By Greg Bensinger (Reuters) -More than 500 Amazon.com employees sent a letter on Wednesday to the CEO of its AWS unit urging reversal of a full return-to-office policy and rejecting his assertion that the rule had broad support and opponents should leave Amazon Web Services. “We were appalled to hear the non-data-driven explanation you gave…
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump’s end-of-campaign arguments to voters choosing between him and Democrat Kamala Harris have focused on an old standby in U.S. politics: Asking voters whether they are better off now than they were four years ago. He may want to check his dates….
(Reuters) -Pfizer raised its full-year profit forecast after better-than-expected sales of its COVID-19 treatment helped it beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter earnings on Tuesday. Shares of the U.S. drugmaker rose 3.2% to $29.81 in premarket trading. Pfizer now expects annual profit to be in the range of $2.75 to $2.95 per share, compared to…
(Reuters) – JetBlue Airways forecast a bigger-than-expected fall in 2024 revenue amid a moderation in domestic travel demand ahead of the upcoming U.S. elections, sending its shares down 4.5% before the bell on Tuesday. Election-related uncertainty is expected to weigh on travel demand as consumers prefer to be home and hold off on major discretionary…
(Reuters) – AT&T said on Monday it had struck a $1 billion multi-year deal with Corning to buy fiber, cable, and connectivity solutions, as the U.S. telecom giant looks to expand its high-speed internet services. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT With the U.S. wireless market facing a slowdown, telecom companies such as AT&T and rival Verizon have…
By Manya Saini (Reuters) – Robinhood announced the launch of U.S. presidential election event contracts on Monday, enabling customers to trade based on their prediction for the tightly contested race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Markets will be watching the Nov. 5 contest closely and analysts expect volatility across asset…
(Reuters) – China’s Alibaba said on Friday it had agreed to pay $433.5 million to settle a U.S. class-action lawsuit filed by investors alleging monopolistic practices by the e-commerce giant. Alibaba denied wrongdoing, saying it entered the settlement to avoid the cost and disruption of further litigation. The proposed settlement was filed in federal court…
(Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google is developing artificial intelligence technology that takes over a web browser to complete tasks such as research and shopping, The Information reported on Saturday. Google is set to demonstrate the product code-named Project Jarvis as soon as December with the release of its next flagship Gemini large language model, the report…
(Reuters) -HCA Healthcare missed Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit on Friday and forecast up to a $300-million hit in the fourth quarter due to hurricane disruptions, causing its shares to fall 8% in premarket trading. The hospital operator experienced a loss of revenue in the third quarter owing to the impact of Hurricane Helene…
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) – The rally in U.S. stocks is wobbling as it confronts a stretch of potentially market-shaking events, starting next week with corporate results from tech titans and the closely watched employment report, while the U.S. election is also nearing. The benchmark S&P 500 is up about 22% on the…
