service from last quarter. also in focus any update on twitter s 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. what s our reaction to twitter? it s this whole mau-sms user growth quality which is really in question right now. to use your term it s interpret meh. we could see the stock unchanged. rallied 5%. sentiment was poor. i don t think expectations were particularly high. but those two numbers right there, that s the problem here. that audience isn t growing and until it starts seeing some real growth there advertisers just there s other places to go with much bigger audiences. listen, i m long the stock. i m sticking with it. i think there s 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 int
move what you re trying to do welcome to power lunch. i m 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 today s session. here s what else is happening this hour. a developing story we re 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 s
to the campaign trail for our top story. five days to go until the presidential 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. we re
national committee behind me bringing this convention into session. it s 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, she s leading him 46% to 41%. donald trump leads only in the south, trails every other region. he s got to make up some ground. and he s 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 anti-trump 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
pr cash trt company, creating a huge conglomerate that would include everything from form suit cals to pesticides. the ne ta offerover the year just got bigger. shares fell in trading today. big price tag, it wasn t the only science, health care and technology company sa firm for about $4 billion. this is the first major acquisition since spinning off a large portion of its business. shares soared 52%. and then the deal. in bridge, canada s largest pipeline company, is buying spectra ener for $28 million. the combination will create the largest north american energy infrastructure company. shares rose. jackie has the details. zpl a this deal speaks volumes to the kindn we re seeing and will continue to see as companies look to reduce costs, deverse fi and streamline their businesses. obviously, pipelines get oil from point a to brk to pint b. hat peo out ground. even with the fracking boom, crude can t be moved around, we ll still need to import foreign oil, which defeats the