for "nightly business report", i'm julia boorstin. >> to read more about the future of twitter, head nbr.com. >>> it took long enough but shares of microsoft, which we mentioned earlier, today rose to the highest level since the year 2000. not saying but i'm just saying that was the go, go period before the tech bubble burst. shares shot up more than 4% today as the software giant has reportedly narrowed the search for a new ceo. the names include ford chief executive and several company insiders, most notably steven elop that headed up the smart phone unit. >>> one of the second tomorrows benefitting from the recent runups are the makers of solar energy panels. one of the biggest, solar city reported the latest quarterly earnings after the bell. revenues shot up 52% netting a profit of $3.4 million. shares of the photo cell maker and installer are up an astounding 400% just this çyea. so what is driving the foreign prices on solar stocks and should you put your money into them? jackie deangelis has more. >> reporter: solar stocks, year to date they have been great performers but wi

julia boorstin has the story. >> reporter: sony's play station four hits stores friday.x 1 a week later. both are expected to sellout this holiday season which bodes well for electronic art. >> if they build into next year, we know people buy more games after they bought a new console, so we're going to have kind of the relative age of the install base will get younger and that will drive more software sales as we get into next year, particularly next holiday. >> we ask gamers who is at the top of their holiday wish list. >> gpa 5 and nba 14. >> probably buy the new nba or call of duty, those are my two games. >> it can get pricey, yes, but for quality games like call of duty, it's totally worth it. >> reporter: this holiday season, call of duty ghost will get the biggest boost. next year we'll see the games designed specifically for the new consoles. electronic arts and destiny are the two most hotly anticipated games designed for the new format. video game sales are already on the rebound thanks to huge new titles designed for the older generation of games. in october,

julia boorstin breaks down the expectation for the box office and studios. >> reporter: this holidayson box office could be bigger than ever thanks to lines gate "hunger games" with the biggest november opening weekend ever and a range of other promising slicks in the pipeline like warner brothers "hobbit" seek well and "anchor man 2." >> it's seven or eight weeks, dollar for dollar, just as important as the summer because it accounts for 20% of the box office compressed into the short time frame at the end of the year. it's extremely important. >> reporter: with a diverse mix of films from oscar fair like "mandela's long walk to freedom" and "frozen." films that appeal to critics like "hustle," visitors to universal city walk in los angeles are excited to head to theaters. >> hunger games, definitely. >> there is better stuff around the holiday season because they hold it for when everybody has time and money. >> makes you want to get to the movies every day if you can. >>> the big question is whether this year's lineup of holiday movies will help the box office surpass last year. i

julia boorstin sat down with twitter's ceo.s that conversation in just a minute. but first, the rest of this morning's agenda, there are a number of key economic stories to watch. the european central bank is meeting in frankfurt. policymakers are expected to hold rates steady despite intense pressure to cut interest rates because of

julia boorstin live in l.a. with all the money behind it and ahead of it. >> activist says "call of duty ghost" has sold more than $1 billion into retail stores worldwide on its first day, calling it the largest console franchise of this generation. this doesn't mean that consumers actually purchased a billion dollars worth of the $60 games. that's the amount retailers hands. it's an apples to oranges comparison to last year's "call of duty black ops 2" which sold half a billion dollars borts of games in its first day. they say activision is probably holding off on releasing the seams numbers because gamers are expected to wait until they can buy the game bundled with a new xbox and play station consoles which are launching in coming weeks. for now, grand theft auto 5 from take two interactive is still the top-selling game. in september, grand theft auto 5 sold $800 million in its first day on sale. activision's earnings call is after the bell today, so we will be listening for more details. tyler? >> let me mak

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julia boorstin sat down with twitter's ceo. she'll join us with is that conversation in just a minute. but first, the rest of this morning's agenda, there are a number of key economic stories to watch. the european central bank is meeting in frankfurt. policymakers are expected to hold rates steady despite intense pressure to cut interest rates because of what you've been watching with the euro. a decision is expected around 7:45 eastern time. but the key developments for the market could come at 8:30 eastern. that's when the ecb president mario draghi is holding a news conference. we'll get previews from geoff ket mo c cutmore in europe in about 20 minutes. >>> jobless claims are seen at falling slightly to 335,000. as for the markets, joe mentioned the dow closing at a historic high. the s&p 500 rose for the 16th time in the last 21 sessions, finishing within two points of a record. the nasdaq was not along ford ride yesterday. it closed a little lower to snap a three-day winning streak. you did see some of the high flyers th

let's go to julia boorstin. julia boorstin at a target in los angeles. what are you finding there, julia? >> well, bill, the shopper activity is really finally starting to pick up this morning, and like the best buy where josh lipton is, the focus here really seems to be on electronics. shoppers are snapping up deals on flat-screen tvs. they're also really interested in tablets, particularly those apple products. there's a deal here at target where if you buy an ipad air, they're giving you a $75 gift card. another category that's particularly hot, video games like this nintendo 3ds, and people are buying accessories and games for the new consoles. the crowds here last night, over 1,000 people lined up for the store's first-ever 8:00 p.m. thanksgiving opening. the biggest door busters, including a $229 flat-screen tv, and $100 nikon camera, very quickly sold out. one reason it's been a little bit quieter this morning could have to do with target.com's record traffic. the company says that in the wee hours of the morning, sales on target.com were twice wh

cnbc reporter julia boorstin joins us live from twitter headquarters in san francisco. lia, i understand you got to spend time talking to that company's ceo? >> reporter: that's right, craig. yes, i could. i did speak to the company's ceo dick costello and he talked about the company's long-term vision for growth. the key thing here now that twitter's stock is trading is the fact that twitter shares were up more than $50 after opening at $26 per share and now they're -- the shares are up about 75% from where it opened. so the stock has had an impressive run. at the current market cap, twitter is $32.5 million. and that's less than a third of facebook's and it is bigger than linkedin's market cap. twitter, though it is generating revenue is not profitable and it generated $422 million in revenue in the first three quarterses of the year and it's not making money just yet. dick costello who i sat down and spoke to, ahead of the debut on the new york stock exchange says this is all part of the plan and that they're investing in long-term growth. here's what he had to say. >

more within reach. >>> julia boorstin is here and robert frank. welcome.> fcc considering relaxing rules to wlets passengers use your cell phones during flights. we asked if this was a good idea in today's yahoo! finance poll. 16% think it's great idea. 63% think it's an awful idea and 22% say airlines will find ways to add surcharges for noisy and quiet cabsens. >> everyone hates this. everyone is saying it's a nightmare. even delta air lines said we're not going to allow it. three words noise reducing headphones. >> they are the best. i'll tell you. and the problem is solved. get over it. >> you're going to have a situation where half will be wearing the noise canceling headphones the other yammering away, each talking louder than the next to be heard over each other. it's great if you could text, e-mail on your smartphone. i do not want to hear other people's kfconversations. >> i think it's an awful idea and the airlines will find a way to charge for it. sit in a quiet cabin you would pay or use your phone you pay. >> or if you want to rent a pair of n

cnbc's julia boorstin sat down with the man of the hour, twitter ceo. >> we have a significant number of investments we want to make as we move down that path. investments in our distributed platform, investments in our twitter in tv strategy. we will continue investments in our product infrastructure for mobile testing suites. we'll continue to make those investments in the growth of the core business for the foreseeable future. we're investing for the long term. we think this is a long-term company, a company that for which there is a fantastic use case for every person on the planet. >> julia boorstin joins us now from san francisco. julia, it was a great interview. now, walk us through what's happening with the ipo as of right now. >> well, abby, as you mentioned, twitter's only been publicly traded for a couple of hours, but it's already had a massive run. it opened over 70% higher from where it was priced last night at $26 per share. now it's trading in the mid-40s. at one point soon after it started trading, it even hit $50 a share. now, it's worth keeping in mind that that $50

julia boorstin with us as well. jack, we love what you did. you did it in a funny way.d, but i think you made a very important and serious point, you could find out all kinds of stuff right now about people just from looking at their tweets and locations? >> true. exactly. and that's what i found out too. when i first started, it was just a prank. it was something fun to do. i do pranks for a living. so to me, this is just with our privacy settings. >> yeah. that's absolutely true. you know, for me, i'm a dad and i have five kids. and so starting out kind of light-hearted and fun was great. and then also we've become really, really aware of just how dangerous it is when you get your personal information out there. it really can get into the hands of the wrong people. it's something, honestly, i didn't think about it until we started filming this experiment and finding out what the results were. >> jack, what happened when you revealed to people thaw were looking at information they willingly shared on instagram, twitter and facebook? did they realize they could just cha

julia boorstin follows disney and joins us now from san francisco. what should investors focus on now, julia? >> reporter: sue, disney's results were better on across the board results. the studio showed strength, consumer product and interactive divisions swung to profit, which was unusual for a division that's only been profitable one quarter in the past. the reason the stock is trading lower seems to be on expectations about the media network division, the biggest. the studio -- the company warned there would be issues with deferred revenue from the prior quarter so not unexpected and disney says without those issues it would have showed an increase in operating profit on higher affiliate feeds and advertising but that seems to be what is impacting the stock. sue, and tyler, there was a lot of optimism especially about digital. weighed in and said with the new marshall netflix deal announced today it would be a win/win fsh the company producing original content for netflix calling it a breakthrough and twitter says he's very bullish on mobile and s

julia boorstin has more. >> reporter: you may never have heard of maker studios but the viewer numbers dwafg, they have 340 million subscribers with 5 billion monthly views. >> this is now becoming mainstream medium, a main stream medium and if you're an add vatizer, you want to target the breach, engagement and measurement. all of which actually not very effective in television. with online, you can really optimize the opportunities. >> reporter: it comes from advertising but its built the internal add agency to help advertisers create branded content and building a retail business selling everything from music to products related to the youtube stars. despite the fact that maker studios has to share 45% of the add revenue with you tube, big names still see massive potential. media giant timewarner investing $25 million. in part to understand the fast growing youtube echo system. >> startups aren't the only ones created streaming video content. with netflix' successful originals like "house of cards," they are creating original content to distribute through the xbox platform and trans

msnbc julia boorstin live at a target in los angeles. jay gray at the mall of america in bloomington, minnesota. we'll start with you, jay. we've been talking to you all morning. how is it looking now? >> t.j., i'm the king of shopping. i'm looking down on my subjects and i say spend, spend everyone. maybe it's getting to me. i have been here for a while. look, people are spending. things are going really well at this mall and across the country apparently. we see people not only shopping but they are carrying bags. not one or two but several. the news looks good on that account. a lot of retailers are very concerned because they have six less days in shopping season between thanksgiving and christmas this year. it falls late in the year. but statistics show and analysts believe that this weekend the average family will spend around $650, that's up 11% from last year black friday weekend. so vitally important for retailers. what happens between thanksgiving and christmas makes up between 20 and 40% of their entire yearly intake. that's a

people will be coming in in big numbers throughout the day. >> julia boorstin for us.ates the plug. cheaper than amazon. i'm sure that makes them feel good. thank you so much. >> wal-mart, you can't hide. we can see your greedy side. >> this is new video from chicago. one of the many wal-mart stores where workers and supporters have protested on this busiest shopping day of the holiday season. organizers expect as many as 1500 individual protests to happen across the country. those workers and supporters are protesting because they want the company to pay every full time worker at least $25,000 a year. increase employee hours to full time schedule and end retaliation against workers who have been speaking out for better jobs. according to the website, each make a full time hourly wage of just over $12 an hour. some say they are fighting for respect. >> a living wage is important for the community and actually it does well for everybody. if working people have more money in their pocket, they can spend that money in other stores and fuel the economy. >> the executive di

we want to get to julia boorstin. pan dor dora is out. julia, what can you tell us? >> that's right. pandora's earnings per share coming in at 6 cents. adjusted nongap diluted earnings per share. that's right in line with expectations. 6 cents is up from 5 cents in the year ago period. projected revenue was $176 million. it came in at $182 million. revenue coming in slightly better than expected. now, looking forward, because everyone always cares about the company's outlook for the coming quarter. the revenue was pretty much in line. but the earnings per share was slightly lighter than expected. that seems to explain why pandora shares are lower in after hours trading. maria, back over to you. >> we're looking at it right now, dan. about three-quarters or almost 1% on pandora. let me get jim lowell and renee and heather back with me talking markets here. jim lowell, are there areas from your standpoint you think are more vulnerable than others if, in fact, we were to see the market come in here? >> well, it's a global marketplace. third quarter gdp in the eurozone c

julia boorstin is outside the headquarters in san francisco. julia? >> reporter: here's the thing, tyler. twitter may not be profitable, and half the people on twitter have never noticed its ads, but the company is generating growing revenue. here's how. 230 million twitter users don't pay a penny to create about 500 million tweets every day. but this twitterverse still generating $422 million in the first nine months of 2013. the vast majority of that from sponsored tweets, or ads that appear prominently within a user's twitter stream. it can target by demographics, location, who you follow and even the device you're tweeting from. but advertisers only pay when users engage with the ad by clicking or retweeting it. so twitter only makes money on ads that are engaging. there's also money generated from users like xerox that want to promote their twitter handle to draw more followers. another stream comes from promoted trends. advertisers like the nfl will pay big money so that all day thursday, this hash tag appears at the top of twitter's trends list

let's get to julia boorstin.eover that justifies that kind of price action. >> well, mandy, netflix wants to get its users to spend more time streaming its videos to make sure they keep paying that skub subscriptions. it's new netflixs larger images are more detail more summaries of shows and personalized recommendations based on viewing history and what your friends like making netflix more social. the company says it's the biggest change to its tv interface in its history. the first to roll out simultaneously on multiple devices. now this will allow netflix to quickly update the software which is key because netflix says most of the billion hours subscribers spend streaming video is on television sets. within two weeks the new interface will be available on newer smart tvs and blu-ray players and the row cu box and xbox 360 and play station 3 and the new playstation 4 which launches friday. the new look will not affect how netflix works on computers, tablets or smartphones and will not work on microsoft's xbox

and cnbc entertainment and media reporter julia boorstin who happens to be a homeowner who i believe hates window washing. okay. guys, let's huddle up on men in kilts. julia, what do you think? >> every homeowner at some point will need a window washer but it seems gimmicky. i think people care how their windows are cleaned and want them done well but don't care what the washers are wearing. >> what about you, don? >> i agree. i think this is a very applicable to the residential industry and the commercial industry there are a lot of companies that are doing that right now. on the flip side on the residential side nowhere knows where to go. >> in terms of prom they want to be the industry leader which i think is quite an ambitious plan. i'm keen to hear more about that. tressa and nick, you're in the hot seat. time to get grilled. >> tress sa, what percentage of your business is from commercial versus residential? >> our commercial business is about 50% of our total revenues. i don't think the kilt necessarily appeals to the commercial market in the same way it does residentially but

cnbc's julia boorstin sat down with the man of the hour, twitter ceo. >> we have a significant numberwe want to make as we move down that path. investments in our distributed platform, investments in our twitter in tv strategy. we will continue investments in our product infrastructure for mobile testing suites. we'll continue to make those investments in the growth of the

i'm jewel julia boorstin. trading higher on better than expected results and charlie earringen, company's chairman's comments. he says he does not rule out an acquisition of t-mobile and cautiously optimistic dish will get a deal done with disney and says he's willing to walk away and not carry disney content but is hoping they will make a deal that will be a big win for both companies. ergen laid out his vision for video offerings down the line and transform the company as its core business slows. >> thank you very much. in today's yahoo! finance question of the day, the iea says the u.s. will surpass saudi arabia and russia to become the top oil producer by 2016. just three years from now. is the u.s. finally becoming energy independent? 27% of you say yes, it's about time. 34% say i'm skeptical if it will actually happen. 40% say we're making progress but we should be investing in alternative energy as well. let's see what's coming up on "street signs"? mandy? >> lots of things, ty. top of the hour, legenda

julia boorstin, what can we expect? >> well, brian, if momentum holds twitter is aiming to price shares at $27, that's according to cnbc's kate kelly's reporting. now that would be above twitter's already raised range of 23 to $25 per share, sources telling cnbc that twitter management will decide tonight after the market closes, but the price expected say potentially around 6:00 p.m. eastern. twitter's 70 million shares will start trading tomorrow morning likely about an hour after the opening bell. so it will raise up to $2 billion if it exercises an over allotment option of 10.5 shares. twitter closed the books on an ipo a day earlier than expected because of strong demand. see what happens when shares start trading thursday but at the least we should expect some heavy volume. >> thank you very much. bring in buzzfeed president john stein burg and tim sullivan, another sullivan on the show. great to have you both with us. tim, let me start with you because i believe your company has invested at least a couple million

. >>> i'm julia boorstin with your cnbc market wrap. dow up just under 1 point, the nasdaq added 23 points. home prices went up 27% in keys december, a 13% jump from a year ago, the biggest gain in eight years. >>> consumer confidence took a hit in november, down to its lowest level in seven months. tiffany shares up after topping expectations in the third quarter. profits jumped 50%, driven by strong sales. that's it from cnbc, first in business worldwide. [ female announcer ] can it get any cleaner? with swiffer bissell steamboost... [ steam hisses ] guys! [ female announcer ] ...it can. introducing swiffer steamboost powered by bissell. it gets the dirt that mops can leave behind with steam-activated cleaning pads that break down dirt and lock it away. how did you get this floor so clean? ♪ steamboost, sir! [ female announcer ] not just clean, steamboost clean. now save $15 by mail-in rebate when you purchase a swiffer bissell steamboost starter kit. we still run into problems. that's why liberty mutual insurance offers accident forg

or a product that's broken an sometimes the company will tweet back to me because -- >> you're julia boorstinere mandy on a plane, hey delta, you're in the media they're going to give you extra love. joe blow wouldn't get that attention. you have a lot of followers and could make an influence. i am a lurker. >> brian, when it works well, when twitter works well, it is intended to be a conversation. where people who don't know each other can interact. that's the hope. >> there you go. that's the hope. it's kind of like the argument now with qe. i feel like twitter makes the socially rich richer. >> yeah. >> know what i mean. >> yeah. >> a million twitter followers, buy this underwear. >> never clicked on an ad and i'm on twitter constantly. >> it's a -- listen, big discussion. >> the next question there, mandy if you don't click on an ad but notice the ad, what kind of impact did you did that have? >> i don't notice the ads. i'm on constantly but now i am fully aware and will look out for the ads and click the on them. >> is the sutley good or bad? >> herb greenberg's latest tweet brought to y

julia boorstin with the numbers. >> disney reported with better earnings and revenue than expected. as you mentioned, $11.57 billion in revenue. better than the 11$11.4 billionn revenue projected and up from the year ago period. earnings per share 77 cents. that's one penny better than expected. up from 68 cents in the year ago period. looking at some of these different divisions here of disney, this is the first quarter that the interactive division has become profitable. that, of course, on the success of their new video game platform called infinity. we're also seeing some increases in the parks. the studio is showing growth. studio entertainment growth. consumer products, growth. also, you know, the media networks revenue is up as well. just going to continue to dig through these numbers here. there is an issue of deferred revenue which is why the media networks operating income is down. otherwise parks and reports, operating income up 15% and 17% for the quarter and the full fiscal year. this is their fiscal fourth quarter. back over to you. >> thank you so much. by the way, di

julia boorstin looks at it. >> well, bill, what better way to get what you want from a company than tohole world. now, 16% of twitter's weekly users go to the service to express dissatisfaction with the product or service. this is according to new cnbc/ap poll more than the 13% of weekly users who use twitter to find information about services or products. now, that huge opportunity to address customer service is a key reason 77% of fortune 500 companies have active twitter accounts. companies as diverse as ebay, mcdonald's and jetblue promote the fact they're listening to customers. >> we engage as best we can. i think it's funny, the first thing we have to conquer and i think the social media team is so good is trying to figure out when customers mention jetblue are even inviting an answer. sometimes they're talking to themselves and sometimes they want to hear back from us so that's the first challenge. >> twitter bullies can demand the impossible like a seat on a full flight but more and more companies know it's a great way to connect with consumers on both the good and the bad. no

julia boorstin for us. >>> the best box office trade is what? >> cinemark, cnk. because they're going to keep the profits they make selling the popcorn and all of the peripheral stuff at the theaters. i don't want to buy the production companies at this point. >> i still like imax. i think it's good holding here. i don't hold it. always looked at it. ultimately, taken out by private equity. >> i like viacom. stay away from the big media companies, like paramount, those wrapped into it. a lot of strength, can own the content, a much better play longer term. >> the stock swami is back and seeing unusual activity in his crystal ball. he'll reveal where that could show up in your portfolio. >>> first, if you want to invest like the hedge funds, then listen up. we've got the names smart money is buying and shorting that, just ahead. hi honey, did you get the toaster cozy? yep. got all the cozies. [ grandma ] with new fedex one rate, i could fill a box and ship it for one flat rate. so i knit until it was full. you'd be crazy not to. is that nana? [ male announcer ] fe

julia boorstin has the details for us live in los angeles. nsforming the app for televisions. now, looking to make the netflix experience more immersive, it features more damages, more synopsis and personalized recommendations based on your viewing history and what your friends like to make netflix more social. they say it's the biggest change to the interface in tv history, and first to roll out simultaneously. the new interface will be available on newer smart tvs, blu-ray players, roku box, and the current generation of xbox 360 and the playstation 3, as well as the new playstation 4, which launches friday. the new look will not work on microsoft's upcoming xbox 1 or the apple tv, because of the way the companies control their devices, and it will not affect how netflix looks on computers, ipads or smartphones. now, netflix says its members collectively watch more than a billion hours of netflix a month, and most of that is on their tv sets. having a single software platform across the tvs should help netflix on the back end, allowing it to

julia boorstin with what we know about twitter.ducational landscape. our guests, gentlemen, good morning. welcome to the network. >> good morning. thank you for having us. >> what's interesting here, it's not just what you're teaching, it's the way in which you're teaching using twitter. let me come to you, first of all. you actually have a running twitter conversation as i understand it in the class. you can see what the students are making of what you're saying, you can respond to them and if you're talking about companies, they, too, can become part of that session. is that correct? >> that's right. twitter is an e sense part of my classes, up on screen at all times, doesn't matter what we're doing. i am seeing what the students are saying and republic acting to. it motivates the students when they get to ask questions and get an immediate response from professionals. >> isn't it distracting, anthony? doesn't it mean you can veer off in many directions and not go into the depth that arguably your students require given that ever

ahead of its offering, cnbc's julia boorstin has been taking a closer look at the founders of the microblogingervice. >> with twitter's ipo coming up later this week, co-founder and chairman jack dorsey is in the spotlight. with a new yorker profile about him and a 4% stake in the company post ipo, he had three cofounders who were pushed out of twitter. evan williams is the largest individual shareholder with 10% of twitter posts ipo. he was ceo of twitter until he was ousted by the company's board in 2010, replaced by dick costlo, who was brought in as coo the prior year. williams co-founded the obvious corporation, an incubator for web media companies. along with the former chief creative director stone who was pushed out at the same time as williams. latched last year, medium offering an alternative to twitter's character limitations. united states designed for easily sharing longer form content. stone and williams's corporation backs a totally different start up. beyond meat. stone recently announced his solo venture, a start up in stealtm mode called jelly only to reveal it's part of mobi

julia boorstin is live at a target in los angeles with more on that. mon. there are more than 1,000 people in line here when target opened last night, rushing in for limited door-buster deals, including a $239 50-inch flat-screen tv which sold out almost immediately. it stayed busy until 1:00 a.m. local and really quieted down. it's starting to pick up again. the mall that the target is located in just opened up. now, it's not just the flat-screen tv that people are going for. all sorts of televisions continue to be really popular. also, a lot of apple products this year. we're seeing a lot of people walk out with ipads and ipad mi minis. target had a special deal giving a gift card to those who bought the air. a lot of people going for electronics. headphones are a big seller. the accessories and games for the new video game consoles. and, also, people are just going for toys. planning ahead for the big holiday season. here's what shoppers told us. >> i got a tablet for my son so he could be able to download apps and music. >> we came for the sales. fo

julia boorstin. >>> as the white house continues to grapple with the i.t.ailing rollout could have been prevented with sufficient technology. joining us, jonathan bush, friend and chairman of athenahealth, and the nephew of george h.w. bush. good to have you back, onthan. >> hey, carl. >> if the government knows how the government procures i.t., you do. you know park. you have been down this road before. two questions -- what could have been done and what happens on november 30th? >> well, i think a lot of things could have been done. but the really important things that could have been done happened long before obama was elected. for years, employers aren't tough with the product management, with the products they demand, health plans aren't very creative with the product design. and so, you have more and more and more kind of lameness, just this co-efficient of drag, the product getting bulkier and more expensive, and finally 40 million people left out, and obama says, guess what, i'm going to make my mark on this thing. and now you have the consequence o

i'm julia boorstin with breaking news on forbes media.xploring a sale and has hired deutsche bank to do so. the ceo telling his employees, he's received indications of interest and is organizing a process to test the waters regarding a sale, saying he expects interest from numerous suitors. the ceo says this will be the company's best financial performance in the last six year, saying it's been bolstered by 25% digital revenue growth. kelly? >> wow, julia, thank you very much. >>> also, look at the financial sector as we follow the market higher towards the 1,800 mark. but financials one of the better performer, up .4%. dominic chu has more. >> look at this, kelly, because among the best-performing stocks so far are t. rowe price, the mutual fund manager, up a little bit bush we'll call it a percent or more. leukadia umbrella, holding company for mining, telecom, health care, and those in banking. they're the ones that own investment bank and securities firm jeffries, and on the other side, goldman sachs, wells fargo, citigroup, also amon

our julia boorstin is outside the company's headquarters in san francisco. julia, good morning to you. >> good morning to you, carl. right now dozens of twitter employees are gathered in its cafeteria, they're eating breakfast and watching cnbc on giant screens that have dropped from the ceiling. you're seeing some twitter employees walk in now. this is unusual. it's only 6:00 a.m. here. usually employees don't really show up, the office doesn't really fill up until around 9:00 a.m. they're coming in about three hours earlier than usual because they can't wait to see what's going on. now, the company says it does expect to be pretty much business as usual but based on a tweet that we saw of the employees already congregating in the cafeteria, we expect a lot of the morning at least to be spent watching those giant screens to see the stock trading and also ceo dick costolo's live interview here on cnbc. now after costolo leaves you carl at the new york stock exchange, he's hitting straight to twitter's offices in new york to meet briefly with employees there.