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radio show. I'm Chris Hill joining me this week. Senior analyst Jason Moser and Emily

Flippen. Good to see you both. Hey Chris. It's earnings, Paloza, nearly 1,000 companies

reported earnings this week and we are going to talk about each and every one of them.

All right, not all of them but we will have a couple of stocks on our radar. We're going

to start with Big Tech. Amazon had its worst single day of trading in over a year. Shares

of Amazon fell more than 7% on Friday. After disappointing second quarter results came

with weak guidance for the current quarter. Emily, I should add that despite Wall Street's

disappointment, this was the third quarter in a row that Amazon's revenue was north

of $100 billion. Part of the reaction we're seeing today is just because

misses like this are really unusual for Big Tech and Amazon in particular. But I think

we can all afford to be a little bit more giving with Amazon here, given the unpredictability

of things like shopping online. The rollout of vaccines for instance, the reopening of

the economy. A management was put forward with a really tough challenge of trying to figure

out what's guidance going to be for like this quarter but also quarters into the future.

So despite the fact that revenue came in just a little bit under expectations alongside

operating profit, earnings still handedly beat there up 50% year-over-year to earnings

up over $15 a share versus the $12.30 that was expected. So there's definitely some

strong silver lining for Amazon in this earnings season. I will say it'll be interesting

to keep an eye on what happens with Amazon and in particular it's just its prime business,

its e-commerce shopping through the remainder of 2021. Part of their hesitance to give

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