every regulation against that company if they want to. and i think that creates a situation where the ceos want to think about, how can i maintain good ties with? all the potential antagonists that i could face so that i don't get hit with selective enforcement problem. i think we time for one more question. if anyone has one, we have one in the back right there. i was curious in terms of the independent agencies, the ftc, the epa or so, which the president has has a little direct control over and talked about talked about how presidents can influence those agencies, even if they don't directly control those. yeah, it's a good question. when i worked during the bush white house, sometimes we would have frustration with these independent regulatory bodies that didn't necessarily do what we wanted. and there was a limit to how much we could contact with them. at the same time, the president does get to the chairperson and the majority on those agencies and there are a lot of conversations in the white house before those peo

company as we are a danish company.ut the headquarter -- the corporate headquarter is based in denmark for the foreseeable future. francine: you think of denmark, and really, now, you think of novo, because of the size of revenues, which is, i think, bigger than gdp. is that uncomfortable? lars: i think maybe the perspective should be corrected a bit, because there is this comparison about our market cap with the danish gdp. and we all know that gdp is an economic flow matrix for the flow on a yearly basis, and the market cap is the total value of the company. i'm sure if we compare the market cap of novo nordisk with the market cap of everything that's in denmark, we would be tiny. but, of course, there's also the point that, with our expansions, our more than 30,000 employees in denmark, huge capex investment, we are fueling the gdp growth. and, and you know, we take that quite seriously. so, the jobs we create i don't think will disappear again. and, now we talk about expanding in the u.s. it does not come in the sha

and have worked at different companies. so in similar situations where a company has at ceo. it wouldn't be -- it wouldn't be unheard of it wouldn't be strange, it could make sense. >> you seem to be encouraging them to do that. i don't want to put words in your mouth. >> in other situations where we've been involved, just to be fair, we've been involved with companies that haven't done well and then we come around and management understands that things need to be different and they change, and they change dramatically and perform much better we never know which of those is the right answer what we'd like do is work with management and work with the board and try and figure out what's the best answer and how they're going to vote, but i will say something materiel needs to change. they can't close their eyes and assume it will bet better because you said what can i do about what they've done in the past i can't do anything about what they've done in the past, but today is tomorrow's past >> understood. conceivably, it takes a long time these are not changes that you see the r

number one it is protection of the companies that we have here and the new companies that will move in. you will have thousands of companies coming into the country and we will grow it like we have never grown it before and we will protect them because we will not have somebody undercut them. i can give you an example. a quick example. i just found out about it. i have been talking about it for the last year about detroit and how horribly it has been -- it is best -- it is horrible. detroit has been coming back for 40 years, but it has never come back. it is dependent on the car industry. they lost 60% of the business over time. what happened is that i found out, offend of mind builds auto plants and that is all he does. that is what he is good at. and he builds the biggest in the world. and for the last year and a half of anybody, i was talking about mexico and he says a tremendous challenge for us right now. china is building massive auto plants in mexico. they are going to build them and take those cars and sell them into the united states. and they will have all of the advantages a

this company is a worldwide company.ll do a heck of a lot better let's take a closer look with sanjiv lamba ceo of linde to get more context on the company and where its numbers are headed welcome back to "mad money." >> thank you, jim. pleasure to be back. >> i talk about your company people say jim, what is an industrial gas what's the deal? are all these things the same? we have had jim fitterling for dow. he's involved with a project in canada with you. maybe if you explain that to people they'll understand what an industrial gas company can do >> that's a brilliant way to start, jim let me start off by saying the headline over here is we've got a backlog of 10 billion. a backlog is where we've got a contracted project but guaranteed returns that are going to happen in the next three to four years and ramp up. why do i say the backlog of 10 billion? because two-plus billion out of that is for the project with dow in fort saskatchewan this is a big facility jim is doing a really tremendous job of decarbonization they'

david: why did you come to the company? small little search engine company. search wasn't that big a deal, probably. sundar: i was using the product from the outside and i clearly noticed how much better it was as a product. i was what i called a power user of the product. i had ideas in my head of how the product could be made better. more importantly, gaining access to technology made a big difference in my life. i always had the power of giving access to technology. the thing about google which appealed to me was, you could be in indonesia or be a professor at stanford and you would get access to that information, as long as you had a computer and connectability. david: with respect to the company today, you've obviously had some legal challenges. one legal challenge by the federal government. they charge that your search engine -- i hate to use the word monopolistic, but i will use that word -- running the company became more complicated because you had this lawsuit you had to deal with. sundar: with our scale in size, scrutiny is inevitable. we have alwa

which is that a zombie company? these are definitions used by institutions institutions such as the bank of international settlements and others. these are defined as companies that have not earned enough profits to even make their interest payments for three years in a row. so are forced to keep going back to the market, to borrow and to keep a, you know, themselves alive. so that's defined as a zombie company. now, this term became popular in japan in the 1990s that when the japanese economy was slowing down appreciably in the 1990s and the bubble was bursting, there was a big rise in the number of zombie companies or they were classified as zombie companies in japan. the american media that we, including publications such as the new york times, would almost walk this phenomenon in japan, saying that these zombie companies are being kept alive because of artificially low interest rates, easy money and america is very different. america does not do this at that point in time, the number of zombie companies in ameri

do you think companies _ harassment. do you think companies in _ harassment.you think companies in the uk - harassment. do you think companies in the uk are i harassment. do you think - companies in the uk are ready for this new law? do they understand the liabilities for sexual harassment? i understand the liabilities for sexual harassment?- sexual harassment? i think companies _ sexual harassment? i think companies are _ sexual harassment? i think companies are ready - sexual harassment? i think companies are ready for i sexual harassment? i think companies are ready for it, j sexual harassment? i thinkl companies are ready for it, i think the question is whether employees are ready for it because the bad behaviour at work, there is a human factor in that. some people simply do not know how to behave at work, that can also be put on the employer because of the awareness and training that they give to employees so they know what the expectations of behaviour are at work. i think there needs to be more in that respect that employers can do. are they ready for

which is that a zombie company? these are definitions used by institutions institutions such as the bank of international settlements and others. these are defined as companies that have not earned enough profits to even make their interest payments for three years in a row. so are forced to keep going back to the market, to borrow and to keep a, you know, themselves alive. so that's defined as a zombie company. now, this term became popular in japan in the 1990s that when the japanese economy was slowing down appreciably in the 1990s and the bubble was bursting, there was a big rise in the number of zombie companies or they were classified as zombie companies in japan. the american media that we, including publications such as the new york times, would almost walk this phenomenon in japan, saying that these zombie companies are being kept alive because of artificially low interest rates, easy money and america is very different. america does not do this at that point in time, the number of zombie companies in ameri

for companies that serve western europe, and it creates opportunities for companies that are set up in southeast asia, for those that are that are serving china and that, you know, call it globalization, a term i don't particularly like, because i think that's still a form of globalization. but derisking, if you will, that seems to be real. but until we change these financial incentives, we are in danger. are of corporate executives. will fully forgetting what we've gone through. you know, the first supply chain disruption story, alvaro? it was in 1999 when i was at the washington post and there was an earthquake in taiwan. and at that point, you know, taiwan was already a significant center of computer chips, though nowhere close to where it is now. there were shortages. we saw shortages of electronics and computer chips after the 2011 fukushima nuclear disaster in japan. a lot of people said, then, we've overdone it with just in time. we've overdone it with long supply chains. there's a book i drawn in my own book called the butterfly defect came out in 2014. the predicted that a pan

ted: the company was always conceived to be a digital company. reed hastings, when he came up with this idea, was thinking about it when he named the company. he called it "netflix," not "dvdflix." when i met reed in 1999, he describes netflix pretty much like it is right now. and this was at a time when literally no entertainment was coming into the home on the internet, he described a world where all home entertainment would come in on the internet. david: and so, when streaming came along, the theory was that people would be willing to pay a, let's say, monthly subscribing rate, then they would see programming that they could not otherwise easily get. but the idea of doing your own programming was novel. you were seen as the person who came up with the idea of not just taking stuff that's already out there, the 100,000 things that might already be available, but producing your own programming for netflix. where did you get the idea from? ted: in the very beginning, we did not think much about doing other programming because that wasn't the pro

today, my former company fired all the russians from the cyprus office. according to my information, the ebi company fired dozens, and they write about hundreds of employees in hungary, serbia and cyprus, simply because they had russian passports. the mass dismissals were organized during a general call with top management, the list of participants included only russian employees. access to microphones and... you were all great, but we need to move on, thank you all, you are all free, your credentials have been blocked, we will send you the final agreement to your personal emails, in a completely brutal and uncharacteristic manner for ebi, no reasonable explanation was provided, i don't even want to retell that nonsense, in total , employees report the dismissal of up to 300 russians from offices in eastern europe, the company itself. founded in moscow in 1989 2 years ago decided to leave russia. now its founder david yang does not mention his russian past, and the russian language has disappeared from the ebi website. in 2022, employees were offered to m

one of my old favorite drug companies. one oak. then citizens financial which is also a stadium in philadelphia that is now empty. i have a lot less confidence in the remanning p-two. united parcel services and dom y dominion energy. ups dealt with the threat of a crippling teamster strike. so they blinked and gave the teamsters what a lot of people feel is a very generous contract. it sure seems like they're losing business to fedex. in the past four quarters ups has disappointed three times fedex was doing fine till it had a tough last quarter. just focusing on ups, though, these guys have lowered expectations repeatedly this year. that's right. slash estimates. when the company reported its latest results in july they delivered a sizable top and bottom line miss and slashed their guidance. management tried to put a positive spin on things touting a trourn volume growth in the united states. but wall street didn't buy it and the stock plunged 12% in a single session. hasn't really come back much since then. don't forget even the

you saved our company." they make all of their money and most of their money with the small truck in the suvs. >> many consumers ended up with more expensive cars that let me come at you on foreign policy. you had said that taiwan should pay for u.s. protection. i ask because this morning you mentioned north korea and the chinese army literally as we speak or engaged in rehearsals for full enabled blockade to taiwan. if china invades taiwan, would you send american troops to defend it? >> the reason they are doing it now is because they will not do it afterwards so they are doing it now. look, i had a -- i had a very -- [applause] -- i had a very good relationship with president xi and a very good relationship with kim jong un who is an nuclear force you wouldn't even believe. by the way, it was announced that he just blew up the railroad going into south korea. that mean south korea is now cut off from russia and china and various other places. >> mr. trump, you just mentioned -- >> i have to mention this.

i think ai is boosting advertising for these big tech companies. last year have had a growing made and now high single digit tailwind from al infrastructure on their systems. so i think those are some of the reasons ai is both bullish on meta and microsoft have this quarter. not long to see if those predictions come true. thank you forjoining us on the show. now, both us markets and economists have been reacting to the prospect of swinging new trade tariffs promised by donald trump if he wins next week's us presidential election. the international monetary fund in washington is concerned protectionism could derail the global economic recovery. the european union is worried it could face up to 20% tariffs across the board. the head of the eurogroup of eu finance chiefs has been speaking to the bbc in washington. so the presidential election here is undoubtedly casting a very big shadow. it's the background to many of the discussions that we are having here at the moment. but as important as that election is — and it is so vital — i think we also nee

you said apple is a smartphone company or the smartphone company? heard you say a smartphone company despite the fact that they'd love to say they're so much more than that in services. can you just clarifiesome. >> 75 of their value comes from the iphone -- 75%. everything else is a side product of services. i've been an apple user since 1981. i know that the attention they pay to the to the macbook pro, which i own, is going to be a fraction of what they do to the iphone. the iphone, for better or worse, has ended up becoming the dominant product at the company. everything else they do flows from the iphone. liz: meta's stock, can i just dovetail to that? meta is downed. they beat, they had a double beat but, again, they spent more than $9 billion in the quarter on a.i. efforts and buildout. they said they're going to spend more. what sort of warning flare would you send up for potential investors in any of these stocks that are in this hot race? >> i think we're getting a little ahead of the game on a.i. products and services. let's face it, ther

or if the government doesn't, a particular company, they can enforce every regulation against that company if they want to. and i think that creates a situation where the ceos want to think about, how can i maintain good ties with? all the potential antagonists that i could face so that i don't get hit with selective enforcement problem. i think we time for one more question. if anyone has one, we have one in the back right there. i was curious in terms of the independent agencies, the ftc, the epa or so, which the president has has a little direct control over and talked about talked about how presidents can influence those agencies, even if they don't directly control those. yeah, it's a good question. when i worked during the bush white house, sometimes we would have frustration with these independent regulatory bodies that didn't necessarily do what we wanted. and there was a limit to how much we could contact with them. at the same time, the president does get to the chairperson and the majority on those agencies and there are a lot of conversations in the white house before those peo

for the companies to do it. right. the government has to create an ego system where it's regulations don't keep jumping and changing, which makes it hard for them. the one and the corporate sector to me, but also for investors to have to understand the tax and the payments. and we did a lot of shopping and changing which put all foreign capital because they just put an understand tax the on the point. and there was too much litigation, their own tax, which means a lot of foreign capital unhappy. and we do have some dependency on private equity, which is money that comes in in large chunks into our companies, and been going to need for an institutional investors investing here. and we have to say good bye to the james. like for the phone at the kind of tax mess we got us headed into with retrospective taxation and the hardware reputation recreated for us is with the fact that we could come in with rich retrospective tax. so visa, hard lessons and lessons been known to by us and which i'm sure we've been non compe

everything is gone out of this company.y maybe they can bounce so it's a hesitant buy on my part. >> we'll call it a buy nonetheless. but i take your point. quick programming note, the ceo kelly ortberg will be on tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. eastern time on "squawk on the street. >>> now to coca-cola, outpaced pepsi by nearly 15%. facing consumer head winds internationally and here at home b of a is positive on pricing power. what do you do with the shares here >> yeah. this one is a buy as well. you look at the charts, smooth ascending chart. it's better chart, better looking than pepsi you just stated its outperformance on year to date over pepsi what's interesting, kelly, you go back five years, they're both up about 30% so this is sort of -- you know, all kind of meshed into one. the more diversified play is pepsi. but with pepsi you get the snacks with the snacks you get the glp1 sort of head wind to it. so i think that's why it's underperformed coke when you talk about pepsi that's why i would stick with the straight bevera

the company known formally as hon hai is the largest company electronics maker in the world. diversify and build more income stream. annabelle droulers joins us from the event in taipei. what's the mood on the ground? annabelle: it's a really exciting day for the business. it's the fifth ever hon hai tech day. but also the 50th anniversary for the company this year. one of the highlights so far is the chairman talking about building the world's biggest supercomputer facility right here in taiwan. it really speaks about the goals of where hon hai wants to go from here. it's known as the world's biggest assembler of i've flown -- iphones and a range of consumer electronics. we know that the sales are slowing so they need to think about what's next. essentially the focus is building out this ev ambition, also smart manufacturing, smart cities. china developed these additional business streams for the company, but ev's has been one particularly interesting, given the company has very big ambitions for this phase, around 5% of manufacturing shares they want by 2025, whether that's

companies in the u.s.europe that might have more of the revenues being derived from china. i also encourage investors to ride the wave of optimism like aerospace and defense and electrical equipment company. names where we see good cash flow or earnings reaccelerate higher. that can ride the optimism, but i like the fact they are domestically dtied with the fundamentals of the business. >> i like the pick you have for us. the russell 2000. also seasonality coming up over 2% in november on average. what is your case for the small caps? we haven't seen the rally that a lot of people thought we would see. >> you know, frank, i sense that is from frustration from clients because everyone was excited about the potential with small caps with the first rate cut and that hasn't played out to date. what i would encourage is it all comes back to fundamentals. small cap earnings pick up later in the season. pay attention to what is happening with respect to earnings estimate revisions. small caps are under performed

bring us up to speed. >> the space companies of the future are not just launch companies. it's about providing that service. this is our headquarters. we make a lot of rocket components and avionics here. we have expanded the footprint. we started in new zealand and expanded to the u.s. and further to denver and albuquerque and mississippi and silver springs and a launch site in virginia and a facility in toronto. we are doing more than launch. ed: two launch systems. what are they? adam: the vehicle behind you is electron, the second-most frequently launched vehicle in the u.s. it has launched 53 times. we have a dedicated market. we are developing neutron, which will address the larger medium class market. caroline: can we talk about how difficult space engineering is? where are we with neutron? what are the issues? adam: we are quite a ways along. we have been at it three years. we announced it in august, '21. amazing to see a rocket come together. i did not come from a space background 6.5 years ago. to see what it takes to pull it off these staggering. ed: it is liter

bob stern salts was questioned about its work for chinese companies. that's looks like most of our clients, like the china communications construction company. this is a firm that is blacklisted by the united states government. this is a state owned enterprises that is responsible for building artificial islands in the south china sea. probably indirect contravention of international law. certainly in direct contribution to united states security interest. you help them develop their 5 year plan. my question is, why should you be able to get any contracts? so united states government, if you're going to advise for a nation's who are hostile to us and make gobs of money off of them, why should you be getting us government contracts center we've never worked with the chinese communist party or the central government in china to the best of my knowledge you're working with, state owned enterprises. this is, this is time is not a democracy. mackenzie's work and saudi arabia and china shows a concerning side of government, consulting, their profit driven co

which is that a zombie company? these are definitions used by institutions institutions such as the bank of international settlements and others. these are defined as companies that have not earned enough profits to even make their interest payments for three years in a row. so are forced to keep going back to the market, to borrow and to keep a, you know, themselves alive. so that's defined as a zombie company. now, this term became popular in japan in the 1990s that when the japanese economy was slowing down appreciably in the 1990s and the bubble was bursting, there was a big rise in the number of zombie companies or they were classified as zombie companies in japan. the american media that we, including publications such as the new york times, would almost walk this phenomenon in japan, saying that these zombie companies are being kept alive because of artificially low interest rates, easy money and america is very different. america does not do this at that point in time, the number of zombie companies in ameri

one of the american companies also spoke about ammunition, a rather powerful company that, by the way, equips shells. in tnt, this is the company that actually equips the ammunition that the president of ukraine saw in pennsylvania, so in any case, this ammunition component is quite revealing, when we talk about american components, it is interesting that it was stated that the american company aeron environment together with a ukrainian company will produce in ammunition for ukraine, planning switchblade 600, that is, in fact... there are such positive suggestions, which are associated with an increase in the number of projects that will be manufactured for the needs of the armed forces of ukraine. defense minister umirov, who came to the second part of this event, said that more than 4 billion dollars have already been invested in the production of ukrainian industry, and next year it is planned to increase these indicators, the priority... will be for domestic drones and long-range weapons, and we told about that until the end next year or next year you will hear about the missile

companies can say that they don't sell anything to russia, that they just sell to some middlemen there, but that doesn't change the fact that these parts are going to russia in huge volumes. well, in the context of these news, the question arises whether indeed, the us and eu sanctions are working, and if not, who is to blame and what can be done to prevent russia's military-industrial complex from using western ones. electronics, we will talk about it later, the executive director of the independent anti-corruption commission, a member of the public anti-corruption council under the ministry of defense of ukraine, olena tregub, is in touch with us. good evening, good evening. well, there are indeed numerous journalistic investigations, but there are also official reports from the authorities of ukraine, indicating that the russian new weapons use western electronics, and does the russian military-industrial complex have any problems with getting the necessary components now, maybe they just found such workarounds, they resumed production and that's it, no problem, well, in fact, russi

i only bring up the big boy company -- i mean that as a company. maybe at some point, you run out of new businesses to just keep pouring your money into and at some point, you become a -- dare i say, i mean, a cash flow play, right? >> harvester. >> harvester. >> well, it -- it is certainly something that at times the market has been looking to get from amazon, and at other times they have not. it is also interesting you're seeing the headlines and the ceo is saying, we're going to continue lowering product prices as unit growth continues to grow. i think that's a great thing to communicate not only to the market, but to your consumers right now. i think amazon, part of this whole platform, has been about being a place where they can dominate, and whether they can dominate certainly in the consumer, part getting that into the advertising business, it will feed that business and now we can see where those consumer rev revenues, the e-commerce revenues, actually lead to profits. >>> all right, now we're going to turn to apple. now, apple, unlike amaz

and this company's a dominant company, so you can sell it based on the forecast, but you really shoulde down and then buy it because of the relationship with waymo. >> the diversification of their business as well. when you talk about passengers, then autonomous, and you're talking about food delivery and freight. i mean, that's why, you know, people remain so bullish, because the diversified portfolio of how they can pull all these different things into one big pie. >> and they're up against doordash and delivery, and we know that they're a great company. we know that we have them on our cell phone. anyone who's on your cell phone is doing well today. i just say, look, don't be too complacent, but if you base everything on the forecast, which is everything that people are doing, you'll make a mistake, because he's a person who likes to have a forecast that he beats. that's what you do. >> speaking of dash, stock's up 3.5%. they get their first profit since going public, strong results, strong consumer, targets get raised by several firms. i notice the top end, 180 this morning. >> so,