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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Penl Podcast. I'm Paul swing you.

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com. Well, Amazon reported earnings after the

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Speaker 1: bell yesterday, showing the first drop year over year since

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Speaker 1: early t seventeen in their earnings, and the longer that

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Speaker 1: investors have to digest this, the more investors to like,

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Speaker 1: you know what, we actually kind of like Amazon more,

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Speaker 1: actually a little bit lower to discount and shares have

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Speaker 1: come back at one point down more than eight percent,

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Speaker 1: now down two point six percent. Joining us now to

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Speaker 1: discuss Alex web technology calumnist for a Bloomberg opinion, Joining

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Speaker 1: from London. So, Alex, We've been talking about it all morning,

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Speaker 1: Amazon shares falling. It does seem though that they are stabilizing.

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Speaker 1: Why do you think? I mean, I think that usually

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Speaker 1: when Amazon spends money, it goes somewhere which does wind

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Speaker 1: market share and generate returns, Um. On the one hand,

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Speaker 1: we've gotten spending money on on improved deliveries in acceleration

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Speaker 1: the pacer which prime orders get delivered. And secondly, it

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Speaker 1: looks as though they are taking a bit of a

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Speaker 1: hit on on the margin for Amazon Web services, the

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Speaker 1: hugely successful cloud operations. But the motivation for that might

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Speaker 1: be about defending its market share. That by by cutting prices,

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Speaker 1: Microsoft in particular, but also perhaps Google and Ali barber Um.

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Speaker 1: And you know, if you're defending market share, then it's

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Speaker 1: defensible to maybe sacrifice a little bit of profitability. So Alex,

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Speaker 1: you know, this is a company that's kind of dialed

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Speaker 1: upon maybe either kind of what they what they need

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Speaker 1: to invest in and maybe what kind of profits they

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Speaker 1: want to show the street. Are we do you get

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Speaker 1: the sense that maybe the company is getting into a phase,

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Speaker 1: uh of higher expenses. I think it certainly looks as

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Speaker 1: though the competitive challenges are increasing. Um. That's happening both

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Speaker 1: when it comes to e commerce and cloud and therefore,

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Speaker 1: you know, warrants opening the checkbook a little bit. The

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Speaker 1: you know, AWS profits are still disproportionately huge. You know,

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Speaker 1: they account for two thirds of the overall profit of

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Speaker 1: the business. UM, we are yet to see whether really

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Speaker 1: the pushes from the likes of Walmart and Target can

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Speaker 1: make a real incursion into this e commerce space. I

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Speaker 1: think that there starts something like e commerce accounts for

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Speaker 1: ten percent of all retail in the US, and Amazon's

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Speaker 1: about of that. So until we see any meaningful shift

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Speaker 1: very confident in the Amazon's trajectory. So let's talk about

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Speaker 1: a WS, the cloud computing service sector of Amazon that

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Speaker 1: was also a disappoint a minute, and it arguably is

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Speaker 1: You're making the argument this morning a more significant disappointment

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Speaker 1: than the increased spend, and I'm wondering why people seem

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Speaker 1: the arguments of the rationale for that for that slight

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Speaker 1: but we might be that, as we said, it is

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Speaker 1: some some distance, and the sort of expenditure you need

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Speaker 1: is significant. You know, these chips, you know, server chips

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Speaker 1: So it's not that once you have a competitive advantage there,

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Speaker 1: it is quite hard to displace. Um. Nonetheless, the competitors

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Speaker 1: long as Amazon continues to throw off cash and be

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Speaker 1: by no means a sort of it's still a very

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Speaker 1: that's not a trend that people will be happy to see.

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Speaker 1: But you know, the Amazon argument will be, well, it's

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Speaker 1: it seems terribly compelling. Um, you know, story to tell investors.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being with us, Alex Webb,

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Speaker 1: and for all of your commentary throughout the morning. Alex

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Speaker 1: Webb is a Bloomberg Opinion technology calmness. You create all

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Speaker 1: his columns, as well as all the other fantastic work

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg terminal or Bloomberg dot com slash Opinion if you

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Speaker 1: go to the web. You know, I was just chatting

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Speaker 1: with Lisa Affair and I was saying, you know, we

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Speaker 1: haven't we don't really talk that much about risk arbitrage

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Speaker 1: that a little bit. Right now, you'll have Sharon It's

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Speaker 1: portfolio manager for dree House Capital Management in Chicago, joins

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Speaker 1: us on the phone. You have, thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: joining us. Let's start with the risk arbitrage part of

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Speaker 1: vibrant that is. What kind of returns are risk arbitraders

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Speaker 1: You know, at a at a holistic level. Today, UH,

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Speaker 1: recent quarter that has died down UM, partly because of

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Speaker 1: the global economic concern to geopolitical tensions, etcetera. But what

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Speaker 1: we're seeing is still quite a bit of deal activity UM,

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Speaker 1: not only in traditional merger arbitrage, which again you know

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Speaker 1: implied probabilities. Again, these are deals that are either need

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Speaker 1: And to the extent that Zuckerberg refuses to draw a

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Speaker 1: mean it remains to be seen. I would say that

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Speaker 1: and put them into the pool with everybody else. David Garritty,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much as always for being with us

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Speaker 1: and giving us your thoughts. Interesting to hear about the

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Speaker 1: idea of whether the user base really has increased all

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