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At first, Tobias Lutke and Smoot Lake decided to create an online store in 2004 for selling snowboarding equipment. The duo did not know that they were going to establish the largest e-commerce platform in the world. Today, Shopify is the largest company in terms of capital in Canada, and 128th globally, currently worth over $109 billion.

Alpho, the award winning international broker, has introduced its new study Asian Brands of the Twenties. The research has indicated that Asia will soon take over the role of global economic center from the United States and Europe. This new superpower’s rise is driven by companies that are leaders in their markets.

Alpho, the award winning international broker, has introduced its new trading app, which offers fully intuitive trading experience. It provides an instant access to real markets to trade Forex, Stocks, Commodities, and Indices from mobile appliances. 

Most nations around the world have adopted modern cars in the contemporary era, as batteries have become stronger, performance of electric cars have soared over the years thanks to research and development, and they have become much cheaper to produce compared to the old days. This is why, according to the World Economic Forum, 1 in 100 cars today on a global scale are electric.

New registrations of electric vehicles in Europe took the lead in 2020, when 1.4 million of them were registered. It's more than double compared to registrations in 2019. Last year, nearly 1.2 million electric cars were registered in China and less than 300,000 in the United States. Fully electric or plug-in hybrid cars thus reached a record year, while the global conventional car market failed due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, Alpho summarizes in its report.

Amazon is the largest e-commerce site in the world.

What distinguishes this company from other large leaders?

With excellent results, tales of the past don’t have so much influence on the stock price of VW. On July 29, 2021, VW announced results for the first half of the year – operating result reaches a record level of 11.4 billion EUR despite pandemics.

As China’s anti-monopoly bureau tightened its regulations on big tech players and imposed some fines, Alibaba was hit hard with a record-high antitrust fine of 18.2 billion yuan (more than 2.8 billion USD) for supposedly abusing market dominance.

Robinhood focuses namely on retail investors who account for 20 percent of the daily volume of trades according to data. In the first quarter of 2020, the number of new accounts increased by unbelievable 3 million. Robinhood’s commission-free trading attracted 13 million users also thanks to its application, which makes trading easier. Its business model allows namely low-income Americans to accrue wealth through stock ownership, which has become very popular during the lockdown and interruption of sports events. The way the platform works however raises questions as well, Alpho reports in its analysis.

In the last few weeks, the public has feared the danger of blood clots possibly caused by AstraZeneca vaccine. However, the company denied the charges last week after examining 17 million people who had been vaccinated in Europe and Great Britain. AstraZeneca's statement was later supported even by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Nevertheless, Norwegian scientists claim that their research supports the fear of public. And so, after some positive news, AstraZeneca's stock reappeared under pressure. 

The vaccination marathon of the world’s population continues in 2021. Stocks of companies producing Covid-19 vaccines do not experience their all-time highs; they are in the same position as other sectors on financial markets. However, from the long-term perspective, production problems are expected to be resolved and ordered volumes are supposed to multiply their current values, which is favourable for further growth in pharmaceutical stocks. We could see them growing throughout last year when the value of some firms in this segment was rising in the order of several hundred percent thanks to the results of clinical trials and approval processes.