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).
Which AI stocks are leading the pack? Is China AI catching up to OpenAI and the USA? Billy Leung is an ETF investment strategist at Global X ETFs and explains more.
The tech sector can produce big winners and some of the biggest wealth-creating stocks of the past century. How is this made possible?
We explore how today’s most buzzworthy investment choice can become tomorrow’s cautionary tale, and share some ETF ideas that can help investors navigate market shifts without getting burned by a single stock’s stumble or an entire acronym’s downfall.
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.
Owen Rask is the Chief Investment Officer of Rask Invest, and tells you exactly how and why he is investing for the next 10 years.
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.
The advent of transformative technologies often begins inconspicuously, much like the early days of motorised carts and airplanes. How will this affect the future of tranportation modes?
