Amazon Stock Joins Tech Rout, Erases Nearly All Pandemic Gains

Amazon Stock Joins Tech Rout, Erases Nearly All Pandemic Gains
The logo of Amazon is seen on the door of an Amazon Books retail store in New York on Feb. 14, 2019. Brendan McDermid/file/Reuters
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Amazon shares have eliminated nearly all of their gains from the COVID-19 pandemic, plummeting about 38 percent thus far in 2022.

For the past two years, Amazon had been one of the top-performing companies amid the global health crisis. As consumers stayed home, shoppers purchased many of their goods—from toilet paper to face masks—from the digital retailer.

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