As the summer heats up, stimulus checks, the partial or complete reopening of most states, and a significant drop in new jobless claims reported by the Labor Department all make things look more upbeat for mid-2021. Some companies are well-positioned to make the most of America'
After breaking through $3,500 in September, Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) stock price stayed stagnant for many months. Interestingly enough, it was news of Jeff Bezos' departure as CEO and Andy Jassy's promotion to that position that helped lift the shares last fall. Now that Jassy has
Futures tracking the Nasdaq index edged higher on Thursday, with mega-cap technology stocks leading gains ahead of a weekly unemployment report that will allow investors to gauge the strength of the labor market.
It's not always easy to see the differences between a value stock and a growth stock. Often a single stock will exhibit the characteristics of both: a beaten-down stock whose business can still whip the market indexes.
During the first quarter of 2020, investors were taken on an historic ride. The unprecedented nature of the global coronavirus pandemic sent the broad-based S&P 500 lower by 34% in roughly a month.
Toyota Motor Corp's research arm said on Thursday it acquired U.S.-based Carmera, a provider of maps and data for driverless vehicles, marking the Japanese car maker's latest investment in autonomous technology.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said on Wednesday it has sued Amazon.com Inc to force the retailer to recall hundreds of thousands of hazardous products that it had distributed on its platform.
Toyota Motor Corp said on Thursday it acquired U.S.-based Carmera, a provider of maps and data for driverless vehicles, marking the Japanese car maker's latest investment in autonomous technology.
Amazon.com Inc on Wednesday pressed a New York judge to dismiss a lawsuit by state Attorney General Letitia James claiming the online retailer failed to ensure worker safety at two New York City warehouses as COVID-19 infections surged.
Jeff Bezos may have been beaten to space by rival Richard Branson, but the billionaire American businessman is poised to make history next week aboard what would be the world's first unpiloted suborbital flight with an all-civilian crew.
Amazon.com Inc founder and Chair Jeff Bezos will donate $200 million to the Smithsonian Institution to boost its Air and Space museum and fund a new education center, the largest gift since the museum's founding in 1846.
Wall Street saw choppy trade on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 reaching a record high and the Nasdaq edging lower as investors balanced worries about inflation with reassuring comments from Fed Chair Jerome Powell.
Wall Street's main indexes eased on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 retreating from a record high, as a decline in economy-sensitive cyclical stocks outweigh an early boost from growth stocks after reassuring comments from the Federal Reserve.
Confluent (NASDAQ: CFLT) is a big data analytics provider that spun off of LinkedIn back in 2014. The technology that supports the Confluent platform is Apache Kafka, an open-source solution that was developed inside LinkedIn, which is owned by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). Businesse
It's happening again. Reddit retail investors are continuing to supercharge market mayhem over AMC Entertainment Holdings (NYSE: AMC). AMC's business has been beaten down by the pandemic and is struggling to stay financially afloat, but retail traders motivated by meme-stock mani
Do you want to buy a cheap stock?A glance at the market will reveal all sorts of stocks at all sorts of valuations. Some are much more desirable than others, and the unwanted tend to be super cheap. If Wall Street is right on stock prices on any given day, the amazing companies a
The S&P 500 index hit a record high on Wednesday after comments from the Federal Reserve fueled hopes the central bank would stick to its accommodative monetary policy despite a sharp jump in inflation last month.
Wall Street's main indexes were set to rise on Wednesday after comments from the Federal Reserve fueled hopes the central bank would stick to its accommodative monetary policy despite a sharp jump in inflation last month.
Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), one of the hottest tech IPOs of 2020, is a polarizing stock. The bulls claim it's disruptive and expanding rapidly, while the bears balk at its widening losses and frothy valuations.Snowflake's cloud-based data warehouse pulls an organization's data from a
eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) is one of the prime beneficiaries of the shift to online shopping caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Since the onset, the company has experienced a surge of new customers, and the newly acquired customers are sticking around.