Al jazeera america, weekday mornings. Catch up on what happened overnight with a full morning brief. Get a first hand look with indepth reports and investigations. Start weekday mornings with al jazeera america. Open your eyes to a world in motion. Welcome back. Top stories here on aljazeera. Voting has begun in bay ruinty. The incumbent is running for a controversial third term. Blasts were reported around the capital. Cuba and the United States have restored diplomatic ties. On monday Foreign Ministers from both countries met in washington. This marks a major step towards ending decades of hostility. Turkey is blaming isil for an attack. 30 people were killed and a hundred injured in the explosion at a cultural center. Now the white house says it could use military force if iran breaks the nuclear deal signed with six world powers. The next big challenge is to push the deal through congress which has 60 days to review t early on monday the u. N. Security council endorsed the deal wit
Just took a big coup. Shares up as much as 12 at one point. Revenue beating estimates the 6 yearoveryear. Still, twitter interim Ceo Jack Dorsey says he is not satisfied with growth and user numbers are relatively disappointing. He is expected to be on the Earnings Call for the very First Time Since he left the company less than 30 minutes. Also with me here in the studio and on the phone are analysts. It looks good, except for these user numbers. They changed how they calculate user numbers recently had added an extra element which is these sms users. If you include those, you look great, but if you do not include votes their corporate the growth is only up by 2 million per quarter. I have argued the user base does not really matter, although i realize that the investors are focused on it because management is focused on it. As people appeal the numbers you can see the u. S. User growth was. If you see there is any turn, it means that they grew to a place that turned, and that will no
Headquarters. Zealand,oing to new seeing some weakness down 1 10 of a percent. Snapping that losing streak that they saw. We saw comments from the governor talking about further cuts likely to come, but he said several factors could be supporting growth in new zealand. It is not weak enough for large rate cuts as some have been speculating. The new Zealand Dollars but is actually gaining. We are counting down to the opens in australia, japan and korea. We are expecting retail sales from japan coming out later this hour. Bk 225 closing down 1 10 of a percent. Futures pointing to a higher open. The dollar yen is weakening. It is almost as if three weeks of intervention in the markets did not happen we are talking about china. The losses were not as severe as the day before but stocks went down nearly 12 since thursday. Juliette is watching the markets for us. Juliette security regulators say they will investigate what happened on monday when we saw the 8. 5 plunge. Yesterday selloff was
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