Amazon stock had an up-and-down 2024 but is on pace to close with a strong final three months. Amazon stock is ahead 48% so far this year, with the e-commerce and cloud computing company posting a 20% rally since the start of October. The rally has been powered by investor optimism about both Amazon's e-commerce and cloud-computing operations.
Overemployed workers secretly holding multiple remote jobs use their money to travel and pay down student debt.
The stock market was rallying across the board, but the Nasdaq Composite was having an especially merry Christmas Eve session. The tech-heavy index was up 1%, which would be its best performance on Christmas Eve since 2000, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The S&P 500, up 0.7%, was on track for its best Christmas Eve since 2011.
The days surrounding the Christmas holiday have historically been some of the most bullish times of the year.
IBM (IBM) might move higher on growing optimism about its earnings prospects, which is reflected by its upgrade to a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy: An ‘embarrassing’ amount of your success in your 20s depends on your attitude
But aspirational workers need to follow through on a can-do attitude with action, Jassy added.
DETROIT (Reuters) - Toyota Motor (TM) of North America is donating $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration, a company spokesman said on Tuesday, a day after Detroit's Ford Motor and General Motors, said they would give the same amount.
V's retail spend monitor highlights a resurgence in in-store shopping and growth in online shopping.
Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock investors received an early Christmas gift from Hyundai (OTC: HYMTF) this morning: at least 112,000 new potential customers for its Supercharger electric car charging system. Tesla stock is up 4.5% through 10:45 a.m. ET on the news. Tesla spent the bulk of 2023 reporting a series of alliances with other carmakers around the world, in the form of announcements that these other carmakers -- Hyundai, Honda, GM, Ford Motor Company, and others -- would switch their electric cars' primary charging technology from the putative "Common Charging System" for all carmakers, to Tesla's North American Charging Standard (NACS) instead.
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