Alibaba Group chief executive Daniel Zhang said the spending bonanza demonstrated "customers' continued pursuit to upgrade their everyday lifestyles".
Star Wars: Episode 9 《9》 Disney tapped a box office bonanza when it bought Lucasfilm from Star Wars creator George Lucas, but it also shouldered the weight of some of the heaviest expectations any franchise has ever faced.
" Despite their public enthusiasm, however, nagging doubts exist among western bankers about whether BRI will provide the instant bonanza that some may have initially hoped.
It takes the combined wealth of about 160 million Americans to equal that of the top three super rich - Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett - whose wealth has reached over $240 billion in total, according to the Billionaire Bonanza report from the Institute for Policy Studies.
It proved to be the first installment of a blockbuster series whose vivid, even preposterous characters became pop culture legends and the progenitors of a merchandising bonanza.
In 1978, a third of households tuned in to watch Bonanza each week.
The techno-optimists of California promise a further bonanza for our inner consumer, largely powered by the supercomputer smartphones in our pockets.
Today, millions of Americans are enjoying the bonanza of an information boom, with once unimaginable power at their fingertips or, more specifically, on the buttons of their tablets and smartphones.
