but ups's biggest customer is amazon.they didn't say them by name, but they said that their biggest customer and them have come to an agreement where they're going to try to cut more than half of their volumes by the second half of 2026. that is the key. the earnings report was better than expected for profits, a somewhat worse than expected for revenues. the outlook, again, is what's got investors a little bit worried. so we're down 15.5%. another one of those bellwethers right. shipping volumes can play into that whole dow transportation type theme. we'll see whether or not carol tomé can set the record a little bit better off with this particular stock. kelly, i'll send things back over to you. >> that's coming up in just a few minutes. dom. thanks. let's turn now to today's tech movers, which has the nasdaq at a bit of a tug of war. tesla is up 4% more than that now, despite missing on both the top and bottom line last night. while microsoft is down more than 6% on weak revenue guidance. meta. that's moving up one and

before 2019, apple and amazon _ at stake. before 2019, apple and amazon with _ at stake.a - at stake. before 2019, apple and amazon with alexa used i at stake. before 2019, apple i and amazon with alexa used to transcribe the conversations that it was hearing, so it would put them into writing and thenit would put them into writing and then it would be able to learn from people's habits and potentially sell that information, which is worth a lot to their advertisers. tech companies and apps know a lot about us, but since 2019, they have come on such a long way, and the truth is, now they don't necessarily need to listen to us and our conversations because they learn so much about us. this case is all about making sure people are aware of the privacy and what information they are giving up, and to make sure they look at the terms and conditions, and these days it is more to do with tracking permissions on each app, to make sure that they haven't by chance given away microphone access to any of their apps. we have all done _ access to any of their apps. we have all done it,

it had previously been ranked around 520,000 on the amazon list. the author, jim murphy, told axios that sales of the book went from five books a day to more than 10,000 a day. wide receiver a.j. brown has praised the book on social media. he wrote, quote, i bring it to every game and i read it between each drive. i use it to refocus and lock in. despite what may transpire in the game. good or bad. and now i look at the us book market. well, brenna conner is a book industry analyst with a company called circana mishcon. what is circana? circana is a market research company. we track the performance of industries across the u.s. and globally. and when it comes to books, how do you count how many books are sold and what are bestsellers? that's a great question. so our books industry is just one of many that we track at circana, and i am the book's industry analyst. so i work with our books data almost every day and our books data is post based, which means point of sale. and we're getting data across more than a thousand retailers in the us. so every

hawley: gets a great set up for amazon -- it is a great set of amazon. it's unclear why it is a great set up for their nonemployees, the folks who are technically amazon employees but happen to work every single waking hour for the company. anybody else want to weigh in on this? ms. cooley, do you have any views? ms. cooley: i'm not a labor lawyer but i can see why that would be concerning. sen. hawley: doesn't give amazon an advantage over companies like ups? ups employees their drivers. they have to be responsive to their drivers. they have to negotiate with them. by treating them as independent contractors, amazon doesn't have to do that for any other drivers. ms. cooley: having vertical integration can have anticompetitive effects. sen. hawley: on a different subject, health care for second and pharmacy benefit managers and vertical integration, why is it that insurance companies -- why should health insurance companies be able to buy up pbm's and the pharmacies so that the pbm is supposed to negotiate with the insurer and the pharmaceutical companie

amazon ends the right to work from home for corporate staff, welcome to business today.begin with europe's energy security, because the era of cheap russian gas has formally come to an end. russian gas stopped flowing to the eu via ukraine on wednesday, after a five—year deal expired, and kyiv refused to renew the transit agreement, which has been in place for decades. the european commission says the eu has prepared for the change and most states will cope. but hungary and slovakia have remained heavily dependent on russian gas. slovakia's prime minister says his country's interests have been �*trampled'. here's the wider context though, at the time of russia's invasion of ukraine in february 2022, the share of russian gas on the european market was about 35% since then that share has fallen to about 8%, as european countries sought to diversify supplies. as well as investing in renewables, many have moved into lng or liquefied natural gas supplied from other parts of the world, such as the us and qatar. cornelia meyer is an independent energy analyst. she told us the e

>> that is right. >> it is great set up for amazon. it is less clear to me why it is such a great set up for their nonemployees, the folks who aren't amazon employees but happen to work every single waking hour just about for the company. anybody else want to weigh in on this? >> i'm similarly not a labor lawyer. i can see why that's a concern. >> doesn't it also give amazon an advantage over other companies like ups, ups employees their drivers, they have to be responsive to their drivers, have to negotiate with them by treating them as independent contractors. amazon doesn't have to do any of that. >> having vertical integration can have anticompetitive effects. >> let me ask you on a different subject, on the subject of healthcare for a second and pharmacy benefits and speaking about vertical integration, why is it that insurance companies, why should health insurance companies be able to purchase pbms and pharmacies so that the pbm is supposed to negotiate with the insurer and the pharmaceutical companies to get better prices but i

marcus bokkerink, who has chaired the cma since 2002, will be replaced by the former boss of amazon ukthe head of equities at premier brighton gave his view. it's a good move this, because actually the cma has actually been quite slow at actually coming to a decision on its mergers. clearly, the one which is particularly in focus at the moment is the vodafone merger with three network, which has been open since october 2023. but if you go back a little further to the microsoft activision merger, that was actually opened injuly 2022 and didn't opine a final determination until november 2023, it was the last of all of the regulatory authorities to clear it. so really we've seen a regulatory authority which is probably excessively bureaucratic, and i presume what they're looking to do is accelerate decision—making in this going forward. figures just out show uk government borrowing rose to £17.8 billion last month. that's the highest december figure for four years, according to official data. the office for national statistics said public sector net borrowing was over £10 billion higher t

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they are talking about is amazon. they are cutting deliveries from that in half. now, revenue from amazon for ups was about 12%. but they said if they didn't cut those deliveries from amazon in half, it would have cut into their margins. amazon, as you know, has also been making inroads trying to deliver their own packages. a lot of analysts think this was a headwind that that finally came to surface for ups. stuart: late this afternoon we've got apple, the big one, reporting. tell us what are we looking for? >> in the last week, stu, you've had jeffreys and oppenheimer all downgrade the stock. they're talking about weak iphone sales, competition in china. is a.i. really enough to make you upgrade to another $1,000 phone? that's the backdrop theading into this. a lot of downgrades. look for $124 billion in revenue, eps of 235. iphone revenue, the number the look for is $71 billion. stuart: last one, whirlpool. why are they down 15? >> you know, the ceo and the cfo are saying that the housing mark if's showing no signs

amazon now asking the lego rock —— regulator to launch the service.ne the regulator would say competition is good, will keep prices down and competition higher? this is likel to and competition higher? this is likely to be _ and competition higher? this is likely to be rubber-stamped . likely to be rubber—stamped through. we know they have plans in the coming months to try and launch this. obviously those 3000 satellites will only be around half of the constellation in space at the minute, thanks to elon musk�*s company. we can imagine that will start to ramp up here. it is a big, growing market in the uk. we saw that there was a doubling nearly of users of starlink in the uk in the last year, about 87,000 now. there are about 4 million worldwide using elon musk�*s company, so it is something we will see becoming more and more important in the years to come. from a tech point of view, how much of a game changer is the sort of technology, because it all relies on the lag, the fact you can get that communication more quickly than a satellite out in far

so she's like, i most share was the just around the west and sort of amazon facing pushing up into the camera period as long as you find. and so i want to, to show us just around the eastern uh, the, the hello, i know about this, and this has been, these are life from don't coming up in the next 60 minutes is where the occupation forces is step popular offensive on jeanine refugee camp. found also target other issues in the occupied westbank plus returning to rubble and grappling with in sufficient age we report in the plight of potter studies in gaza, devastated by genocide.

i see how the protecting deadlines and the present and amazon against the threats destroying the rain forest, the people that have passed. so the people that i feel that the whole body joining forces with indigenous and non indigenous allies to share the message of living and harmony with us and will sustain with, don't be afraid to get the conflict to but the amazon is not the only natural habitat tons of threats and the action inc. notes, the only people with this message is the key. it's a fairly recently and this program i'm finding out how the indigenous voice is gaining strength. here's a tool maintenance as nature's cry for help. place more urgent than the question. one of the most nature depleted countries in the world. it's here that the industrial revolution i'll shoot in a new age of production and consumption, giving humanity untold power is to exploits the natural load. assessing us on the past to the global climate crisis. we face today, but some 200 years later and a field in the south of france and a new relationship with nature is the magic the. this is medicine festi

he's work we far as doing the amazon. everybody come and i remember your job. and today these children are getting hands on as a help to what do you think think he's message was like that guy about how eventually, but it's a long time to to make sure a lot. yeah. so how do you feel, having had what he said, it makes me to kind of like a side, i guess um, if we do move, how far they've been kind of last week and what are some of the times to do? i mean, size is i've been whiskey as a moving theater. absolutely. guys don't live obvious. i'm inside your basic one. do that. i'm going to put it on for you. oh, he took on that sound the same, went through my snap balance. i used to, but i would scan them on the phone. what would you make it that sound trouble face limit attic. yes. savvy. might say, might speed that somebody that you would say, let's take a moment to have a maybe patient that's to this 3 is any spirit nation for your life. is always nice done. was that the name that they have? i'm a lot by dialing the, but for us that size is done with glen, found th

why see that a lot of cloud here pushing into that western side of the amazon face. and so that could cause some localize to flash flooding here. quite an angry looking sets up the f of a south where there's plenty of warm sun shot into those central areas for chimney into watching taina went off in pull stanley, as well as around $23.00 degrees, but the rain will set same here as we go through friday, cooling off somewhat, so we have got whatsoever, plenty of rates still there across the hall to the amazon, pushing up into western paso, brazil, through peru. and we have got one or 2 showers to enter the caribbean small in the west sunshine van shala's sized looking pretty good for the most part. okay, i think the showers will gather maybe towards the eastern knowledge as we go one towards the we can right. has been gathering recently down towards the south. the south of the us, we go to heavier, apply pressure this to quite there. as you can see, i would suppose they see they see it around 6 celsius at the moment. temperature is here, we'll pick up to around 9 celsi

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that book was ranked on amazon's list of bestsellers, before brown was spotted reading it. you want to guess where it is right now? it's all the way up from 500,000 and change to number one on amazon. self-help author jim murray. now the hottest thing on amazon sports on abc seven is sponsored by going up for ellie late this week following the devastating fires in the area, kimmel and his crew are hosting a donation center on their studio backlot in hollywood for those who are impacted. >> kimmel's costar guillermo was on hand today packing boxes. >> people really need it, and you never know. today is for them. tomorrow can be for us, for any of our members, family and everything. so that's why we have to do it to show our love and support to the people here. i feel so bad. i feel like terrible. but we have to stay together. we have to come as a community and help the people who really need it. >> so sweet. the jimmy kimmel live donation center is accepting nonperishable items, diapers, hygiene products and more through friday. >> all right. thanks for being here. >> i >> l

a blade on amazon, before using it to kill three girls at a dance studio.mers — such as providing two our political correspondent, ben wright has more. the murder of three young girls in southport last summer has prompted national anguish and a public inquiry into state failure. one area the inquiry will examine is the ease with which axel rudakubana bought a kitchen knife on amazon to carry out the attack. he was just 17 at the time, despite existing laws banning the sale of most knives to under 18. tougher id checks are now coming, but one former prosecutor says retailers should also have to tell the authorities if they have refused to sell somebody a knife. they ought to be able to record that and send it to the police or any other investigator and say somebody is trying to buy a knife, we've stopped them from doing so. at the moment that doesn't happen. so they can go and try some other retailer. so it's, yeah, absolutely. anything that will make it more difficult for a violent offender to get ahold of a weapon should be welcomed, but it has to be prope

instagram and facebook's parent company, meta, and amazon now both rolling back some of their diversitystion tonight about whether other companies will follow. emily has more. >> reporter: tonight, a major change up in the corporate world as tech behemoths amazon and meta are dialing back their diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. anti-dei activist robbie starbuck recently telling cnbc -- >> they are causing division, employee on employee, and you're losing money. >> reporter: amazon saying in a recent memo, we've been winding down outdated programs and materials. and meta told employees friday, given the shifting legal and policy landscape, the company is changing meta programs focus on hiring, training, and picking suppliers. ceo mark zuckerberg on joe rogan's podcast friday. >> it's one thing to say we want to be kind of, like, welcoming and make a good environment for everyone, and i think it's another to basically say that masculinity is bad. and i, i just think we kind of swung, culturally, to that part of the, the kind of, the spectrum, where, you know, it's all like, okay,

amazon plans to offer broadband via satellite — $80 billion in al this year.et's bring injames demmert, chief investment officer at main street research in new york. maybe not as broad or as inflation driving as originally feared, do you agree that maybe markets were over worrying about this? we markets were over worrying about this?— markets were over worrying about this? we have certainly seen european _ about this? we have certainly seen european markets - about this? we have certainly i seen european markets bounced back after the news?— seen european markets bounced back after the news? happy new year. i back after the news? happy new year- i do _ back after the news? happy new year. i do think— back after the news? happy new year. i do think that _ back after the news? happy new year. i do think that the - back after the news? happy new year. i do think that the last - year. i do think that the last few business days are a microcosm of what we can see over the next quarter or two. is it going to be super aggressive and then they pull back and say it's go

amazon now asking the regulator for permission to launch this sort of service.l competition is good. it will keep prices down and competition high. yeah, i think that this is likely to be rubber stamped through. we know that they have plans in the coming months to try and launch this. we know obviously those 3000 satellites will only be around about half of the constellation that is in space at the minute thanks to elon musk�*s company. but we can imagine that that will start to ramp up here. i mean, this is a big market and a growing market in the uk. we saw that there was a doubling nearly of users of starlink in the uk in the last year, about 87,000 now. there are 4 million worldwide are using elon musk�*s company. so i think this is likely to be something that we see becoming more and more important in the years to come. and, you know, from a tech point of view, how much of a game changer is this sort of technology? because it all relies on the lag, doesn't it? the fact that you can get that communication much more quickly than a satellite that's right out i

actually so i'll hear a someone that's got a new book coming out and then i'll go to amazon and search for the book's metadata and then go to the publishers house, the publishers website and pull back. but yeah, a lot of people didn't know toni morrison wasn't an editor for many years. in fact, she edited, she was responsible for, exposing us to other great authors and in fact of them has a new book or a republication. eddie jones has a book coming out first tales and morrison spoke highly of many work that is work. but she edited some of some of really important black writers and so toni morrison's impact on publishing is profound and deep and she's really just an iconic and indeed i got to see win an award or beyond for a lifetime work at at the national book awards. this was, you know several years indeed. maya angelou presented the award. so it was it was really a special moment. yeah. and i think i'd like me a lot of people knew that gordon parks was a photographer and a documentary maker. but didn't know a lot about him. yeah, so i don't know a lot about that book, actually. i wh

he disagrees with amazon�*s decision.vely we all know from our own experience, if we�*re trying to do individual work in an office that is distracting, we have difficulty, because people disturb us and we lose concentration. people who do individual work at home are potentially 30% more productive. yet, what seems to be happening is, for whatever reason, these ceos are saying, "no, i�*m going to ignore the evidence, i want everybody in the office." we know work/life balance is improved, we know people actually have more time, and the surveys have said interestingly people don�*t hate being in the office, theyjust hate travelling to the office, which is dead time. so it is absolute madness from my perspective to force people in, because what�*s going to happen is the people you�*re going to lose and the suggestion is that maybe 70% of amazon staff have effectively been saying, i might think of anotherjob, are going to be the best people, your talent. belgium has become the first european country to ban the sale of disposab

stuart: amazon has a partnership with teledock. that's interesting?lor: okay, so teledoc joined up with amazon health benefits connector for their cardiometabolic programs so if you're a customer of amazon and you are eligible for teledoc's health diabetes, hypertension, weight management programs, you n now enroll in those benefits using amazon's health connector program. so sort of a mingling of the two companies. stuart: if i go into starbucks, i don't buy anything. i just want to use the bathroom. do i have to pay? taylor: yes you do. so it is a new policy, which to me this actually sort of feels like common sense, right? we're getting back to if you want to sit in the cafe, use the restro, starbucks is now saying you need to be a paying customer. we want to prioritize those paying to have a space in the cafe and use the restroom so they are sending out new guidance and allowing employees the tools to be able to enforce those. stuart: kb homes stock. it's up right now. they had an earnings report but i'm more interested in what the ceo had to say

that book was ranked on amazon's list of bestsellers, before brown was spotted reading it.s where it is right now? it's all the way up from 500,000 and change to number one on amazon. self-help author jim murray. now the hottest thing on amazon sports on (fisher investments) at fisher investments we may look like other money managers, but we're different. (other money manager) how so? (fisher investments) we're a fiduciary, obligated to act in our client'' best interest. (fisher investments) so we don't sell any commission-based products. (other money manager) then how do you make money? (fisher investments) we have a simple management fee, structured so we do better when our clients do better. (other money manager) your clients really come first then, huh? fisher investments: yes. we make them a top priority, by getting to know their finances, family, health, lifestyle and more. (other money manager) wow, maybe we are different. (fisher investments) at fisher investments, we're clearly different. going up for ellie late this week following the devastating fires in the area

axel rudakubana was only seventeen when he bought a blade on amazon despite having a prior convictionour chief political correspondent, henry zeffman has this report. horror born from just a couple of clicks, he was 17 when he bought on amazon the kitchen knife he used to kill three girls at a dance class in southport last summer. on monday, he pleaded guilty to the murders of bb king, elsey stankom and ms silva aguiar after multiple authorities missed multiple chances to stop him. and despite the fact that he'd been convicted for violence and was just 17, he was easily able to order a knife on amazon. that's a total disgrace, and it must change. a public inquiry has been launched and one area it will investigate is the ease with which he bought the weapon. the government wants to move fast on this. sir keir starmer has pledged that online firms will be forced to ask anyone buying a knife for two types of identification — notjust a document, but something like a live selfie video too. writing in the sun newspaper, the prime minister said... it's already illegal to sell most knives to

mrjassy has long been known as a sceptic of remote work, but amazon staff were previously allowed to roebuck is an expert on working culture and a member of the advisory board at the ucl school of management. welcome to bbc news, chris. i mean, amber zone forcing everyone to be in the office all the time. your thoughts? i allthe time. yourthoughts? i just find it quite bizarre in that there is an absolutely vast amount of evidence that shows that if set upright hybrid working works extremely well for both employees and organisations and is beneficial. yet we have amber zone and other ceos who, for whatever reason, seem to be ignoring the evidence. find whatever reason, seem to be ignoring the evidence. and you think that this _ ignoring the evidence. and you think that this is _ ignoring the evidence. and you think that this is really, - ignoring the evidence. and you think that this is really, this i think that this is really, this is —— that this is really this particular�*s ceo's stance, when you look at the evidence, the size, etc, people's well being in the workplace it is of kno

apple, brought, , microsoft, amazon. back to the usual suspects. >> so you have been able to have people come in and not feel like they are chasing these. >> healthcare, though, is the only sector that is weaker. it continues its underperformance .7 .5% lower. >> there was an attempt at a little bit of a trade for healthcare and it worked to some degree, but yesterday, between unh and the nasty stock reaction, today, lily is the big momentum named in healthcare. it is down 2.2% on those concerns about medicare negotiating prices point >> and novo. eli lilly's own obesity drugs wouldn't be eligible for that distinction until 2029. but still, obviously, that affects the entire sector as far as what else is moving out there. not getting a big boost on meta- , which is interesting, given the headlines around tiktok. we are going to talk to frank mccourt in the next hour, which is one of the insts thveorat wants to buy the u.s. tiktok business to try to prevent it from getting banned in the u.s. money movers starts after a qu

for amazon, i think if you think about free cash flow generation at amazon there is an argument thatrn that spigot on in a way the world wants to see. i think aws re-acceleration kind of north of 20% is part of what i think the market is expecting. believe it or not, as you valuation for amazon is not terrible. paypal is not old name i think is been over the last 12 months we have had a management change, we have had real focus on products. i think you have a valuation that is very defensible, even though there is an argument about the existential risk amid all the other competitors out the mac i really like that one. >> anything international? >> i look at some of the places across europe, again, names in atf, names where i think are actually going to be very, very durable in an environment where we may be worried about global growth, you know, really strong. >> are they in the etf? >> they are. it is about companies growing their payout levels, not necessarily those looking to pay back a lot. i think it is a case where you can find healthcare, the energy sector, too. coming into 20

inner excellence pasó a ser el libro más vendido en amazon el lunes por la mañana.decidió barrerse y cerrar el partido. sus compañeros le preguntaron por qué lo hizo, si podía anotar, y barkley contestó en español, que decidió que no más. luego explicó ante los medios que así aseguró la victoria y evitó que pudiera venir un error o una posible lesión. cómo se nota que barkley estaba desperdiciado jugando en los yankees de nueva york, que tiene la mira puesta en el super bowl super bowl, que por supuesto vamos a tener por la pantalla de telemundo 48. claro que sí, aquí por telemundo. carlos, qué notas nos traes y varias lecciones que se pueden rescatar. primero que nada, comenzando con esa primera nota, no hay como el respeto de los fanáticos. todos queremos disfrutar del partido. es un deporte que le apasiona a muchos, pero no hay como respetarlo. es totalmente inaceptable que alguien venga y te insulte en un estadio. es cierto que puede ser contrincante, se puede decir algunas cosas, pero siempre dentro del respeto. es más, es más bonito cuando de repente te invita

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and imagine the pricing power that amazon has and when amazon prime was introduced at $79 a it's nowyear and my wife, my kids and instant gratification heroin needle in our arm of amazon packages and having my amazon prime payment and think about the pricing power these companies have and they continue to have massive leverage and cost of capital and not worried about a deep fake. stuart: what they're saying with they make their earning reports and going to keep on spending that and needing to spend that kind of money this week. appreciate it always. first day in office coming up with the commercial order the citizenship. >> we're the only country in the world that does this with birthright, as you know. it's just absolutely ridiculous and we'll see we think we have great grounds and appears i've wanted to do this for decades. stuart: the birthright citizenship pathway has been becaused and trump's -- abused and trump's critics say it's a constitutional critic and national school choice week and president trump announced an un-waiverring critic of school choice and what exactly is he

its amazon busy lutes margins because amazon strikes a tough deal, so she is to endorse short-term painrm gain. trying to diminish the amount of business it leans on for amazon. the plan to phase out more than half of its business with the big e-commerce giant will take place over the next 18 months and means ups will see a revenue decline for the current quarter. >>> las vegas sands though is hitting the jackpot, shares up 11.5% even after the casino and resort company missed earnings expectations for the fourth quarter. las vegas sands is having its best one-day performance in the more than two years as a investors remain optimistic about a recovery in its maca a u business, the chinese gambling mecca that's been hurt by the slowing china economy. investors also liked the earnings beat in its singapore location, and it doesn't hurt hat company announced a $450 million stock buyback. a $15 billion share buyback is not doing anything for comcast. shares are on track for the largest percent decrease since october of 2008. down 12 at the moment. after the cable and entertainment company s

i believe you were dead right on amazon.record highs recently, and i think you saw that coming. >> well,st the been one of our top picks -- it's been one of our top picks. all of these names going into this year, they've had phenomenal runs. yeah, you have more valuation risks. i'm not as aggressive on my of these names except for uber which is still dislocated. and i may be wrong, but i'm sticking with my guns on that one. the other names, i think there's small upside to them. i'm happy about meta, but i've got a $725 price target, and the stock's rough wily at 700, that's not a lot of upside. i fully acknowledge that. i wouldn't be an aggressive buyer here. if there were a pullback, i would be. the strength of some of these assets is really coming through. i think a lot of that's captured in the stock. we can be patient investors from time to time. stuart: oh, really? [laughter] remind me of that, will you? mark mahaney, you have a great weekend, and we'll see you next weak. >> you too, stu. stuart: all right. they're goin

you mentioned amazon. why do you like amazon?nk this is the year in which we'll see an acceleration in advertising revenue growth. and we'll see an acceleration, continued acceleration in aws, web services, their cloud computing business. the so what of that is those are their highest margin businesses, so you'll have this positive shift in the business model towards faster growth in the highest margin businesses means that the very strong margins, operating margin expansion, free cash flow margin expansion category that's powered the stock over the next six months the by continues to power it over the next 6-12 the months. ashley: doordash, you like that too. >> yeah, doordash carb too. frankly, across large cap internet stocks and maybe across a lot of large tech, large cap tech there's not a huge amount of upside in t names. you know, we've had -- we're two and a half year into a very strong bull market. i don't think we're going to get the kind of outperformance in '25 the as we had in '24 and '23. the setup is not nearly as

you go onto amazon, poof, it arrives through your letterbox three minutes later. to amazon for more than just what you're calling the boring books. >> of course they do. and you know, if you buy percival everett's "james" from amazon, it's the same percival everett i'll sell you. but if you come into this store to buy it, you will come and you'll be surrounded by other books which you can browse and engage with. almost certainly you'll have another, a fellow customer saying, oh, have you read this by him? have you read? you will have an experience. and when you walk out of the store with it in your bag, it will lift you. it's the same book, but i promise you it's a better book. and the reading of it will be more pleasurable because you bought it in a bookstore. jeffrey: that strategy applies to the nation's independent bookstores, too, of course. in fact, barnes and noble recently acquired one of them, denver's much-loved but bankrupt tattered cover, a move being watched closely locally and beyond. daunt says this. >> bookstores get into trouble. what we now do as

workers on our list. >> we're amazon workers going to talk to amazon workers.stand with you when you go on strike, starbucks, when you when you went on strike, the democratic party was with you. >> so when we go back to them in the next cycle, they know that, oh, when the democratic party stuck their necks out a little bit. what i'm urging you to think, you know, and everyone to think about is beyond tv ads. >> there's a whole world of how you engage people as if you care about being a grassroots organization, which we are not tapping into or investing in because we're so reliant on the paid communication. >> and by the way, i'm for tv. i work on tv. i have no problem with tv, but the reality is there's, you know, like you said, there are a lot of people that we're not reaching. we please come back because we got to talk about neoliberalism, right? >> because it's the easiest and it's the and it's a scam. >> you can get a lot of money just by running an ad, right? it doesn't take a lot of work. >> that's that's come back because we got so much more to talk abou

i appreciate what amazon and meta and crew do.walk alongside anybody but right now the next two to five years are going to be transformative in this space because of the speed at which ai is changing the world around us. and so being left behind is a real possibility. again, i will just close on i will work with anybody in this room but he doesn't get us are using and don't legislate from fear. legislate from opportunity. just try to make that possible. >> i want to thank all of you for sharing in this really important discussion. [applause] and i will just close by saying whether it's education, whether it's business, whether it is helping underserved communities, or legislators, lawmakers, people for developing policy. ai is here. it has been here. you can't ignore it, and ignore, and if you do you do so at your peril. so certainly let's not be left behind. let's get on top of this and see what can be done about it in your legislatures and who knows. even on capitol hill. we'll have to wait until that works. thank y'all so much.

so, they will be reducing, they have agreed with amazon that they will reduce volumes from amazon bythan 50%. by 2026. and this is an acceleration of a plan that they already had underway. it is coming much quicker than expected. scarlet: where is it going to make that up? >> they are going after some higher-margin business. they are looking into the health care vertical, which they call complex logistics. it brings in a little more profit. they use more of ups services. hopefully -- they are hoping that's where they can make up some of that revenue. >> in 2023, ups was negotiating with their workers. they avoided a strike by paying them more. labor talks forced some to move to competitors like fedex. did the customers stay with the competitors or did they move to ups? >> ups has been courting some customers, trying to bring them back. based on -- i can't say exactly, based on volumes and things like that, it's not looking like they are where they used to be. scarlet: they have not recovered completely from that episode, along with just the whole package delivery business, still norm

the amazon delivery person? no plows.zon delivery person in a giant rivian. >> it's snowing in quebec, so good luck getting those packages. and thanks for watching. power lunch closing bell starts right now. >> kelly thanks. welcome to closing bell i'm scott wapner live from post nine here at the new york stock exchange. this make or break hour begins with the risk and reward of this record setting rally, which is going for yet another milestone today, an all time closing high for the s&p, which is well within reach. in fact, we're basically there. we'll see how this transpires over the final 60. take a look at the majors as we begin the end of regulation. mostly green nasdaq seeing some give back today after its recent torrid pace here. utilities industrials among the better sectors. we are watching the banks too. as president trump addresses davos today

meta and amazon both rolling back some of their diversity and inclusion initiatives. now questions on whether other companies will follow. nbc's emilie ikeda has more. >> reporter: a major changeup in the corporate world, as tech behemoths, amazon and meta are dialing back their diversity, equity and inclusion programs. robbie starbuck recently telling cnbc. >> they're causing division employee on employee and losing money. >> reporter: amazon saying we've been winding down outdated programs and materials. and meta says they're focussed on hiring, training and picking suppliers. >> it's one thing to say we want to be kind of like welcoming and make a good environment for everyone. and i think it's another to basically say that masculinity is bad. and i think we kind of swung culturally to that part of the kind of spectrum where, you know, it's all like, masculinity is oxic. we have to get rid of it completely many. >> reporter: his comments come as tech giants appear to be trying to make inroads with the incoming president. and following similar moves from companies l

amazon's ceo was involved in this decision which could see amazon spending much more on the platform.d chair jeff bezos attended the inauguration of president trump where elon musk was a featured guest. apple is in talks about testing ads on the platform. taking a look at the stock of amazon, it's up almost 1% in the premarket. well, some tense moments on capitol hill yesterday during robert f. kennedy junior's confirmation hearing as he accusing bernie sanders of taking money from big pharma. >> almost all of the members of this panel including yourself are accepting millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry and protecting their interests. >> no, i thought that would -- no, no, no, i ran for president like you. i got millions and millions of contributions. they did not come from the executives, not one nickel of pac money from the pharmaceutical industry. they came from workers. >> in 2020 you were the single largest receiver of pharmaceutical money. >> i had contributions from workers all over this country. workers. >> you were the single -- >> not a nickel from corporate

well, sara, we're learning that melania trump will be the subject of a new documentary coming to amazon prime video this year, giving a rare and behind the scenes look at one of president- elect trump's most trusted but also notoriously guarded advisors. an amazon spokesperson tells our colleague in a statement, quote, "prime video will be sharing more details on the project as filming progresses and release plans are finalized. we are excited to share this truly unique story with our millions of customers around the world. " now, this is a notable move from amazon. as you recall, donald trump was once a reality star but has essentially been a pariah in hollywood since he entered politics in 2015. this s that amazon recognizes his popularity among americans, particularly after his election in november, and is looking to capitalize on that. to put a finer point on it, this began films in december, one month after trump's win. it'll be released in theaters and on streaming a few months of trump has taken office. of course, this comes after amazon chief jeff bezos met with trump at his mar

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