Upsidedown shares tumbling on that big subs miss plus, tech in focus ibm and ebay beat estimates. S. A. P. Misses. Microsoft, crowd strike, chewy after the bill and the growing default risk for stocks lawmakers scrambling for a debt ceiling deal why the treasury secretary says dont be concerned obviously netflix is the lead today, tumbling in the premarket. Saw lower than expected international subadditions that news overshadowing a beat on Quarterly Earnings and revenue. Ceo Reed Hastings talked about the miss during last nights earning call this is one where we forecasted high. There was no one thing, and if i think about three years ago, we were also light. You know, we never really were confident of the explanation then we were 2 billion in quarterly revenue. New were on 5 billion so its easy to overinterpret the quarter membership ads the debate this morning is largely about is this about weak content or is this just price churn and elasticity questions yesterday there was a ceo w
Five years, and why the company is setting such an ambitious target in the middle of a media firestorm. But first to our top story. Facebooks plans to create its own cryptocurrency, libra, is not getting love from lawmakers. And you can add fed chair Jerome Powell to the list. Take a listen to what he told the House Financial Services committee on wednesday. While the project sponsors Public Benefits including improved Financial Access for consumers, libra raises many serious concerns regarding privacy, money laundering, Consumer Protection and financial stability. These are concerns that should be thoroughly and publicly addressed before proceeding. Facebook has a couple billion plus users so you have for the first time the possibility of a very broad adoption. If there were problems there associated with money laundering, terrorist financing, any of the things that we are all focused on, including the company, they would rise to systemically important levels just because of the mere
Attempt to quell protests, she said the controversial extradition bill that sparked the demonstrations is, quote, dead lam said there is no plan to restart the legislation and earlier work to amend the bill has been a failure lam suspended the bill but protests continued with calls for it to be withdrawn completely lam did not say that she is officially withdrawing the bill. She said the bill is in the coffin, the bill is dead and no one needs to worry that there will be any tactics to resume the bill in the lenggislative council term Richard Bransons Space Tourism company now planning to go public. That is according to a wall street journal report it will list shares as part of the deal with social capital company, spac. Weve talked about it in the past it was created by a friend of squawk box, spac will invest 800 million in Virgin Galactic, it will get a 49 stake. The stock market listing is expected to take place later this year. Virgin galactic so far sold 600 tickets to space at
At the Capital Exchange event this morning making a ton of news. Closing the deal. Ibms 34 billion acquisition of red hat has closed both ceos will be with us in just a moment. As we said, pepsi beats the street, strong snack and beverage sales backs the 2019 forecast Hugh Johnston will join us straight ahead. Futures lower ahead of tomorrows capitol hill testimony by fed chair powell. Moments ago at the Capital Exchange event in washington, larry kudlow offered his views on the fed to our kelly evans. Take a listen. Price signals suggest as they have all year going back to last autumn that last policy move in december was unnecessary and i think they could take it back. Price level stability, steady dollar, is what the fed should aim for in my view among the things he said, defended a rate cut this month, said no effort to remove powell at the president time. Mnuchin, lighthizer may go to china. Larry is the happy warrior in this era everything he said made me feel better, made the ma
Employees globally over the next five years, and why the company is setting such an ambitious target in the middle of a media firestorm. But first to our top story. Facebooks plans to create its own cryptocurrency, libra, is not getting love from lawmakers. And you can add fed chair Jerome Powell to the list. Take a listen to what he told the House Financial Services committee on wednesday. While the project sponsors Public Benefits including improved Financial Access for consumers, libra raises many serious concerns regarding privacy, money laundering, Consumer Protection and financial stability. These are concerns that should be thoroughly and publicly addressed before proceeding. Facebook has a couple billion plus users so you have for the first time the possibility of a very broad adoption. If there were problems there associated with money laundering, terrorist financing, any of the things that we are all focused on, including the company, they would rise to systemically important