Short sellers piled into Microsoft and Amazon at historically stretched levels before earnings, and the beats that followed set off a covering scramble that has powered both stocks for weeks. Now the question is whether the rally has legs or whether the easiest gains are already gone.
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Pattern Group is finding support at its 50-day moving average as the stock carves a base that could offer a proper buy point at 29.80.
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) founder and executive chairman Jeff Bezos is planning to sell up to 15 million Amazon shares worth approximately $4.07 billion. Bezos’ Amazon Stock Sale Is Tied to a Prearranged Trading Plan A Form 144 filing submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday showed that Bezos intends to sell 15 million shares of Amazon common stock through Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC. The proposed transaction was valued at approximately $4.07 billion based on the ma
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Big Tech stocks are soaring after the companies reported earnings last week, namely Microsoft (MSFT) and Amazon (AMZN). Yahoo Finance Technology Editor Dan Howley takes a closer look.
Both Amazon and Microsoft crushed earnings and surged on identical catalysts, but the businesses underneath those matching gains point in very different directions for what comes next.
Blowout cloud earnings and a sudden geopolitical thaw sent the biggest AI names surging Monday, but the question investors are scrambling to answer is whether the rally signals a lasting regime change or just a relief bounce before the next round of capex anxiety.
Amazon Web Services posted $42.2 billion in second-quarter revenue, topping analyst expectations by more than $1.6 billion
Meta missed earnings, Apple beat and still sold off, and Amazon rallied on its strongest cloud growth in years. Three very different post-earnings stories now point to three very different decisions for investors sitting on the sidelines.
Amazon (AMZN) stock closed the July 31 trading session up 15.32% at $271.58, as it soared following the release of its second quarter (Q2) 2026 earnings report on July 30. The stock is up 17.66% year-to-date as of Saturday morning, August 1. Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 index (SPY) is up about ...
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Strong tech earnings pushed the Nasdaq to a two-day gain of 3.8%. The S&P 500 finishes flat in July.
Analysts raised Amazon price targets to as high as $400 after AWS growth of 37% drove a 15% single day surge.
The major indexes fell and AI stocks dived through midweek, partly on soaring oil and yields, but Microsoft and Amazon provided support.
Wall Street found stronger returns behind soaring investment.
Apple and Amazon both shattered records on the same night, yet Wall Street rewarded one with a rally and punished the other with a selloff. The reason comes down to where each company bets its future.

Amazon's (AMZN) AWS business saw 37% revenue growth this most recent quarter. Yahoo Finance Technology Editor Dan Howley chats with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi about the results and future growth.
