Untilthelast few weeks it seemed that was the case but most recently another sector tied directly to global growth and the so-called world-wide recovery is painting a different picture.
Although approved by the US, European regulators have put a bigger barrier to the merger of the two companies with their official approval withheld untilthelast couple of weeks in November.
From the time that the Kindle Fire was announced late last year until a few weeks ago when it sold out and the new suite of Kindle devices were announced, it was the best-selling product on Amazon.com.
Virgin said it would maintain its current flight capacities for several weeks, until it cleared the backlog of passengers stranded while transatlantic flights were grounded last week.