let's get more on this from our financial correspondent conrad booze and in frankfurt conor at amazon is now valued over one trillion dollars how long can this trend of gaining value continue well chris as you just pointed out itself predicts at least one more quarter of records as the corona restrictions continue to make life for classical retailers difficult of chorus more mall christmas shopping is expected to shift online but i also have to say the dominating position that amazon has is causing many new discussions again the stronger the market position off amazon the more antitrust regulators dymov themselves isn't this dominating position something we should do about only this week the antitrust regulator here in germany has started another investigation into the business practices of amazon dot com not other tech giants also reporting quarterly earnings alphabet facebook twitter who's sticking out there. i think facebook and twitter are really worth mentioning because both have lost users during the last quarter and mainly on their most important most profitable markets america