Premium: Amazon shoots the lights out, stock jumps 14% in post-market trade

When we launched the $10,000 BizNews Shyft portfolio in December, a disappointment was being unable to include all-time favourite counter Amazon.com. At over $3,000 each, adding a single share would simply have required too high a weighting.

Although it's not entirely absent – Amazon is 6.65% of the QQQ ETF which is 35% of the BN Shyft portfolio – we'd dearly loved to have owned a stake similar to the 21% in the long-standing BizNews Webtrader portfolio. Even more so after last night's cracking quarterly results from Jeff Bezos's creation.

As you will read in the piece below from our partners at The Wall Street Journal, Amazon's numbers surprised pundits, its share price jumping 14% after-hours in the wake of a 7% pre-results decline. Among forgotten facts was the huge strides Amazon has taken in securing its global supply chain (see video above) through decisions like investing in its own fleet of container ships.

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