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Speaker 1: time to bring in Dave Wilson, Bloomberg Stocks columist and

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Speaker 1: What are you looking at today? I was looking at

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Speaker 1: cruise line operators. Yeah, it's a good day for transportation

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Speaker 1: stocks in general. You can put the cruise lines together

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Speaker 1: with the airlines and uh, I'm sure because of the

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Speaker 1: United Continental reports exactly, I'm sure you were looking at

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Speaker 1: Norwegian cruise lines. Uh. As far as focusing on that industry,

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Speaker 1: they expect to raise their earnings forecast for this year,

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Speaker 1: talking about booming demand in their main markets around the world.

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Speaker 1: And that's saying something when you know there's so much

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Speaker 1: of a focus on, you know, whether economies outside the

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Speaker 1: US are doing as well or perhaps headed for some

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Speaker 1: weakness and relative to the US. And yet you know

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Speaker 1: you've got all these stocks moving up in Norwegian Cruise

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Speaker 1: Lines has the second biggest game in the S and

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Speaker 1: people I'm under now it's up more than eight percent.

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Speaker 1: You know, but you know where the demand is coming

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Speaker 1: from China? That would make sense. You know, you've got

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Speaker 1: people who have more wealth, uh, that are more able

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Speaker 1: to travel, and so it stands to reason that you'd

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Speaker 1: be getting the demand from China. You know, United Continental,

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Speaker 1: I mean they're talking about raising their earnings forecast for

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Speaker 1: this year at a time when fuel prices are going

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Speaker 1: up and we've seeing other companies cutting their projections. So

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Speaker 1: you know that that's the positive surprise there. Uh. You know,

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Speaker 1: you've got United up seven and a half percent, American

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Speaker 1: Delta Southwest all higher. We should point out to that

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Speaker 1: Royal Caribbean and Carnival are following Norwegian Cruise Lines leads.

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Speaker 1: So those are a couple of areas that definitely get

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Speaker 1: your attention to this market alright. One area that's getting

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Speaker 1: my attention is the underperformance of tech stocks to the naztacs,

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Speaker 1: certainly underperforming the SMP and down Jones. What's behind that, Well,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't help matters that Alphabets down, you know, the

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Speaker 1: owner of Google. This five billion dollar fine imposed by

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Speaker 1: the European Union, I should point out though, I mean

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Speaker 1: those two classes of shares that are in the SMP

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Speaker 1: the ticker g O O G L, and the non

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Speaker 1: voting class C, which is g O G they're only

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Speaker 1: down about a quarter at this point. That exact what

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say. I mean, this is the biggest

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Speaker 1: fine ever of its hype. It certainly is a big headline.

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Speaker 1: The reaction is to Minimus exactly. I mean, people anticipating

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Speaker 1: that the EU was going to weigh in. That this

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Speaker 1: has been playing out for some time, so it's not

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Speaker 1: like it's snuck up on anyone. And just looking at

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Speaker 1: you know, Alphabet's performance, I mean you see just in

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Speaker 1: terms of how much they earn in a quarter. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: I mean you're talking about nine billion dollars. They could

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Speaker 1: of earnings. Let's get a little bit more insight on

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Speaker 1: exactly what this fine was and why stock investors just

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Speaker 1: really don't care share over a joint us. Now, she's

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Speaker 1: a technology columnist with bloom Bloomberg Opinion. UM, we're talking

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Speaker 1: about this five billion dollar fine by the European Union.

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Speaker 1: Can you just give us why Google was fined this

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Speaker 1: way and why shareholders are just shrugging it off? Sure? So, Basically,

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Speaker 1: what the European regulators said was that Google has been

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Speaker 1: illegally abusing its power over Android, which is the operating

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Speaker 1: illegally compelled the companies that make devices that run Android software,

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Speaker 1: other Google apps on those Android phones, including things like

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Speaker 1: UM investors don't care, look, as you guys said, this

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Speaker 1: has been telegraphed for a long time. This investigation has

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Speaker 1: exactly how this might crimp Google's revenue and profits that

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Speaker 1: you know, we're now in a world where Google has

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Speaker 1: become the de facto um you know, starting point for

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Speaker 1: smart home world. And you have to bear in mind too,

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Speaker 1: we've seen this movie before. Go back a couple of decades,

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Speaker 1: the EU regulators told Microsoft they had to break up

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Speaker 1: in essence, the Internet Explore browser from the Windows operating system.

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Speaker 1: It's the same thing, only it's playing out now with

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Speaker 1: in the last couple of decades. And so here we are.

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Speaker 1: It's the same situation you know that that Google's facing.

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Speaker 1: And you know, at least we have a press the

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Speaker 1: suggest that may not be the end of the world. Well, Shira,

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Speaker 1: I just want to understand Android as the operating system.

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Speaker 1: It's a Google product, right, is a Google product? Yes?

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Speaker 1: So they don't make money directly from Android. But yes,

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Speaker 1: it is a product that Google makes and distributes. They

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Speaker 1: got two billion monthly active users. That's the largest installed

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Speaker 1: Google Play Store. So you've got what three million plus

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Speaker 1: apps on the Play Store. What would be the technical

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Speaker 1: mobile phones. Yes, fair question. Um, I think the most

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Speaker 1: Android operates. Um, what it could mean is in the future,

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Speaker 1: maybe it won't have the Google Search app installed on

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Speaker 1: installed on it automatically. Right, And look, those kinds of

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Speaker 1: default do matter. That is why companies make deals so

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Speaker 1: people tend to use whatever is already on their phone

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Speaker 1: rather than seeking out those apps or internet services on

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Speaker 1: their own. All Right, So you know, we started out

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Speaker 1: and so it seems like it's pretty clear that this

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Speaker 1: it's not going to materially alter their outlook. Netflix perhaps

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Speaker 1: is in a different situation. You are seeing those shares

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Speaker 1: respect to they actually start to face some challenges with

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Speaker 1: I think probably not yet. Um. Look, the thing about

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Speaker 1: You know, but the thing about Netflix, right is that

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Speaker 1: it's a self fulfilling prophecy that people's investors belief that

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Speaker 1: Netflix will keep growing gives it the money both from

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Speaker 1: the debt markets and exequity value, gives Netflix the money

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Speaker 1: to keep spending on programming so that it can gain

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Speaker 1: more users. And if one part of that virtuous circle

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Speaker 1: cycle doesn't work. Right. That is, investors believe, Okay, maybe

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Speaker 1: Netflix isn't going to grow to the moon, or at

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Speaker 1: least to have to grow as quickly as we thought

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Speaker 1: in terms of subscriber numbers. Maybe they're less willing to

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Speaker 1: um loan money to Netflix to fund its programming costs.

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Speaker 1: And if that's the case, then maybe Netflix can't spend

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Speaker 1: the whole thing starts to come unraveled. So we don't

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Speaker 1: know the impact. It's only one quarter, but remember that

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Speaker 1: Netflix basically live or dies based based on the kind

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Speaker 1: of faith of investors, and that faith could be tested. Now, sure,

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Speaker 1: Netflix has what a hundred and thirty million subscribers paying

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Speaker 1: every month. Correct, that's a lot of cash flow, isn't it. Well,

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Speaker 1: negative three to four billion dollars this year. And the

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Speaker 1: there's even more money going out the door for Netflix

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Speaker 1: to pay for Oranges, the new Black and Stranger things

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Speaker 1: than all the other literally hundreds of new shows and

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Speaker 1: spending more than it's it's taking in. I think they're

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Speaker 1: supposed to be about seven hundred programs on Netflix Original programming. Dave,

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Speaker 1: saw the reaction. Uh, late Monday, early yesterday, stock bounced

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Speaker 1: it's lower today, but two thirds of repersent at the moment,

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Speaker 1: so it's not like things are falling apart, at least

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Speaker 1: in the eyes of investors when they look at Netflix. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Netflix shares now trading about three hundred and seventy five

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Speaker 1: dollars a share. Thanks very much. Sara over Day Bloomberg Opinion,

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Speaker 1: I want to bring an Ira Jersey, Chief US Interest

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Speaker 1: rate strategist for Bloomberg Intelligence. Ira, Yesterday's Q and A session,

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Speaker 1: trying to goad Chair Powell into coming to their point

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Speaker 1: with their point of view. So things like things like growth,

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