Will the Stock Market Crash in 2024? 6 Risk Factors | Investing

Will the Stock Market Crash in 2024? 6 Risk Factors | Investing

Key Takeaways Markets have started strong in 2024, and GDP grew 3.3% in the fourth quarter of 2023. Consumers are still fretting over high prices, and many are struggling with debt. Interest rates and the general election, among other factors, will greatly impact the markets this year. Slivers of sunlight have finally pierced through the … Read more

Amazon Once Inspired Fear in the Health-Care Industry. No Longer

Amazon Once Inspired Fear in the Health-Care Industry. No Longer

Amazon.com Inc.’s Prime membership program began with speedy shipping, then video streaming. The latest perk—discounted access to a virtual doctor—is being pitched as another win for customers: medical care delivered as seamlessly as tube socks and television shows. But it’s a capitulation of sorts. Having spent almost a decade and billions of dollars trying to … Read more

Amazon to Offer Lower-Cost Primary Care to Prime Members in Latest Healthcare Push

Amazon to Offer Lower-Cost Primary Care to Prime Members in Latest Healthcare Push

Updated Nov. 8, 2023 3:43 pm ET Amazon.com is turning to Prime members to bolster its healthcare business, an industry where the company has sought to expand for years.  The tech giant on Wednesday revealed plans to offer its millions of Amazon Prime subscribers a low-cost annual membership to One Medical, the primary-care business Amazon … Read more

Holiday shopping starts early as inflation impacts buyer behavior, study reveals

Holiday shopping starts early as inflation impacts buyer behavior, study reveals

WASHINGTON (7News) — It’s only October, but the holiday shopping season has already begun. A new Bankrate study shows half of all buyers have already started their holiday shopping. Stores have been filled with Christmas items since early September as Black Friday type deals from a number of large retailers, like Target, Walmart, Amazon and … Read more

Spotify offers 15 hours of audiobooks to UK, Australia premium subscribers

Spotify offers 15 hours of audiobooks to UK, Australia premium subscribers

Spotify Technology SA is giving its premium subscribers in the UK and Australia 15 free hours of audiobook listening per month in a broader push into that market. The offering, which Bloomberg News previously reported was in the works, starts on Tuesday. US-based subscribers will receive the free hours this winter. More than 150,000 titles … Read more

Stocks Stink in September. This Year Could Be Different.

Stocks Stink in September. This Year Could Be Different.

September is here, and that can mean only one thing—it’s time to give up and go home. Or maybe not. There’s a lot to like about September. Temperatures are cooling, days are getting shorter but not too short, kids are going back to school, and the leaves are getting ready to turn. For the stock … Read more

Apple Needs a Plan of Action. What It Can Learn from Amazon.

Apple Needs a Plan of Action. What It Can Learn from Amazon.

Apple and Amazon’s earnings were a tale of two tech companies. Apple is stuck in a sales slump and investors are starting to get nervous. The company’s sales have now fallen for three consecutive quarters, and it expects another decline in the current quarter. Amazon, on the other hand, impressed with strong profits and better-than-expected … Read more