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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Simon English

Amazon and Facebook send global stock markets on billion-dollar rollercoaster

Amazon has booked one of the biggest opening price gains in Wall Street history, ending a rollercoaster week for US tech titans and the pension pots worldwide which rely upon them.

Shares in the e-commerce and cloud-computing giant jumped 12 % as markets opened in the US this afternoon - adding almost $170billion to its value.

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