Yahoo Finance Video
Yahoo Finance's Josh Schafer joins Asking for a Trend to break down his biggest takeaways from the trading day. Amazon has reached a $2 trillion market capitalization for the first time, making it the fifth tech company in the US to do so. Schafer is also focused on weekly jobless claims. The data is set to be released Thursday at 8:30 a.m. ET, and he notes that the last month of data has been higher. He explains that another hotter-than-expected print could be cause for concern: "As people get laid off, they're going to go and file for unemployment benefits at some point, most likely. So you start to get a little bit more sense of what's actually happening. This is one of the key indicators when people talk about recession risk, if jobless claims tick up. That's where the big concern hits." For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Asking for a Trend. This post was written by Melanie Riehl