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Squawk on the Street

Squawk on the Street: Opening Bell 09/17/2019

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

News, Business, Investing

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber discuss the latest in WeWork’s embattled path to an IPO.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Jim Kramer here. You're listening to the opening bell of CNBC Squawk on the Street.

0:04.6

Don't miss a minute of the action.

0:11.8

Good Tuesday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kintanillo with Jim Kramer and David Faber at the New York Stock Exchange. Future is modestly lower here on a morning with a lot of corporate news from WeWork to FedEx to AT&T. Fed begins a two-day meeting. This overnight repo squeeze

0:26.2

getting interesting. Oil coming off for yesterday's blistering rally and the Saudis make their first

0:31.2

official comments today. Robat begins with Just Call it We Wait. We Work delaying its IPO rollout plans after a frosty investor

0:39.4

response plus we're going to give a look at crap times around the bell why well it's second largest

0:43.9

shareholder the private equity giant 3g capital did sell more than 25 million shares but there is a

0:49.0

reason behind it and searching for rate tea leaves from the fed ahead of that two-day meeting, stocks are set to open slightly lower.

0:56.6

We're going to start off, though, with that WeWork news, of course, sort of trickling out yesterday after the close, a delay in the planned public offering that has been so, well, such a focus over these last few weeks.

1:09.7

As the price, at least that we were thought it would

1:13.1

actually get for its shares, has rapidly declined over concerns about its business model,

1:18.7

over concerns about governance, really ever since they actually issued the S-1, which Mr. Kramer

1:24.5

here didn't really take a real fancy too. But a lot of this also goes back to Mr. Adam Newman, of course, the man who founded the company and runs it.

1:31.5

And this has been a chaotic process. Having reported on it now for a couple of weeks, I can sort of tell you that I've never seen anything quite like this in terms of the disarray in preparing for a public offering.

1:44.9

And I guess what was clear and perhaps finally made clear to them was they weren't ready.

1:50.4

They just were not ready to actually face potential shareholders at this point.

1:55.2

One wonders why, for example, they didn't clear up all the governance issues a long time ago prior to filing

2:01.9

that S-1, but instead have dribbled them out as they did late last week with significant changes

2:07.2

that were designed, of course, to enhance the offering. They weren't able to get there, at least

2:13.0

not at a price that they were willing to accept. And let me tell you, I had thought perhaps

2:16.7

that some of this delay was due to increased tension between We York's largest shareholder. SoftBank, led by

2:25.5

Mesa and Mr. Newman. That, however, does not appear to really be the case, although we'll

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