Economy of the United States Corporation, Apple Inc., Verizon, JPMorgan Chase, and Cardinal Health. In 2013, eight of the world's ten largest companies by market capitalization were American: Apple Inc., ExxonMobil, Berkshire Hathaway, Walmart, General Electric, Microsoft, IBM, and Chevron Corporation. According to Fortune Global 500 2011, the ten largest U.S. employers were Walmart, U.S. Postal Service, IBM, UPS, McDonald's, Target Corporation, Kroger, The Home Depot, General Electric, and Sears Holdings. Apple, Google, IBM, McDonald's, and Microsoft are the world's five most valuable brands in an index published by Millward Brown. A 2012 Deloitte report published in "STORES" magazine indicated that of the world's top
Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google (FAANG), a further extension of FANG (which originally did not include Apple), is both an acronym and a buzzword to entice investors, as popularised by Jim Cramer from CNBC's Mad Money and other talking heads for grouping together currently high performance technology companies currently listed on NASDAQ. While it usually refers to the five (or four) of these technology companies specifically, the term is now generally used to refer to the technology and consumer discretionary sectors consisting of highly-traded growth stocks of American technology and tech-enabled companies in