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Speaker 2: I'm looking at Amazon stocks down seven point two percent today.

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Speaker 2: I don't know anytime I see Amazon trade down like that,

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Speaker 2: I'm like, boy, if I had a portfolio manager, you

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Speaker 2: got to be thinking about this is a good time.

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Speaker 2: It's flat ear to date, so certainly underperforming the marketplace here.

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Speaker 2: They put out some numbers last night a little bit

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Speaker 2: disappointing on their guidance, and some questions about the cloud

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Speaker 2: and kind of the growth rates there and all that

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Speaker 3: Put them boil.

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Speaker 2: She follows the company, she follows the stock. She's a

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Speaker 2: senior US e commerce and retail analysts for Bloomberg Intelligence.

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Speaker 2: Put on, what did you take away from the quarter

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Speaker 2: last night?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks, Paul, So I think you know. The quarter

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Speaker 4: had two mixed streets. The first found the reach side

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Speaker 4: things were actually pretty well. Sales grew double digits on

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Speaker 4: the retail front, and that was higher than we expected

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Speaker 4: shows that value is driving shoppers to amaz about Amazon

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Speaker 4: shoppers are still buying, at least on Amazon dot Com.

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Speaker 4: The second side of the story is Amazon's AWS business,

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Speaker 4: come from. They were disappointing, plain and simple. We saw

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Speaker 4: operating margins were much weaker thirty two percent. That's off

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Speaker 4: think that's really what's causing the stops slide today morning.

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Speaker 5: Anyone who was watching Sharer's postmarket yesterday after their results

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Speaker 5: during Andy Jase's comments, what did he say that was

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Speaker 4: I think it was basically that it's a slow and

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Speaker 4: The B to B side of the cloud business, and

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Speaker 4: that has plenty of growth ahead. But that growth isn't

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Speaker 4: going to come overnight. It's going to come year by year.

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Speaker 4: We're still very, very optimistic that Amazon has a long

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Speaker 4: suggest a small slow down, but we think Amazon's earnings

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Speaker 2: It's August first, so I guess I have to ask

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Speaker 2: this question. I hate to do it because I'm personally saying, hey,

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Speaker 2: we're only halfway through summer here, but the reality is

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Speaker 2: back to school spending. What's Amazon saying here about back

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Speaker 4: So they're saying much yet, but back to school is

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Speaker 4: clearly the second largest holiday shopping season of the year.

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Speaker 4: We think, given Amazon's outperformance here to date on the

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Speaker 4: school spending at this time. Consumers want value. They think

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Speaker 5: How much of this reaction in Amazon has to do

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Speaker 4: Comparisons are going to remain tough on the cloud side

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you know, clearly prices are going to

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Speaker 5: We have more clarity on tariffs than we did before.

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Speaker 5: But there's this idea that tariff policy is still in

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Speaker 5: do you think that will impact Amazon's decision making from

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Speaker 4: I think for Amazon, you know, tariffs right now the

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Speaker 4: say we're very much in fox Vietnam, the tariffs have

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Speaker 2: a half percent today, down eighteen percent year to date.

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Speaker 2: I thought their quarter last night was really good. The

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Speaker 2: good quarter. Angelo Zeno he's the pro who'll give us

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Speaker 2: Equitiani sid C fr A research Angela. What was your

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so thanks for having me, I think overall, to

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Speaker 3: All right, let's switch over to the energy biz.

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Speaker 2: I'm just going to quote Wtech houd to oil because

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Speaker 2: Evince, what you what'd you see? What you learn from

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Speaker 8: Hey, so today what we definitely picked up is, you know,

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Speaker 5: Vince, one thing that stood out to me is, in

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Speaker 8: Well, look, they have been very proficient in picking up pieces,

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Speaker 2: So, Vince, I think about that the Chevron deal, and

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Speaker 2: a few minutes of your time, Vince Piazza. He is

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Speaker 5: I'm still learning a lot about oil and gas every

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