Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is the everything e-commerce behemoth and one of the world’s largest companies by market capitalisation. It generates sales from its namesake e-commerce platform, its AWS web server business and countless other complementary services, such as Amazon Prime. The company started from humble beginnings in the late ’90s by Founder Jeff Bezos selling books online. In 1997, Amazon served 1.5 million customers. Today, Amazon serves hundreds of millions of customers through its global e-commerce stores, millions via its AWS cloud server business and touches many more with its technology (e.g. Prime Video, Echo, Kindle).
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The All Ordinaries (INDEXASX: XAO) posted another positive day despite growing pressure from a renewed surge in bond yields towards 4.2%.
With interest rates seeming to have stabilised and investors awakening to the immense potential of artificial intelligence (AI), the ‘Magnificent Seven’ stocks drove an impressive 53.8% surge in the Nasdaq-100 (INDEXNASDAQ: NDX) Index in 2023 and propelled the S&P 500 (INDEXSP: .INX) past 5,000 for the first time in February 2024.
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Here’s the market update for both the US and Australian share markets by David Bassanese of Betashares. Both the S&P 500 (INDEXSP: .INX) and the S&P/ASX 200 (INDEXASX: XJO) are on a new record high.
The S&P/ASX 200 (INDEXASX: XJO) Index could not hold on to yesterday’s record close, dropping 92.5 points, or 1.2 per cent, to 7,588.2 points, with all 11 industry sub-indices losing ground.
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The All Ordinaries (INDEXASX:XAO) finished the week on a positive note, gaining 0.1%, once again on the back of a rally in the energy and utilities sectors, which gained 1.3% and 1.6%.
