Expenses. Regulatory and privacy pressures mount. Dar p china spoke on alphabets ceo spoke about this. The momentum has been great. Ever since thomas has come in, he has continued to invest across the board. Focused a lot on operational teams. It is playing out well in this business. To be inortant for you as many situations as possible. Nejra joining us now is bloombergs opinion tech columnist and Marija Veitmane from state street is still with us. Before this release, alphabet shares had hit a record. How concerned are investors going to be about this latest news . People are fundamentally investing for growth. There was a bit of dip in aftermarket trading. The cloud is becoming a very contested space. We saw pretty much the same from amazon last week, that they are also investing to defend their market share. Investing tole is secure their market share. They do Something Like 8 billion per your revenue from the cloud. Amazon doesnt 9 billion per quarter. Doesan see that amazon 9 bil
Stocks have been driving all of that action within technology. Justiertodate, look at the lens of exchangetraded funds, the spdr, the s p, up 16 , very respectable and take a look at the tech sector spdr, xlk, 32 so a doug over its competitors within the market. Take a look also going all the way back to 2009 this was the last time that we saw this kind of outperformance by technology overall. That gap is just widening out as we see that performance. We took a look within the xlk, the spdr technology action, so we looked at stocks over 100 billion in market capitalization and have posted better than the index returns. Check this out nvidia no surprise there doubling so far this year. 129 billion company facebook, we talked about it earlier on the show. Up, a 526 billion and broadcom, 112 billion market cap. Everybody talks about apple all the time, nearly 900 billion of market cap 50 upside there and match the card 47 , its 160 billion company so a lot of names out there driving on the
Show but first things first. A couplet to spain in of minutes but this is what your markets are doing. I want to keep a little bit of an eye on the euro. Euro little changed as the catalan president prolonged uncertainty over the regions next move towards independence. Want to get you to treasuries, study. European equities edging lower. With investors looking for the release of the meetings from the ecb. Lets get to first word news. Sebastian catalonias president has kept the rest of spain guessing on if and when he will declare independence. He reiterated an offer of mediated talks while attacking king felipe vi. King made his speech, the politics of rajoys government that has been a catastrophe towards catalonia and ignored the millions of catalan that you not think like them. It ignores the catalan that have been victims of police violence. The treasury secretary up puerto rico was calling on provide billions of dollars in emergency funds. On tuesday, donna tim suggested the u. S.
About that later in the program. They are both rising and watch the turkish data drop later on. The tape turkish stock market had a solid day bouncing back on the political concerns that we are watching at the moment. It is interesting to see the brazilian market bounce as strongly as it did. Lookmuch in play as we for the fed minutes. Catalonias president has said he will seek talks with the government and matured over the future of his region in spain. The announcement burress back from an immediately immediate declaration of independence. Is call for dialogue. Europe is afraid of the outcome if there is not ilog. The calls should be heeded. We need to open up a time to have dialogue with the state of spain. Donald said hent taxs to make changes to the form. He dismissed concerns that his public spat with senator bob corker would scuttle an overhaul. The framework they released last month has been criticized for adding to the budget deficit. Independent analysis suggests it would rai
Equities are trading with 30 minutes left in the monday session. Stocks are rising for the first day after rising for the first week in five. The red cars are your currency falling against the dollar. Janet yesterday will testify in front of congress. Carillion is a big decline here in the u. K. Shares fell as 41 . Thats the lowest since 2003. Profit will be lower than expected. Dividend payments will be suspended. The chief. Down. Will step down. They have major contracts and the company will undertake a comprehensive review of the business and the structure. This will boost the stock rice. Investors had also been skeptical about the stock because before today it was off 19 already. It was the shortest stock in the u. K. According to ihs markets. They are 41 lower, a record decline at the open today. Lets get to gold. That was the biggest production since 2015. Etp and Precious Metals will cap flows. They saw more investor money and total assets. Gold shares are the top etfs. They fel