The New Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed India's Future Retail's plea that sought to restrain its partner Amazon.com Inc from interfering in its $3.4 billion asset sale deal with Reliance Industries.
Amazon.com Inc said on Sunday it had closed one of its warehouses in New Jersey out of caution till Dec. 26, after seeing an increase in asymptomatic positive cases amongst workers.
Amazon.com Inc said on Sunday it had closed one of its warehouses in New Jersey out of caution till Dec. 26, after seeing an increase in asymptomatic positive cases amongst workers.
Last December the first infection with the new coronavirus was reported to the World Health Organization. Twelve months later, as the charts below show, global financial markets have been on a roller coaster like no other.
Are These Top Tech Stocks On Your Watchlist This Short Holiday Week?For the past year, you can’t deny that tech stocks have been dominating the stock market. Although the coronavirus pandemic halted most industries, those in the tech industry pressed on and continued to inn
For those of you who have reached the age when you can collect Social Security benefits, you know that your monthly check likely isn't going to take you as far as you'd like to support your retirement. This year, the agency paid an average monthly benefit of about $1,500 to retir
The onset of the pandemic spurred adoption of both e-commerce and digital payments. Growth that was expected to take years materialized in a matter of months. Companies positioned to handle the surge in new digital customers have been rewarded with an expanding bottom line.On thi
DoorDash (NYSE: DASH) stock made a dash of its own as it surged almost 86% in its first day of trading.However, despite this early momentum, I do not see a scenario in which I will buy DoorDash stock. This is not because the consumer discretionary company lost some of its gains i
It faces an army of new competitors, but streaming giant Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) is still the first name consumers choose when picking a new on-demand video service. It's also the one they're least likely to cancel.That's the takeaway from a recent survey conducted by television m
As holiday shopping season wraps up, U.S. equity investors are gauging whether long-languishing shares of brick-and-mortar retailers can sustain their recent rebound in anticipation of a full economic reopening in 2021.
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Stitch Fix (NASDAQ: SFIX) offer investors two distinct ways to get exposure to e-commerce.One is a global giant and the dominant online retailer in the U.S, as well as a cloud computing powerhouse, while the other is an upstart trying to disrupt the appa
Should you buy stocks now before they soar in 2021? Or should you sell everything you own before the imminent crash? This is the question everyone's asking, and I wish I could answer, if only my local crystal ball dealership was still open.Heading into the new year, investors can
The year 2020 has been one of the wildest in history for investors. The market was already at all-time highs coming into the year, and then in February and March the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world hard. Markets crashed and panic ensued, but before long the recovery was on and so
When you're building a retirement portfolio, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are the perfect place to start. You get an instantly diversified portfolio, plus you can buy and sell them the same way you would a regular stock.Investing across the stock market using an S&P 500 index
Warren Buffett is one of the richest people in the world, and he didn't get there by accident. Unlike other top billionaires, many of whom acquired their wealth through entrepreneurship, Buffett has made most of his money by buying shares and ownership of established companies th
In spite of the odds at the onset of the pandemic in March, I've had plenty of winners -- some of them up triple-digit percentages in 2020. I learned early on in my career that it's often best to buy more shares of a winning investment, rather than selling it for a profit. I plan
Small, continual changes often go unnoticed until they are too big to ignore. One such consequential shift in America has been the concept of the nuclear family, notably as it relates to parenthood. In 1950, the U.S. birth rate was approximately 24 children per 1,000 people, vers
Many U.S. holiday shoppers, wary of spending time in stores during the latest surge of COVID-19 cases and nervous about packages not arriving before Christmas, were on a mission on Saturday: snatch up last-minute gifts fast or pick up online purchases in-store.
As it did with most elements of our lives, the coronavirus pandemic had a withering effect on many stocks in 2020. Companies in more than a few sectors suddenly had to contend with stay-at-home orders and mandatory business closures, a challenging set of circumstances for which f
This year will probably be remembered as one of the worst for many investors. The March market crash sent portfolios into a tailspin. The S&P 500 lost 30% from January through its March low as the coronavirus outbreak turned into a pandemic and businesses around the world tem