caroline: managing director and senior research analyst at neuberger berman. thank you for spending time breaking through these numbers. more big news from big tech. this time, it is about returning to the employee base. amazon saying it will boost pay by $.50 to three dollars per hour over 500,000 staff. they will be boosting from mid-may to early june and it is going to be investing over a lien in incremental -- over a billion for incremental pay. joe: jay powell said earlier he wanted to see wage growth. also breaking news from dow jones. verizon exploring the sale of media assets. those include aol and yahoo!. we will see more about what the plan is. probably not a huge surprise. more next. this is bloomberg. ♪ joe: ijoe: let's get a quick recap on those apple numbers that just came out. basically crushing on everything. q2 revenue, 89.5 a billion. all ahead of the 7.7 we estimates. every category. iphone, ipad, services, macs, all crushing estimates. stock up 3%. caroline: apple sales crushed wall street. other news on big tech to amazon saying they are h

george walker, neuberger berman chairman and ceo.course, our thanks to bloomberg's sonali basak. a bit of news from j&j. it will try to sort out the problems that had at a biosolutions plant. it will try to deal with that promptly. unsanitary conditions. it is also talking about basically setting up a global manufacturing network, a vaccine network that will involve basically 10 sites in that production. so a step forward in trying to make this j&j vaccine available globally and at scale. coming up, my conversation with virgin atlantic's ceo shay weiss on sustainability -- ceo shai w eiss on sustainability in the airline sector. this is bloomberg. ♪ ritika: this is "bloomberg markets." coming up, tiktok's creator. this is bloomberg. ♪ let's check in on the bloomberg first word news now. i'm ritika gupta. vladimir putin is warning countries not to cross russia's redline, or else face retaliation. putin says moscow's response would be asymmetric, quick and harsh. he devoted most of the address to domestic issues. putin promised expande

matt: that was neuberger berman ceo george walker, and does he look a little bit like his relative, georgealker bush? i think there's a little resemblance there. speaking of presidents, we are awaiting president biden, set to speak about the vaccine effort and the milestone that has been reached. we will bring of those comments live when he speaks. this is bloomberg. ♪ peaks. this is bloomberg. ♪ so you're a small business, or a big one. you were thriving, but then... oh. ah. okay. plan, pivot. how do you bounce back? you don't, you bounce forward, with serious and reliable internet. powered by the largest gig speed network in america. but is it secure? sure it's secure. and even if the power goes down, your connection doesn't. so how do i do this? you don't do this. we do this, together. bounce forward, with comcast business. >> i am mark with bloomberg's first word news. the united states is set to cross a major vexing milestone this week. president biden will announce the country has met his goal of administering more than 200 million vaccine doses in his first 100 days in office. more

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