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At one point on Friday afternoon, Twitter’s stock was trading for under $ 16. 50 a share, down from nearly $25 earlier this month, when acquisition rumors began heating up. One analyst says it may be time for some cost-cutting, including layoffs, since the firm hasn’t been able to grow its way to profitability.

Thanks mainly to low unemployment, Germany keeps exceeding tax forecasts, with receipts that other European countries must envy. Last year state revenues totaled ￠620 billion; by 2017 they will pass ￠700 billion. This bounty is letting Germany balance its federal budget in 2015 for the first time in 46 years.