Wednesday, January 1, 2014

FT Numbers of 2013: Business

Financial Times: Numbers of 2013, Business


10%: Apple is sitting on 10 percent of US corporate cash

30 Minutes: Jeff Bezos pledges it will take a drone 30 min to deliver an Amazon package from the moment a customer clicks ‘buy’

70%: Twitter shares soared 70 percent the first day of trading. Investors valued it at more than $30bn.

$22bn: Tesla’s Market Value was at 22 Billion Dollars at its peak—this is half the value of Ford and one-third of GM.

$13bn: JPM record penalty of 13 billion dollars to resolve civil lawsuits over residential mortgage-backed securities

8.5%: Gold prices fell 8.5 percent in one day in April—marking the steepest decline since 1983.

$1242: Bitcoin peak price.

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