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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Public.com presents The Rundown, your daily market update in under 10 minutes. My name is Zaid Admani, and today is Friday, February 6th. In today's episode, we'll look at the reasons why Bitcoin is crashing. We'll also recap earnings from Amazon and Roblox. Then stick around to the end of the show to find out what makes these Winter Olympics so different. We got a great show for you today.
Let's go. Stocks were down for the third straight day on Thursday. In fact, yesterday was the worst day of the week with the S&P 500 dropping 1.2% and the NASDAQ fell 1.6%. And yesterday wasn't just tech stocks feeling the pain. Almost every sector was in the red. The S&P is now negative for the year and you can kind of feel the sentiment shifting.
Chapter 2: Why is Bitcoin experiencing a significant selloff?
Even solid earnings haven't been enough to spark a rally. But you know, as ugly as things are in the stock market, crypto is having a full on meltdown right now. Bitcoin crashed 13% on Thursday, falling below $63,000. In fact, it was the biggest one day drop since the FTX collapsed back in November of 2022. And the rest of the crypto market followed suit.
Ether, Solana, XRP and others all got hit yesterday. Now, prices are starting to recover a bit this morning. Bitcoin is back in the $66,000 range, but still down around 50% from its October peak of $126,000. Now, there could be multiple reasons for this sell-off. For one, crypto trades like a tech stock.
And with the tech sector selling off right now, investors are moving money away from risky assets. So that's dragging down crypto. But the second factor is forced liquidation. As prices start to fall, investors who borrowed money to buy crypto got margin called and are forced to sell their position. That pushes prices even lower, which triggers even more liquidations.
And it's a brutal downward spiral. And finally, there is data that suggests that institutional investors might be starting to sell. So when
you add all that up we might be headed for a full-blown crypto winter another data point to keep in mind every time i talk to my mom now the second thing she brings up is the crypto crash right after how our grandkids are doing so yeah we've entered the phase in the cycle where grandmas are starting to ask about crypto so we'll see what happens over the weekend and over the next few weeks
Now, looking ahead to next week, earnings season continues to roll on with some big software companies reporting. And we're finally getting the January jobs report on Wednesday, February 11th. It was supposed to come out today, but then it got delayed because the partial government shutdown. So we'll finally get it next week. Maybe a strong jobs report will give the market a boost.
So I don't know. We're going to stay on top of it all, break it all down next week. So make sure you guys are subscribed to the podcast and tuning in every day to stay in the loop. Let's run through some headlines, starting with Amazon. Amazon reported earnings last night, and it was a classic case of good numbers, but the stock is still dropping. Let's run through the numbers first.
Total revenues came in at $213 billion, topping estimates. On top of that, AWS, which is their cloud business, grew 24% year over year, its fastest growth in more than three years. Advertising continues to be a bigger piece of the pie for Amazon. That grew 23% to over $21 billion in revenue. Amazon is quietly becoming an advertising juggernaut.
So despite all those great numbers, why is the stock down 8% today? Well, no surprise here, but it has to do with AI CapEx. Amazon said they plan to spend $200 billion on capital expenditures in 2026, mostly on AI data centers, chips, and cloud infrastructure. That 200 billion number is nearly 60% more than what they did last year and way above the $150 billion that Wall Street was expecting.
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