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
Did as well in terms of market cap. You can really move if you give the market a beat. Romaine you saw apache rally fall by and conoco about the same amount. This split between Companies Still invested in shale and companies that have more offshore resources. Taylor i still think we should have bought oil at 30 per barrel and stored it in your swimming pool. Romaine right next to the gold. We are waiting for a lot of earnings today. Apple, amazon, facebook, shake shack, yum brands. One of the busiest days of the year right now. As isne gileads outcome Electronic Arts. The 1. 44 expected. Second quarter revenue, 5. 1 billion, that is a slight mess. That company, focused on pharma. Electronic arts. Gaming has been front and center in terms of what we have all been up to. We are seeing Electronic Arts seeing the full year 21 1. 6ngs, revenue coming at billion. Romaine doing well on the quarter and guidance. There is an issue of high expectations. Even as you have adjusted revenue coming i
Notice the temperatures in the 40s for the most part. In San Francisco 52 degrees. Santa rosa good morning at 43 degrees and 47 in oakland. Livermore 45 degrees and san jose at 48. We have low clouds but there is no delays. We have had fog roll in, in the north bay. We have seen that with the visibility being very, very low this morning. Still a quarter mile in santa rosa and you can see less than that in petaluma. Nevada is also doing okay. Everything else in the bay is great. Just the north bay that you need to watch out for. Once the fog is gone we will get sunshine. It will be a very similar day to yesterday. So at the coast about 68 degrees and 73 in the bay and about 82 inland. About one degree warmer than it was yesterday where you were if you got up into the 80s. We do have another system getting its act together. That is here and it will roll into the Pacific Northwest and the question becomes does it bring any rain our way. We have a slight chance to the north bay and i will
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