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>> thank you very much, su keenan.uest has managed to turn 25 dollars into an education empire. adam brought his -- left his job to start something called pencils and promises. it has educated over 20,000 children. his new book is called "the promise of a pencil." it is a new york times best seller. it is in bookstores and, of course, online right now, and also with us is deepak chopra. he is no stranger to the new york times best-seller list. he has made that list 19 times. and full disclosure -- there is a blurb on the back of your book from deepak chopra. us, hownt you to tell did you go from the consulting firm bain and company to realizing, you know, all of these expensive suits in the closet just did not do it for you? >> i always wanted to build a world-class organization in the nonprofit space. i realized you need for-profit business acumen to go something with the size and impact and i just got that itch on my 25th birthday. i put $25 into a bank account. a little more than 5 years later, we have over 200 scho
>> thank you very much, su keenan.uest has managed to turn 25 dollars into an education empire. adam brought his -- left his job to start something called pencils and promises. it has educated over 20,000 children. his new book is called "the promise of a pencil." it is a new york times best seller. it is in bookstores and, of course, online right now, and also with us is deepak chopra. he is no stranger to the new york times best-seller list. he has made that list 19 times. and...
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those are the top headlines at this hour. >> su keenan, thank you. back to the ukraine, president obama not the only one speaking out. secretary of state john kerry met with leaders in geneva. he said they agreed on the first death to de-escalate. >> -- the first steps to de-escalate. >> the parties all agreed that we must refrain from using violence or intimidation or aggressive accident -- actions. when we strongly indent all inferences of racism or religious intolerance, including anti-semitism. >> and shortly after the talks in geneva wrapped up, lou berks ryan chilcote -- bloomberg's ryan chilcote spoke with the ukrainian foreign minister. >> we are committed to be part of this protest through the monitors. we are ready to stop this process immediately. >> joining me from washington now it's a bloomberg news reporter. how optimistic is the obama administration about this accord? >> senior administration officials who talked with reporters yesterday ahead of the meeting said they do not have a high degree of confidence that the talks will yield a
those are the top headlines at this hour. >> su keenan, thank you. back to the ukraine, president obama not the only one speaking out. secretary of state john kerry met with leaders in geneva. he said they agreed on the first death to de-escalate. >> -- the first steps to de-escalate. >> the parties all agreed that we must refrain from using violence or intimidation or aggressive accident -- actions. when we strongly indent all inferences of racism or religious intolerance,...
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let's get headlines from su keenan. >> thanks. growth is seeing user slow and shares are falling in after-hours trading. the lowest level since its ipo. twitter membership reach to every 5 million, but with user growth slowing, down from the third period. sales -- ebay shares down in trading as well. the nba commissioner made a historic announcement today. sterling -- regarding donald sterling. >> i am banning nestor sterling life forerling for any association with the clippers organization or the nba. those are the top headlines. back to you. >> let's get some insight on the latest results from twitter and ebay. joining now from new york is scott kessler at s&p capital iq. joining us from los angeles, sweeney at bloomberg industries. and joined by cory johnson. let's continue the conversation about twitter. what are the three things people are wanting to look at? earnings per share, sales growth, and users. is that the key for what is going on? or is it something else? >> completely wrong as usual. i kid. revenue growth, absolute
let's get headlines from su keenan. >> thanks. growth is seeing user slow and shares are falling in after-hours trading. the lowest level since its ipo. twitter membership reach to every 5 million, but with user growth slowing, down from the third period. sales -- ebay shares down in trading as well. the nba commissioner made a historic announcement today. sterling -- regarding donald sterling. >> i am banning nestor sterling life forerling for any association with the clippers...
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su keenan joins me. >> good afternoon.up and smell the coffee because while there is a lot of green on the screen, coffee futures are the runaway story. coffee up roughly 66% today's trading. the really staggering statistics is that year to date they are up almost 60% year to date. this is a big part of this story, the latest news is that coffee shipments from india, asia's third-largest groin or are poised to fall this year. all of that combining to push futures higher. will really hurt the brazilian crop, and prices should stay at this level for the medium-term. of records could certainly be going higher because we also have the cost of cocoa higher. just about $24 on the chicago exchange, but that is after rising to an all-time high. that payroll data, it did prove a list for oil in gold, what is the breakdown? >> that came out very supportive of gold futures, they rose to the highest in three weeks. the latest government data out of india shows that oversees purchases of gold doubled in the last month. when we returned
su keenan joins me. >> good afternoon.up and smell the coffee because while there is a lot of green on the screen, coffee futures are the runaway story. coffee up roughly 66% today's trading. the really staggering statistics is that year to date they are up almost 60% year to date. this is a big part of this story, the latest news is that coffee shipments from india, asia's third-largest groin or are poised to fall this year. all of that combining to push futures higher. will really hurt...
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we got a look at the release. >> you looked at what su keenan said.his is a company with a business that in a lot of ways is very simple. generally, they can keep the naysayers away but the fact they are talking about increasing prices if you become a new netflix customer in the coming months, that is something everybody was always wondering about with this business because of the billions and billions of dollars of content obligations. it is not free to produce shows like house of cards or cut egg -- these lucrative deals with the likes of disney. all of that content available for netflix customers, they have love the idea of keeping the pricing around $7.99. but they have shown they are willing to play with the pricing because of you play with the pricing, maybe you can generate more revenue. there's a momentum behind the company and a user based and they hope higher prices won't turn people away. >> thank you very much. always in interesting quarter. one thing you don't see from netflix is a lot of them in day, -- of m&a. in the markets today. alre
we got a look at the release. >> you looked at what su keenan said.his is a company with a business that in a lot of ways is very simple. generally, they can keep the naysayers away but the fact they are talking about increasing prices if you become a new netflix customer in the coming months, that is something everybody was always wondering about with this business because of the billions and billions of dollars of content obligations. it is not free to produce shows like house of cards...
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>> su keenan joining us. thank you.up, new technology that takes selfies to a whole new level. "hot shots" is next. ♪ >> welcome back. this is "bottom line" on bloomberg television. streaming on your tablet, your phone and bloomberg.com. startup entrepreneur chris robinson never built a boat before and admits a tsunami is unlikely to hit his home in silicon valley but spent the past two years building a 22-foot long, eight-foot high, 0-foot wide tidal wave proof pod made of plywood and epoxy in his back yard. we went to palo alto to check out his progress. >> when i started, i just, you know, bought 20 sheets of plywood and started cutting. i don't know how to build a boat and was a good design for me and basically was two shapes, one is a sphere and one is a cylinder and just put it together. the tsunami ball is a 2 1/2 feet tall, survival boat made of plywood and epoxy. can you put 10 to 12 people there. i got the idea for working on it, i was in a startup incubator in silicon valley and in one week we had a presentat
>> su keenan joining us. thank you.up, new technology that takes selfies to a whole new level. "hot shots" is next. ♪ >> welcome back. this is "bottom line" on bloomberg television. streaming on your tablet, your phone and bloomberg.com. startup entrepreneur chris robinson never built a boat before and admits a tsunami is unlikely to hit his home in silicon valley but spent the past two years building a 22-foot long, eight-foot high, 0-foot wide tidal wave...
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su keenan is standing by with details. >> energy grabs the spotlight with oil prices rising to the highesth on the strength of gasoline. natural gas also a big gainer. the latest supply data shows that gasoline demand rose to a three-month high as supplies dropped to the lowest since november. analysts say gasoline demand is picking up, particularly as we head into the summer driving season. stockpiles should be helping the market overall. meanwhile, west texas intermediate is poised to become the worldwide and mark once benchmarkorldwide once again. the price difference narrowing as we see a reduction in the glut of the world's oil, and that, again, puts wti oil back in prominence. >> while we have gold taking its cue from the fed, what's the story? >> many investors were waiting on these minutes, and the commodity, which have fallen from a two-week high, was trading sideways. we have the language about the rise in interest rates and the protection of the main interest rate being exaggerated or having exaggerated the likely speed of heightening, seen as a positive by traders. investors ap
su keenan is standing by with details. >> energy grabs the spotlight with oil prices rising to the highesth on the strength of gasoline. natural gas also a big gainer. the latest supply data shows that gasoline demand rose to a three-month high as supplies dropped to the lowest since november. analysts say gasoline demand is picking up, particularly as we head into the summer driving season. stockpiles should be helping the market overall. meanwhile, west texas intermediate is poised to...