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Amazon, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) received a major analyst upgrade today from Pivotal Research Group, a decade-old equity research company launched in 2010. Pivotal boosted its price target for the retail giant strongly today, The Street reports, increasing its prediction from $3,950

Amazon.com Inc on Thursday said more than 19,000 of its U.S. frontline workers contracted the coronavirus this year, or 1.44% of the total, a disclosure sought by labor advocates who have criticized the COVID-19 response by the world's largest online retailer.

An investor bought large blocks of upside call options on Thursday in companies such as Netflix Inc and Amazon.com Inc, trades reminiscent of outsized options purchases made in August by a large investor known as the "Nasdaq whale."

The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel discussed ways to tighten antitrust laws on Thursday, with two Republicans on the Democrat-dominated panel indicating potential support for some changes.

Amazon.com Inc on Thursday said more than 19,000 of its U.S. frontline workers contracted the coronavirus this year, or 1.44% of the total, a disclosure long sought by labor advocates that had criticized its pandemic response.

Investors in the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) were flying high again on Thursday. The index of stocks on the Nasdaq Stock Market once again dramatically outpaced the rest of the market, rising almost 1.5% compared to just a 0.1% gain for the Dow Jones Industrials.

Wall Street closed higher at the end of a whipsaw session on Thursday as investors juggled hopeful and pessimistic news on the progress of stimulus talks Washington amid signs of waning momentum of economic recovery from the pandemic recession, now entering its ninth month.

Peter Lynch became one of the most well-known investors in America as the manager of the Magellan Fund at Fidelity Investments from 1977 to 1990. During those 13 years, he consistently outperformed the S&P 500 and generated an average annual return of 29.2% for his clients.

Wall Street see-sawed on Thursday as investors juggled optimism over progress on stimulus talks Washington with signs of waning momentum of economic recovery from the pandemic recession, now entering its ninth month.

Wall Street's main indexes rose on the first day of the fourth quarter on Thursday as investors bet in favor of more fiscal stimulus after data showed the pace of a domestic economic rebound was slowing.

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Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) annual Prime Day event has continually grown larger and larger every year. What started out as just one day of sales on its website has grown to a full 48-hour sales event -- on Oct. 13-14 this year -- that has spurred Amazon's biggest competitors to laun

Gap (NYSE: GPS) was nearly ruined by COVID-19 after all of its stores were shut down, but in the six months since the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic, the owner of Old Navy, Banana Republic, and its own namesake stores has been one of the best-performing apparel ret

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Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) had to delay its Prime Day shopping holiday from its usual midsummer date this year due to the impact of COVID-19 on its business. With surging demand and lower throughput in its warehouses, Amazon simply couldn't handle the record-breaking shopping volume

Wall Street's main indexes rose on the first day of the fourth quarter on Thursday as investors bet on more fiscal stimulus after data showed a recovery in the labor market was slowing.

With a framed Joe Biden poster in the background, Amazon.com Inc's Jay Carney made no secret of his long history with the presidential candidate while speaking at a virtual policy roundtable during August's Democratic party convention.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) just held its annual investor conference over the last few days of September. The stock surged over 6% on Wednesday as analysts rushed to lift their price targets. Why? It wasn't the core Taobao, Tmall, and Alibaba marketplaces that

Short selling allows investors to bet against a company by borrowing and selling its shares. This causes the stock to underperform, but it can also trigger explosive growth because of something called a "short squeeze" -- which happens when a growth catalyst makes shares quickly

Online supermarket and technology group Ocado, which this week became the most valuable retailer on Britain's stock market, is being sued by Norwegian robotics company AutoStore for allegedly infringing patents.