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(RTTNews) - Shares of Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) are climbing more than 2% Tuesday morning at $3257.64. It has traded in the range of $1,626.03- $3,344.29 in the past 52 weeks.

On a human level, there are no winners in a global pandemic that has infected nearly 22 million people and killed about 772,000 of them, with nearly a quarter of those fatalities in the United States.

The COVID-19 pandemic has hasn't separated businesses the way normal economic cycles do. It's not dividing the winners from the losers, because there are plenty of top companies that have been absolutely devastated by the pandemic.

In early trading on Tuesday, shares of JD.com, topped the list of the day's best performing components of the Nasdaq 100 index, trading up 5.6%. Year to date, JD.com, registers a 100.8% gain.

Has Wall Street missed the news that we are in a pandemic?

In early trading on Tuesday, shares of Oracle topped the list of the day's best performing components of the S&P 500 index, trading up 4.5%. Year to date, Oracle registers a 6.5% gain.

The S&P 500 index hit an all-time high on Tuesday, completing its recovery from the stock market crash after the onset of the coronavirus crisis in February.

The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the adoption of telehealth services, and few companies are profiting from the trend more than Teladoc Health (NYSE: TDOC). Year-to-date, its stock is up 124%. The medical care platform provider could be overvalued; the company is not prof

JD.com (NASDAQ: JD) is back at all-time highs after turning in a strong second-quarter earnings report.

Today's $72 trillion question for investors: To buy or not to buy into the global equities rally? Notwithstanding inflated share prices, politics and the pandemic, the answer from many is a resounding "yes."

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) may be No. 1 in the overall market for cloud infrastructure services, but there's one sector that wary of using Amazon Web Services (AWS): retailers. Instead, those businesses prefer to use Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) subsidiary Google as th

Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank (OTC: SFTBY) is trying to rehabilitate its reputation after the company became widely mocked following the spectacular implosion of WeWork's planned IPO last year. The current state of that saga is that SoftBank has invested nearly $20 billion

Canadian warehouse robotics company Attabotics on Tuesday said it raised $50 million in a funding round led by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board, following a surge in interest for automation in the retail sector due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Steroids can lead to some explosive performance gains, but those gains could come at a cost to your health. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) stock is like that in some ways. It offers the potential for incredible gains -- for instance, Amazon's share price increased to over $3,000 rece

With a stock price of $1.55 at Monday's close, Genius Brands (NASDAQ: GNUS) is trading significantly below its 52-week high of $11.73. To new investors, this might look like a good opportunity to buy shares at a discount. But the stock is cheap for a reason: Its risks outweigh i

(RTTNews) - Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) announced Tuesday plans to create 3,500 new tech and corporate jobs across six cities in the United States. The company expects to hire for a variety of roles, from cloud infrastructure architects and software engineers to data scientists, prod

Stocks you can buy for $5 or less are often called penny stocks, even though you need a bit more than a few pennies to buy them. While they're not often cheap by traditional valuation metrics, their low share prices make them attractive to many beginning investors. However, for

Norway's $1.15 trillion sovereign wealth fund posted a loss of 188 billion Norwegian crowns ($21.27 billion) in the first half of 2020 as stocks and real estate holdings fell in value during the COVID-19 pandemic, it said on Tuesday.

Today's $72 trillion question for investors: To buy or not to buy into the global equities rally? Notwithstanding inflated share prices, politics and the pandemic, the answer from many is a resounding "yes."

Not for the first time, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and its boss have come under fire from President Donald Trump. On Monday, Trump blamed the company for the U.S. Postal Service's financial struggles.