The staggering run into this report lets go straight to phil lebeau with all the details. A beat on the top and bottom line and the beat on the bottom line is significant. Lets run through some of the numbers. Much better than expected earnings per share and its a fourth straight profitable quarter for tesla. 2. 18 is how much it earned in the Second Quarter the street was expecting three cents profit revenue just over 6 billion as i mentioned, a fourth straight profitable quarter for tesla. We know the significance of that it is the last hurdle the company needed to clear in order to be included in the s p 500. Lets drill down some numbers within the report that are going to get attention operating cash flow, 418 million. Automotive revenue was actually down it declined by 3. 4 in the quarter, not a surprise given the fact that you had the freemont factory shut down for five or six weeks. But the automotive regulatory credits revenue, thats where they made it up. That was up 317 milli
Weve got record highs, dow surging. S p gaining. Nasdaq 1. 06 texas earnings forecast and yesterdays trade deal with china. At the same time individual companies are taking action to fight Climate Change in a way thats unprecedented these are issues that could hurt earnings per share yet the market doesnt seem to care. The market seems to like it. Its insane. For my entire life, especially the last 40 years, you have companies doing anything they could to make a profit and the government working to restrain them. It was the government that forced big business to care about clean air and clean water. Thank you richard nixon. We took it as a given companies would try to get away with anything they could to maximize profits for their bosses the shareholders this endless cost for growth, wall street didnt care at all it was amoral. And if you want to be a good investor, you ordered this stuff. But in eamon yumtal twist weve seen a shocking paradigm shift suddenly capitalism is trying to re
Fail miserably. But he says that is all part of the magic. Joining me today on bloomberg studio 1. 0, astro teller, head of alphabets x lab. And captain of moonshots, which is your official title, as i understand it. Astro it is. I function as the ceo, but i go by captain of moonshots. Emily you rolled in on wheels. This is your standard mode of transportation . Astro it is. Emily how much time do you think you shave off . Astro i have worked that out. Its about eight minutes a day. Emily wow. [laughter] astro its a big building. Emily you are making the most of those eight minutes. We are in the x lab, just a couple miles south of googles headquarters. This is where the magic happens, or sometimes doesnt happen, as you are quick to point out, because you have far more failures than you do successes. What is the mission of x . Astro x was created to be the part of alphabet that would make, hopefully, some new googles for alphabet to have. Things like waymo, the selfdriving car business
And weapons the promise and the peril of the digital age. Im tom giles, in for emily chang. Joining me today on bloomberg studio 1. 0, brad smith, president of microsoft. Tom brad, thanks for being with us today. A lot of the last year has been spent talking about and spilling ink over this complex relationship between the u. S. And china. Id like to hear more about your concerns about the way this is playing out between the u. S. And china, and what impact that could have on u. S. Technological leadership on a global arena. Brad the u. S. Is the Digital Technology leader in the world today, but one of the important things for all of us to remember is that we dont actually invent or create technology by ourselves. If you buy an American Technology product, a product that is made by an american company, in all probability, it consists of inventions that came from Silicon Valley as well as bangalore and beijing and dublin and london, toronto and melbourne and the like. We need to continu
The message beyond microsofts campus with a new book, tools and weapons, the promise and the peril of the digital age. Im tom giles, in for emily chang. Joining me today on bloomberg studio 1. 0, brad smith, president of microsoft. Tom brad, thanks for being with us today. A lot of the last year has been spent talking about and spilling ink over this complex relationship between the u. S. And china. Id like to hear more about your concerns about the way this is playing out between the u. S. And china, and what impact that could have on u. S. Technological leadership on a global arena. Brad the u. S. Is the Digital Technology leader in the world today, but one of the important things for all of us to remember is that we dont actually invent or create technology by ourselves. If you buy an American Technology product, a product that is made by an american company, in all probability, it consists of inventions that came from Silicon Valley as well as bangalore and beijing and dublin and l