Among other things, Apple sold smartphones for a total of 40.7 billion dollars between April and June. That was slightly more than in the same quarter of the previous year. Given the difficult economic situation, analysts had expected sales figures to decline. The value of Apple shares rose by more than three percent after the figures were published in electronic trading after the market closed.
The online trading giant and cloud provider Amazon was able to increase its sales in the second quarter of the year by seven percent to $121 billion. The group posted a net loss of $2 billion in the quarter. But that was due to investment losses in connection with the electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian. The price of Amazon shares rose by twelve percent in trading after the market closed.
