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Speaker 1: From the Bloomberg Interactive Brokers Studios. This is Bloomberg day

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Speaker 1: Break or Wednesday, April nineteenth.

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Speaker 2: Coming up today, a last minute settlement in the voting

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Speaker 2: machine defamation case against Fox News.

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Speaker 1: Disney and Meta start cutting thousands of jobs as soon

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Speaker 1: as today.

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Speaker 2: We're tracking Netflix shares after subscriber growth disappoints.

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Speaker 1: And House Republicans prepare a vote on a bill to

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Speaker 1: raise the deadlimit.

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Speaker 3: At least one person is dead after a parking garage

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Speaker 3: collapse in Manhattan. Plus a big ruling from the Supreme

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Speaker 3: Court today involving a common abortion drug. I'm Michael bar

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Speaker 3: Or Ahead, I'm johns stash errand towards.

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Speaker 4: The Knicks lost game too in Cleveland, The Rangers one

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Speaker 3: The Mets and Yankees both lost.

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Speaker 5: That's all straight Ahead on Bloomberg day Break, the business

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Speaker 2: Good morning, I'm Nathan.

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Speaker 1: Hager and I'm Amy Morris. Here are the stories we're

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Speaker 1: following today.

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Speaker 2: We begin with a landmark settlement in dominion voting systems

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Speaker 2: defamation lawsuit against Fox. Bloomberg's Ed. Baxter has the very latest.

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Speaker 6: The agreement reached just hours after the jury was seated

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Speaker 6: and just before opening arguments. Dominion CEO John Poulus.

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Speaker 2: Fox has admitted to telling lies about Dominion that caused

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Speaker 2: enormous damage to my company.

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Speaker 6: Dominion attorney Justin Nelson says, very important as well.

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Speaker 2: For our democracy to endure, we must share a commitment

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Speaker 6: For Fox, it avoids an embarrassing trial. You won't see

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Speaker 6: the personalities on the stand. It says it is a

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Speaker 6: validation of its journalistic principles. In San Francisco, I'm at

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Speaker 6: Baxter Bloomberg Daybreak.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Ed. Job cuts are continuing across corporate America,

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Speaker 1: and two big names on Wall Street are getting ready

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Speaker 1: for layoffs as soon as today. We get the latest

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Speaker 1: Live with Bloomberg's John Tucker, John and Amy.

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Speaker 7: They are household names and they're cleaning house. They are

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Speaker 7: Disney and Facebook parent Meta platforms. Let's start with Meta.

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Speaker 7: Those layoffs start today and they are company wide. This

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Speaker 7: move is part of a cost cutting push that will

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Speaker 7: eventually whittle away ten thousand positions. Metta's got experience doing this.

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Speaker 7: They slashed eleven thousand jobs in November to ease the pain.

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Speaker 7: Meta wants everybody in the US to work from home today,

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Speaker 7: and now Disney they're cutting thousands with a whopping fifteen

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Speaker 7: percent of its entertainment division that starts next week. The

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Speaker 7: cuts will span TV, film, theme parks, and corporate positions

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Speaker 7: and in fact, every region where Disney operates. Disney wants

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Speaker 7: to save five point five billion dollars in costs. Live

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Speaker 7: in New Yorkcome John Tucker, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: Okay, John, thank you.

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Speaker 3: We know.

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Speaker 2: Turning two earnings on Wall Street, investors and analysts continue

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Speaker 2: to adjust the latest results from Netflix. The shares dropped

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Speaker 2: as much as twelve percent after hours. Now they're down

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Speaker 2: about three quarters of one percent. The streaming giant reported

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Speaker 2: lower than expected subscriber gains at the same time, it's

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Speaker 2: starting to crack down on US viewers who share accounts.

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Speaker 2: Netflix says that should boost growth in the second half.

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Speaker 2: Right now, subscriber growth is not the focus for Gradient Investments.

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Speaker 2: Senior portfolio manager Mary and Montagne.

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Speaker 8: I think I'd be more interested in profitability and the

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Speaker 8: fact that we're in a year where we're comparing against

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Speaker 8: still some COVID impact in different parts of the world.

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Speaker 2: Mary and Montane and Gradient Investment says more than one

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Speaker 2: hundred million people currently use a Netflix account they do

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Speaker 2: not pay for Nathan.

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Speaker 1: Big Bank earnings continue today. Morgan Stanley reports this morning,

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Speaker 1: and we get a preview with Bloomberg'sjeff Bellinger.

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Speaker 9: And the lists and investors will zero in on the

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Speaker 9: area where Morgan Stanley has its heaviest focus, revenue from

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Speaker 9: the trading of equities that outweighs fixed income, currencies and

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Speaker 9: commodities at the bank. Jeffreys Financial Group estimates first quarter

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Speaker 9: industry trading volumes for equities. We're down seven percent from

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Speaker 9: the prior first quarter. We'll see the numbers before the

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Speaker 9: market's open this morning. Jeff Bullinger, Bloomberg Day Break.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Jeff. Let's turn to politics now and the

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Speaker 2: latest on the fight over the dead ceiling. House Republicans

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Speaker 2: plan to vote next week on a bill to suspend

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Speaker 2: according to Douglas Holtzeken of the American Action Foreign Policy Institute.

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Speaker 10: Coalesce and they have to lay down a market that

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Speaker 10: it goes over to the Senate. At that point, it's

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Speaker 1: And overseas this morning. Inflation continues to be a major

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Speaker 1: problem in Britain. The UK's consumer price index rows ten

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Speaker 11: Was kept high by food and non alcoholic drinks. That's

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Speaker 11: going to be very painful for your average brit who,

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Speaker 2: Amy, we're getting word of more price cuts at Tesla.

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Speaker 2: It's forty five degrees in New York. We're expecting sunshine

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Speaker 3: Good morning Nathan. We're learning more about the deadly building

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Speaker 3: collapse in Lower Manhattan. Witnesses say the four story parking

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Speaker 3: New York Flying Department Chief of Operations John Espositos said

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Speaker 3: Records show the parking garage had sixty four violations since

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Speaker 3: More than one hundred and fifty five thousand federal workers

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Speaker 2: Thanks Michael. Time now for our Bloomberg Sports update. For

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Speaker 4: This Knicks caz series figures to be a long one.

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Speaker 5: Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager. Let's get back to some

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Speaker 5: of our top stories this morning. A massive settlement in

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Speaker 5: dominion voting systems, defamation lawsuit against Fox News, even more

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Speaker 5: job cuts coming at meta platforms in Disney, and a

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Speaker 5: sluggish earnings report from Netflix. Lots to talk about this

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Speaker 5: morning with Bloomberg's Alex Webb, who joins me now. Alex,

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Speaker 5: great to speak with you.

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Speaker 2: As always, we should talk about the terms of this

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Speaker 2: settlement for dominion systems that really did come at the

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Speaker 2: last minute. Seven hundred and eighty seven and a half

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Speaker 2: million dollars. That's less than half the one point six

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Speaker 2: billion Dominion was looking for, but a lot more than

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Speaker 2: many analysts expected.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, it's certainly a big chunk of change. It's the

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Speaker 14: thing that actually a lot of people are keen to

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Speaker 14: know is whether it also included an apollo from Fox.

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Speaker 14: It is something that they can afford. They have, you know,

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Speaker 14: cash of four billion dollars in net debt, but of course,

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Speaker 14: uh cash at hand a four billion dollars, So it's

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Speaker 14: not going to make a significant dent in their finances,

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Speaker 14: although clearly not something that they're going to be delighted

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Speaker 14: to pay. The real thing they're avoiding here is Rubert

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Speaker 14: Murdock getting up on the stand, other Fox executives and

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Speaker 14: the network in a way that you know, could potentially

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Speaker 14: not only damage their reputation for non core viewers, but

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Speaker 14: also for their core audience.

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Speaker 2: So New Fox News has the cash flowd to handle this,

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Speaker 2: but of course the network has seen something of a

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Speaker 2: subscriber exit I'm sorry it an advertiser exodus in recent years.

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Speaker 2: I mean, what could this settlement mean as far as

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Speaker 2: how Fox's business goes going forward here given the advertiser environment,

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Speaker 14: If the forecast for the company are not terribly bullish,

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Speaker 14: the expectation over the next two to three years is

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Speaker 14: that both ebit done net income gradually decline. It is

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Speaker 14: a difficult space when you've got you do have some

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Speaker 14: competition althocially, not as significant as Fox had anticipated from

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Speaker 14: the Newsmaxes of the world. It's I think the thing

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Speaker 14: they might be looking for, frankly, is a good Donald

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Speaker 14: more engaged their audience becomes. That is something that benefits them.

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Speaker 14: So the election cycle will be hugely important for their earnings.

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Speaker 14: The appetite of you know, advertisers, they sometimes shy away

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Speaker 14: to long term if they think the audience is there.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of the advertiser environment, I was thinking about subscribers

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Speaker 2: because of the focus this morning as well on the

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Speaker 2: knew that both companies were bringing the acts down and

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Speaker 2: I guess we're getting a better idea of just exactly

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Speaker 2: where the actes are going to fall.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, it was particularly interesting at Meta that they are

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Speaker 14: going to be cutting jobs in the reality Labs division,

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Speaker 14: which you know, not a year ago, was considered by management,

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Speaker 14: at least in terms of their public statements, the big

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Speaker 14: future of the company. In the past couple of quarters,

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Speaker 14: they've sort of tamped back on big public statements about

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Speaker 14: for it, along with the significant job cuts they've been doing.

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Speaker 14: In the order of seventeen thousand job cuts of what

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Speaker 14: have been announced. This was been, you know, characterized by

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Speaker 14: the company as a year of efficiency, and the stock

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Speaker 14: is up seventy five eighty percent, you know, partly as

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Speaker 14: a consequence of that Disney. You know, they have also

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Speaker 14: been cutting some jobs. It's interesting they are cutting jobs

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Speaker 14: in the entertainment division, which you know, is considered by

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Speaker 14: many to be the court business, even if they sometimes

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Speaker 14: make more money from theme parks and elsewhere. But it

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Speaker 14: shows that actually just inventing, sort of investing limitlessly in

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Speaker 14: content is no longer considered the priority.

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Speaker 12: You know.

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Speaker 2: It's I got to talk about Netflix earnings weaker than

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Speaker 2: expected subscriber growth. Now they're saying passwords sharing could be

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Speaker 2: can Netflix ring out of subscribers who don't pay at

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Speaker 14: I mean, you know, that is the sort of fifty

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Speaker 14: billion dollar question. There are one hundred million people they

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Speaker 14: estimate share passwords. The key question now is whether they

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Speaker 14: can convert five percent or fifty percent of those into

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Speaker 14: paying subscribers. The quarterly subscriber growth is one and three

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Speaker 14: quarter million. That was less than two point four million

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Speaker 14: people that expected. So even if you get five to

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Speaker 14: ten percent of those people to convert, that's a meaningful

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Speaker 14: difference when it comes to those overall numbers, and has

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Speaker 14: been enough to hamp back some of the fears around NETFLI,

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