Record stock rally off to the best start, best yearly start in more than a decade. Apple addicts, billionaire share hoerlds urging the iphone maker to take action against the long term consequences of childrens smartphone overuse. Nvidia saes big bet on autonomous driving, teaming up with vw. The best start to a year since 06, closing the week at record highs and s p and nasdaq turning in the best week since december of 2016 and the street now beginning to look ahead to earnings season wells fargo coming out with results later in the week well get Inflation Numbers and retail sales and citi and Media Conference and Morgan Health care conference. You mentioned nvidia and wong going down to consumer conference tomorrow. Whats happening is an interesting opportunity, the futures are down for once. People can get in provided that the stocks themselves dont go up im talking about caterpillar, United Technologies and nvidia, they are ramping, maybe let them come in and get a chance the resea
John fortt is live in las vegas at this years Consumer Electronics show so much news coming from ces today, bringing us to faang stocks joining us this morning to talk about it, btigs managing director, andy hargreaves, Senior Research analyst. Good morning to you both on ces, so many of these names are presenting this week, are having workshops for developers, and unveiling ostensibly technologies that are going to drive earnings higher. How much of a catalyst is ces this week . Theres always something that becomes the theme of the show, but it doesnt always necessarily translate into a lot of revenue and Earnings Growth we talked about Artificial Intelligence and the goggles that people were wearing a couple of years ago for virtual reality, excuse me, and didnt really materialize in anything that significant for these companies. So its fun to see new products and hear a lot of the teams update investors to start the year off, but i wouldnt get too overboard on it impacting 2018 or g
Moments ago. Our parent, nbcuniversal, investing 500 million in snap during the ipo, as the markets look to cap off a sixth straight week of gains. We have not had backtoback days of losses since the end of january. Ggv capitals managing partner glen solomon, wells fargo chief portfolio strategist Brian Jacobson join us to talk about the markets. Brian, and snap specifically, as this starts to clearly roll into some retail hands, what does that mean for tech and for overall sentiment . Well, i certainly hope that a successful ipo is a harbinger of further successful ipos. You know, you saw a decline in ipo activity last year because of market volatility, so maybe well see a little bit more activity for 2017. For the tech sector as a whole, i think that it shows that people are still optimistic about the outlook. Obviously, you cant extrapolate whats going on with one stock for the rest of the sector, especially such a diverse sector. We still tend to favor those parts of the tech secto
Revenue did top estimates. One bright spot was web services, growing sales at 55 . We did talk to andy jassy earlier this month. Business is growing fast. Its an 11 billion run rate business trailing 12 months basis growing 58 year over year. The business is growing by leaps and bounds. Were trying to enable enterprises and Companies Run all their applications on top of our infrastructure platform and it turns out that database is an area they care a lot about and for the last 30 years theyve had relatively little freedom. Pretty amazing, jon. Gene munster at piper today estimates aws is closing in on 40 of net profits on a normalized basis. Incredible. Right. With amazon, you never know exactly what the profitability of the rest of the business is going to be. So who know where is that goes from here. But, yeah, the growth there strong, amazons topline strong as well. The real casualty of this quarter seems to be kind of the santa claustype expectations perhaps about this level of pro
Guards after leaving a party in a rio suburb. Global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Crumpton. Emily im emily chang, and this is bloomberg west. Its push the gas on into self driving cars. All the detail on the companys biggest acquisition to date and its driverless car pilot in pittsburgh. Can apple cut its smart watch free from the iphone . And, 10 centimes up with a new innovator in hollywood. We will speak to spf entertainment about their latest asian backer. First come into our lead. Cooper users in downtown pittsburgh will be able to summon a self driving car this month. Getting a self driving, right hailing fleet on the road first. Uber starting with a specially modified volvo suvs. We know uber bought the self driving trucks start up auto this month for an undisclosed amount. Joining us to discuss, r bloomberg contributing editor, who wrote this exclusive story for bloomberg businessweek. Were also learning a j