Jeremy hunt will stay on after refusing a new role. The education secretary resigned. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts. Im a Alisa Parenti and this is bloomberg. Emily im emily chang and this is Bloomberg Technology. Coming up, gopro takes a dive. We speak with ceo Nicholas Woodman after the Company Slashes jobs. Cryptocurrencies opsware rocky start in 2018. Bitcoin slumping as much as 27 , helping drag and smaller rivals. Dissenting on las vegas for the Consumer Electronics show where driverless and electric cars are dominating the buzz. , our lead. Gopro missed its fourthquarter sales guide and signaling revamped cameras and price increases are not sparking revenue growth. Shares tumbled more than 10 , its worst performance in a year. Gopro ceo Nicholas Woodman spoke to selina wang and denied earlier reports that they hired jpmorgan for a potential sale. Take a listen. Nicholas jpmorgan is in fact our banker, but we have not engaged them t
Spacex says only that the falcon nine booster rocket performed phenomenally. The second stage of the rocket failed and the satellite was lost. Global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. This is bloomberg. Ets take a look at the market australia closing out tuesdays session at a fresh decade high. India looking quite good as well. Not as many gains on the shanghai, about. 1 . This is bloomberg. Emily im emily chang and this is bloomberg technology. Coming up, gopro takes a dive. We speak with Ceo Nick Woodman after the company cuts its forecast and slashes jobs. Cryptocurrencies opsware rocky start in 2018. Bitcoin slumping as much as 27 , helping drag down smaller rivals. Tech firms are dissenting on las vegas for the Consumer Electronics show where driverless and electric cars are dominating the buzz. First, our lead. Gopro missed its fourthquarter sales guide and signaling that revamped cameras and price increases are no
On squawk street, and this is squawk alley live. Good Tuesday Morning and welcome to squawk alley. Kayla tausche and me at post nine with jon fortt and jason calcaneus joining us as well. And now, our best ever day in china, and we have details with susan at hq. Yes, lets go to hung cho, china where the alibaba is projkting to grow 30 this year, which is some different from the projections of the and analysts. There was an overarching event of the company, and to him, alibaba is no longer a marketplace to sell goods according to the ceo jack ma. We want to have the collective datas are from the consumers and the datas are from the business. Yes, so data is very important to him, and, yeah, basically he is developing the cloud likem amazon and break out in the future, and you know the four major areas for alibaba, the cloud, marketplace, and what they are calling the mobile media and entertainment, and innovations technology, and the big topic that people wanted more clarity on is what
Trying to figure out whether tech could ignite the way so many other groups have. Weve seen energy come off its lows. Utilities, the Real Estate Investment trust, homerelated stocks. Lately tech has been threatening to break out despite the largest, better known stocks. Some select Fast Growing Technology stocks themselves. But it was today that really clinched it for me. Microsofts 26. 2 billion acquisition for 196 per share. A 49. 5 premium, where it went out friday. Made up my mind for me. Tech is back and it is back in a big way. That makes me feel like the oilrelated decline we had today. It is giving us some excellent buying opportunities. This is fabulous news for the market. Tech represents over 18 of the s p 500. With the exception of a few high profile names, it has been in the doldrum for ages. Lincoln is one of those companies, the social net working professional company was trading at 31 earnings. Linked in has been signaling that the growth has been slowing somewhat. In f
Vote in the European Union makes you numb. Were dealing with total overload at this point. We have prominent rich people that dont care about stocks. We have Hedge Fund Managers talking about how the pound sterling will crash. We have wall to wall coverage of this event in every periodical. More than i can recall when portugal, ireland, italy, greece and spain were about to go belly up a few years ago. I think theres a real possibility we could be taking something that isnt a big deal. At least most certainly for the u. S. And turning it into one. If major countries had truly defaulted during the euro crisis a few years ago i think we could have seen a collapse of the western world. This issue again could easily have rivaled the panic of 20082009 in our country. Im choosing not to worry as much precisely because everyone else is. It will be my job to recommend the stocks that shouldnt have been hammered because they had nothing to do with britain. Of course, we have to wait for the peo