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Donald Trump hits out at Amazon over taxes, jobs

Shares of Amazon fell 0.5% at $978.00 in premarket trade after Trump's comments

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Reuters Washington
Last Updated : Aug 16 2017 | 4:40 PM IST
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticised Amazon.com on Twitter over taxes and jobs and accused the global retailer, without evidence, of hurting US localities and causing job losses.

Shares of the company fell 0.5 per cent at $978.00 in premarket trade after Trump's comments.

Amazon.com has said that it has more than 50,000 job openings across the United States to help fulfill customer orders and earlier this month hosted multiple job fairs to fill them.?

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First Published: Aug 16 2017 | 4:13 PM IST

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