Away suitcases becomes a “Brand-icorn,” Amazon’s airport and food delivery moves, and John Deere = Trade War

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

Business News, Tech, News, Finance, Business, Pop Culture

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Amazon made 2 major moves into delivery and shipping by investing in Deliveroo and breaking ground on its own 100-plane airport. Luggage startup Away hit a $1.4B valuation to become our “Brand-icorn of the Day.” And John Deere drops 8% because it’s become a near-perfect illustration of the trade war drama (and Mother Nature).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is Nick, this is Jack, and this is Snacks daily.
0:04.6	It is Monday, May 20th, and actually, good timing for this one, right?
0:08.3	T-B-O-Y, the best one yet, by far.
0:12.0	Rough week for markets.
0:13.0	Last week.
0:14.0	Let's talk about the three big tariff things that happened.
0:16.0	Can you hit me with this?
0:17.0	First, a ending of tariffs with Mexico and Canada.
0:19.8	That's a good thing.
0:20.8	Then you had the delaying of tariffs on European and Japanese cars.
0:23.8	And then you had a serious increase with China, which is looking very much cold war-ish
0:28.2	at this point.
0:29.2	All up and stocks dip last week.
0:31.4	Doesn't matter.
0:32.4	All week and long, Jack and I jumped in.
0:34.3	We have three wonderful stories for you guys.
0:36.2	Amazon made two huge announcements last week, and let's just say Uber, UPS, and FedEx are
0:41.3	all terrified of them.
0:42.8	Basically, a $1 trillion dollar company is launching an Air Force and a ground army, so
0:46.8	yeah, they're pretty concerned.
0:48.3	Be afraid.
0:49.3	Yeah, be very afraid.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Nick & Jack Studios, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Nick & Jack Studios and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.