Now that the omicron Covid variant is waning, consumers are going out and spending, as was evident in the 3.8% rise in retail sales reported for January this week. And travel is one area seeing a big gain. “People really want to make sure they travel while they can,” Mark Matthews, marketing manager for Maui…
Walmart (WMT) – Get Walmart Inc. Report has had to play catchup for years as Amazon (AMZN) – Get Amazon.com, Inc. Report has caught and passed the big box retailer as the country’s go-to shopping option. Amazon’s exponential growth in the new millennium has similarities to Walmart’s growth in the 90’s before the internet changed everything. Unlike…
If you’re concerned about inflation, you’re not alone. “High and rising inflation has justly become the key preoccupation of investors,” J.P. Morgan strategists, led by Dubravko Lakos-Bujas, wrote in a commentary. “It is affecting consumer spending, business outlook, politics and, most importantly, the direction of monetary policy. While we expect the cyclical recovery to continue,…
Tech giant Amazon (AMZN) – Get Amazon.com, Inc. Report is hiring for the metaverse without necessarily calling attention to it. Amazon’s gaming engine Lumberyard, which has struggled to make inroads into the gaming developer space, is hiring its first metaverse person. The job titled “Senior Product Manager, Technical (AWS Game Tech)” was posted on LinkedIn four days…
We all look forward to that annual holiday bonus but, when it goes too far beyond what is customary, it can become the cause of both internal and external contention. Take Apple (AAPL) – Get Apple Inc. Report, where a top shareholder advisory group is urging investors to vote against the $99 million pay and…
The Tesla comes up to a red light at an intersection in Brooklyn…and keeps going. “We just went through a red light,” the exasperated driver says. The driver, who appears in a CNBC video, is one of thousands of whom Tesla is allowing to try new and unfinished driver assistance features on public roads in the…
Next stop, $5 trillion. Apple (AAPL) – Get Apple Inc. Report may no longer be a $3 trillion company after reaching that milestone earlier this year, but it is in lead to become the first company with a $5 trillion valuation. A record high stock market has made possible market capitalizations that were once thought to…
Online advertising has been incredibly lucrative for Facebook, Google, and perhaps surprisingly Amazon (AMZN) – Get Amazon.com, Inc. Report. Meta’s (FB) – Get Meta Platforms Inc. Class A Report Facebook alone took in nearly $115 billion in advertising last year and $84,169 billion in 2020. Alphabet’s (GOOGL) – Get Alphabet Inc. Class A Report Google…
Demand for electric vehicles is strong despite a still tiny market share. In addition to infrastructure, most EV manufacturers agree that whoever is able to produce quickly and sufficiently on a large scale has a good chance of entering consumer garages. In the United States, Tesla (TSLA) – Get Tesla Inc Report has taken a good…
Elon Musk is omnipresent on Twitter, where he does not hesitate to respond to his critics. But most often he communicates there about his two companies, Tesla (TSLA) – Get Tesla Inc Report and SpaceX. Sometimes he praises the latest product that sets or will set Tesla apart. Sometimes it’s to highlight the space prowess achieved…
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