facebook, amazon, google all reporting results flex week. how to pro situation yourself ahead of the big reports a major developing story in the oil market, crude shooting higher on news iran seized two tankers in the strait of hormuz. we are watching the reaction very, very carefully karen, you are noting in the after market session the futures look like it was reacting to this look at the oil market you would think there would be a little bit more to this than what the oil market is pricing in what do you make of in >> too political, it doesn't seem to move oil at all. steve alluded to this a couple of days ago. i don't think geopolitical risk or uncertainty has any effect on the oil market whether it is right or wrong i don't know, but i do think it has -- for the broader market i think it has huge implications, and we'll talk about it quickly. i don't think iran wouldn't do this on their own i don't think. i think clearly they have the backing of somebody out there, and i think this has far greater ramifications. i think the market is un

amazon is the flavor of the day in the situation >> is there reason for regulators to think that amazon is implementing anti-competitive practices in its different businesses >> well, the thing is actually organically competitors are rising that are start to go quietly compete with amazon. i think there's an organic market practice. you have the google antitrust in the u.s., the huge if a is book fine recently, $5 billion. that should be trillions of dollars. i think regulation is often a measure of societal animous. >> if you were to rate on a spectrum the names of big tech companies with liability -- >> right >> who is on top >> i think they're the folks you're seeing at the hearings today on the hill. it is amazon it is facebook it is google it's the folks who have an enormous amount of power at least in part as a result of the tremendous amount of consumer data that they have and the requirement that is going to come along that they manage that consumer data in an intelligent fashion. so, again, amazon's got a number of other of these companies have anti-competitive questions, part

going from amazon or other retailers. price blink shows amazon branded or exclusive products, the fire tv stick, echo dot and echo show, they're getting the most attention again this year by page views nerd wallet said that's not surprising prices will are lower today than they were on black friday 2018 if they're amazon-owned products, it's amazon controlled pricing. amazon shares are up half a percent today. a analysis of the past four prime day events shows a month later 100% of the time, amazon shares are higher. by an average return of 5% perhaps foreshadowing what we'll see for amazon shares a month from now back over to you >> court, thank you. meantime send it over to mike san toll i who is back with his market dashboard >> thanks. pick up on the amazon conversation, something i'm calling eating the competition they say you shouldn't go to the super market hungry. maybe that applies to titling charts, too. here's the theme kids feasting while parents starve, that's another kind of haves and have notes story starti

so amazon was important. facebook to me, i was looking at intel. i'm always focused on the semis in general they're very much global -- truly global players they are often forward indicators of global growth. they sell to all countries so for me seeing the improvement outlook from some of the semis it was so negative for most of this year. finally seeing some positive news come out of the semiindustrsemiendu industry they have become a proxy for u.s./china trade talks and trade relations. the semiconductor etf is already back to all-time highs off those. >> yes >> you spoke about looking forward. are there earnings reports coming up in the next week or two that you think you will be hyper focused on because it could provide more of that thesis on global growth or the health of the global economy >> finishing up the big industrials coming through next week and i would say facebook being another one that will be a big one. and though google had a good report, i'm still concerned about the regulatory overhang that they have any of those companies, how

and i think it's interesting on amazon, i only worry about the top line amazon spends so much money, and i will say this, i have a lot of positions in private companies that sell consumer goods and services in america, almost in every state now, and about 30% to 40% of our sales are now on amazon, and there's good pros and cons to that, but we really want that same-day delivery. so, if there's more capex going into that, i'm very happy with my position in amazon. that's going to be a game-changer for a lot of providers. same-day is a big deal, because it lets you get an advertising spend and get a direct measure to how impactful it is in regional markets, when you can deliver the same day >> we have got another earnings report out, and it's starbucks kate rogers has the numbers. >> very strong q-3 for starbucks here, beat on every metric we'll take you through eps 78 cents adjusted compared to 72 cents the street was expecting. revenues $6.82 billion versus estimates of $6.6 billion. that's up 8% year on year. the company also says that's an all-time high for revenues global comps up

all along i think amazon should be more concerned than ulta. why? because mary dillon runs a tight ship in the best loyalty program in the world look out amazon, ulta is the real deal. harry in colorado, harry. >> caller: jimmy, boo, boo, boo-yah from the white peak mountains of colorado. wondering about your take on chewy the management, back up the truck or -- >> can't back up the truck because it's too expensivexpens. i was very impressed by management when we met very impressed i think they are doing a lot of things right some said how do we know amazon can't beat it? the guys, i actually once i asked pet owners what do they use? haven't found a sole that doesn't use chewy including us retail is back, etsy, lululemon and stitch fix found ways to win and charts can make you go higher much more "mad money." a company that works with visa, bank of america and you probably never heard of it. i'll reveal the name and what would have been pop's 97th birthday, i'm reflecting on things he taught me about business and your calls and rapid fire of to

guy had amazon as the bad. facebook is good so my good would actually be amazon my bad would be facebook which makes a good "fast money". here's why amazon is good. they focused on profitability over the last four or five quarters much to, i think, at times disappointment because people were finally looking at this company as a growth company that stopped growing how do you have this multiple. ultimately i do think they will start to give you north of 20% neutral growth and i think that's really the issue. when i look at facebook, despite the fact that it's been and maybe because of it's been such a great run for the stock the realities around the regulatory environment the libra coin is not a game changer for them revenue wise any time soon their expense margins continues to go through the roof that would probably be my ugly if it wasn't for google which i do think is a great company and agree with karen the problem with google right now and what makes this quarter ugly not the company and not the valuation, n

deidre. >> melissa, put simply amazon is spending more and earning less but it is amazon so it is a return to old days of growth over profit. one day shipping costing more than the company initially estimated. >> it does create a shock to the system we're working through that now, and we expect we will be working through that for a number of quarters but when the dust settles we will, you know, regain our cost efficiency over time. >> he added that the response to one-day shipping has been positive and volume has picked up also on the positive side, we did see top-line revenue growth pick up to the 20% year over year level some headwinds cloeing growth in cloud computing, facing more competition from microsoft and google remember, key is the race with microsoft for the $10 billion government jedi cloud contract e market expects them to have 9% of the u.s. ad market at the end of the year. on the regular torr regulatory, surprise here. they have a longstanding policy of not commenting on regulatory matters. when pressed during the media call he said that amazon's guidance does not include a

amazon down by 2%. alphabet, sometimes the options markets get it right, they were pricing a move up or down of 6%. stock up 6.25% after the earnings release. >>> intel reporting its second quarter results. that is another big one to get too. jackie deangelis joins us with those numbers. what do we see, jackie? reporter: connell, intel soaring because we have a beat top and bottom line. revenue 16.5 billion, surpassing the 15.7 expectation. earnings per share $1.06. that was well above the 89-cent estimate. where intel tripped up last quarter was on the guidance. it gave weaker guidance, even though beat on top and bottom line. that was a problem. this quarter raising the full-year revenue outlook, up 500 million from april. so investors are looking at that in a positive light too. before the earnings came out we saw headlines regarding apple acquisition of intel's smartphone modem business. that is in fact happening. that will happen for a billion dollars. apple is getting a majority stake in it. after

is it going to be a net win for amazon >> you know, we think it will be obviously amazon is showcasing not only great deals, they're showcasing their music they've been spending all week showcasing whole foods they've built a big infrastructure around this prime day, and we think it will be very successful for them. >> is there any indication that this drives new consumer spending, ed, or simply, well, i need a pair of jeans in a month so i might as well get it now because it's on sale and it's kind of a zero sum game. >> we think it does drive new business it creates that spontaneity, that need to buy now and people obviously tend to buy stuff they don't need. ultimately, you know, this is a very quiet time and we think this drives incremental sales across all of retail. >> you've got a $2,100 target on amazon obviously we're optimistic does this matter for amazon? do these 48 hours or so matter to the stock, or is it just part of a longer term, more macro trend? >> i think it's more of a big macro trend, but i think the big fly away with amazon is emphasizing to people it's important

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. >> announcer: coming up, amazon's prime day isn't just about amazon anymore how others are cashing in on the company's big day. plus, one billionaire investor says google should be federally investigated why? and dozen his role on facebook's board have anything to do with his call >>> and coffee without the coffee beans this is "the exchange" on cnbc. . they can help gut check your strategies and answer all your toughest questions. sounds perfect. see, your stress level was here and i got you down to here, i've done my job. call for a strategy gut check with td ameritrade. ♪ . >>> welcome back to "the exchange," everybody that time of year again, amazon's prime day is in full swing. it is a 48-hour discount bonanza that promises a massive number of sales and new prime members for amazon but this year, competitors are throwing their hats in the rick we will explain that with lauren thomas who is cnbc.com's retail reporter and courtney reagan welcome to both of you what's different about prime this year and why is prime so prime to amazon? >> so prime this year is longer, longer th

amazon has that network. they have this fleet of cars and motorcycles and bikes delivering packages across cities why couldn't they do that with food delivery ate tougher business than you would have thought >> here to discuss a little further gerald storch former ceo of toys "r" us and hudson bay. thanks for joining us. great to see you in term of your bread and butter in the retail industry, to what extent was amazon's growth in that area supported by their later innovations whether it be video online or aws? >> well, as a retailer, we had to make money. they were losing a lot of money. but, i had done deals with jeff bezos. i've been his partner. been his competitor. he's very fierce i would never under estimate amazon they have changed the world of arresting. even when they were smaller, everyone chased after them the net effect has been is that retailing is not the business it was back then. it requires far more capital investment to compete because you have to have both great stores better than ever whi

can we say that prime day is doing what amazon wants it to do >> yeah. i think in certain ways amazon is winning i think one area where it really does have leverage and what shineses through on prime day is its massive membership base. that's this loyalty aspect of the prime membership, these people that pay $119 a year to get things like free shipping and whatnot. walmart can't compete with that. there's pros and cons to being paying prime member. we see those shoppers on average, a prime customer, they spend more, so that's very valuable to amazon i think those are the people that are really turning up over this 48-hour event, those paying prime customers. >> those are paying prime customers. what about people new to prime will this get more people to join up? >> amazon for the five years they have done -- this is the fifth year of them doing the prime event. each year they said we added more and more paying prime members. they use today as a tool to add more and last year was the first time the company disclosed how many of those members they have, wh

amazon did miss on earnings, revenue was ahead. first time in five quarters that amazon did not post a record profit, taking a hit from shipping costs the thesis on amazon's print is that they really care about one thing and that is increasing gmv and getting it to people quickly. >> so the cost rose 36% on shipping that was a big jump from the 20% in recent quarters moved to one day shipping. they said they saw better customer response. revenue growth of 20% was better than expected. so investors are going to have to decide whether that top line growth was good enough 37% aws, that's the cloud revenue growth was, i guess, a little light, a little lighter than it has been first time under 40% but it still is the dominant player here in cloud. >> by far, doing $8 billion a quarter now what we know from alphabet is $8 billion a year run rate for their web services or cloud-based company that's accelerating, though. listen, the standout thisalphab the standout in the early going here, re-establishing the fact they can do above 20% whe

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quickly, guy, your take a amazon >> the move to the downside i think was important. here we are right back to levels we saw again, joe will correctly say he's been doing the show for how many years, 47 years, and you've done really well we try to get to the ins and outs of trading. i think you stay into earnings and sell it again. i think you have another opportunity for another move toward the all-time high and you get out ahead of earnings on the 25th. >> my point before was do you think all of your participants on fast money have been sufficiently bullish and i do not think they've been sufficiently -- my only point was when i started the business is dow as 800 and it's now 27,000 so the way that these bears always stay in vogue when the market has gone from 800 to 27,000 -- i'm not saying they are, i'm saying in general it's much more el leks wael attractive to stay bearish and all you had to do was stay and you would be at 27,000 so your default position should be long stocks coming up, the dow crossing 27,000 >> be long, have a nice day. >> i'm not saying be lo

if the investigation finds amazon broke competition rules, it is company could be fined up to 10% of global annual revenues >> aditi, thank you. >>> facebook facing another hears today, this time before the house financial committee. ylan mui has more. >> reporter: lawmakers wanted the company to commit to a moratorium on libra, or at least start with a pilot program facebook said no, so congressman brad sherman says he's taking it to the top. >> zuckerberg can't print money, yet. and problem number two, zuckerberg is under attack, because he invades the privacy of ordinary americans and sells it to the highest bidders. we need zuckerberg here. >> reporter: guys, chairwoman of the committee maxine waters said today was just the first step. >>> for more on the growing calls to regulate big tech let's bring in representative rho khanna amazon not in your direct, but i'm curious to get your thoughts on the eu taking seemingly a more aggressive stance on much of our large technology companies than we as yes have, and specific to amazon and the latest -- that may be having to deal with in

that is going to be profitable if amazon rises by 4%. the interesting thing here is taking advantage of the somewhat lower than average options premiums and using a spread to do it. they're able to get quite a lot of leverage on a relatively small move for amazon of 4% to the upside payout of about four to one. >> you probably saw this action, pete >> yes. >> how are you positioned? >> i love that kind of thing i'm not in amazon but i love that spread because it is a great risk/reward as mike was pointing out you are investing a dollar which you could lose the entire thing or if you hit a nice number and go up to push it higher, it could be suddenly $5. >> great leverage. >> great leverage. >> or more leverage as it is known here. >> on this side of the pond. >> please, sir. >> i'm going to give you one. >> okay. >> no doubt they will report a great quarter. however, is the setup as good as it was a month, month and a half ago when it was $1,800 stock. >> same thing about facebook. >> same thing that happened. facebook bounced against th

. >>> amazon has kicked off its annual shopping bonanza, prime day. this year's event will stretch over two days and is expected to be the retailer's biggest yet. elizabeth joins us with more tell us what to expect. >> that's right, so prime day is proving to be an increasingly por important day for amazon as it tries to lure in more subscriptions, which is that high margin business it sees possible sales growth in the past few quarters. we are looking at prime day this year this is a 48-hour event. it's gone up in length over the past few years last year is about 36 hours we're seeing a demand from amazon to keep people there longer by offering more than a million deals. this is a very international day. this is focused on markets not just in the u.s., but on trying to lure customers from all of its various markets with deals across the board last year 100 million products were sold, but ultimately what it comes down to is how this translates into sales. if you look at the historical data, what you can see is that this one day has turned into a prett

look out for amazon as far as the major logistics provider >> victor anthony of aegis capital. thank you. >> thank you >>> let's get to the action in the bond market today. rick santelli is tracking that at the cme >> hi, kelly two-day charts you see the big drop yesterday right at 8:30 eastern. at that time we were getting the durable goods headline also mario draghi. everything is pretty much the same pattern however, let's look at minus bund in mid-may. that's a good thing. let's out run. maybe we can out run the bad policy the questionable policy because as you look at the euro versus the dollar, the lowest level since may of 2017. maybe they are in thmanipulating their currency kelly, back to you. >> rick, thank you very much >>> coming up, beyond meat versus bitcoin and pet power and lean hog getting leaner that is in today's tasting menu. today's power house is 58,000 square feet. actual 2 karat gold covered front door we will take a look inside and check e icpot xtthpre inne every day, visionaries are creating the future. so, every day, we put our latest technology and

amazon, home depot, starbucks and nike outperforming and jay jacobs of global x funds are here to tell us what this means for the investors. here we have the top five names in the consumer discretionary group. when they outperform they're $100 billion or more, the whole consumer discretionary group will outperform. amazon is 25% of the sector. >> right if you look at xly then the heavyweights performing well are what you want to have and the smaller names in the s&p 500 if those underperform then something like the invesco rcd is going to lag. you need to understand what's inside of each portfolio. >> equal weight isn't doing it the big guys are moving this "l" brands and best buy did all right. when you deal with market cap weighted indexes they're not the ones that move if you're picking stocks they'll do all right how -- do you buy the index or buy individual names or take the risk >> if you want market weighted or for the representativeness, that's one way if you want to laser in on some of the high growth names you can look at funds like millennials which targets specific companie

amazon is getting a monopoly on consumer goods now. like operating a mall, having largest store there, and eat every company in your mall if they're doing well. this is the type of power these companies are getting. facebook, oh, my god, the fact that it bought instagram and whatsapp, it can use money and power to buy everything in its sight and amass all these assets, and now we're worried about facebook getting into digital currencies. god forbid if they took over the banking industry and had the type of power they could get from that. this is dangerous. good that policy make remembers finally waking up this. is not left or right. everyone is waking up at the same tile, oh, my god, something is wrong. they should have listened two years ago, my friend. charles: i saw in "the ft" yesterday in europe, hey, facebook for the most part their users haven't changed a lot. instagram and facebook but revenue per user has gone through the moon. that is the kind of chart as an investor, that's what you want. you want to find companies that find

as i said, amazon up $8.40 to $2,019. amazon not set to report earnings until later next week. can't wait to see that. let's get to citigroup. citigroup kicked off the big bank names, second quarter earnings season this morning before the bell. the bank reported better than expected earnings and revenue for last quarter. now, you can see the stock is responding at the moment positively, up higher, but there was some concern that the fact that it might have a little trouble with some of the margins and trading business might ding other banks. speaking of other banks, 25 other financial institutio, jpmorgan chase, goldman sachs, wells fargo, all set to report this week along with tech names like ibm, microsoft, and netflix. we're going to be sweating it out here on "the claman countdown" but 56 s&p 500 names are set to report this week. 80 s&p companies overall have warned, though, that their second quarter financial results will be weaker than initially expected. this is hitting companies from alphabet google and apple to pfizer and adobe, micron and netflix also on the list. wi

amazon, everyone points to amazon as the bold case for netflix. neil: but netflix isn't building a structure as much a lot of stuff to for people to watch. it is very different than amazon building you know a infrastructure that would support all of this. >> amazon is leveraged? >> i don't know that. >> i don't think so. >> they have been, amazon can make a lot of money if they want to. >> right. anytime, turn on the switch. >> problem with netflix they have off-balance sheet long term obligations. this company, you you 2011, 2012 like a ferrari. reed hastings is genius. they got the company moving quickly. today they don't have the luxury. they have committed to content. neil: are they raising prices? >> they are trying to. it is tough. the bull case from here, that unit adoption where it is, that we will continue to raise prices aggressively. our work suggests, once you get over $10 a share, $10 a month for streaming service, when price sensitivity, consumer kicked. this quarter we -- >> i can't figure it out. i can't find anything. >> there is

in terms of amazon, regardless of what happens this quarter it's not the end of the amazon story. in terms of azure, look, it was the slowest growth they have had in the cloud in the last three years i believe, but that's a -- that's because of the size of the base has gotten big, so i still think they can be there and still perform. i don't think the market needs to perform to your point, but i think they will perform. alphabet is the one that i'm worried about because they have had some growth issues even though the growth expectations are very muted, below 20% versus 26% we're used to i shaved a little last week. i own a little amazon. i'd buy more if that got crushed. microsoft is still there, and i bought a little more after the quarter actually i think it's much more predictable earnings stream in microsoft and more analyzable than amazon or the others so i'm happier. >> it was a first-quarter disclosure that have slowdown that really got alphabet, right? >> yeah. >> and that's partly why or a big reason why it's been a lagard compared to its big-cap peers? does the valuatio

i have my apple, google and amazon this one is obviously squarely in the middle of the trade sort of issues we were discussing to me as soon as the sentiment shifted from may to june, you had this stock up in a straight line 10% but here we are now, and i'll let carter speak to the charts, we're kind of at that gap level from late april. it's kind of hitting some technical resistance if you look at microsoft, you look at amazon, you look at google, it's a tale of three cities amazon had a's okay print to negative, google had an unexpected good print and it went up allot. google, alphabet and' many, expectations were low, off 10% or so from the all-time highs while the others were hovering around t. the option is implying a $9 monthly between now and next friday's close. on average the laviolette four quarters the stock moved 6%. that's a heck of a lot of price action for a name this big i actually think that expectations are low they put up a decent enough print into a weird quarter i think they almost have a mull began with the trade stuff i think the stock goes higher. options pric

exhibit a, amazon. it crossed the trillion dollar threshold this morning amazon didn't become this unstoppable behemoth because jeff bezos is brilliant, which he is. it got here by leveraging scale. amazon is dominant because it's so big they use that scale to get better price from the suppliers to pass on to you. we have antitrust law because when you get big enough, well, no one can compete against you bezos saw how he could use amazon's scale to dominate retail he didn't stop there he figured he could do the same thing by creating cloud computing. aws one of the largest businesses growing at a 40% clip we had the head on the show recently, he told us how the position scaled which is the dominant player in the cloud which is true. it allows them to innovate and keep prices down and compete with the competition i urge you to look at that interview. i thought it was mind blowing. i thought to myself, darn it, that guy is real smart amazon also knows the secret to maintaining scale is keeping work force

amazon target, costco, home depot and i really like his thesis on target and costco. i'm not as enamored of walmart target is the best like he does so the charge is interpreted by bob lang and all three could have plenty of upside levels what can i say how about great minds think alike? stick with cramer. >>> it is time, it is time for the likening round buy, sell, buy, sell and then the lighting round is over are you ready? time for the lightning round rein ryan in illinois. >> caller: boo-yah, jim. i had range resources for awhile. >> natural gas lick wquidliquide weakest part of the entire chain. eric in california, eric >> caller: hey, jim, big boo-yah to you. >> boy -- what's up? >> caller: i'm a newlywed. my wife wants a house and i'm looking to get started with gh garden help. >> it's speculative but gene sequencing and i've been recommending all of those. let's go to sean in nebraska, sean >> caller: cramer, a big-time omaha, nebraska boo-yah to you. >> what's up >> caller: i got done playing warren buffet's paper wizard have you ever played that game >> wow.

>> reporter: hey, jon, it was close, but amazon edged out facebook for that top spot amazon web services is locked in a fierce battle with microsoft over the pentagon's $10 billion jedi contract. amazon spent $4.15 million on lobbyists in q2. facebook, $4.11 million. it was very, very tight. facebook has also faced some tough questions from policymakers about deep fake video and the launch of its cryptocurrency, libra. both of those companies appear to have set quarterly records for lobbying dollars third was alphabet, google, which was the top spender last year overall and actually decreased the money it's dedicating to lobbying from $5.8 million a year ago in the quarter to nearly half that amount last quarter. this amid reports that google recently fired several longtime lobbyists. microsoft and qualcomm rounded out the top five their spending on issues like data security, internet privacy, and competition as government scrutiny on those topics intensifies. during the quarter, top tech companies like facebook, amazon, apple, and google were also in the news about potential government

amazon had an okay print to negative, it went down a little bit. google had an unexpected good print and went up a lot. the one thing about google, alphabet and apple, expectations are relatively low, both off 10% or so from the all time highs. when i think about the quarter next week, the options market is implying $9 between now and next friday's close. on average, this stock moved 6% after day's earnings that's a lot for a name this big. i think expectations are low they put up a decent enough print into a weird quarter i think they have a mulligan almost with the trade stuff and i think the stock goes higher and option prices are probably pretty reasonable enough to make an at-the-money bet to get a breakout at that level the trade is simple to me. if you are bullish and you think it has the potential to outperform like google, you buy a call when the stock was trading at 208, you could buy the august 210 call playing 4.25 for that that breaks even at 214 a quarter. that's up only 3% from the current stock price here you are risking about 2% of

amazon is upset because they want a piece of the contract >> what is their beef with amazon here? they're too big, they can't do it >> they feel they had an unfair advantage. >> that's the origin of the issue here let's turn to the earnings and we'll come out later today what are you looking for >> well, it's the cloud. >> azure, right? >> they are moving the customers hardware into the cloud. we're looking for that to continue the cloud continues to grow. the legacy business is seeing a one-time upgrade because of end of support, windows 7 one of them a quick migration as a result of that we're looking for a very good quarter with microsoft >> that will pull forward? >> only 4% or 5% of sales. they're going with a 10% tax instead of 8%. that will help. >> when you look at microsoft, what sort of growth -- if we're assuming cloud is going to grow and be a bigger part of their business, what kind of growth overall in revenues are you projecting and what kind of margins will we be seeing? >> so cloud has been historically a lower margin business they cannot hire the people to keep u

>> yes it's 8 billion for 36 billion at amazon which is why amazon going to 37% aws growth isn't that big of a deal it's large numbers microsoft is 17 billion. >> being third in a business -- >> is okay. >> that's one. two i think a lot of the street were thinking more like 6 billion for analyzed cloud revenue and google is on an 8 billion run rate, ahead of expectations 40% growth in quote/unquote other. so 40% of the revenue comes from advertising and cloud and now you have this other unit with some of the bigger bets they have made starting to surprise to the upside. >> you own it you said. >> um-hum. >> i own it too. >> own it. >> do not own it. >> would you add >> everyone owns it. everyone in america owns it, it's one of the biggest holdings most people are in an index or an active fund tracking an index. so i think it's good for the markets overall to have a company like this where expectations were low come along and say we're not going anywhere, we're still google, still alphabet. >> it's a huge name. >> it's 3% of the s&p. >> right. >> would you add it, absolutely. >> why wo

shelton when we return, it's been a 25-year run since amazon was founded. what can we expect from the company's next quarter century we'll discuss. >>> good day, everyone i'm tyler mathisen in today for scott wapner on the "halftime report" today, are the bulls offside on the fed after today's solid jobs report? we'll discuss that one plus, we will debate a serious warning from one top wall street firm, advising investors to get on the sidelines quickly we'll tell you who it is and why they think that. and where the investment committee hit and missed in the last three months. we've got the quarterly report it is all ahead today at noon eastern on the "halftime report." deirdre? >> tyler, looking forward to it! now, today is a birthday for amazon, turning 25 it was on this day back in 1994 that jeff bezos filed the paperwork to create what was originally called cadabra. now it's a household name, amazon the next quarter century, though, is likely to look a little different today today the uk's competition regulator says it is reviewing amazon's recent inves

the amazons? >> those are the games i don't know that i shifted away from those names, but when you look at the names, fang names. expand it more and look at what microsoft has been doing and look at cisco. they have been performing. part ofs that that when we look at the companies and you look at the growth perspective and the guidance from the various names, by the way, i know when we are talking about the earnings and everybody is concerned about the numbers in the past or whatever, there were names out there that absolutely crushed it. they crush it on their revenues and you are seeing some of it in the semis as well. a lot of these names, there is a lot of different areas right now that you can put your money. financials is the biggest let. everybody knows that it has been that debt stone that when does that finally kick in it still hasn't. >> this is going to be the question for the next many weeks. whether the market is expecting too much from the fed. let's bring in mike at the new york st

with amazon. in one of their cases here in the state much california, they are saying we shouldn't be overregulated because all of the customers that go on to amazon are our customers. they are not reseller's customers. then in another court case they said they are not our customers, we don't want to be liable if something goes wrong with the product. we need to update the law. we are a 21st century economy. we can't let the rules of the 40s and 50s apply to this current marketplace. reporter: google is denying it has ties with china. >> it's very peculiar back ground where google is working with the chinese communist government and not with the u.s. military. so the project decision was not to work with ai with the american military but they are working with the communist chinese. the question is what in the world is going on there. reporter: google reresponsibilitied, as we've said before, we do not work with the chinese military. what about the president and the fact he says his administration

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sales are not actually amazon direct they are third-party retailers, in many cases using amazon's fulfillment. it's not just amazon's platform alone giving some argument that this isn't quite as cut and dry as the treasury secretary presented. take a look in shopify it has a $36 billion market cap. that has tripled in two years. and its business is really allowing businesses to compete without being on amazon necessarily, though as part of the latform, you can also operate on amazon. don't forget about etsy. they have an $8 billion market cap. that has quadrupled in two years. amazon was competing directly with etsy. and you know what, they are still doing just fine. one area that has popped out for amazon anti-trustwise is again that third party retailing platform there have been some complaints that amazon has a lot of data about what customer demand is for those third party goods. can then use that against its competition that might be an angle that the feds choose to pursue but we haven't even talked about cloud, kelly you know, amazon has not really tied the retail and cloud businesses c

. >>> amazon's second quarter misses on the bottom line as its profit streak comes to an end sending shares lower in extended trade. >>> don't miss our interview with renault's ceo as the french carmaker cuts its full-year sales guidance on a degradation in demand. >>> no clear direction so far in european markets after that key announcement from the ecb about forward guidance, the introduction of quantitative easing down the road and what seems to be an almost certain rate cut in september in terms of the individual markets across europe, though, you can see the four major indices in europe are trading slightly higher. the ftse 100 in london about a fifth of a percent higher. similar story in germany we have huge amount of earnings going on at the moment the cac 40 is slightly above the flat line. in italy, where we've been hearing from the two deputy prime ministers about the future of the economy, you can see the ftse mib is in negative territory. media performing well as is telecons technology in europe bouncing slightly higher, up 0.4% the retail sector often facing some challen

amazon restaurants. immediately grub hub stock caught fire and multiple analyst told us this is a major positive they are looking for after all, if you can out last amazon, got to be in great shape. stands to reason not so fast. i think the buyers are getting ahead of themselves. they were never a major player to begin with. one less competitor, of course they still got plenty of other rivals and frankly, you can read amazon's decision not so much as they gave up but how about this? as an indictment of the whole industry you have to remember grub hub's margins are under serious pressure for sometime and spending a fortune to fend off door dash, post mates and everybody else that piled in the business that's not a good sign, people in april we stopped by grub hub's head quarters to give the ceo to tell his us side of the story and willing to talk. i asked him if all the ad spending was worth it. here is what he said. >> so you think about it this way. you know your ltv, lifetime value of your customer onc

of these other businesses that amazon hasn't been successful at advertising. can amazon continue to be as innovative and go into as many businesses, guloseri rgrocery, o >> jason, am i a horse's ass don't answer that question that's a separate issue. you see where i'm going. you can look wback at media companies, conglomerates over the ages, and see that history tells you they rarely stay in tact zpl it's a fair point. there are you know all these software analysts would love for that to happen >> you bet >> aws business and we would be kickoffing the retail. the e commerce side. amazon, we think is going to try to keep their business in tact for as long as they can and remember, netflix got the first competitor walmart, early customer. big competitor, so until you start to see a netflix, a walmart say you know what, we are not doing business with this xwaen, then there's what would be the other reason? so we don't think it happens in the investable future. at least right now >> see you after the bell. >> one tiny issue with your idea these are founder control

yes, amazon is formidable. you know, nobody disputes that but i think what you are seeing is bright spots in other retailers which have high table stakes and are making inroads. >> an example would be target. somebody else? >> you know we are speaking ever the new ones to the market if you think about companies like revolve, you are seeing where high customer economics, high lifetime value where repeat purchases and gross margin give you a long-term value that customer exceeds the cost of customer acquisition and they have a long runway. >> influencers could replace marketing budgets? >> it is working your go-to-market strategy could be very different and very digital. >> you used to run hudson's bay company, of course that's a retailer. it is a department store we got an interesting call today out of goldman sachs and they are downgrading ralph lauren they are worried about the department store space and sort of that wholesale model with some of these brands do you think that's warranted? >> i think that the t

that's a big part of why we're as positive on amazon as we are. a lot of those store closures are happening in apparel, department stores, and footwear. all areas that benefit stitchfix. so to the extent that you live in a part of the country and you're losing access to a lot of your apair options, stitchfix actually becomes pretty powerful we've also done a really good job recently of launching new products around men's and kids we're launching in the uk. and their algorithms, the underlying piece of it that makes sure you get what you want has also gotten better >> you mentioned amazon. how big of a deal will prime day be for the country next week >> it's a big deal from a marketing standpoint and a customer acquisition standpoint just to drive some attention in terms of numbers, it doesn't really -- one day is not going to make it or break it for amazon more importantly for us is the fact that they're putting $800 million into same-day delivery, which means you're going to be getting your products faster, it opens up a whole new part of the wal

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amazon spent more on shipping to ramp up the amazon prime service. the first time in two years that the company has missed earnings expectations still, stock is only off by about 1.5% 19.44 is the last tick >>> google parent alphabet beating estimates on the top and bottom lines for the latest earnings report. that's giving the stock a big boost. it had continuing dominance of internet search and that stock is up by 8.2%. you heard what mark mahaney said here washington doesn't matter what comes into this. it's additional taxes they have to pay frankly, that's what the stock is reflecting. many of these stocks are reflecting that. they don't think -- >> the fine is now a tax >> where does it go though >> the money the tax? >> well, actually, i don't really know where taxes go either but the fines -- all these fines, where do they go? does it ever do any good >> they do a couple things they oftentimes pay for some of the enforcement action -- >> here's $5 billionto do an investigation -- >> if you have a department of justice, you have to pay these la

>> so i own amazon and i actually own amazon not for e commerce, not for prime day, of course this year prime days. but because of amazon web services here's a company that has an overall operating margin of 7%, the average company in the united states has won many the double digits. here's a situation where if they can continue to grow their revenues, 15 to 20% per year, their earnings growth because of expansion will probably grow at double that clip and so no, it's not inexpensive. never going to be a value stock, but then on the other hand, i think it shaould be a stake on anybody's portfolio. >> all right, fine, we get a share of each. that's kind of the seem i see with all of these. what happens if they go with facebook and you spin out the what's app and instagram spin out youtube for shareholders like me, it might be more valuable thanks, appreciate it. >> cool to be here zpl good to get your point of view >> all right this chart is a pretty picture for snap investors the share's up nearly 200% so will it continue to make investors smile? trading nation is is next and the nba se

it could be amazon amazon has made a lot of enemies. there are a lot of complaints about they're blocking access to the marketplace, unfair picking of winners and losers when it comes to their marketplace. >> okay. >> day of the week it's what's been tweeted lately and which politician wants to pick on whom. >> we have to leave the conversation there it will continue though. thank you very much, guys. >>> still to come, the stagecoach is ready to roll. wells fargo results are next by the way, here are the futures right now. take a look at what's been happening after we've already heard from three dow components. dow futures picked up. we were in negative territory down by 25 points. this morning at 6:00 a.m we're indicated up by 35 points. s&p futures up by 2, the nasdaq up by 3 and "squawk box" will be back [ dogs barking ] what about him? let's do it. [ sniffing ] come on. this summer, add a new member to the family. hurry into the mercedes-benz summer event today for exceptional offers. lease the glc 300 suv for just $419 a month at

amazon is the enemy? before microsoft, before amazon, seattle in the '80s was a dying timber town. there was no wealth there at all. microsoft came, amazon came, they created the wealth. they created literally millions and millions of millionaires. now as you're seeing just in fact how mobile money is and the more difficulties administrators and bureaucrats make it to create jobs because seattle's minimum wage is just one example, more money not just leaves seattle but leaves america writ large. >> the positive is that the reporter said it only at the end, they are going to bellevue and will create a 40-story plus building over there. they are still focusing on washington area. to add to all of this, apple, just within the past two weeks, announce they hare doing this five-year expansion plan in the united states and specifically within seattle, i know it's not amazon, but apple announced they would be adding 2,000 jobs. hopefully that could offset some of the loss from amazon overall. i still think it's good. you have amazon investing in bellevue, they will build a light rail syst

but there are deals abound beyond amazon. it's now a shopping event across retail, retailmenot counts more than 250 retailers offering deals around prime day, 40% more than did so last year. sales force says total ecommerce will see sales grow 51% this prime day compared to last year. adobe, a bit more bullish, for the largest u.s. retailers forecasting 49% sales growth on this prime day and if amazon's site goes down again this year as it did last year, it just opens up more opportunity for competitors, though jim shabai, the vp of amazon prime says there won't be a problem this year. >> we've worked really hard this year to make sure we've ironed out all of those technical glitches now 48 hours, over a million deals, deals being released every five minutes we're confident all of our members will have a great experience >> at least so far, no glitches on amazon or other websites have been reported, but we're watching it. we've got many, many hours left to go still. more kb moregan? >> yes, we do. i'm sure it's going to keep