More worrisome for Amazon (AMZN)’s 500-billion market capitalization, Ovide underlined, is the fact that Amazon’s international retail operation lost money in Q2 2017 since Amazon’s operating profit was a “tiny USD 628 million”, less than Amazon […]
“The lower the VIX, the richer the Jeff!” These are words you may hear in the next few days on Wall Street after the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) reached an ultimate bottom at a level […]
According to FactSet, Amazon (AMZN)’s market value is currently USD 495 billion versus Apple (AAPL)’s USD 789 billion. Thanks to its long-term domination of the e-commerce and cloud computing markets for the years to come, […]
Amazon.com Inc. has been founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos who still runs the company as CEO today, launched its website in 1995 and made its IPO on the Nasdaq in June 1997. 20 years […]
According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), existing-home sales slipped in June 2017 – minus 1.8 percent – as low supply kept homes selling at a near record pace – plus 0.7 percent YOY […]
Most often, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) makes more pessimistic predictions than other similar institutions as for the state of the global economy. This time however, with July 2017’s world economic outlook update, the IMF […]
Investors around the world would now have a preference for foreign – particularly European – equities over domestic US stocks. Volumes of Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) have shown investors’ growing interest in European and Emerging […]
Amid a synchronous and protracted slowdown, Emerging Markets (EM)’s growth started to decrease significantly from 2010 after a golden decade. Since then, EM’s growth forecast hovered around 4.2 percent in 2015-2016, down from as high […]