Amazon to hire 100,000 workers as e-commerce swells amid the pandemic
Amazon said Monday it will hire another 100,000 workers to meet surging demand in the COVID-era, bolstering an already dramatic expansion of its workforce this...
U.S. stocks nosedive as tech saps rally; Dow slides more than 800 points
The technology giants were among the hardest hit in Thursday's selling frenzy. Six companies whose dramatic growth has buoyed the broader market — Facebook, Microsoft,...
Wall Street wraps up best August since 1980s
The three major U.S. indexes have erased all of their losses for the year, wiping the devastating plunge in stock prices triggered by the spread...
Here are 5 takeaways from the Dow index shakeup
The blue-chip index dumped Exxon, Pfizer and Raytheon for Salesforce, Amgen and Honeywell, all because Apple decided to split its stock.
U.S. stocks hit record high, ending shortest bear market in history
Defying the coronavirus pandemic’s mounting human and economic toll, stocks closed Tuesday at a record high.
CEOs to Congress: A lot more small businesses will fail without new aid
The executives painted a dire picture: mass business closures as coronavirus cases surge and the recession deepens.
FDA says at least 75 brands of hand sanitizers may be toxic
The FDA has identified at least 77 brands of sanitizer that claim they contain ethanol (ethyl alcohol) on their labels but actually have methanol, or...
Apple pledges to be carbon neutral by 2030
Environmental and public interest groups praised Apples’s new goals but said the industry needed to do more to combat climate change.