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Wall Street Breakfast

Boeing workers reject contract, strike continues

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business News, Investing, Business, News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Boeing (BA) factory workers reject contract, continuing six-week strike. (00:24) Tesla (TSLA) rips 12% gain as investors eye the plan for affordable EVs. (01:27) Singtel to sell Dash to Western Union (WU). (02:30)

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0:00.0

Welcome to See King Alpha's Wall Street breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning.

0:08.0

Good morning. Today is Thursday, October 24th, I'm Julie Morgan.

0:13.6

Boeing workers turned down a contract offer so the strike continues.

0:18.0

Tesla is up double digits in pre-market trading, and Western Union agrees to buy Dash.

0:24.0

Boeing factory workers voted late Wednesday to reject the company's contract offer that would

0:30.0

have ended a nearly six-week strike.

0:32.0

The vote was 64% in opposition to the deal which had offered a 35%

0:37.7

wage hike over four years. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said in a statement after the votes were tallied

0:46.5

that after 10 years of sacrifices, they still have ground to make up,

0:50.9

and they're hopeful to do so by resuming negotiations promptly.

0:55.0

Without a deal, Boeing's factories that build the 737, 767 and 777 jets will remain idled.

1:03.6

The vote came on the same day Boeing reported a $6.2 billion Q3 loss and warned it would remain

1:10.2

cash flow negative in 2025. After through more than 10 billion dollars in the

1:15.7

first nine months of 2024. After closing 1.76% lower on Wednesday, Boeing is down 2.7% in pre-market action.

1:26.0

Tesla rallied late on Wednesday after breaking a streak of missing EPS estimates

1:32.0

with its last four quarterly reports and reiterating

1:35.1

that it plans to make EVs affordable. On the earnings conference call

1:39.1

CEO Elon Musk took a victory lap over what he said was a record quarter.

1:44.7

He noted that Tesla just produced its 7 millionth vehicle.

1:48.8

Musk said more affordable models will be produced by Tesla in the first half of 2025.

1:54.9

He expects vehicle production to increase by 20 to 30 percent in 2025.

2:01.0

Cyber cap production is anticipated to be scaled up aggressively in 2026.

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