The tech giants in the us are dominating the business agenda today. Jeff bezos is stepping down as amazons Chief Executive. The Online Retail giants founder will move to become the compa ny s executive chairman. He will be replaced as ceo by andy jassy, the current boss of amazons Cloud Computing business. And this comes as the firm reported 386 billion in sales in 2020, thats up 38 on the year before. Their profits almost doubled, rising to 21. 3 billion. So whats been the reaction to the news bezos is stepping to the side, and what do we know about the new boss . Duncan howe is e commerce strategist at cheil uk, which is a Digital Marketing and advertising agency. Duncan, welcome to the programme. Executive chair man still means he will have a lot of control and very much involved in and is on, but it is the day to day responsibility. What do you think about this move . I responsibility. What do you think about this move . I think it is a bit of think about this move . I think it is
Giving a lot of insight well be bringing you results apple, amazon, alphabet and facebook all report their earnings coincidence those four Companies Make up about 16 of the s p 500. Worth about 5 trillion combined and come a day after the heated antitrust hearing. Wolf, this is a good read in for you. For sure. There was meant to be three of those. Facebook got moved from yesterday to today after that hearing. After the close, we are waiting for two economic reports it is thursday, that means weekly jobless claims. Another 1. 4 million filed for the first time last week the first read on Second Quarter gdp. The economy likely contracted by 34. 7 . Both jobless and gdp due at 8 30 eastern time you look at those numbers down 34. 7 from the estimate we know it, weve been hearing from companies and what has been happening. Thats a lot of news to digest ahead of all of these reports. You are watching futures under a little pressure. Lets look at where things stand now. Dow down 206 points,
In the last 10 days. The u. S. And china trade new barbs. Washington rejects chinas claim to the South China Sea. Top u. S. Senators are facing mainland sanctions. Haidi u. S. China sentiments dominating again with the grim overlay of rolling back restrictions around the world. This is how we are shaping up when it comes to u. S. Futures contracts, up by. 2 after what was a truly volatile session. We had the s p 500 touching levels prepandemic and we also have the nasdaq hitting a fresh record before finishing in the red and we spoke about tesla being a huge part of that tech eventual close lower. Nikkei futures up by. 2 percent. Sydney futures escalating in the red, point 8 lower, looking like a set up of. 5 lower, this as we are expecting an announcement today that the fed of New South Wales will ease back those restrictions when it comes to indoor gatherings at pubs after cases coming from the pubs. It is now over 20. New zealand trading modestly higher, about. 25 . Some significant
Anything new its been at least eight months anything new going on with you . How is life, is it a little busier than before, any change whatsoever we need to know about . Less sleep, but, i mean busier. Not boozier busier i think all our lives have been boozier. But im so happy for you it must be great i told you that all along. It is the greatest thing i dont know if people know what were talking about, but how old are the babies seven months old. That is still hard. A boy and girl. Still hard. Wow still tough and you are in it deep. All right. But we digress yeah, they are upstairs crying you look like youre far away i am hoping that they will crawl into a shot at some point. But ive seen pictures and they are so cute. We could have some Photo Bombing going on later in the program. Maybe later lets show everybody u. S. Equity futures at this hour, we do have some red across the board. It looks like the dow futures would be off a little over 1 right now. Similar story well, nasdaq off
And Andrew Ross Sorkin well start with the markets this morning as the nasdaq logged another record high nasdaq now on an eightday win streak the longest since december last year watching u. S. Equity futures today. There is a pull back the dow is indicated down 265 appointments s p off by 28 and nasdaq down by 50 the nasdaq has seen its best quarter since 1999 and the dow the best since 1987. Check out the s p, for this quarter, s p is up for its best returns it has seen since 1975 looking at the treasury yields this morning youll see the 10year note yielding 0. 7005. That is kind of our comfort zone pretty comfortable if you need to borrow money for sure. The u. S. Is weighing some new tariffs on experts in this case from france, germany, spain and uk related to the 15year old wto fight over aircraft subsidies. Saying the eu is guilty of unfair subsidies to airbus the u. S. Has been accused of unfair subsidies to boeing, negotiations have been at a stalemate. Andrew thank you, joe in