Get daily news updates directly to your inbox Subscribe See our privacy notice Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid EmailAmazon has become only the second company in the world to achieve a valuation of more than $1 trillion. When multiplied by the current number of shares outstanding - 487,741,189 - it placed the company's value just over the same symbolic milestone that Apple hit less than one month ago. Amazon's value is now greater than that of every stock listed in all but 13 countries, including those of Taiwan, Spain, and Italy, according to the CIA's World Factbook. A number of US stocks were lower, with declines in Facebook and Nike leading to a bumpy start to September trading.

Source: Daily Mirror September 04, 2018 15:56 UTC