Train continues philip morris, kkr are among the names to watch before the bell today. News corp. , activision. The ecb will announce its policy decision later today. The market is hanging on those two reports. Kayla, thank you very much. Weve got some big Corporate News for you this morning. Twitter, that was your top corporate stories. Shares getting slams slammmed. The stock is down big time, about 17 . Wiping out basically a sixth of the companys value. Earnings and revenue did beat the street. That was not the problem. This was. Slowing new user growth and a severe decline in timeline use. Thats when a user refreshes their twitter spaj, being used as one of the key measures of how active users are. Ubs out this morning cutting price targets from 55 to 35. What does this say about twitter . These crazy valuations. I dont want to say they havent revolutionized the world. They have. But is it possible that this is the beginning of the bubble getting ricked . I was thinking about this
The nasdaq jumped 1. 14 , its worth remembering that companies can and do change their stripes. Actually improving the business all of the time. Sometimes the moves are revolutionary and sometimes theyre evolutionary. Today, we heard from a cavalcade of companies and the results are remarkably positive and they made you a ton of money. Why dont we start with the most obvious one, Green Mountain coffee roasters. Which after today should rename itself Green Mountain coke refrigerator. Thats because last night cocacola bought a 10 stake in the company and are going to partner with them to develop a cold soda maker, a keurig, yep, for soda. Until last night Green Mountain had clearly peaked with slowing numbers. And the two high valuation. But bryan kehly, Green Mountains chronically underestimated ceo saw the weaknesses and thought big, partnering with coke to have a disruptive machine from the looks and the sound of it will be much easier to year and therefore better than soda stream. Pl
Lets get to our roadmap this morning right back here in the good old us of a. Twitter Major Concerns over user growth sending shares down sharply after the social Networks First Earnings Report as a Public Company. While twitter is slumping Green Mountain coffee seeing plenty of green, rallying after coke agreed to take a 10 stake in the company and help launch an athome cold beverage system. Shares of gm down a bit this morning after earnings and revenue were well below wall street estimates, although restructuring maybe a part of that. Gm january sales also fell 12 . That was thanks in large part to what they said was the bad weather. Of course we had that news earlier this week. All right, lets start with twitter. Shares are down sharply. Lets see. Right here i got 51. 26, 51. 34 bid despite posting betterthanexpected Fourth Quarter results in its First Financial report as a company. Concerns about the user growth is weighing on the stock. Twitter said it averaged 241 million monthl
Bad as democrats, all right . How to turn poverty into prosperity if such a thing is possible. All of those stories and more coming up on the kudlow report beginning right now. Good evening, im larry kudlow on the kudlow report. Today is the best day of the year so far for the dow. Lets go over to the Bertha Coombs with all of the details of todays big rally. The one and only kudlow. You can see a lot of black and green. The dow and s p and nasdaq up 1 . Powered by strong earnings results. Earnings so far having been reported, earnings are up 9. 5 for the quarter, it being looks like. Revenues only up 1 and thats part of the problem. Meantime, though, blockbuster earnings today. Disney helped power the dow higher gaining 5 on the day on an earnings Beat Estimates it had strong growth at espn and frozen its animated picture, much better than expected performances at the box office and helped power the bottom line. Cocacola also rose after taking a 10 stake in Green Mountain coffee. The
Country ahead of the 8 30 eastern report, u. S. Equity futures take a look. All this may change at a moments notice once we hit it. The dow looked like it would open higher by 4. 5 points, s p up 2. 5 points and the nasdaq up 11 points. Lets take a look at the tenyear. 2. 707 . Weve got a lot of special guests this morning on this jobs friday. The maestro himself, former fed chairman and cnbc 25 contender allan green p Alan Greenspan is going to join us like at 7 30. Before we do that, were going to get over to pebble beach with becky and joe. Hey, guys. Good morning. Its good to see you, andrew. Good morning, sara. A sight for sore eyes, andrew. I believe its maestro. No, its maestro. I said maestro. Im not talking about you. Not you. You said it right. A person has a prime time show now on stop. Its very early out here and its nicer weather this morning. And we are enjoying pebble beach. Its been beautiful out here. Joe has been playing and youve been well, its im glad to be here, ri