Good friday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im kaylee towshe. Rick santelli joins us as well. Carl quintanilla has the morning off. Executive editor kara swisher. Good morning to you too. How you doing . Im in d. C. , actually. All right. Lets get to our top story today. I think well work on karas audio there. Shares of microsoft at alltime highs this morning for the First Time Since 1999, the company beating the street on the top and bottom lines and showing Significant Growth if the cloud. Former microsoft ceo Steve Ballmer joining our friend op squawk box talking about the stellar quarter and a potential acquisition of twitter. I have never, ever, ever wanted to buy twitter myself. I mean, come on. Ive got a good life right now. I dont need to do that. Of course, mike, they asked the question because he is a large twitter shareholder, not just an outside tech observer. Interestingly on microsoft this morning, people are joking that it only took 17 years to get yours. If you were h
Japan, pokemon go helping the chain snap its losing streak. Do follow me on twitter at rishaadtv and use trendingbusiness as well. ,aipei, kuala lumpur, singapore a start to this trading day. , somef these newcomers momentum to the sluggish start. It is welcome given this tepid start. A steady session in the u. S. Overnight that hasnt carried over to asia. Take a look at the open, singapore playing catchup, offer the day for the National Day Holiday. Analysis to suggesting singaporean banks following the selloff on the back of the dbs report, looking the cheapest. Malaysia down a quarter of 1 . Elsewhere, australian stocks down by point 5 , extending losses, close to session lows. We had a spike in the aussie dollar, seems to have broken through. Elsewhere, japanese stocks getting pushed down by that stronger yen. We had a two day retreat, but money flowing back into haven assets, gold, yen, and Government Debt. Thee stocks weaker ahead of rbnz decision tomorrow, with a rate cut bait 1
Facebook and twitter . We dont have a trusted flagger process in the same way. We do have arrangements with ctiu and similar organizations in governments. And we also have relationships with safety organizations. They can let us know when they think the normal reporting processes have not worked, they think weve come to the wrong judgment on a particular piece of contact. We want people to use our standard reporting features because when you report from facebook, that report will get to the right person with the right language expertise who is an expert in the issue that you are reporting. So, it is by far the most effective way of letting us know about a piece of content and because every report is looked at by an individual, then we can be sure that we are the vast majority of situations getting those judgments right. Not always, unfortunately. Of course, wed love to be perfect but were not. What are the flags like . We dont have a trusted flagger system but similar to facebook we ha
The lead coordinator at the state department. The hearing is two hours and ten minutes. This hearing will come to order. This morning the committee extensiveour oversight of the Obama Administrations nuclear itsement with iran and nationalces for the security of the United States, the consequences for the allies, as many know here, i feel those consequences are quite dire. Implementations day. An historicked turning point in the middle east. Irans recordnap praia statusits reconnected to the International Trade system. Now with access to 100 billion assets and sanctions instantly, iran has become the dominant country in the region. The regime has achieved this all itsout having to end aggression against its neighbors and it still calls for the inrthrow of the governments and saudi arabia and other states. It mass done with without its support for terrorism. And the iranian economy was prior to this hemorrhaging. Hemorrhaging because the sanctions we had pushed had worked. Sanctions we
Consequences are quite dire. Implementations day. An historicked turning point in the middle east. Irans recordnap praia statusits reconnected to the International Trade system. Now with access to 100 billion assets and sanctions instantly, iran has become the dominant country in the region. The regime has achieved this all itsout having to end aggression against its neighbors and it still calls for the inrthrow of the governments and saudi arabia and other states. It mass done with without its support for terrorism. And the iranian economy was prior to this hemorrhaging. Hemorrhaging because the sanctions we had pushed had worked. Sanctions we pushed in 2010 the2012 had led by 2013 to implosion of the economy there. Now now irans leader are predicting swift growth. They are probably right. These European Countries that have observed sanctions dam is broken. They are sprinting in to the billionsarket to cut in deals and to invest there. They are making a mockery of the administrations