Amazon becomes world’s first public company to lose $1 trillion in market value

By selvakumar

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Amazon is the world's first public company to lose a trillion dollars in market value as a combination of rising inflation, monetary policies

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disappointing earnings updates triggered a historic selloff in the stock this year

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The Seattle-based online retailer lost more than $1 trillion in market capitalization on Thursday after its shares fell nearly 13 percent to $876.12 at the close of trading.

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"It's not just that they're losing money," said David Kotok, CIO at Cumberland Advisors LLC in  Florida. "They're losing money so fast that their share price has been decimated."

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Amazon's loss comes amid a broader rout in technology stocks , with Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.'s falling more than 10 percent over the past three months.

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The S&P 500 Technology Index is off 12 percent since hitting an intraday record high of 1,940.79 . Google parent both falling more than 10 percent over the past three months.

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