Super charging them with sugar on top of the adrenaline rush of the opening bell in new york. They scrunched together to watch the ceremony on tv monitors. One thing was clear early on the 26pershare ipo price set last night was conservative. Underwriters trying to gauge supply and demand settled on a 45 opening price, 73 higher. That meant twitter could have raised over 1. 5 billion more. The ceo of yelp says setting an ipo price isnt ease emp. Its not a science, its simply an art. At the end of a long day and couple of weeks, you do your best to deliver value to both your own shifting shareholders and the new ones. And you try to be as fair as possible. Reporter while some were jumping in, others didnt because of risk factors. Any ipo stock that becomes a trading vehicle the first few days after an ipo, its a guessing game how much it will eventually be worth. Nobody knows. Doesnt have a track record. There may be revenues, but we dont know what the profitability will be. Theres a ho
Exceeded all expectations. Twitter makes a big splash on its opening day on wall street and makes instant millionaires out of dozens of bay area employees. Twitter executives didnt make the same mistakes facebook made a year and a half ago. They priced their stock conservatively and didnt flood the market with too many shares. Twitters stock closed this afternoon at just under 45 a share. A 2 premium from its ipo 72 premium from its ipo price of 26. Our business and Technology Reporter is live at twitter headquarters. David, i imagine that party is still going. Reporter yes, you can tell thats whats going on because theres been no one leaving the twitter building since lunchtime today. And we have also heard from a neighbor across the way at the end of the building. He says there are preparations underway for a big bash for tonight. Now, we know that theres been a lot of celebrating going on, and it was joined by Top Executives from the company who were in new york this morning for the
Trump are both railing against trade deals that cost jobs. How did they wind up on the same page . And russian hit job . A medical examiner now saying a former top aide to Vladimir Putin died of Blunt Force Trauma in a Washington Hotel room. Why did his family blame his death on a heart attack . Wolf blitzer is off today, im Brianna Keilar. Youre in the situation room. We are following the republican race for the white house. The candidates back on the campaign trail after a surprisingly civil performance in the cnn president ial debate, but that surprise decorum was nowhere in sight at a donald trump rally in st. Louis a short time ago. Dozens of protesters were kicked out of the event. Trump and his rivals fixed on next weeks primaries and the makeorbreak contests in florida and ohio. Were following the growing mystery surrounding the death of a former top aide to russian president Vladimir Putin. The man found dead in a luxury Washington Hotel of what his family said was a heart att
Points including how much this adds to the nations debt and what happens to immigration. Growing fallout over when Top White House officials knew about abuse allegations against top aide rob porter. Much focus has been on chief of staff john kelly. But don mcgahn and hope hicks, they are under scrutiny now also. The white house is insisting that kelly only became fully aware of the allegations after a photo of porters first exwife with a black eye came out. What does that mean . Does that mean he knew about some abuse or some allegations of abuse . That certainly seems to be the case here. The white house not denying that. What they seem to be most upset about is that it became public at all. Now, new questions on that as well. Lets get first to our top story. We have it all covered. Suzanne malveaux live on capitol hill with the shutdown, very brief shutdown that is almost over, suzanne. Reporter it is almost over. That bill going to the president to sign to end this shortly. While mo
Is dismayed, that john kelly knew for months but kept porter in his job, until this week when porters exwives went public. The white house offering a timid acknowledgement. I think it is fair to say that, you know, we all could have done better over the last few hours or last few days. Now, word of another Top White House insider knowing and doing nothing. A source tells cnn that porters exwife called white House Counsel don mcgann in recent weeks to talk to him about her allegations of abuse. And there is another new report that mcgann knew about the allegations a year ago. First to Kaitlan Collins at the white house. We have some new information about President Trumps reaction to this crisis. Tell us what youre learning. Reporter thats right, brianna. Another Stunning Development as we continue to see the white house be engulfed by this scandal and the resignation of rob porter. That is the relationship between the president and one of his top aides, and closest confidantes, hope hic