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Jim Cramer went on record about Amazon stock, delivering a message worth reading.

Stocks pulled back after a strong jobs report stoked rate-hike concerns. MarketBeat writers recap earnings-season themes, covering AI, cybersecurity, retail, energy, and dividend stocks.

The new probe into retailers seems to build on the department’s antitrust investigation into meatpackers.

By Laurie Chen and Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, Sept 4 (Reuters) - President Xi Jinping is preparing a large business delegation to accompany him on his visit to Washington, two sources said, an unusual

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has extended the federal government’s scrutiny of rising beef prices to the retail level of the food supply chain. The retailers now under investigation include Kroger, Publix, Walmart Inc., Albertsons, Aldi, Ahold Delhaize, Costco Wholesale...

One enormous credit line could reshape the AI IPO race

From an economic standpoint, the nation’s fiscal status has been turned upside down—from a federal budget swimming in surpluses to one deeply in deficit, despite the U.S. not being in recession or officially at war. Since then, the world has become even more dangerous, with the Iran war, Russia’s war on Ukraine, and China’s adventures in the Pacific. The Up & Down Wall Street written directly after the 9/11 attacks predicted a marked increase in spending for national security.

Markets rallied behind dovish commentary from Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller. Tomorrow’s jobs report is the next test.

A federal judge confirmed Google runs an illegal monopoly in ad tech, then refused to break it up anyway. What that contradiction means for Alphabet investors depends entirely on what comes next.

Amazon.com (AMZN) trades at $255, down 10% over the past month and about 10% below its 52-week high. The second quarter of 2026, reported in July, was a strong one: revenue rose 20% year over year to $200.6 billion and operating income rose 43%, though about $1.2 billion of that income came from tariff refunds and an energy-contract accounting gain. That makes the drop worth sizing, because this is a stock with a long habit of falling further than the market.

Moonshot AI has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong IPO that could raise about $3 billion, Reuters reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The Kimi developer is also in talks with Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT), Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and...

The healthcare giant serves millions of people worldwide; we take a look at its workforce, employee hubs, and layoffs in 2026.

Investing.com -- The US Justice Department has expanded its antitrust investigation into the meatpacking industry by requesting information on beef prices from eight major food retailers.

A US federal judge on Wednesday refused to force Google to sell a division of its digital advertising business, rejecting the government's push to break up part of the company's ad empire.The decision is the second time in recent years that a federal judge has declined to dismantle a piece of Google's business, after a judge last year refused to force the sale of its Chrome browser in a separate monopoly case over online search.

Amazon shares on a late summer slide.

Snowflake stock has surged 46% this year as investors embrace its AI potential, raising the stakes for the data-software company’s fiscal second-quarter earnings.

Tepper just abandoned one AI winner for another

Global data center spending is set to reach $31.6 trillion through 2050 to meet the world’s growing appetite for AI, an investment boom with no precedent in history, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

The ballooning federal debt, massive AI borrowing by Big Tech, and inflation are the reasons that economists and financial experts point to.

Big Tech has quietly spent a sum that rivals the GDP of a mid-sized country building AI infrastructure, but the real financial reckoning has not yet arrived on any income statement. One accounting schedule will determine whether these bets pay off or crush margins for years.

Amazon has had an impressive run over the past six months as its shares have beaten the S&P 500 by 12.8%. The stock now trades at $260.22, marking a 24.9% gain. This was partly due to its solid quarterly results, and the performance may have investors wondering how to approach the situation.

Amazon stock extended its losses to a second day early Tuesday, after the tech giant was hit by a lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission and 22 states over its advertising practices. Amazon stock fell nearly 2% to 255.29 in early trading on the stock market today. Shares fell 2.5% following news of the FTC lawsuit Monday afternoon.

Citi said continued advertiser spending and accelerating AI demand at AWS support its bullish view of Amazon.

YouTube has tapped Amazon.com Inc. as its newest affiliate partner in YouTube Shopping, part of the video giant’s push to prioritize e-commerce as one of its next big bets.

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday filed a lawsuit against Amazon.com alleging that the e-commerce giant manipulated prices businesses paid to advertise on its retail platform, reaping tens of billions of dollars for itself over seven years. The lawsuit, joined by a bipartisan group of more than 20 state attorneys general, alleged that Amazon deceived advertisers by secretly raising the minimum price advertisers had to pay to place ads promoting their products. Third major litigation: The case, filed in a Seattle federal court, becomes the consumer-protection agency’s third major case against Amazon, which agreed to pay $2.5 billion last year to settle an earlier suit alleging it tricked people into signing up for its Prime service and made it hard to cancel the subscription.

The Federal Trade Commission and 22 states on Monday accused retail giant Amazon of deceiving businesses by overcharging prices to advertise on its massive retail platform, pocketing billions for the company.

Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) shares closed 2.5% lower after the US Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit alleging the e-commerce giant manipulated advertising prices on its platform and extracted tens of billions of dollars from businesses over seven years. The case, joined by a bipartisan...

A federal lawsuit alleges the e-commerce giant raised the price floor in some auctions after bids had been entered, costing advertisers billions.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 22 states sued Amazon on Monday for allegedly "manipulating" online auctions for digital advertising, resulting in more than $20 billion in overcharges for 1.2 million customers.Amazon "has secretly and systematically overcharged its approximately 1.2 million advertising customers by manipulating the 'auctions' that it uses to set the price of ads on its platform," says the complaint, filed in a federal court in Washington state.

Amazon is under the microscope of the federal government—again—over allegations that it has been undercutting the companies that sell on its marketplace.