That. Right i think that the shock value of that is maybe more, lets say, the bark versus the bite i think that theres a belief that we could get a lot a much better picture of what the Health Situation is going to be like in november so its a little premature to be able to say what the president is saying and its certainly contrary to what he was saying about the idea that we do have a vaccine very soon. If we have a vaccine very soon why do we have to delay the election and why does it have to be crooked i think you cant have it both ways you can have the vaccine come out and have a gd election or you must know that the vaccine is not going to come out and you will have what he just tweeted but whatever it sows chaos and chaos is bad for the stock market. We did get some promising vaccine news out of j j as they move to human trials in the u. S. And belgium the earnings which we will talk a lot about this morning are basically shaming the analysts, virtually surpassing the entire ran
Twitter shares soaring on a rumor the company is looking to build a Subscription Service a source close to the situation tells me that a Subscription Service is one of many Revenue Generating options that twitter is considering, but that no announcement in that area is imminent Ceo Jack Dorsey has said hes kicked around the idea of creating a subscription tier and twitter management has talked about building new revenue stream the focus on new ways twitter could make money as tiktok opens a new platform senator tom cotton warned americans against use ticktock. Secretary of state mike pompeo said late monday that the United States was looking at banning chinese social media apps including ticktock. Ticktock responded to pompeo by pointing to the companys new american ceo, former disney executive kevin mayer, saying we have never provided user data to the Chinese Government nor would we do so if asked. I want to go to dan nathan first. As i recall, dan, you had fast pitched twitter back
Enough clarity on the economy to justify restarting payouts yet. That decision is not yet final. Global news 24 hours a day on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. I am Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. It is 1 00 in new york and 1 00 a. M. In hong kong. Welcome to bloomberg markets. I will be speaking with bill ackman. We will discuss the debut of his new Blank Check Company which raised 4 billion in its initial offering. He will weigh in on what kinds of companies he wants to target with the money and other investments. First, lets look at the markets. We are higher. The nasdaq has erased all of its gains. 25 . P 500 is up mark forck at the 70 the you in the. With heating up today expulsion of the envoy from china. I want to point to the fact that we will be talking about in a moment and that is the Blank Check Company that is trading up an ipo today. The expectation was to raise 4 billion and we will be talking
The staggering run into this report lets go straight to phil lebeau with all the details. A beat on the top and bottom line and the beat on the bottom line is significant. Lets run through some of the numbers. Much better than expected earnings per share and its a fourth straight profitable quarter for tesla. 2. 18 is how much it earned in the Second Quarter the street was expecting three cents profit revenue just over 6 billion as i mentioned, a fourth straight profitable quarter for tesla. We know the significance of that it is the last hurdle the company needed to clear in order to be included in the s p 500. Lets drill down some numbers within the report that are going to get attention operating cash flow, 418 million. Automotive revenue was actually down it declined by 3. 4 in the quarter, not a surprise given the fact that you had the freemont factory shut down for five or six weeks. But the automotive regulatory credits revenue, thats where they made it up. That was up 317 milli
Quickly. And staying strong. The worlds top iron ore prices are among the highest out of china. Shery lets get you started with another check of how markets are trading at the moment. Futures underu. S. Pressure as stocks fell to the lowest level in two weeks. We are seeing it down 0. 7 . Than 2 ,00 lost more same for the dow and the nasdaq. The dow losing more than 700 points. We had the sharp increase in virus cases, adding to economic anxiety. So risk off positioning was very strong last week. We did get positive data over the weekend, signs that the chinese economy is continuing to recover and profits rebounding in may for the First Time Since november. Take a look at what oil is doing because it continues to fall. Actually, we saw a second week of declines, the second weekly decline since april. We continue to have these lower prices after a cautious rebound, now headed towards 37 a barrel for wti. We also had chesapeake filing for bankruptcy in the u. S. , one of the biggest vict