First Lady Michelle obama. The current first lady, melania trump, garnered 1 of the vote. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Cory this is Bloomberg Technology. Successp, big tech, big in 2017. The headwinds in the coming year. We will discuss. Among the top cryptocurrencies of the year, it is breaking out from bitcoin. The ceo, brad garlinghouse. A look back at tech leaders who helped shape 2017. Satya nadella, Sheryl Sandberg, and first, our lede. Bigcap tech holding on historic gains thanks to record profits, a solid user base, and promising user growth. Big gains for the biggest names in technology, but a big tech reckoning could come in 2018. Here to wrap this up, a man who casts his own shadow, james cakmak. Good to see you, as always. Its interesting. I love the way you have covered these companies. You are at a lot of these very big companies, but with a skeptical eye. Some of the tough issues we have seen
For the 2018 legislative agenda. In jerusalem, plans are underway for a new train station next to the western wall, and it could be named for President Trump. Israel transportation minister says the move will be a thank you to President Trump for recognizing jerusalem as israels capital. Former president obama and Hillary Clinton remained the most admired men and women among americans. Mr. Obama beat out the current president 17 to 14 . Pope francis rounds out the top three. Hillary clinton is on top of the womens list for the 16th straight year, edging former first Lady Michelle obama. The current first lady, melania trump, garnered 1 of the vote. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Cory this is bloomberg technology. Coming up, big tech, big success in 2017. The headwinds in the coming year. We will discuss. Among the top cryptocurrencies of the year, it is breaking out from bitcoin. The ceo, brad garlinghouse. A
Had a slight beat on revenue. But they did better on earnings per share, 1. 24 as opposed to 1. 19. Thats the first of several to come. Now we want to go to our morning brief. Were going to continue with retail sales reports, as we have macys out at about 8 00 this morning eastern time. 30 minutes later, its weekly initial jobless claims in the United States, plus Producer Prices coming up for the last month. And at 10 00, as alix mentioned, bill dudley holds an economic briefing on Regional Wage inequality. Finally at 1 00 this afternoon, the u. S. Treasury is going to auction 15 billion of 30year bonds. Throughout the day, people on both sides of the pacific are following developments in the potential conflict between the United States and north korea. To take us through the perspective from asia, were joined from hong kong by our chief asia economics correspondent. Give us a sense of how it looks over there. What are the possible effects that people are expecting of a possible confl
Well talk about banks and glencore. And the deputy leader of Angela Merkels party. If you have any questions for any of them, you can send them to us by the ib function. Use tv go function and click on ib show functions. Be sure to do that. First of all, this is what the data is telling us. Stocks are dropping on the final day of a good quarter. This is the picture overall for global stocks. It is what i would call a blockbuster quarter. Investors seeing little reason to take shares higher amid a little bit of political and economic uncertainty. We are expecting a News Conference from the finance minister of south africa. I want to show you rand. 1346. 29. The vix index a touch side. Astian south koreas former President Park has been arrested on bribery charges three weeks after she was ousted. A Court Granted the warrant citing concern that park could destroy evidence. Park has denied wrongdoing. U. S. National security adviser Michael Flynn is willing to be interviewed inquiring into
Landing at 50. 79. Visa reporting a better than expected increase in earnings. Higher payments and the acquisition of visa europe helping results. Trading was choppy after the bell. Visas full year Growth Outlook was light of estimates. Stock lower by a quarter of a percent. Twitter planning job cuts that could be announced this week. The social network could terminate about 300 people. Thats the same percentage it cut last year when cofounder jack dorsey took over as choef. The news comes amidquestions about whats next for twitter. Bill miller was on Halftime Report yesterday. What twitters needs is an activist. I think an activist could make a difference there with respect to being on the board. That kind of thing. You have done a lot in your career. Maybe its time for that. No, not me. Twitter announcing it will change the release time of results to before the market opens on thursday. Originally it was scheduled to report after the bell on thursday. It wants to avoid conflicting wi