Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news, The Stock Movers podcast,
Speaker 1: your roundup of companies making moves in the stock market.
Speaker 1: Harnessing the power of Bloomberg data. Let's take a look
Speaker 1: at some of the stocks on the move today. Were
Speaker 1: joined by Bloomberg's Veldana Hirich Don what are you looking at?
Speaker 2: I'm also taking a look at Amazon because it did
Speaker 2: say it's bracing for a tougher business climate in the
Speaker 2: coming months, which really is echoing those concerns that we've
Speaker 2: heard from a range of companies about tariffs related economic
Speaker 2: turmoil and how potentially it might crimp consumer spending. And
Speaker 2: when it reported results earlier this week, it actually posted
Speaker 2: a decent first quarter, but it said its operating profit
Speaker 2: in the current period would be weaker than what Wall
Speaker 2: Street analysts had been anticipating. In issuing its forecasts. It
Speaker 2: said its results may be materially affected by many factors,
Speaker 2: including tariffs and trade policies.
Speaker 3: So tarif was only mentioned once in their beliefs too,
Speaker 3: so you have to wonder, like how much hedging there
Speaker 3: was around that. Also, take look at Wendy's that's not
Speaker 3: up by eight tens of one percent, but didn't they
Speaker 3: cut their forecast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I love talking about a company that maybe
Speaker 2: you know, we use, or you can just stop by
Speaker 2: on your way home from work, get get a frosty.
Speaker 4: It shares our.
Speaker 2: It shares our up one percent as of right now,
Speaker 2: maybe amid this broader rally that we're seeing. But it
Speaker 2: did lower it sales outlook for the year. And it's
Speaker 2: just the latest restaurant chain to take a hit from
Speaker 2: potential consumer on ease about the shaky economic conditions. As
Speaker 2: we just mentioned, the US is facing a challenging consumer environment.
Speaker 5: It's CEO said, just again, as a reporting from Marko
Speaker 5: watch US same restaurants sales they fell for the first
Speaker 5: time since the height of the pandemic. That's interesting. I
Speaker 5: didn't know it's been on such a strong winning streak.
Speaker 5: So something has changed maybe so in terms.
Speaker 4: Of the consumer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, important to keep track of, you know what these
Speaker 2: companies are saying about the state of the consumer, especially
Speaker 2: something like I said, we can stop buy on our
Speaker 2: way home from work and pick up a Frosty, but
Speaker 2: maybe people are doing that less and less these days.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean that's a some way discretionary, right, all right,
Speaker 3: let's go to do lingo. I'm wrapping it up here.
Speaker 3: I mean talk about discretionary. You would think that learning
Speaker 3: a language or using other tools that would be discretionary.
Speaker 4: But that's not CEP sixteen percent right exactly.
Speaker 2: It's soaring today and it's actually one of those stocks
Speaker 2: that is up for the year. It's up more than
Speaker 2: fifty percent for the year given including today's gains, but
Speaker 2: it raised its full year sales and profit outlook. It's
Speaker 2: cited artificial intelligence offerings it's as helping to drive some
Speaker 2: of that demand towards its higher priced subscriptions. Shares are
Speaker 2: up up for the year, and subscriptions for its highest
Speaker 2: year products, which is called Douolingo Max, continued to grow
Speaker 2: in part because of these new AI features. I'm a
Speaker 2: dual lingo user. If I can brag, I have a
Speaker 2: one eight hundred and twenty seven day streak.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh. Yeah. But language in French? Wow? So
Speaker 4: are you fluent now? No? WI I wish I were,
Speaker 4: But I do try to take dealt lessons.
Speaker 2: I do not pay for the subscriptions though, so, but
Speaker 2: it does seem to be working with some consumers.
Speaker 4: Some people are attracted to these offerings or you the
Speaker 4: are you learning? Yes, I'm definitely learning. Yeah, it's just taking.
Speaker 1: A long time.
Speaker 4: I see.
Speaker 3: It was just on Open Interest and said that to
Speaker 3: learn Chinese you got to do like five or two
Speaker 3: thousand hours.
Speaker 4: But it works.
Speaker 3: You just have to do it and you just basically
Speaker 3: a lot of people do it, but they don't finish it,
Speaker 3: and then that's where they don't get the real fluency.
Speaker 3: It's ever Spanish, it was five hundred hours.
Speaker 4: Really. Yeah, Well, I'm at this streak where I can't stop.
Speaker 2: I can't go back to zero, you know, so I
Speaker 2: have to do a daily lesson for the rest of
Speaker 2: my life.
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