Investment, what do youd see as the future valuation for this business within mgm and if they dont get there do you plan to sell your stake . I tell you what on the first question i would not put a number on it but i would say with absolute certainty it is worth more than negative the Online Business is getting a negative in there. Im certain it is worth more than that and that is something that we looked at and considered when we were making this investment and you said your second question i have no idea. Were me in this for the long term and that means that well there r is all kinds of opportunities that may arise from here. And well consider everything. Finally are you looking at anything similar to this given all of the cash that you have . Were always looking at everything that is the fun thing about iac. We have the ability, the flexibility, and the time horizon to do anything that we want to do and were always active in the marketplace. Thank you, we appreciate you taking some
The companys intelligent cloud bids that including azure, windows, posted 13. 4 billion in revenue. That beats consensus by a bit. Azure slowing up a bit. Ceo had a question about that and the companys growth on last nights call asked whether or not he is concerned about it my own approach to this would be not to worry as much about shortterm whether or not it is the growth number, im not trying to match an artificial number i think the world will come out of this and it will be stronger when we invest in this space. An ad spending slow down, and they closed that acquisition four years ago right now the Gaming Business had record engagement. People stayed home and they played they call itd a breakthrough quarter for gaming, guys yeah, xbox and surface two were nice surprises. The other big earnings move in tech is twitter. Lets get to Julia Boorstin on that yeah, twitter grew, growing their monetizing value from the year earlier quarter the addition of 20 far exceeded expectations and
Possibility china might make efforts to im pose security measures on hong kong has some worried especially in asia today. My goodness, thats despite the fact that we did actually get some we started with vaccine data driving the markets. Look at the rally on monday to start the week off of the moderna news you had those positive vaccine comments from dr. Fauci saying the data looked promising, but its being overshadowed by everything playing out in china, whether its the situation with hong kong and what is essentially being seen as something of a power grab through a National Security lens or intentions between the u. S. And china more broadly and some of the policies that weve seen start to come in this week as well its interesting to see in general how this week has played out in the markets because reopening from a week to date standpoint has really led the way here it is the russell 2,000, the small caps which are seen as a proxy for the reopening efforts now that we have 50 state
Comes with some of these medical breakthroughs that could yield perhaps advances that lead to people moving around, feeling more comfortable, boosting a little bit those stocks that have been most beaten down, morgan absolutely. When youre talking about reopening, you have names like disney that are moving forward with plans or some plans in florida, you have names like apple beginning to open more Retail Stores in the u. S. As well also crude is one to watch and carl just mentioned it, the fact that were seeing a bid for crude. Wti the june contract expires tomorrow and what a difference a month has made as you have seen production numbers start to come in and started to see some of the driving demand return as well gas prices at the pump up by a couple cents in the last couple weeks as more and more people are starting to come out as we start to see more of these reopenings, but, of course, longer term, as we continue to talk about over and over again, its going to be what does the t
With you great to see at least your picture here and hear your voice. I want to start with the markets in general and warren buffets comments his comments appeared to go against popular wisdom i think in how to manage investments he sold airlines low, didnt buy anything during the historic selloff i wonder what you think from a Research Perspective how investors playing at home should what they should take away from that after having one of the worst months ever in march april has ended with one of the strongest rallies in about 30 years across a number of benchmarks the s p 500, the nasdaq, and u. S. High grade. So i think that you should expect some consolidation this month. Now there is just so much liquidity in the system. We estimate the Central Bank Balance sheets will expand 17 this year. You dont bet against that we still think you should be, you know, constructive, but consolidation is in order. The markets responded the fastest, the virus and the economy last and the data pri