Amazon.com Inc. has become the go-to shopping site for many consumers during the COVID-19, including an increasing number of older customers, according to SunTrust Robinson Humphrey analysts. Amazon AMZN, -1.66% reported earnings late Thursday that nearly doubled year-over-year to $10.30 per share, with sales up 40% to $88.9 billion. E-commerce rose 47.8% to $45.9 billion […]
Hi there, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories: Personal Finance The people who handle racial discrimination complaints in the workplace are divided on how big of a problem it is A new survey looks into a disconnect among human resource professionals, who are often the first hear reports of discrimination. Like ‘punching a time clock […]
President Donald Trump on Monday raised the possibility of using executive orders to suspend evictions and freeze the collection of payroll taxes, as Democrats and Republicans reported slow progress in their negotiations over another big coronavirus aid package. “I don’t want people to be evicted,” Trump said, while speaking at a news conference on Monday […]
An Ant Financial sales location in Hangzhou, in China’s eastern Zhejiang Province. -/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Fintech behemoth Ant Group Co. will attempt the world’s largest ever IPO by raising $30 billion in Shanghai and Hong Kong, likely by October, Chinese media reported Monday. Ant is valued at roughly $200 billion, and will aim to sell […]
When Americans panic, they buy guns — lots of them. During the first six months of 2020, amid a global coronavirus pandemic, gun retailers have reported a record 10.3 million firearm transactions, according to a new survey by the National Shooting Sports Foundation. Overall, gun sales in the U.S. have increased by 95 percent while […]
Students read their school work in Arlene Lebowitz’s third-grade class during summer school July 2, 2003 in Chicago, Illinois. Tim Boyle/Getty Images Community leaders in Illinois called for history classes in state schools to stop until a ” suitable alternative” is established to represent minority groups in the curriculum. Democratic State Representative LaShawn K. Ford […]
NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. – Federal Judge Esther Salas has spoken for the first time publicly about a shooting at her township home last month in which authorities say a disgruntled lawyer killed her son and seriously wounded her husband. In a video statement issued Monday, Salas called for more privacy for federal judges in the […]
Republican Montana Sen. Steve Daines, running for reelection, holds a 6-point lead against Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock in a race that will help decide the balance of power in the U.S. Senate, according to a poll released Monday by Emerson College. Daines received 50 percent support in the poll, while 44 percent said they would […]
Iranians, some wearing face masks, walk along a street in Tehran on June 3, 2020. AFP/Getty Images The number of people who have died with COVID-19 in Iran is far higher than the government has publicly admitted, according to figures leaked to BBC Persian. These figures say 42,000 people had died with the virus as of […]
FILE PHOTO: FDA Commissioner Gottlieb speaks during an interview with Reuters in New York Reuters Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration, warned that the Northeast could see another wave of coronavirus cases as the virus continues to “rotate through different parts of the country.” “I think we’re likely to […]