Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carly Fiorina with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt. A busy day of earnings, some tech, some not to sort through today, microsoft, paypal, ebay and others on the tape two biggest movers going the opposite way, tesla is surging, twitter is tanking Julia Boorstin and phil will he be lebeau is with us. This is a stock having a rough day, one of the worst days ever as a public company, on pace for the worst month since july, 2018 shares down almost 19 lower despite growing the user base to 145 million active users. The reason it is tanking, revenue and earnings fell short of expectations as technical issues keep them from Fourth Quarter ads. Jack dorsey looked to reassure investors. Unfortunately we had some missteps in our map ads in july and august despite that, saw strong september results and good advertiser momentum. He stressed the commitment to clean up the platform and eliminate abuse. 2020 elections and integrity of the conversation
President once again targets the fed. Huawei restrictions relief tech executives expected to make their case to the white house today. And equifax to pay as much as 700 million for that 2017 data breach well start with futures, though, set for a higher open. The dow, s p and nasdaq all lower in three of the past four trading days big week for earnings. Well hear from phobia, amazon, alphabet were a week away from the feds decision on rates. And then the president today is tweeting its far more costly for the fed to cut deeper if the economy actually does in the future turn down very inexpensive in fact productive to move now the fed raised and tightened far too much and too fast. In other words, they missed it big. Dont miss it again. Of course now the fed blackout window is in place so we wont get a response to that, jim, before the meeting. Look, the president is he wants that last hike repealed. I think that we have to hes obviously a lightning rod beyond belief, but its perfectly r
Squawk alley is live. Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla at post nine facebook is up 4 after reporting the earnings beat as revenue and price per ad increase Mark Zuckerberg says people are spending less time on facebook and thats not a bad thing take a listen. I want to be clear. The most important driver of our business is never been time spent by itself. Its the quality of the conversations and connections. And thats why i believe this focus on meaningful social interaction is the right one joining us this morning, Henry Blodgett and mark may, an analyst at citi. Good to see you both good to be here mark, its looking past these quarter on quarter declines. And assuming ad buyers will say this is better for the product it should be. I anecdotally, i dont like to invest in anecdotes, but im seeing a better news feed myself in recent weeks. More friends and family content, more content thats less controversial. You know, more relevant to what i like and
And gop president ial nominee mitt romney is fueling speculation he may step back into state politics. In a tweet today he said he will make an announcement on february 15 about the senate seat skin to be vacated by orrin hatch. Two students were shot and one wounded critically in a Los Angeles Middle School classroom. Police took a female student into custody. It happened just west of downtown los angeles. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in 120 countries. This is bloomberg and Bloomberg Technology is next. Emily welcome to Bloomberg Technology. Apples brandnew headquarters with what else but Apple Earnings. I just got out of a meeting with tim cook i will bring you highlights. Lets dig into the numbers. Apple selling slightly below estimates. The average selling price was 796. The company hitting an all time revenue record. 88. 3 billion. I want to bring in cory johnson in new york. I want to start with a quote from tim cook, there has bee
Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in 120 countries. This is bloomberg and Bloomberg Technology is next. Emily welcome to Bloomberg Technology. Apples brandnew headquarters with what else but Apple Earnings. I just got out of a meeting with tim cook i will bring you highlights. Lets dig into the numbers. Slightly below estimates. The average selling price was 796. The company hitting an all time revenue record. 88. 3 billion. I want to bring in cory johnson in new york. I want to start with a quote from tim cook, there has been concerned about how well the iphone teller iphone x is selling. He said it was the most popular smart phone launch since november. Every week it has been the topselling iphone in the world. What is your takeaway . It sounds solid to me. Incredibly sophisticated. It has a higher price point. The replacement cycles are slowing. It is a strong number. People like to point to the high price point. Deterredhas desert consume