A worker prepares packages at an Amazon same-day delivery fulfillment center on Prime Day in the Bronx borough of New York, US, on Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Amazon.com Inc.’s Prime Day sales rose about 13% in the first six hours of the event compared with the same period last year, according to Momentum Commerce, which manages 50 brands in a variety of product categories. Photographer: Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAmazon’s checkout function encountered technical issues on Friday, keeping customers from completing purchases. The e-commerce site displayed error messages with photos of dogs during the outage…
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The feeling before practice was different once Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau were at the rink. It changed as the two brothers tied their skates.For the three years Jerry York coached Johnny at Boston College and the four he had Matthew, he’d wish his players well with, “Hey, let’s have a good practice today.”The Gaudreau boys never needed the encouragement.“Johnny and Matt both brought so much excitement to practice,” York said on a Friday morning phone call shortly after hearing the news that a car struck and killed the brothers in Oldmans Township, N.J., on Thursday night. “The minute those two guys…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon Resilience capsule sits on Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center ahead of the Polaris Dawn Mission in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on August 28, 2024. Chandan Khanna | AFP | Getty ImagesThe SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle may return to flight operations while the overall investigation of the anomaly during a recent Starlink mission remains open, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday.SpaceX made the return to flight request for the workhorse vehicle on Thursday and the FAA gave approval on Friday. The agency said flights may resume “provided all other license requirements are met.”On Wednesday, the FAA grounded the Falcon 9 after failing an…
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) shakes hands with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan at Yanqi Lake in Beijing on August 27, 2024. Ng Han Guan | Afp | Getty ImagesBEIJING — U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to speak over the phone in “coming weeks,” the White House said Wednesday.The announcement came amid U.S. national security advisor Jake Sullivan’s trip to Beijing this week to meet with Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat.Both sides said their military leaders would also hold a call in the near future.Chin added that plans for the second round of…
Best Buy raised its fiscal-year profit guidance Thursday after exceeding earnings and revenue expectations for the most recent quarter.Shares of Best Buy jumped more than 15% in morning trading Thursday.The retailer now expects to see full-year adjusted earnings per share in the range of $6.10 to $6.35, up from a prior range of $5.75 to $6.20. The company, however, lowered the top end of its guidance ranges for both full-year revenue and comparable sales.”As we look to the back half of the year, we expect our industry to continue to show increasing stabilization,” Best Buy CFO Matt Bilunas said in…
Crypto investors are having a mild existential crisis as demand for the young asset class dries up in the midst of a bull market. In the past month, search interest in crypto has been muted, network activity has been subdued and futures funding rates briefly went negative. Ether ETFs, which began trading a little over a month ago, have seen net outflows. Even bitcoin ETFs – which helped prices catapult to new highs in March – have logged net outflows. “The ETFs have been a smashing success, [ Donald] Trump ‘s on TV talking about the U.S. government buying bitcoin,…
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Even with declining mortgage rates, the number of pending home sales fell last month to the lowest level on record, a National Association of Realtors report reveals.NAR’s Pending Home Sales Index shows that the number of pending home sales dropped 5.5% in July and was down 8.5% compared with a year earlier, reaching the lowest level since the index was first established in 2001.A lot of this has to do with timing. While spring and summer are typically peak buying seasons, home sales have been muted due to persistently constrained supply and high home prices, which have pushed many would-be…
The fight against inflation was going well for the Federal Reserve and economy for much of last year and into 2024, but one important demographic remained unconvinced about the progress being made in lowering pricing: small business owners.Now, more influential parties are coming around to a view that small businesses have been stubborn in saying is closer to the on-the-ground truth: inflation isn’t coming down fast enough. On Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell conceded that after three months of disappointing data on inflation, there has been a “lack of further progress” this year. Market traders, who not long ago…
Aytac Unal/ | Anadolu | Getty ImagesThe monthslong Trump Media stock slide continued Wednesday, as shares of the company majority-owned by former President Donald Trump fell below $20 for the first time since the Truth Social maker went public more than five months ago.The stock price of DJT touched a low of $19.38 per share around midday, marking a drop of more than 75% from its intraday high on March 26, the day the company debuted on the Nasdaq stock exchange.Trump Media ended Wednesday’s trading session down more than 4% at $20.10 per share.Stock Chart IconStock chart iconTrump Media stock…
