Airbnb, DoorDash set to report first results with COVID waning
Katrina Lewis and Brody Ford, Bloomberg News
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(Bloomberg) Airbnb Inc. and DoorDash Inc. are set to report their first financial results as publicly traded companies Thursday, offering investors a glimpse of how their businesses fared during the last quarter of 2020 when COVID-19 cases were surging again.
While the fourth-quarter numbers will be important for investors to gauge how the two are managing their operations, what theyâll really be looking for are comments about the future, when coronavirus lockdowns ease, vaccines become more widespread and people begin traveling and going to restaurants again. Airbnb is expected to benefit from the waning days of the pandemic as people venture further from home while DoorDash has seen a boom from more delivery orders while people ordered in.
NEW YORK (Feb 25): While 2020 raged, Warren Buffett mostly held his tongue. He stayed quiet through a heated presidential election, a racial reckoning that sparked nationwide protests and an exuberance for stocks that’s gripped millions of Americans. Not to mention a global pandemic. Now, the billionaire chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc has a chance to break his silence with the release of his annual letter Saturday. “If this letter doesn’t address some of the issues, people are going to be disappointed,” Cathy Seifert, an analyst at CFRA Research, said in a phone interview. “There is an appetite for his thoughts.”
While 2020 raged, Warren Buffett mostly held his tongue.
He stayed quiet through a heated presidential election, a racial reckoning that sparked nationwide protests and an exuberance for stocks that’s gripped millions of Americans. Not to mention a global pandemic. Now, the billionaire chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has a chance to break his silence with the release of his annual letter Saturday.
“If this letter doesn’t address some of the issues, people are going to be disappointed,” Cathy Seifert, an analyst at CFRA Research, said in a phone interview. “There is an appetite for his thoughts.”
Buffett s letter to break months of silence amid tumult in U.S.
Katherine Chiglinsky, Bloomberg News VIDEO SIGN OUT
While 2020 raged, Warren Buffett mostly held his tongue.
He stayed quiet through a heated presidential election, a racial reckoning that sparked nationwide protests and an exuberance for stocks thatâs gripped millions of Americans. Not to mention a global pandemic. Now, the billionaire chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has a chance to break his silence with the release of his annual letter Saturday.
âIf this letter doesnât address some of the issues, people are going to be disappointed,â Cathy Seifert, an analyst at CFRA Research, said in a phone interview. âThere is an appetite for his thoughts.â
BlackRock’s Aladdin Sees Promise in Snowflake’s Data Cloud
Posted on 02/23/2021
BlackRock Inc. is the world’s largest asset management firm. Snowflake Inc. (ticker: SNOW) wants to sell its cloud services to the investment management industry. Snowflake inked a partnership to combine BlackRock’s Aladdin investment technology with Snowflake’s Data Cloud. Under the partnership, Blackrock will introduce Aladdin Data Cloud, an investment platform that will be powered by Snowflake. The partnership will bring Aladdin and non-Aladdin data together and enable developers to utilize it through Aladdin Studio. BlackRock gets to be a founding partner for Snowflake’s “Powered by Snowflake” program. Each Aladdin Data Cloud customer will receive an independent centrally-managed data store preloaded with Aladdin data sets that can be supplemented by proprietary and third-party data sources.