Revenue. The ads will appear in the mobile twitter feed and direct them to a mobile app store where they have to be downloaded. Ads have boosted revenue at other social media companies. Demand for Electronic Devices over the holidays posted a record profit at foxconn. Sales growth was strongest in two years. It is driven by demand for the apple ipad and iphone sprint apple is foxconns top customer accounted for 40 of its revenue. Charter communications is not throwing in the towel on its hopes of buying Time Warner Cable. It is urging Time Warner Cable investors to reject the takeover offer by comcast. Charter says the comcast bid is vulnerable to regulatory issues. The 37 billion dollar offer by charter was rejected earlier this year in favor of comcasts 35 billion dollar offer. Newton blackberry Fourth Quarter earnings showed small signs of Product Sales were down 64 in the first quarter. It is the first time it slipped below 1 billion since 2007 but profit jumped 532 . It is much be
Taper . No. Probably not. Ill leave that to kelly evans. 2. 7. Weve been hanging around that range for some time. Lets go overseas and take a look. It was really asia that had the strongest markets in the world with the nikkei in particular. Can you see it up 2 . 7. 7 last week for the nikkei of course, theyre pressuring that yen again, the dollar gets stronger and you see what happens as theyre trying to get thing back on track in a sense after a gdp number that was a little lower than some had hoped for. Lets get to our road map this morning. Where does it start . The dow and s p, starting from another set of new highs and looking to extend the overnight cali throughout. Moodys cutting its ratings on bank saying the government is less likely to jump to rescue in the future. And paulson and loeb piling into fedex. Lets start with the markets, futures are on the rise. The dow and s p all look to set new record highs. The s p, by the way, fewer than 10 points from 1,800. We can do some
Now, it is official. Rocker adam levine, revealed as people magazines sexiest man alive. Find out who else made the list, including one of our own, in moments. Good morning, america. New news coming in overnight. Details about the dramatic crash of a lear jet, a medical flight just off the coast of florida. Two people are missing. Two people are dead right now at this hour. Well have the latest on that just ahead. We will, well have an update. Also, it is the third and final day of our great car giveaway. And that mazda right there could be anywhere in the good old u. S. Of a. Cameron mathison driving right now. And all three have been so worthy. Many people helping us deliver this car right here. You dont want to miss a thing. Making a lot of people happy this week. Were going to start out with this congressman making headlines for buying cocaine. Trey radel is going to court today after being caught up in a sting. Hes a Tea Party Favorite from florida. Calls himself a hiphop congress
At this hour, at least right now, there are some modest advances. Germany up by about 14 points. Ftse up by 8 points and in france, the cac up by about close to 10 points. In geopolitical news, we are watching the situation in ukrai ukraine. The Ukrainian Government warns a ceasefire with pro russian fighters would end tonight. If the two sides failed to reach a deal on lastminute talks. Meanwhile, there are reports of heavy fighting around separatist strong holds in the eastern part of that country. Its a situation we will continue to watch. Andrew, right now, baub back over to you. Dupont is cutting its Current Quarter and profit forecast. The company says sales in its agriculture and chemicals unit increased at a slower pace than expected. Nike, posted better than expected quarterly results. The company spent aggressively on marketing ahead of the world cup. Demand for nike apparel and footwear rose. World cup, its the first time nike is sponsoring more National Teams than adidas. N
What, if you feel better later, you can read some of my stuff. Tag team. Youll owe me if i read this for you. Why did you do the back of your hand . Oh, you were doing the fist pump. You know why we do that . Germs. You dont care about germs. No, for you. The ecb decision is expected around 7 45 eastern. All these comments are going to be important for mario draghi. Hell host the News Conference about 47 minutes later. You think about what will it do to the euro versus the dollar versus the yen, what about, we always talk about why our tenyear is where it is. Germany, theyre even lower over there. You think about how impactful the recession in europe from a couple years ago and how much it impacted what our fed did here and what our economy does. Its a big trading partner. We may have but for the first time maybe theyd be moving in a different direction. Its important for us. I dont like to give them that much importance. I think our economy, were the strongest. Today for a little whil