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Wall Street Breakfast

Cummins to pay record fine for emissions cheating

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business News, News, Business, Investing

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Cummins (CMI) to pay record $1.675B civil penalty in vehicle test cheating settlement. (00:26) iRobot (IRBT) plunges to session lows amid report Amazon (AMZN) won't offer remedies in Europe. (01:41) SEC at long last approves spot bitcoin ETFs. (02:25)

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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, January 11th. I'm Julie Morgan.

0:13.1

Commons has to pay a hefty fine for being deceitful.

0:17.0

I-Robot falls amid a report that Amazon won't offer remedies in Europe,

0:22.0

and the SEC says yes to Bitcoin EDFs.

0:26.0

Cummins has agreed to pay a combined $2 billion in fines and remedies to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice and the state of California

0:36.0

that charged the company with installing devices meant to cheat emissions controls.

0:41.2

The DOJ announced on Wednesday that under the proposed settlement

0:44.9

Cummins agreed to pay 1.675 billion dollars in a civil penalty which is the

0:50.4

largest ever assessed in a Clean Air Act violation.

0:54.2

In addition, the company will spend more than $325 million to remedy the violations

0:59.7

related to the software defeat devices that circumvented emissions testing and

1:04.9

certifications requirements. Cummins must also complete a nationwide

1:09.4

vehicle recall to repair and replace the engine control software in hundreds of thousands of

1:15.5

RAM 2500 and RAM 3,500 pickup trucks equipped with the company's diesel

1:20.9

engines. The deal will also require the company to extend the warranty

1:25.4

period for certain parts in the repaired vehicles. Fund and perform projects to

1:30.1

mitigate excess ozone-creating nitrogen oxides emitted from the vehicles

1:35.2

and employ new internal procedures designed to prevent future emissions cheating.

1:41.4

I robot dropped nearly 20% Wednesday amid a report that Amazon will not offer concessions

1:47.7

in Europe to try to appease the antitrust regulator.

1:51.4

The drop comes as Wednesday was the deadline for the parties to

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