{"id":12637,"date":"2017-10-27T16:04:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T14:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/27\/us-gdp-growth-beats-forecasts-tech-shares-surge-after-stellar-results-business-live\/"},"modified":"2017-10-27T16:04:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T14:04:17","slug":"us-gdp-growth-beats-forecasts-tech-shares-surge-after-stellar-results-business-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=12637","title":{"rendered":"US GDP growth beats forecasts; tech shares surge after stellar results &#8211; business live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of a crucial growth report on the US economy, after strong results from America\u2019s tech giants cheer the marketsLatest: US economy grew by 3% (annualised) in Q3.Consumer spending and business investment drove growthExports also rose, and businesses expanded their inventoriesEarlierAmazon, Alphabet and Microsoft smashed forecasts last nightAmazon and Alphabet shares both jump over $1,000 in after-hours tradingJapan\u2019s Nikkei has hit a 21-year high 3.04pm BST The Nasdaq index of tech stocks has jumped by 1.8% in early trading, to a new all-time high.Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google\u2019s parent company) and Intel are all among the top risers. 2.53pm BST BREAKING: Tech stocks are rallying hard on Wall Street.Amazon\u2019s shares have spiked by over 8% at the start of trading in New York, following last night\u2019s impressive financial results. That takes them back over the $1,000 mark.\u201cWe would characterize last night\u2019s Amazon September results as a \u2018Picasso-like quarter\u2019 with the company handily beating all metrics across the board,\u201d \u201cLast night\u2019s quarter &#8230; is another feather in Bezos\u2019 cap.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2017\/oct\/27\/amazon-alphabet-tech-giants-smash-forecasts-us-gdp-economy-growth-trump-business-live\" target=\"_blank\">US GDP growth beats forecasts; tech shares surge after stellar results &#8211; business live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of a crucial growth report on the US economy, after strong results from America\u2019s tech giants cheer the marketsLatest: US economy grew by 3% (annualised) in Q3.Consumer spending and business investment drove growthExports also rose, and businesses expanded their inventoriesEarlierAmazon, Alphabet and Microsoft smashed forecasts last nightAmazon and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}