Boeing Shares Halted Pending News
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7909915/Design-shor...
>New York Times cites unpublished Dutch report on Turkish Airlines crash from 2009 in which nine people were killed near Amsterdam
>Dutch investigators determined that design flaws led to the Boeing 737-800 crashing into a field
>Investigators found that a sensor mistakenly triggered a command computer to idle the engine as the plane approached the runway for landing
>But American investigators with the US government and Boeing pressured the Dutch investigators to emphasize pilot error while downplaying Boeing's role
And that about simulator sounds very familiar too:
>Boeing has stopped production of the planes and agreed to allow pilots to undergo simulator training before the jets return to service.
The root cause is not an engineering defect, but a set of organizational, cultural, and managerial defects. This is the root cause that leads inexorably to a variety of seemingly unrelated engineering defects.
Perhaps regulators should hold off on approving new airplanes until Boeing can demonstrate that they have fixed the organizational, cultural, and managerial defects that are the root cause of their safety problems.
They have a large stock of undelivered 737 MAX airplanes (~400 brand-new planes sitting in parking lots), and wouldn't be paid for them. They also wouldn't be able to deliver on any existing 737 MAX contracts.
Most of these contracts are written with language that if a part is no longer required that Boeing must still buy out the LTA. Basically, Boeing must buy parts for the 737 Max from suppliers even if they can never build another plane! Either that or the suppliers who make parts for the 737 will have to eat all the WIP and inventory costs which would be just as devestating to the domestic manufacturing market as if Boeing itself went under.
Aerospace is a yuuuuuge market for American Manufacturing. It's one of the only manufacturing markets that China is unable to compete in.
Anyway, you are going to sell your paper certificates in the few hours trading is halted? To whom? Your next for neighbor? Someone on the sidewalk?
I was reading Stripe and Braintree's restricted businesses (https://stripe.com/restricted-businesses) and saw "unauthorized sale or resale of brand name or designer products or services". If I own something physical there should be nothing telling me I can't sell it.
Property rights also apply to Stripe, in that the company, as an asset itself, can be restricted by its owners to conduct business in some certain way.
And I wouldn't be surprised if Stripe's policies will have more to do with the credit card companies than Stripe. Then, further, the credit card companies act as a cartel by using the government to prevent anyone else from using property to create a competing service by making the ROI on creating a competing service worse than other investment opportunities, or even just blocking it outright under some nebulous "shut down for accounting irregularities" or "insufficient consumer protections" nonsense.
That's what i figured, which is why I included braintree to not throw Stripe under the bus alone.
This is completely your own assertion and suggests a lack of understanding of property rights. How can I talk about property rights under the assumption that they apply only to me, unless I believe that I am the only one in the universe with property rights?
And the triple 7 isn't a replacement for the MAX. It has double the passenger capacity. It's like if Ford had to stop manufacturing Fiestas and manufactured F-150s in their place. These are different markets.
Meanwhile, they could have been producing more planes that don't have problems, and actually sell, even if they are for different markets. There's a backlog for all planes, so switching to something else would have at least helped clear that backlog and net more profit, instead of just building more planes that are just going to sit in parking lots.
While doing this, they should have immediately started work on engineering for an all-new replacement for the 737.
Of course, instead of having me as their CEO, Boeing would rather have some clown like Muilenberg who makes stupid decisions that got them to where they are now, and then give him a giant golden parachute when they get rid of him for incompetence. I would have cost far less.
Shares crashed more than 5.5% in the 30m or so before it was halted.
Stock markets seem full of insider traders who are rarely punished, and who keep people like me from investing.
EDIT: Apparently the further news was just Boeing's confirmation of the above.
> Shares of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) were halted in late trading pending release of news. The news turned out to be that Johnson and Johnson said it found no asbestos in the baby powder it recalled. JNJ was trading slightly lower prior to the trading stop, but is up over 3% after the close.
(J&J is a Dow component.)
https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answerstradinghalthtm.html
> A trading halt—which typically lasts less than an hour but can be longer—is called during the trading day to allow a company to announce important news or where there is a significant order imbalance between buyers and sellers in a security.
What do you mean? Stocks get halted all the time especially before big news.
Though someone mentioned JNJ did. Otherwise it's very uncommon for a blue chip to be halted.
Maybe the market today is overreacting to that fake news/rumor?
There's a headline on the front page of HN saying that they've officially halted production.