With Black Friday, consumers are prioritizing everyday essentials over luxury items, reflecting growing concerns about job security and the rising cost of living. More than six in 10 shoppers recently said they planned to buy necessities instead of fancier items during the holiday sales season, consultancy Deloitte reported, up from 58% last year.

AMZN, NVDA, PLTR and MU emerge as top large-cap tech picks as markets rebound and December rate cut hopes lift sentiment.

Shares of Amazon.com Inc. NASDAQ: AMZN have spent the past two weeks under pressure, sliding from record highs near $260 at the start of the month to almost $215 last week. The good news for investors is that despite that sharp move, the stock hasn't broken any key technical levels, and momentum is already improving.

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Amazon is the only Mag‑7 stock badly lagging this year, yet its AI and AWS fundamentals keep strengthening, setting up an appealing 2026 rotation candidate in my view. Q3 delivered another double‑beat, with revenue up ~13% and EPS up ~36%; AWS backlog hit $200 billion, and AI workloads are growing roughly three times faster than core cloud. I see Amazon's full‑stack AI approach - Trainium chips, Bedrock platform and Nova models - reducing GPU dependency, sharpening unit economics and positioning AWS as a differentiated AI infrastructure leader.

At the end of 2024, the billionaire investor Peter Thiel had a known stake in Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) worth around $42 million, according to the filings submitted by his hedge fund Thiel Macro LLC on February 14, 2025.

Amazon won a court order pausing New York's effort to regulate private-sector union cases.

Amazon's five-year performance will likely come as a surprise. Success in the e-commerce and cloud computing industries should continue to bode well for Amazon.

Crescent Sterling Ltd. decreased its position in shares of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) by 4.8% during the undefined quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 4,864 shares of the e-commerce giant's stock after selling 247 shares during the quarter. Amazon.com makes up approximately