Page 29 - 5 50 News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

We had to be resourceful and creative. >> but in order to expand beyond books, bezos needed capital and a lot of it. >> amazon.com jumped $5.50 on its first day of trading. >> so in may of 1987, in the middle of the dot-com frenzy, amazon went public. >> what's really incredible about this is this is day one. this is the very beginning. this is the kitty hawk stage of electronic commerce. >> day one. it's always day one became the bezos mantra. in his first letter to shareholders, bezos sketched out the foundation of amazon. it's all about the long term. >> i'd liken it to babe ruth kind of ca...

Jobs. $1100 a week. 300% more than a retail job. get them off the retail jobs. have them building houses out there. the housing number yesterday through the roof. >> jon: that's part of what is leading to these wage growth numbers because an employer, you have a lot of options now. you say i'm not liking this gig, i'll go across the street and the boss says -- >> jon: 7 million job openings. >> last week wal-mart had a report looking for truck drivers paying them $90,000 a year. i was on my way in the other day and i saw a whole foods truck, $15.50 for transportation warehouse workers. one of ...

>> you're welcome. we're also following this breaking news out of paris. angry protests over rising gas prices have turned violent. police are using tear gas and water cannons as thousands protest on the champs-elysees. protesters are venting anger over increased prices for diesel and also protesting against the french president, emanuel macron's environmental policies. gas in paris already costs more than $5.50 a gallon. officials say two people have died so far in the unrest that began last week. cnn senior international correspondent jim bittermann is live for us in paris. jim, protests a...

Water cannon as thousands protest. protesters are also venting their anger over french president macron's environmental policies. the average price of gas in paris is already more than $5.50 per gallon. officials say two people have died in the unrest that began last week. cnn senior international correspondent jim bittermann is in paris. behind you are lots of lights because people have started to celebrate the holiday season but you also have lots of unrest behind you as well. >> a lot of demonstrators. this is usually the signal to the shopping season here when they lit the lights but today...

Retailmenot. yours for the saving. paris and other parts of france are seeing rising protests over gas prices. police using tear gas and water cannons fought protesters along the famous champs elysees. also over french president macron's policies. the price is $5.50 a gallon. authorities say two people have died so far in the unrest that began last week. we're expecting a update from french officials. we'll monitor that for you. cnn's jim bittermann is live in paris. what is happening now, jim?