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By Greg Bensinger, Deborah Mary Sophia
Feb 6 (Reuters) - Amazon.com financiers drove shares down greatly on Thursday due to weak point in the retailer's cloud computing system and lower-than-expected forecasts for first-quarter income and earnings.
Amazon's shares fell as much as 5% in prolonged trade after the fourth-quarter earnings report, removing about $90 billion worth of stock exchange value, and were last down about 4.2%.
Amazon Chief Financial Officer Brian Olsavsky said he anticipated the capital investment run rate for this year to be roughly the exact same as in 2015's fourth quarter when the company invested $26.3 billion. Amazon has actually enhanced spending in particular to assist establish expert system software.
The business's sales estimate for the first quarter failed to satisfy analysts ´ expectations, even if an unfavorable impact of $2 billion from in 2015 ´ s Leap Day is consisted of. The business said it anticipates in between $151 billion and $155 billion, compared to the average quote of $158 billion. The cloud unit, Amazon Web Services, [users.atw.hu](http://users.atw.hu/samp-info-forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=6a8b2ccfa0c036d6c9131b700deba228&action=profile
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Amazon Shares Drop As Cloud Growth, Sales Forecast Lag
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