For those two companies, it was a tale of two different big tech quarters alphabet has certainly been the laggard this year. Underperforming not just its big tech peers, but the nasdaq amazon has been a standout, 70 gains. Alphabet had a low bar and amazon had a high one. Did they deliver we can look at a number of metrics, what i want to drill down on particularly is cloud. These are the companys newer growth engines cloud numbers came in only in line with expectations revenue up 29 year over year. Love large numbers but google cloud, revenue was up 45 and now the company is going to break it out as its own segment. Have a listen to what was said last night. Given the progress we are making and the opportunity for the cloud in this growing global market, we continue to invest aggressively in our gotomarket capabilities and extending the global footprint you will see information about the scale of our investments so investors are going to be able to see exactly how much google is inves
Any new stimulus in sight. And that tiktok trade, you cant really trade it, can you, because its not a public company, but bytedance is formally seeking chinas approval for a deal with oracle and walmart, those are two publiclytraded companies. Yes, they are, jim lets talk markets lets start with that. You know, its funny, i dont know what you make of the pull back today, to the extent we are going to have one or what weve been seeing in apple lately. I keep wondering coming back to that softbank option purchase that we kind of we talked about it for a day or two and then we moved on. Right. You know, a number of people have come back on it with me, jim, and sort of said maybe it had a bigger impact than we realized in terms of the run up of some of these names. It did jack the market up in 1999 fashion which, you know, you know, led to 20002001 which was a disaster and it was frankly unnatural other than zoom almost every one of those stocks that they took up have been crushed apple t
Territory in a single trading session. For some, it was even worse than that check out shares of apple down it lost 180 billion in market cap. That is the largest oneday lost for a u. S. Listed company on record if that isnt enough to get your attention. Apple lost more in market cap yesterday than the individual market capitalizations of 470 of the companies in the s p 500 it wasnt just apple microsoft, alphabet, microsoft and even tesla saw their market caps shrink. Microsoft down by 115 billion amazon off by 93 billion. This morning, things look a little better. You still have the dow down 150 points right now, it is reverse that up 300 points the nasdaq saw the biggest declines, up 27 points right now. We have to keep that in context a few things in here as well talking to people all day yesterday, here is the list. Youll want to know exactly what happened it was the nasdaqs largest drop you dont go up 400 and down that will be highspeed trading. That would matter until they do. Va
Yeah, when we react to those. Every day we seem to react to something different. Its shocking just how much and thats why we have such a volatile market were in now its kind of covered upa bit o that its something that has stood out for a while now. I know the theme was everybody said justice of the peace morgan under 100, thats when you have to buy it. Its been under a 100 for a while. Theyve had opportunity after opportunity and the financials dont seem to be able to get up and move and sort of break out to the upside. Thats been a hangover along with some of the industrials obviously, tech has been the leadership role. Thats been pulling the markets to the up side significantly but today were seeing a bit of a rollover we could be in for a pretty volatile session we havent seen volatility jump up the way it has. Its very interesting to keep an eye on what do you make of todays action given were awaiting all the Bank Earnings next week. In terms of their outlooks, im not sure im not
Still youre a member of our key Investment Committee Carrie Firestone is here as well jim livan that will is here. This is a big program. Jim, im going to you phish on what were watching here the market definitely took a leg lower on news of that regional quarter teen announced here in our backyard. Absolutely. I was counting on a certain series of things to occur. First is the america awakened trade works, meaning we get back to work, we start the long road back, meaning we dont have to hear from secretary mnuchin because things are good. We dont have to hear about from dr. Fauci. Its just all rolling back this 14day quarantine is like, holy carp, its like a civil war. Phil lebeau saying this is bad for the airlines. Its a bit of a reality check, the reality of where we are. I cant think of a better word to use all of the optimism, you know, some acting as though the virus is gone, others trying to wish it away. The reality of the matter is that you have spikes in some big, big places