Is Amazon the Best Prime Day Deal?

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

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Looking at the company and stock behind the summer shopping event. (00:21) Anand Chokkavelu, Jason Hall, and Matt Frankel discuss: - The Aug.1 tariffs - This year’s four-day Prime Day (and whether Amazon stock is a deal) - Elon Musk’s political party and Tesla - Bold predictions Companies discussed: AMZN, TSLA Host: Anand Chokkavelu Guests: Jason Hall, Matt Frankel Engineer: Dan Boyd Advertisements are sponsored content and provided for informational purposes only. The Motley Fool and its affiliates (collectively, "TMF") do not endorse, recommend, or verify the accuracy or completeness of the statements made within advertisements. TMF is not involved in the offer, sale, or solicitation of any securities advertised herein and makes no representations regarding the suitability, or risks associated with any investment opportunity presented. Investors should conduct their own due diligence and consult with legal, tax, and financial advisors before making any investment decisions. TMF assumes no responsibility for any losses or damages arising from this advertisement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What are you buying today?
0:07.0	Bolly Fool Money starts now.
0:20.5	I'm on Chalkavalu, and I'm joined by two of my favorite fools, Matt Frankel and Jason Hall.
0:26.4	Today we're talking Amazon's Prime Day. It's more like a prime week at this point, the latest on Tesla and Elon Musk, and we'll make some bold predictions.
0:35.7	But first, let's update ourselves on tariffs. What's going on there, Matt?
0:40.4	Well, the tariff news seems to be changing so quickly. We're only recording this a few hours before
0:44.6	it's being published, and I'm kind of worried, if I'm being honest. So the president announced
0:48.4	the whole new round of tariffs yesterday. It's set to begin on August 1st for 14 countries,
0:53.8	and that includes Japan and South Korea,
0:55.7	which are our number four and six trading partners, actually.
0:59.6	Those both got 25% tariff rates.
1:02.0	Some of the announced rates were as high as 40%.
1:04.3	The president also said that the August 1st date is not set in stone.
1:09.1	He said it's, quote, firm, but not 100% firm. And I really think
1:12.4	this is more noise than news at this point. I mean, remember the initial liberation day tariff rates
1:17.3	with the thing that looked like the cheesecake factory menu? And then the pause that was announced
1:22.3	until July 9th. I mean, this might be an effective negotiation tactic to get better trade deals. And to be fair,
1:29.7	it looks like it might be. But until anything actually goes into effect and is actually
1:34.8	finalized and signed by both parties, it's kind of noise. But in other tariff news, there is
1:39.9	a good possibility that we're going to see in a European Union trade deal soon. And each of those are, the countries in the union are kind of small trading partners.
1:47.5	But collectively, they actually would make up our number one trading partner in terms of both
1:51.6	imports and the trade deficit we have.
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