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Wall Street Breakfast

Nippon Steel assures US Steel to remain American

Wall Street Breakfast

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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US Steel (X) to remain American, prioritize U.S. steel demands - Nippon Steel (NPSCY). (00:23) Snap (SNAP) CEO blames slow advertising business for stock underperformance. (01:44) DEI pullback: Molson Coors drops diversity policies. (02:51)

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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 Wednesday, September 4th. I'm Julie Morgan. Nippon Steele continues to make its case for U.S. Steel.

0:17.0

Snap is applying focus and another company pulls back on DEI.

0:23.0

Nippon Still has detailed a governance policy stating that U.S. Steel would remain a U.S.

0:29.1

Company headquartered in Pittsburgh.

0:31.6

Nippon Steel which is seeking to buy U.S. Steel for $14 billion,

0:36.8

said that the operating structure for U.S. Steel would include a majority of U.S.

0:41.7

citizens making up its board.

0:44.0

Additionally, the core senior management members of US Steel would also be US Citizens.

0:50.4

It added that US Steel would be owned by Nippon Steel North America, a New York-based subsidiary of the Japanese company that has operated in the United States for over 50 years.

1:02.0

The Japanese Steel-making companies said it would prioritize production at U.S. steel

1:06.7

to meet the demand in the U.S. steel market and announce there would be no transfer

1:11.2

of any of U.S. Steel's production capacity or jobs outside of the U.S.

1:16.8

On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris said that U.S. Steel should remain domestically owned and operated.

1:23.6

In August, former President Donald Trump also signals his opposition to the deal,

1:28.5

stating that he would block the deal if he is reelected.

1:31.9

President Joe Biden, too, has said for months that he is reelected. President Joe Biden too has said for months that he is

1:35.0

against the 14 billion dollar buyout of US deal. However he has not outright

1:40.4

called for the transaction to be blocked.

1:43.0

The CEO of Snap says the company will focus on growing its advertising business

1:49.2

and augmented reality offerings.

1:51.7

Evan Spiegel told employees in a note on Tuesday that the Santa Monica-based company plans to introduce

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