Amazon Gains 4.6%, Crosses $3 Trillion — Why Did Bezos File to Sell?
Amazon +4.58% Monday, past $3 trillion for the first time and the main engine behind a record Dow close. The catalyst is cloud: AI compute orders have hardened from expectations into multi-year framework contracts, which is really a visibility story. Microsoft and Google each added close to 5%; CoreWeave, the higher-beta version of the same trade, jumped 19.49%. Then Bezos filed to sell 15 million shares, about $4.07 billion. A record and a founder's sell notice on one day — is $3 trillion a base, or the top of a cycle?