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Amazon’s bid to put cargo hub at Newark airport is halted
Amazon workers, environmental advocates, labor groups, and small business owners participate in a rally and news conference to protest plans for a new Amazon air cargo mega-hub at the Newark International Airport on October 6, 2021 in Newark, New Jersey. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Amazon’s plans to put a regional cargo hub at Newark […]
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Analyst Mark Mahaney sees more trouble ahead for internet stocks, but has some top picks
Internet stocks took a heavy blow during the first half of 2022 as rising inflation spooked investors away from the growth sector, which is among those most sensitive to rising interest rates. Further pain is ahead as the economy shows signs of softening consumer demand, but some stocks may weather the storm better than others, […]
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Chips drive Samsung’s highest second-quarter profit since 2018, but demand is cooling
People walk past the logo of Samsung Electronics in Seoul on July 7, 2022. South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd turned in its best April-June profit since 2018 on Thursday, underpinned by strong sales of memory chips to server customers even as demand from inflation-hit smartphone makers cools. Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty Images […]
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Citi names its ‘highest conviction ideas’ for the second half of 2022 — and gives one upside of 85%
Citi has named a raft of stocks it thinks could do well in the second half of 2022, as investors continue to navigate market uncertainty and hot inflation. Stock markets suffered steep losses in the first six months of this year as an unrelenting sell-off brought major indexes to their knees. The S & P […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Uber, DoorDash, Coinbase and more
Uber Eats delivery Jonathan Raa | NurPhoto via Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Uber, DoorDash – Shares of Uber slumped 4.6% and DoorDash fell 9% on news that Amazon agreed to take a stake in Grubhub in a deal that will give Prime subscribers a one-year membership to the […]
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Hulu is facing an existential crisis as Disney approaches a 2024 deadline to buy Comcast’s 33% stake
Signage is seen at the 2019 Deadline Contenders Hulu Reception at Paramount Theater on the Paramount Studios lot on April 07, 2019 in Hollywood, California. Rachel Murray | Getty Images Disney has a Hulu problem. In 2019, the entertainment giant struck an unusual agreement with Comcast. Two months earlier, Disney had acquired Fox’s 33% stake […]
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Amazon takes stake in Grubhub, adds food delivery perks to Prime
Food delivery workers on bicycles travel along a street in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Debetrius Freeman | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon on Wednesday agreed to take a stake in Grubhub as part of a deal that will also give members of its Prime subscription program a one-year membership to the […]
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Barclays cuts Netflix target, sees bigger subscriber losses than expected
Netflix is on track to report another weak quarter as rising competition results in a big hit to subscribers, Barclays said. For the second quarter, Barclays anticipates a 2.8 million subscriber loss compared with Netflix’s anticipated 2 million loss. Meanwhile, recent credit card data from the bank suggests U.S. subscribers fell roughly 1% month-over-month in […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Uber, DoorDash, Spirit, Altria and more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Uber (UBER), DoorDash (DASH) – Uber fell 3.1% in the premarket while DoorDash tumbled 7.5%, following the news that Amazon (AMZN) struck a deal to add membership in rival food delivery service Grubhub as a free benefit for its “Prime” members. Amazon’s deal also gives it […]
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Amazon investigated by UK antitrust watchdog over its marketplace practices
An Amazon warehouse in Warrington, England. Nathan Stirk | Getty Images The U.K.’s antitrust regulator on Wednesday said it is investigating Amazon over whether the U.S. e-commerce giant is hurting competition by giving an unfair advantage to its own retail business and sellers that use its services over third-party merchants on its marketplace. Britain’s Competition […]
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