On an earnings call with reporters, Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky said that number is primarily made up of sales from Whole Foods between Aug. 28 — when Amazon completed its .7 billion acquisition of the grocery company — and the end of the quarter. Sales from Amazon’s physical bookstores are also included as part of this new section.
On the Street.com, pundit Jim Cramer today called Bezos the “Sam Walton of our time.”
On Thursday, the central bank conducted 60 billion yuan of reverse repos, while 150 billion yuan of reverse repos matured.
On Tuesday, more than 60 global asset management institutions, including BlackRock, Fidelity International and J.P. Morgan, attended a preparatory meeting in Lujiazui.
On a monthly basis, home prices climbed in 60 places, six less than last month; 36 out of 100 cities reported month-on-month price drops, five more than the previous month, and four cities remained price flat.
On fast vs. slow thinking: “The best way for me to make sure the scrappy things I launch meet a high bar is to have assembled, over the years, a bunch of experience to apply as intuition, or fast thinking, to make these decisions. And then I apply one piece of slow thinking, which is reflection.”
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On the other hand, China's economy continued steady expansion in the first half of this year with GDP up 6.9 percent, supporting the Chinese currency. Under China's market-based, managed floating exchange rate system, the yuan can rise or fall by 2 percent against the US dollar from the central parity rate each trading day. Measured by the central parity rate, the yuan has appreciated more than 2 percent against the greenback so far this year.
On the completion of the first two units of reactors, the Taishan project is expected to reduce standard coal consumption by about 8.03 million tons and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 21.09 million tons every year.
On Wednesday morning in Nanhu Fresh Food Market in Hongshan district, residents were choosing vegetables and fruits such as cabbage, tomato, potato, cucumber and eggplants, from about a dozen stalls while some stall owners helped unload vegetables from vehicles.
On Wednesday, VIPKID also announced that it has finished the D round of financing and has raised 0 million.