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Benzinga has examined prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls included leaders in the aerospace, media and retail sectors. Some bearish calls were prompted by quarterly earnings reports. The second-quarter earnings reporting season kicked off this past week,...

The cover story in this weekend's Barron's examines a cheap but controversial bet on the future of tech. Other featured articles offer gold mining, consumer spending and fintech stock picks. Also, the prospects for a package delivery giant, a big-box retailer, a video streaming leader and...

E-commerce is booming, but who will come out on top? FreightWaves economists talk total retail sales and how e-commerce factors into the equation.  

Good Day, With the end of Amazon.com, Inc.'s(NASDAQ: AMZN) Prime Day sales event this morning, workplaces can brace for a surge in deliveries.  Yahoo News reported on research from the firm Envoy showing deliveries increased by 30 percent on the Thursday after Prime Day in 2018, compared to other...

It may sound like a movie, but “JEDI” could be a hot earnings call topic for both Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) this quarter. JEDI stands for joint enterprise defense infrastructure, a $10 billion Department of Defense contract both...

Every year, Amazon.com Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Prime Day brings forth two stark realities – an exhilarating "offers galore" day for consumers and harrowing long hours of work that Amazon workers put in to make sure those deliveries go out right and in time. However, over the last few years, workers...

When Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) launched Prime Day in 2015, the e-commerce giant changed online shopping like no company before. Four years later, other mega retailers have decided to benefit from the now two-day summer sale that boosts Amazon’s bottom line as well as traffic to its...

Good day, Businesses are setting aside huge sums to budget for unplanned supply chain issues, creating what Supply Chain Dive, in a recent article, called a new form of insurance without a policy or an agent. For example, an automotive supplier, faced with the prospect of huge fines – as well as...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has encountered many defining moments in its quarter century of reshaping American commerce. Beginning in the wee hours of Monday morning, another of those moments will be upon it. At 2:59 AM eastern time July 15, Amazon will unleash "Prime Day," the online ordering...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) said Thursday that it will spend $700 million through 2025 to elevate the job skills of one-third of its U.S. workforce. The program, called "Upskilling 2025," will include the training of employees to handle more complex logistics and transportation tasks. The...

WTT?!? Celebrates its first Facebook Live show with all the latest headlines, including Amazon Prime vs Prime, Inc., Dooner vs The Sultan of SONAR in Market Expert Trivia, tech news Off The Blockchain with Lincoln Duff, Kevin Hill tells us what's On The Radar with IMO2020, and Emily returns for Big...

Good day, One of the great untold stories of the 10-year economic expansion – in fact of the past 40 years – has been the logistics industry's role in mitigating the booms and busts that have plagued U.S. economic cycles throughout their history. Andy Kessler, the excellent columnist for the Wall...

Amazon.com, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AMZN) investment in online on-demand food delivery major Deliveroo this May has come under scrutiny in the U.K. The country's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) served an initial enforcement order (IEO) to the two companies in June, to clear its concerns on the...

Amazon.com Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AMZN) use of the word "prime" on trailers moving packages to retail and on-line customers is causing Prime Inc. to lose money and Amazon to profit at Prime's expense, the Springfield, Missouri-based trucking company has alleged. In a lawsuit filed on July 2 in federal...

Good day, Though Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has made it clear that it looks to build its own delivery network, and phase out its last-mile delivery partners like FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX), USPS, and UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS), the operations do not seem to be going according to its plans. A...