Aside at googles parent alphabet. Period of17 year long his Senior Leadership. Betty it seems like everybody is trying to ram and all the news before the christmas holidays. Catalonia, google, and of course the spending bill passing the house. All of that and stocks today rose, breaking the today losing streak. We will quickly pull up the boards and show you how the u. S. Markets ended today. The s p 500 slightly higher, and nasdaq also trading a little bit to the upside, but fairly unchanged. Investors trying to absorb what the impact is going to be from the tax reform package. Yvonne yes, just a moderate bounceback. We see some positives as we get closer to the christmas holiday. Lets look at asia, said to track the gains set to track the gains we saw on wall street. New zealand up. And we are Holding Steady. Australia, getting underway in sydney. 6100, it could be a big we will see if it reaches that level. 7702 for the aussie. Treasuries mixed overnight, the curve sharply flatter.
But first, to our lead. Snap spiked after a blowaway fourthquarter earnings report, with revenues topping estimates for the First Time Since the company went public almost a year ago. The earnings were buoyed by momentum in the ad business and user growth. Snap said fourthquarter sales jumped 72 to 785 million. Its daily active users are up 18 from one year ago. We broke it down with a market analyst, deborah, and a bloomberg reporter sarah frier, who covers snap. What did snap get right this quarter . Well, they have been transitioning their advertising business to make it more automatic, more programmatic, selling ads automatically, which means they can have a bigger base of advertisers. The price of ads has gone down, but the volume in the amount of time people look at these ads is going up, so snap has been able to really make this work for them this quarter for the first time. Emily deborah, what is jumping out to you . We know they have been doing a lot, the whole redesign, perha
Of the mold because a state of emergency as the political crisis deepens now the Security Forces have broken into the Supreme Court. Despite ongoing government offensives and Chemical Attacks a day agencies say Syrian Refugees are at risk of being forcibly returned. Some song ajay windy is free down after his jail term for bing south koreas former president is unexpectedly suspended and the only surviving suspect in the twenty fifteen paris attacks refuses to answer questions as he goes on trial for a shootout with belgian please. And in sport the Philadelphia Eagles are celebrating their first super bowl title day johnny defending champions a new England Patriots forty one thirty three in minneapolis. We begin in the maldives where a standoff between the president and the Supreme Court appears to be deepening weve had reports in the last few minutes Security Forces have broken into the countrys supremum Court Building this hours after president abdullah ya mean declared a fifteen day
Newsday. Good morning. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 6am in bangkok, where in a few hours time Thailands Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether former premier. Yingluck shinawatra is guilty of criminal negligence over a costly rice subsidy policy. If convicted, she could face up to a decade behind bars. She has long claimed her innocence in the matter, and has asked for kindness from the court. From bangkok, our correspondent Karishma Vaswani reports. This was Yingluck Shinawatra six yea rs this was Yingluck Shinawatra six years ago, a political novice bringing her Brothers Party to victory in thailands general elections. She is no longer in power and is now standing trial on a charge of negligence for a controversial life subsidy scheme. If found guilty she could face ten yea rs if found guilty she could face ten years in prison and a lifetime ban from politics. Seen here at the start of a trial, Yingluck Shinawatra appeared confident. But her critics say she is g
Newsday. Good morning. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 6am in bangkok, where in a few hours time Thailands Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether former premier. Yingluck shinawatra is guilty of criminal negligence over a costly rice subsidy policy. If convicted, she could face up to a decade behind bars. She has long claimed her innocence in the matter, and has asked for kindness from the court. From bangkok, our correspondent Karishma Vaswani reports. This was Yingluck Shinawatra six yea rs this was Yingluck Shinawatra six years ago, a political novice bringing her Brothers Party to victory in thailands general elections. She is no longer in power and is now standing trial on a charge of negligence for a controversial life subsidy scheme. If found guilty she could face ten yea rs if found guilty she could face ten years in prison and a lifetime ban from politics. Seen here at the start of a trial, Yingluck Shinawatra appeared confident. But her critics say she is g