Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 51 - 60 of 160 results for %22Amazon%22

Top traded stocks revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... investors on the platform include Boeing, with trading activity up 372% during June, Facebook (up 330%), Hertz (up 916%), Amazon (up 602%), Microsoft (up 455%), American Airlines Group (up 545%) and Disney (up 158%).

Amazon launches climate VC fund

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
... venture capital fund, set to invest in companies building products, services, and technologies that protect the planet. Amazon said its newly launched Climate Pledge Fund would help the tech giant and other companies meet The Climate Pledge, a commitment ...

Is a market turning point around the corner?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... pointed out around 85% of the move in the index so far this year can be explained by just five stocks: Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft. When paired with market breadth which he notes "has never been so narrow", Mitchell said this extreme ...

Opportunities abound in COVID-19 environment

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... storage group NextDC in the Software & Services sector, and Goodman Group who have warehousing and logistics clients such as Amazon in the Real Estate sector, earnings are showing resilience with an outlook for growth," Xiradis said. "Sectors like Resources ...

Billionaires club rakes in cash amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... Studies revealed the "pandemic profiteers" that have benefited from plummeting tax obligations amid the COVID-19 crisis. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was one such billionaire, whose fortune increased by an estimated $39.3 billion (US$25 billion) as of April ...

Why Phillip Morris gets ESG points

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020
... analysis, these superficial screens can turn up results that don't mean much. For example, Wal-Mart owns its own trucks and Amazon outsources its shipping. A basic ESG screen or score without further interrogation may indicate Amazon has a smaller ...

New Aussie ETF to invest in FAANGs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... Securities is set to launch a new exchange traded fund on the ASX that will invest in 10 companies including Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google which together returned 45% last year. The ETF's will hold 10 stocks in equal weighting, adding names ...

Most traded stocks, ETFs of 2019 revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... the top holdings of Saxo clients in Australia were dominated by international tech stocks. Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and Alibaba made up the top five. Smith said US equity markets continue to present attractive opportunities to Australian investors ...

Super fund grows US real estate assets

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... apartment complex contains more than 900 apartments and is close to fully occupied. According to Kumaru, the likelihood of Amazon moving its new headquarters to Virginia would see the state's residential market heat up. The acquisitions come as QSuper ...

Tech to topple banking: RBA

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2019
... financial services. He suggested Google, Apple, Facebook could become banking's biggest competitors, noting that PayPal and Amazon already hold "substantial data" on customers, and social networks could be used to "predict borrowers' commitment to repay ...