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Jun 2024
31m 29s

Amazon Joins the $2 Trillion Club

The Motley Fool
About this episode

Welcome to the stock market in 2024.


When we recorded today’s show, Chewy was up about 60% for the month. By the time we wrote the description, Roaring Kitty had posted a picture of a dog and the stock was briefly up more than 80% on the month.


(00:21) Ricky Mulvey and Tim Beyers discuss what’s behind Chewy’s surge, Amazon’s new retail plan and journey to being a multi-trillion-dollar company.


Then, William Cohan from Puck (16:13) joins Ricky to discuss his reporting on Paramount and future after it turned down a buyout deal from Skydance Media.


Companies discussed: CHWY, AMZN, PARA


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Host: Ricky Mulvey

Guests: Tim Beyers, William Cohan

Producer: Dylan Lewis

Engineers: Dan Boyd, Tim Sparks


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