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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 ....
Somebody to sell if you go back to our march survey, what we saw was that the level of bullishness on the stock market was one of the highest readings we had in the history of our survey. That told us things were scary in terms of fundamentalings and news flow. They sort of knew inherently this was that point in time was the right time to buy the market they stepped in to help contribute to the rally. Now what we see its not that everybody is bearish the bearishness is starting to pick up where where we were last quarter and the bulls have fallen down sharply. Now, what is extremely in our survey is the percent who say valuations are expensive and that hit a new survey high whats that telling me as the tape weakens here, the news flow deteriorat deteriorates im talking to Institutional Investors that are not inclined to support this market the way they were in march i take it as a bearish read. Less about the level and sh ....
Rally about to hit a wall in 2020 joining us, jeff richards, and paul meeks good morning, guys good to see you. Paul, let me begin with you, ask you why . Is it because things are expensive on a relative basis . Thats right. I have been around a long time i remember with lashes on my back what happened when the internet bubble popped not falling for that scenario. I expect the u. S. To grow at a decent rate, fundamentals of most Tech Companies, not all, to be reasonably good, but the bulk, particularly of marquise tech names are trading at valuations getting me a little scared because i think much too much is priced into some of these names as we roll out of 19 into 20. Jeff, we hear that. On the other hand, you might counter with the fact some of the names got a haircut second half of the year episodes like wework, some argue, are healthy in the long run for staestablishing discipl. What do you think . I remember folks being conc ....
Microsoft, which is still up 3 , down 10 at the moment. Lets start with the house vote Emily Wilkins has the details. Reporter hey, kelly, after 22 days, the house finally has a speaker. Congressman mike johnson of louisiana. He got all republicans to unite around him, all 220 were voting today, one absent, they voted for johnson, now officially becoming the speaker theyre in the process of swearing him in. As soon as they do, hell have to get right to work the house has wanted a shod of support for israel, but theres also the upcoming government deadline, johnson has laid out a very aggressive plan to pass the eight remaining appropriation bills before that point. Johnson will be a bit different from kevin mccarthy. Hes much more conservative, and a little further to the right. One major difference is he hasnt supported a lot of ukraine funding. Back in may, he voted against sending 40 billion to ukraine he also voted not to certi ....
Yield. Oil down for a Third Straight day. Back into the low 80s on wti crude. Small caps had been outperforming much of the day. Banks, though, continue to lag. They have certainly been pulling up the rear for much of the last several months. We begin with our talk of the tape. Is the threemonth market pullback driven by macro and Interest Rate concerns running its course as the final earnings season of the year gets under way or will the bolts remain penned in by higher rates and fears of slowing growth and whatever else we can think of. Lets ask adam parker, cnbc contributor. Adam, i dont know, people trying to look on the not so negative side. Yesterday, a bit of a failed rally. Today, yields are quiet, markets able to maybe seize on some of the fundamental news. Are weable to go from macro to micro at this point . During evenings season, some stocks give you four updates a ....