DealBook: A Peek Inside YouTube’s Money Machine

DealBook: A Peek Inside YouTube’s Money Machine

Investors weren't impressed, and Alphabet shares fell 2.7 percent in after-hours trading.. Today's DealBook Briefing was written by Andrew Ross Sorkin in New York and Michael J. de la Merced in London.. OPEC weighs effects of coronavirus on oil prices. The group is meeting today and tomorrow to figure out a response to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, which has pushed down oil prices, Stanley Reed of the NYT reports.. One oil trader estimated that Chinese oil demand over the last two weeks has fallen about 2.5 million barrels a day, or close to 20 percent compared with the previous year.. More: The outbreak is likely to delay China's ability to meet targets in the recent trade deal with the U.S.. “¢ "Goldman has begun building technology to facilitate the offering of loans to small and medium-sized businesses over Amazon's lending platform," Ms. Noonan writes, citing unnamed sources.. “¢ "Former employees testified that Mr. Ebbers had urged them to inflate WorldCom's financial results to make the company appear more profitable than it was.". “¢ Recent earnings reports show that the tech industry is increasingly divided between a few big giants and everyone else.. “¢ Democrats may be