Shares in the e-commerce and cloud company fell as much as 4.6% on Wednesday
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Subrat Patnaik and Jeran Wittenstein
Amazon boxes stacked for delivery in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Photo by Mike Segar/Reuters files Amazon.com Inc. is the world’s first public company to lose a trillion dollars in market value as a combination of rising inflation, tightening monetary policies and disappointing earnings updates triggered a historic selloff in the stock this year.
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Shares in the e-commerce and cloud company fell as much as 4.6 per cent on Wednesday, pushing its market value to about US$878 billion from a record close at US$1.882 trillion on July 2021. Amazon and Microsoft Corp. were neck-and-neck in the race to breach the unwelcome milestone, with the Windows software maker close behind after having lost US$900 billion from a November 2021 peak.
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While technology and growth stocks have been punished throughout the year, fears of a recession have further dampened sentiment in the sector. The top five U.S. technology companies by revenue have seen nearly US$4 trillion in market value evaporate this year.
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Article content The world’s largest online retailer has spent this year adjusting to a sharp slowdown in e-commerce growth as shoppers resumed pre-pandemic habits. Its shares have fallen almost 50 per cent amid slowing sales, soaring costs and a jump in interest rates. Last month, Amazon projected the slowest revenue growth for a holiday quarter in the company’s history as shoppers reduce their spending in the face of economic uncertainty. That sent its market value below US$1 trillion for the first time since the pandemic-fueled rally in tech stocks more than two years ago.
—With assistance from Divya Balji and Tom Contiliano.
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