Service from last quarter. Also in focus any update on twitters ceo search and of course guidance on upcoming quarters when the Company Expects its product overhaul and when it expects that to help start adding user at a faster rate. Back over to you. Thanks so much Julia Boorstin. Whats our reaction to twitter . Its this whole mausms user growth quality which is really in question right now. To use your term its interpret meh. We could see the stock unchanged. Rallied 5 . Sentiment was poor. I dont think expectations were particularly high. But those two numbers right there, thats the problem here. That audience isnt growing and until it starts seeing some real growth there advertisers just theres other places to go with much bigger audiences. Listen, im long the stock. Im sticking with it. I think theres a certain scarcity value about the product here. But a lot of things have to go right over the next few months especially in a market environment where internet stocks, and this is a
Move what youre trying to do welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. Stocks are lower, but steady, headed in the long holiday weekend. Nasdaq trying to scratch out gains. Dow 20,000, will have to wait. Still on track for its seventh week of gains. Health care, by the way, the leading secretarier in todays session. Heres what else is happening this hour. A developing story were watching closely, the fbi investigating a hack at the fdic which regulates the big banks. More on this story ahead. Reports that u. S. Government is now requesting select foreign visitors provide their facebook, twitter and other social media accounts when arriving the in the country. Consumer sentiment on the rise and new home sales rising 5 . We also have jon fortt here with us for the hour, riding shotgun. Welcome. Thank you. Good to have you here. President elect making waves today when it comes to russia. Our Nuclear Weapons arsenal and the future of our air defense forces. Both stories front and center this
To the campaign trail for our top story. Five days to go until the president ial election. New National Polls show Hillary Clinton once again pulling ahead of donald trump as both candidates set their sights on swing states in the homestretch. John harwood is live in lima, ohio weather the latest. I want to step back for a minute from this strongly republican county, al lep county where lima is located, to look at the national picture. Donald trump has fallen two points behind in the Washington Post poll. If you look at the nbc news battleground map you can see Hillary Clinton is either solidly or slightly leaning in enough states to get her over the 270 electoral votes she needs to be elected president. Now, donald trump tends to do better when he follows the direction of his Campaign Staff and stays on script. In fact, donald trump yesterday was musing out loud about that. We are going to win the great state of florida, and we are going to win the white house. Were going to win it. I
National committee behind me bringing this convention into session. Its a convention with high stakes for the Republican Party because donald trump is trailing Hillary Clinton. If you look at our nbc the wall street journal poll just out over the weekend, shes leading him 46 to 41 . Donald trump leads only in the south, trails every other region. Hes got to make up some ground. And hes got a task to both identify a broadly appealing message and also persuade voters that he is up to the job of being commander in chief. Interestingly though as at a time when donald trump is trying to unite the party and his choice of mike pence as running mate was a step in that direction, his Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort has taken a strong stance against the antitrump hold out. This morning he said Governor John Kasich ran against donald trump was not speaking at this convention, was embarrassing his state. Also said people like kasich, like mitt romney, like the bush family members who are not comin
Shes saying russia, russia, russia. Maybe it was. It could also be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, okay . You dont know who broke in to dnc. Were in a double right now. The only thing that looks good is the stock market. If you raise Interest Rates even a little bit, thats going to come crashing down. Welcome to squawk alley. John ford. Kayla taushi is off today. Seema moody, good to have you. Good to be here. First up, ad week is under way in new york. Digital advertising is in focus. Julia bornsten joins us with one of the biggest players in the game, Sheryl Sandberg. Thank you so much. Thanks for taking time for us at ad week. Youre about to go off and meet with Procter Gamble and gm. How do you explain to investors that you inflated measurement for how long people are watching video on facebook . What happened in this case is about a month ago, we realized there was a mistake in how we were calculating one of our video viewing metric. It wasnt how we were char