Icahn gets loan deal amid short pressure
Wall Street Breakfast
Seeking Alpha
4.1 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
You can read a transcript of this episode at SeekingAlpha.
Show Links:
Top 11 technical picks for the second half of 2023
Goldman Sachs sees rays of hope in underperforming health sector
Netflix rises as Morgan Stanley boosts estimates on higher expectations
Charles Schwab riased to Outperform at JMP as cash sorting headwinds abate
Helen of Troy EPS of $1.94 beats by $0.26
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Lunch, our afternoon update on today's market action news and analysis. |
| 0:09.0 | Good afternoon. Today is Monday, July 10th, and I'm your host, Kim Com. Our top story so far in today's session. |
| 0:16.6 | Icon Enterprises is up following report that Carl Icon has disconnected his personal loans from the price of his company's shares. |
| 0:23.4 | IEP's shares have dropped about 40% in the last two months after |
| 0:27.6 | shortseller Hindenburg sounded warnings over the ties between ICON's |
| 0:31.1 | personal loans and his company shares. ICON owns about 85% of IEP and about |
| 0:37.0 | 60% of his shares were put up as collateral. With the value of ICON's collateral against the |
| 0:42.3 | loans dropping, lenders became alarmed and sought more. |
| 0:45.6 | After months of negotiations with banks, ICON amended his loan agreements on Sunday, the Wall Street |
| 0:50.6 | Journal reports. He severed his personal loans from the price of IEP units, |
| 0:54.8 | will increase his collateral, and to set up a plan to fully repay the loans in three years. |
| 1:00.2 | Under the amended agreement, the only situation that would trigger a margin call would be if the net asset value of the company's investments significantly slides. |
| 1:08.0 | Now here's a look at how trading is shaping up. |
| 1:11.0 | Money is moving from growth to cyclical stocks, with industrial is the best performing sector. |
| 1:16.8 | All three mega-capped sectors are in the red. |
| 1:19.6 | The Dow is leading the way higher, while the S&P is a little changed and the NASDAQ is struggling. |
| 1:24.0 | Barclays boosted its 2023 S&T price target to 4150 that says equities should remain |
| 1:30.0 | range-bound through the remainder of the year. A tech-centric rally won't broaden to the rest of the |
| 1:34.6 | S&P, the Equity Team said, advising investors to tactically add secular growth exposure. |
| 1:40.9 | Rates are pretty quiet. The ten-year Treasury is little changed above 4%. |
| 1:45.0 | Crude oil, gold, and Bitcoin are also struggling to find firm direction. |
| 1:50.0 | Among stocks to watch, Helen of Troy rose after it reported Q2 results that beat estimates and better gross profit margin. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Seeking Alpha, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Seeking Alpha and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

