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posted by martyb on Tuesday January 08 2019, @06:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the down-from-a-trillion dept.

Amazon is now the USA's most valuable publicly-traded company by market value:

Amazon's ended trading Monday with a market value of about $797 billion, compared with Microsoft's $783 billion. Apple, which had been part of a close three-way race for the seat, is now down to about $702 billion in market value after plunging last week on the news of its weak iPhone sales. Google parent company Alphabet has surpassed Apple with a market value of about $748 billion.

Previously: Microsoft Overtakes Amazon as Second Most Valuable U.S. Company


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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday January 09 2019, @12:31AM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Wednesday January 09 2019, @12:31AM (#783914) Homepage
    Long story. Investing in shares in mining companies has its ups and its downs as much as any other limited-resource primary industry. The big wins come from the big finds, and there's no way looking at any larger picture will help you predict when those happen. So basically it's a bit of a crapshoot. Many mines are in unstable countries - even more unstable than Trumpistan - so there are high risks too. Are you an Aussie? I've read positive things about many Australian prospects, maybe one might prove you right. Many mining equities are dipping currently, so it might seem a good time to go in, but with the US stock exchange as it currently is, they could be collatoral damage when the bubble of almost everything bursts. So, not for me, but clearly others think differently.
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