The Greek term  cacoethes , used as such in Latin by Celsus to refer to early-stage tumours, means pernicious, malignant when it is used as an adjective in medical French and tumour that is hard to distinguish from carcinoma when used as a noun.
In 2014, 37% of Amazon's sales come from international markets, but the year-over-year growth rate has been decelerating. Amazon's North American net sales increased 22%, while its international sales increased only 3% in the third quarter. In all of 2014, North American sales increased 25% while international sales only increased 12%. International revenue growth continues to be a mystery and is a confusing part of the Amazon story, analysts at investment firm Stifel write in a post-earnings note.
Challenging the brick-and-mortar world order of Walmart (WMT) , which recently paid $3 billion to buy upstart online shopping site Jet.com, Amazon is a stock that should be a part of your long-term wealth-building strategy. Amazon, which started out in the garage of founder Jeff Bezos, is the undisputed king of the global e-commerce market. According to Slice Intelligence, Amazon's share of the e-commerce market in only the U.S. is 41%. The closest competitors are Best Buy and Nordstrom (with less than 3% each). That's a pretty wide gap.