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
Three times a semester and six times a year if you would like to be informed of future events there is a signup sheet over there put your name and email in and we will we had have a pretty good ones. These three we have some great stuff plant. Tonights forum is being filmed by cspan so during the question part of the forum if you would go up to one of the microphones and also hopefully state your name. We then do a write up of all of the forms. And the last announcement as it is cosponsored by radius another group here i am thrilled to be able to introduce these three. It is a different three than we initially thought would be here. Because jeff how he calls me up at a little bit past five. Fortunately it is a brilliant journalist and his in his own right. Let me introduce to everyone. The author of the new book know it all. And i will also be a hashtag tonight and then i think moving forward. We Work Together a decade and a half ago i had known him ever since he is a great guy and a b
Turnaround the european operation. Morning. Ery good this is daybreak europe. Lets talk about the asian equities session. Another boy in story for stocks. Japanese returning to the market. Msci asia pacific up. 3 . T is not all positive samsung is one of the negatives over on the seoul market. Their Earnings Report suffering a little bit because of the dollar weakness. That is weighing on the equitys story a little bit in south korea. Our focus on south korea and north korea is around geopolitics. More details of that in the samsung story. Lets talk about what is going on in fx markets. Later our attention will return to fed speakers. Today lets focus in on the yen and euro because interesting moves in both of them. The yen, and overnight story. We see the yen gaining this morning as the boj trimmed some of its bond purchasing. A small tweet to the long ticket buying. Governor kuroda told us there is nothing to see in terms of expecting to see any big changes in policy. Plenty discuss
We are going to get started here tonight. My name is seth mnookin im the director of the Communications Forum and a couple of quick announcements before we start. First Communications Forums are held three times a semester, six times a year. If you would like to be informed of future events theres a signup sheet over their. Put your name and email and we promise we will only send you information about our six events a year. We had judge john hodgman last semester. We have great stuff planned for next semester already. Also tonights form is being filmed by cspan so during the question part of the forum if you would go up to one of the microphones and hopefully state your name and your question. Another reason we ask you to state your name is we then go right up to the forums afterwards which you will be able to read a couple of days after the event on our web site and the last announcement is that this event tonight is cosponsored by radius which is another group here at m. I. T. I am t
Held three times a semester, six times a year. If you would like to be informed of future events theres a signup sheet over their. Put your name and email and we promise we will only send you information about our six events a year. We had judge john hodgman last semester. We have great stuff planned for next semester already. Also tonights form is being filmed by cspan so during the question part of the forum if you would go up to one of the microphones and hopefully state your name and your question. Another reason we ask you to state your name is we then go right up to the forums afterwards which you will be able to read a couple of days after the event on our web site and the last announcement is that this event tonight is cosponsored by radius which is another group here at m. I. T. I am thrilled to be able to introduce these three. It is a different breed than we initially thought would he here because jeff howe called me up at a little past five and said his daughter was and as