House of representatives before being elected senator. You are a regular, to use for the first and particularly on the u. S. And china relationship. For transparency, you and i have done each other for many, many years. I think prior to you entering politics so thank you very much indeed for your time today. Can i just say on a wider note we are very conscious that we meet during a challenging time for the u. S. Following the tragic death of george floyd. Our thoughts are very much with those impacted by this tragedy. The u. S. Is not alone in needing to do more to tackle the underlying issues but our thoughts and prayers are very much with those who are directly affected. Could i invite you to say a few words as an opening statement, then well move into questions. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you, mr. Chair and thank you for this kind words about some of the strife on our streets today. Of course we all want justice for george floyd and we are all deeply disturbed by that horrifi
Moon, super big and superbright. The first time in 15 years of bloomberg has synced up with a supermoon and a total lunar eclipse. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts. This is bloomberg. Emily im emily chang. This is bloomberg technology. Coming up, facebook, hit and miss. Our look at fourthquarter earnings for the social media giant and the most concerning metric or wall street. For wall street. How microsofts push into the blockchain and the cloud added to its bottom line added to the its bottom line this quarter. How microsofts push into the as Travis Kalanick and larry page get ready to testified. Facebook reports its fourthquarter earnings results. Here are the highlights. Revenue coming in at nearly 13 billion, beating the highest estimates from analysts. Monthly active users totaling 2. 1 3 billion, while daily active users came in at 1. 4 billion, slightly below forecast, one of the most important metrics that wall street cares about.
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First to our league a stock we are watching shares tumbling to the lowest price since the ipo two years ago, pushing twitter below 28. This has been a steady march down after the comments from the interim ceo, jack dorsey. Julie it is going to be a long process for the company. We did see them touch an intraday low and record low. The stock price at the slide was set off by the Earnings Report that the slide also began when you saw it fall off a cliff earlier this year at the last Earnings Report, when the company was cautious on its outlook. Twitter has had a hard slog for a long time, down about 18 year to date and touched the lowest price since its ipo. We will see if it indeed is below its ipo price. Sentiment surrounding twitter is not strong right now. One thing that did surprise me is the Short Interest is relatively low. Even though people are selling the shares, after the declines we have seen, they are not go not willing to go out right short. Emily i want to bring in our m a
To the lowest price since the ipo two years ago, pushing twitter below 28. This has been a steady march down after the comments from the interim ceo, jack dorsey. Julie it is going to be a long process for the company. We did see them touch an intraday low and record low. The slide was set off by the Earnings Report that the slide also began when you saw it fall off a cliff earlier this year at the last Earnings Report, when the company was cautious on its outlook. Twitter has had a hard slog for a long time, down about 18 year to date and touched the lowest price since its ipo. We will see if it indeed is below its ipo price. Sentiment surrounding twitter is not strong right now. One thing that did surprise me is the Short Interest is relatively low. Even though people are selling the shares, after the declines we have seen, they are not willing to go out right short. Emily i want to bring in our m a reporter, alex sherman. You say this makes them and easier acquisition target. I wond