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The new probe into retailers seems to build on the department’s antitrust investigation into meatpackers.
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...
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
The Federal Trade Commission and 22 states filed a lawsuit against online retailer Amazon on Monday claiming that it defrauded advertising customers. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Washington, claims that Amazon overcharged 1.2 million advertising customers by misleading them on prices for online auctions for ads. The complaint says Amazon said it was offering competitive prices on several ad products when it was actually inflating auction prices.
The Federal Trade Commission , alongside a bipartisan group of nearly two dozen state attorneys general, sued Amazon on Monday in federal court.
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.
Shares of Amazon dropped about 3% in afternoon trading and were recently on pace for their largest percent decrease since July 23, when they fell 4.6%. The Wall Street Journal reported today that the Federal Trade Commission plans to file a lawsuit against the e-commerce giant, alleging it manipulated prices to deceive advertisers into paying higher prices to promote their products.
Investing.com -- Amazon.com Inc shares fell 2.8% on Monday following a report by the Wall Street Journal that the Federal Trade Commission will file a lawsuit against the company over allegations related to its advertising pricing practices.
The new month, historically the worst for the stock market, hasn’t quite started yet but it’s already looking like being fraught with risk. The market is getting more confident that the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates on Sept. 16, even if Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh didn’t quite say as much in his Jackson Hole speech Friday. Oil prices aren’t helping, rising above $90 a barrel after the U.S. attacked Iran over the weekend.
↘️ PG&E (PCG): Shares of the California utility sank 8% premarket after lawmakers over the weekend introduced wildfire legislation that left out Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to block insurance companies from suing utilities for wildfire-related claims.
Futures wavered while Treasury yields rose before Fed chief Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole speech. Marvell, Affirm, PayPal are big movers.
Several closely watched corporations far surpassed their earnings forecasts this summer, and some have billions of dollars in Trump tariff refunds to thank for padding their results. Where's your refund? Studies show consumers indirectly ate much of the cost through rising prices, but these refunds instead flow to the companies that directly paid the Trump administration's import taxes, regardless of...
Asian chip firms rallied Thursday following more blockbuster earnings from Nvidia that eased worries over the AI investment boom, though the euphoria was tempered by US data showing stubbornly high inflation.Nvidia is considered the bellwether for the AI spending frenzy, with its results largely determined by mega purchases from AI giants such as OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft and xAI. The firm has led an eye-watering rally by tech firms over the past year and in October became the first to hit a mar
Plus: Canada plans retaliatory tariffs of up to 50% on U.S. imports; Persian Gulf shipping insurance costs surge higher.
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