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Meta’s stock has languished recently as concern grows over its spending on AI, leaving it unusually cheap. At around 18 times forward earnings, its valuation also represents a discount to other big tech companies. The premium for Google-parent Alphabet’s shares against Meta’s is the highest it has been since 2022.
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Geoffroy van Raemdonck has a plan to return the luxury retailer to profitability and start growing again.
The biggest names in fashion and entertainment hit the green-and-white carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Monday night to celebrate the museum’s annual Met Gala in New York City. The glitzy benefit is a fundraiser for the museum’s Costume Institute and accompanying fashion exhibit. Marquee sponsors of this year’s Met Gala and museum exhibit are Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sánchez Bezos.
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Big tech spending on artificial intelligence is set to soar past $1 trillion next year as companies race to secure their place in the queue of the world’s hottest technology. The upshot of all that spending, however, is a likely boost to inflation prospects, which are already rising from oil and energy prices tied to the U.S. war with Iran and the on again, off again nature of tariffs put in place by President Donald Trump. “There is a regime shift underway in technology goods inflation,” said Stifel research analyst Thomas Carroll, who notes that 2026 “marks the first time in 65 years that tech goods prices are rising faster than wages.”
Shares of FedEx (NYSE:FDX) are down 9% to roughly $359 in midday trading Monday, while United Parcel Service (NYSE:UPS) stock is down 10% to about $97. The trigger: Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has officially launched Supply Chain Services as a direct enterprise offering. Amazon stock is up 1% to $271 on the news, building on a 27% ... FedEx Slides 9%, UPS Sinks 10% as Amazon Supply Chain Services Goes Live: How Real Is the Threat?
FedEx stock dropped after Amazon unveiled a new logistics offering that could compete directly with the shipping giant’s core business.
<body><p>STORY: Amazon.com is elbowing its way into the business of UPS and FedEx.</p><p>The company is giving other businesses access to its supply chain network that has powered the e-commerce giant’s operation for decades.</p><p>Its so-called "Amazon Supply Chain Services" will allow companies across industries such as retail, healthcare and manufacturing to use Amazon’s freight network spanning ocean, road, rail and air to move, store and deliver everything from raw materials to final products.</p><p>Amazon’s stock rose as much as almost 3% Monday morning while UPS fell as much as 10% and FedEx dropped more than 9%.</p><p>With a fleet of more than 100 cargo planes, behind only FedEx and UPS, along with a vast network of warehouses and sorting hubs, Amazon's move could make it a key logistics player and intensify competition on pricing and speed.</p><p>One analyst told Reuters quote, “For UPS and FedEx, this is not immediate disruption, but it is a structural warning shot, especially in e-commerce-heavy lanes where Amazon already has density, data and delivery-speed advantages."</p><p>Amazon will allow businesses to take advantage of its speedy two-to-five-day delivery timelines, as well as warehousing and inventory forecasting capabilities.</p><p>It has already signed up Procter & Gamble, 3M and American Eagle Outfitters. </p></body>
Palantir Technologies (PLTR) is up over 5x in the last two years. It built its foundation on government contracts - defense, intelligence, and federal agencies - and that business is still growing fast. But the new growth vector is enterprise. Companies are moving from AI pilots to production deployment, and Palantir's AIP platform is becoming the infrastructure layer for that shift - autonomous workflows, real decisions, and running at scale.
Walmart's (WMT) second P&L has driven a significant upward revaluation of its share price, though UB
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FedEx stock dropped after Amazon unveiled a new logistics offering that could compete directly with the shipping giant’s core business.
Procter & Gamble, 3M, Lands' End, and American Eagle Outfitters are among the first companies to sign up
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) is the stock dominating every retirement account discussion, every cable hit, and every chart on Twitter, and the multi-year run is precisely why. The more important signal sits elsewhere. Semiconductor revenue is cyclical. Always has been. The Bureau of Economic Analysis already shows the math: manufacturing’s share of GDP fell from 9.7% in ... While NVDA Dominates Headlines, Here’s Where the Real AI Economics Are Hiding
The new service, called Amazon Supply Chain Services, pits the e-commerce giant directly against UPS and FedEx.
Investing.com -- First-quarter earnings have come in “exceptionally strong,” providing the primary fuel behind the U.S. stock market's recent rally even as elevated energy prices and geopolitical uncertainty cloud the outlook, according to Goldman Sachs.
Shares of eBay are soaring before the opening bell Monday as Ryan Cohen's GameStop pursues an approximately $56 billion takeover of company, seeing it as a vehicle to compete with online retail giant Amazon. One proposal includes live sales broadcasts from GameStop locations featuring eBay products. “EBay has the second largest commerce franchise and there’s a big opportunity to do something much larger,” Cohen said in a CNBC interview Monday.
Amazon.com said on Monday it was rolling out "Amazon Supply Chain Services", opening up its logistics network for other businesses to use. The company said businesses of all types and sizes can now move, store and deliver everything from raw materials to final products using Amazon's own supply-chain network.
The e-commerce giant is opening its global logistics network to all businesses, betting it can turn its supply chain into the next AWS.
Investors are bidding up eBay shares. That's after GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen told The Wall Street Journal that he had made an unsolicited offer to buy the e-commerce platform, and that he saw a path to make it a much bigger competitor to Amazon.
Amazon-backed Anthropic (AMZN) is close to setting up a joint venture with Blackstone (BX), Goldman
Cohen said GameStop has built a roughly 5% stake in eBay and was offering $125 a share in cash and stock, a roughly 20% premium to its closing price on Friday.
GameStop said on Sunday that it has proposed to buy all common shares of eBay Inc for about $56 billion. CEO Ryan Cohen, GameStop's largest investor, said the offer price is $125 a share in a 50-50 mix of cash and stock. Based on eBay's Friday close, the bid represents a premium of about 20%.
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Amazon just posted what may be its best quarter ever. Revenue beat. Earnings nearly doubled the estimate. AWS hit its fastest growth rate in 15 quarters. And operating margins reached a level the company had never seen before. Wall Street responded quickly. Five major firms raised their Amazon ...
Investing.com -- A new industry report from BofA Global Research suggests that aggressive investments in artificial intelligence (AI) could drive global hyperscale capital expenditure (capex) to $1 trillion by calendar year 2027.
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Amazon (AMZN) gave Wall Street a lot to like, and BofA analysts have responded in kind. The bank kept its buy rating on Amazon stock, while raising its price target to $310 from $298, implying roughy 18% upside from its recent $263 level. Three primary drivers anchoring the call include a robust ...
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