Power Players with Brian Sozzi

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AWS CEO: Clouds, competition and AI May 03, 2024

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Amazon is known for its amazing Prime service. And yes, the tech giant still owns your favorite organic grocery store Whole Foods. But the real financial goldmine for Amazon is its cloud services business called AWS. It's this business that is helping shape the very future of artificial intelligence in America. At the helm of this business is the wine-loving, weekend water skier Adam Selipsky. In episode four of Opening Bid, Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi chats with the Amazon AWS CEO on if he wakes up each day wanting to crush rivals Microsoft and Google, his biggest fears around AI - and one of his key mistakes made early on in his rise to the very peak of corporate America.

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Stagflation here? Questions for a top economist Apr 29, 2024

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Is the era of low interest rates over forever?! And what if Donald Trump wins the White House and takes more control of the Federal Reserve, how crazy would that be for investors? The Federal Reserve is supposed to be independent of the White House, after all. Billionaire Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang may be right that AI won’t take your job, which is a good thing. In episode 3 of Yahoo Finance’s Opening Bid, Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi goes around the horn on all of these topics and more with Deutsche Bank Chief US Economist Matthew Luzzetti.

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Where are the permabulls? Decoding the rally Apr 26, 2024

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While the rich and powerful on Wall Street have non-stop conversations over when, or even if, the Federal Reserve will slash interest rates to supercharge the stock market, investors in one of the hottest areas of the market are selling first and asking questions later. That hot sector is none other than the Magnificent 7 – aka the Mag 7 – comprised of top tech companies Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Apple, Alphabet, Nvidia and Tesla. These investor favorites have come under pressure as market players dial back hopes for rate cuts in 2024. So what’s your best trade right now on these often money-makers? Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi is joined on Episode 2 of Opening Bid by Truist Co-Chief Investment Officer Keith Lerner, and Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Ines Ferre to share their inside perspective. An added bonus – Lerner reveals his best investing tip of all-time.

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The Potential for a market shock: talking Tesla Apr 22, 2024

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In the premiere episode of Opening Bid, Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi comes out blasting with hot takes on everyone’s favorite stock Nvidia, and most controversial billionaire, Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Is the stock market headed for a plunge? Sozzi weighs in alongside FS Investments Chief Market Strategist Troy Gayeski, and Freedom Capital Markets Chief Global Strategist Jay Woods. Safe to say both Gayeski and Woods don’t agree with Sozzi on the potential for a market beating, or Elon Musk.

Yahoo Finance's Opening Bid, brings you a high-octane take on the freshest analyst calls, wildest stock moves and shrewdest commentary in the business world. Executive Editor Brian Sozzi puts Wall Street's finest through their paces in this essential conversation for every investor - before the stock market opens.

Find this episode's transcripts and more episodes of Opening Bid at http://finance.yahoo.com/videos/series/opening-bid/.

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00:10 - Investors brace for slew of earnings

05:00 - Stocks: relief rally or more pain

07:00 - Mag 7 stocks step to plate

15:00 - Tesla's Q1 report

17:00 - Tesla problem has been musk

21:00 - Investors brace for slew of earnings

Yahoo Finance's Opening Bid is hosted by Brian Sozzi, and produced by Alexander Frangeskides and Rachael Lewis-Krisky.

Troy Gayeski serves as the Chief Market Strategist for FS Investments. He is responsible for research generation, positioning and conveying the FS Investments suite of alternative investments in today’s marketplace.

Jay Woods is the Chief Global Strategist for Freedom Capital Markets having spent over 25 years as a Designated Market Maker on the NYSE floor.

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