joined by tom metcalf who has this wealthng accumulation. ow quickly bez os'wealth has ballooned as a stock has run up in just the last three years. tom: it's been absolutely incredible. he's got a 160 been dollars fortune, and he started -- $160 billion fortune. at $100ed the year billion. aloneare prices up 74% this year. for a company that size, it is unprecedented. emily: and his family has also made out. both his parents invested in the company, his siblings invested in the company. tom: they been investing in amazon as early -- since as early as they were able to. you're looking at over $2000 a share. it's one of the all-time great investments. as a family, they need no more assistance, i think. they are just trying to work out how they can give away their money fast enough to keep pace with this great growth. emily: how does this be that they accumulated this growth compared to other wealthy founders like mark zuckerberg, the founder of google, and bill gates? bill gates did hit $100,000, that would be worth about 100 -- $150 billion.

nejra: thank you so much to tom mackenzie, our china correspondent. joining us is michael metcalfe from state street global markets. i want to pick up on the last point that tom made in terms of bigger strategic goals here. is this just the start of what is actually a bigger standoff despite the market cleaning to shrug off what happened over the past 24 hours? michael: shrug off? notink the comments about devaluing are actually a very positive thing, so one of the big questions around the trade war is how does it escalate from here? right now, frankly, it is not big enough to impact markets, and it has the potential to do so. i think those comments suggest actually that's that is not on the agenda for now. i fully understand the market reaction now. it could get more positive, you know, if that has been ruled out. now to the strategic question, i mean, yes, these are -- you have an established superpower and an emerging superpower, and they are going to clash. the first place they are clashing is on trade. there is a big imbalance there. it's understandable why trump would try to