Amazon CFO blames the Olympics and Trump assassination for slowing sales: 'Customers only have so much attention'

"When high profile things happen or the assassination attempt a couple of weeks ago, you do see that people shift their attention to news and so it's more about distractions," Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky told reporters on Thursday.

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• Amazon issued a lower than expected sales forecast on Thursday.
• Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky said the weak forecast was partly due to wild events on the news cycle.
• "No matter what you're selling or providing...