Technical giants attract the start of the trade war with sales and record benefits | The economy
Income and Benefits of Technical Giants increased strongly in the first quarter of 2025 The decline of the United States Economy And of uncertainties that arise at the beginning Trade war has been decided by Donald Trump against the entire world. Although most of the tariff rise in April, there are already additional imports for imports since February. At the moment, they did not stop the successful march of great technology. In fact, in the second quarter, the trade war bill begins to be clearly identified.
The additional advantage of Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon $ 118,915 million between January and March, 29.2% higher than in the same period. Billing increased by 9.9%to $ 453,640 million (about 402,000 million euros and current exchange rate). Income and benefits of the first quarter were recognized.
The alphabet, meta and Microsoft goods are not dependent on trade, so they have almost immunity to the direct impacts of the trade war. Amazon and Apple are influenced by tariffs, but in the first quarter they did not notice it. The electronic commerce giant continues to grow stronger, There is purpose from Apple Consumers are sophisticated purchases For fear of increasing prices obtained from tariffs.
Finally, five companies are affected by A Freezo of the economy. At the moment, however, the demand for cloud computing, computer solutions and devices is strong to pull the artificial intelligence. At that time, digital advertising continued to grow stronger.
Apple CEO Tim Cook, the results of this Thursday have been warned by analysts Trade war has an impact of $ 900 million on company expenses The current quarter and a series of quarters indicated that the effect would be high. It, though Trump exempted electronic products such as telephones, computers and tablets Most of the import tariffs seek China, where Apple concentrates its product. The company is diverting some of India and Vietnam to reduce the rely on the Asian giant as a supply source.
In the first quarter, Apple sales increased by 5.1%to $ 95,359 million. This benefit increased by 4.8%to 24,780 million. In addition to dragging the service business, the data indicates that consumers have been ATED their purchases for fear of increasing trade war prices. Income in Europe has only increased by 1% and fell 2% in China, mostly in the US (most of the United States in the United States), the turnover of the billing, which accepts the thesis. Note in your results, The company stated “trade disputes and other international disputes” risks and uncertainties, which The previous quarter did not appear.
Similarly, Amazon results They are affected by “tariff and trade policies”, What to do I didn’t mention the previous quarter. “Obviously, wherever the tariffs are, no one in us know,” President and CEO Andy Jasi said at the meeting with analysts. “We have not yet seen the attentuation of demand. We have noticed the increase in purchases in some categories, which indicates the previous supply of the possible effect of tariffs,” he said.
In the first quarter, Amazon sales rose to $ 9%, up to $ 155,667 million, and This purpose reached 64%and 17,127 million. The company expects its income to grow between 7% and 11% in the second quarter, but the functionality of the operational result will not decrease.
Alphabet, Google Group, stands as a prominent leader of the interests, With $ 34,540 million (+46%), after increasing their income 12%, up to 90,234 million. At the Good March of Digital Advertising and Google Cloud, its cloud computing department has reached the market value of participating in the SpaceX, which has reached an abnormal cryptocurrency of about $ 8,000 million, which is established by Elon Musk, a technical giant minority share.
The meeting with alphabetical analysts had been discussed at the meeting, but tariffs or trade were not mentioned, as the company’s business was basically digital. And reference to economic decline is not indicated. Executive Vice President Philip Shindler said that the team was “very experience in maintaining uncertainty conditions.”
“We are ready to deal with gross economic uncertainty,” Mark Zuckerberg said. Although the founder and goal chief’s bet for Metaverso continues to be a failure, its social networks advertising business is closing the wind. Users uses artificial intelligence for customers to spend more time on Facebook and Instagram and optimize ads. The first quarterly earnings increased by 16%for $ 42,314 million, and This purpose reached 34.6%and 16,644 million.
There is a strong investment in data centers to develop its commitment to the new technology and the main concern of their managers expressed by the analysts is the risk of increasing the cost of investment. There are also references to not specify the potential impact of uncertainty on your advertising business.
Microsoft, mostly praised by the market, Microsoft, Its income increased to $ 13%, $ 70,066 million, and benefits, 18%, to 25,824 million, Especially for the acceleration of the growth of its cloud computing section, Azure, associated with artificial intelligence, up to 33%rhythm. His CEO Satya Nadella did not talk about the trade war.
