Alphabet CEO Pichai Sends New Warnings About the Economy

Alphabet, parent of search and cloud giant Google, aims to adapt quickly to the current macroeconomic upheaval.

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The economy's health is currently the main concern of companies and investors

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The Fed action is a particularly bad sign for technology groups

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cloud giant Google, has just confirmed that the economic horizon is blurry.

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"The macroeconomic performance is correlated to ad spend, consumer spend and so on."

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"Across everything we do, we can be slower to make decisions," Pichai said.

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"You look at it end-to-end and figure out how to make the company 20% more productive."

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