Wall Street has closed with outstanding sales this Friday (Dow Jones: -0.99%; S&P500: -0.95%; Nasdaq: -1.36%), led by him Nasdaqafter investors discounted the Amazon results and the January employment report, that has shown a cooling higher than expected. This Friday's records have made New York indices delete accumulated profits and culminate a week of losseswhich have been 0.53% for Nasdaq, 0.24% in the case of S&P 500 and 0.54% for Dow Jones. The week has been marked by the Commercial War unleashed by President Trump with his tariffswhich were then paused in the case of Mexico and Canadaand Parce that will continue to dominate the narrative of the markets in the next few days. Today it has been known that the president will announce next week «reciprocal tariffs to several countries. «
The January labor report published this Friday has also starred in the week, which has shown The creation of 143,000 new jobswhich is a moderation since December 307,000, and is located below the consensus forecast, which anticipated 170,000 new payrolls.
Kathleen BrooksXTB research director, points out that «job creation in January could have been impacted by the Fire in California and by the uncertainty caused by the change of administration in the US. « We do not believe that labor market data changes the course of the Federal Reserve«He adds.
Amazon disappoints with its forecasts
In the results chapter, Amazon has fallen 4.05% in the session after disappoint with its forecasts for the first quarter of 2025. The Electronic Commerce giant has obtained in the last three months of 2024 a Net profit of 20,004 million dollarswhich allows you to almost double the 10,624 million dollars harvested in the same period of 2023. For its part, the income of the company have Increased 10%up to 187,792 million dollars. «The somewhat disappointing orientation provided should not be seen as a specific issue of the company, but rather as a sober vision of the various macro and geopolitical risks that could be on the short -term horizon of the company, «says Thomas Monteiro, Senior Analyst of Investing.com.» main challenge For the first quarter it will now be Improve the orientation on the sides of the cloud and the AIparticularly discovering how to improve some of the expenses with higher efficiency models despite the interruptions in progress before the competition is updated, «adds the expert. For Dan Coatsworth, AJ Bell investment analyst,» it is clear that Investors want these companies to benefit from the AI revolutionbut they want to be sure that money is spending well. The great concern is that they are being too aggressive, especially now that cheaper forms are emerging to access the AI. «» Amazon has headed the list with a capital investment forecast of approximately 100,000 million dollars in 2025, the large majority of which will go to artificial intelligence for their cloud division, AWS. He is spending money on data centers, hardware, chips and network equipment to lay the foundations for attending what he expects to be a gigantic demand wave. It is a huge disbursement to face now and then you have to wait until you get a positive financial return of the investment«, insists.
Companies and other markets
Currently business, Tesla 3.39% have fallen after knowing that Its car sales in China have dropped in Januarywhile competition with local rivals continues to intensify. In other markets, oil West Texas has risen 0.61% ($ 71.05) and Brent It has advanced 0.51% ($ 74.68). For its part, the euro 0.51% ($ 1,0327), and the ounce of gold has won 0.36% ($ 2,887). In addition, the 10 -year American Bonus Profitability It has revalued 4,487% and the Bitcoin 0.65% has been left ($ 96,046).
