https://news.yahoo.com/google-parent-alphabet-misses-quarter…
Paresh Dave and Nivedita Balu
Tue, April 26, 2022, 4:09 PM·4 min read
By Paresh Dave and Nivedita Balu
(Reuters) -Google parent Alphabet Inc on Tuesday reported its first quarterly revenue miss of the pandemic after the war in Ukraine hurt YouTube ad sales, leaving investors rattled as the global economy sputters.
The world’s largest provider of search and video made a fortune over the last two years as the pandemic forced more shops and people online. But outdoing those sales is proving difficult so far this year with the war, rising inflation and product shortages causing advertisers to dump marketing campaigns, according to analysts.
Alphabet Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said it was too early to predict when sales slowed by the war may pick up and warned that the strengthening U.S. dollar would hurt sales even more in the current quarter.
My charts on Twitter:
1) $GOOGL reported earnings after the close last night:
“Alphabet shares, which were up nearly 90% over the past two years, fell about 2.5% after the results late on Tuesday. They had dropped 3.6% during the regular session.”