A UPS worker pushes a cart in New York, US, on Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images United Parcel Service on Tuesday reported earnings that topped Wall Street’s estimates ahead of its busy holiday season. Shares of the package delivery giant surged 10% in premarket trading. Here’s how the company…
People pass by The Spheres in downtown Seattle, Washington, on June 25, 2025. Juan Mabromata | AFP | Getty Images Amazon said Tuesday that it will lay off about 14,000 corporate employees, marking the latest cuts in the company’s multi-year effort to rein in costs. In a blog post, the company wrote that the layoffs…
This week’s earnings from major tech megacaps — namely Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft and Meta — are vital to the market’s performance over the next few months, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said on Monday. “We know that the market’s direction for the next couple of months will be defined by the results we get this week,”…
U.S. President Donald Trump poses for a photo with China’s President Xi Jinping before their bilateral meeting during the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters The mere prospect of a U.S.-China trade deal is enough to send global markets higher. On Monday stateside, the S&P 500, Dow Jones…
Roomba robot vacuums made by iRobot are displayed on a shelf at a Bed Bath and Beyond store in Larkspur, California, on Aug. 5, 2022. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Shares of iRobot plunged 33% on Monday after the company warned its search for a buyer has hit a substantial roadblock and its financial condition…
A person walks by The Spheres at the Amazon.com Inc. headquarters in Seattle, Washington, on Nov. 14, 2022. David Ryder | Getty Images News | Getty Images Amazon is preparing to announce sweeping job cuts beginning Tuesday, CNBC has learned. The layoffs will amount to the largest cuts to Amazon’s corporate workforce in the company’s…
Amazon Proteus robots demonstrate autonomous navigation using barcodes on the floor during the Delivering the Future event at the Amazon Robotics Innovation Hub in Westborough, Massachusetts, US, on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Artificial intelligence is widening the productivity gap between large and small companies, lifting up bigger firms that…
Qualcomm announced Monday that it will release new artificial intelligence accelerator chips, marking new competition for Nvidia, which has so far dominated the market for AI semiconductors. The AI chips are a shift from Qualcomm, which has thus far focused on semiconductors for wireless connectivity and mobile devices, not massive data centers. Qualcomm said that…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks holding a photos of the new ballroom during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on October 22, 2025. Salwan Georges | The Washington Post | Getty Images Big Tech and other publicly traded companies are helping to…
Cameron Pappas, owner of Norton’s Florist Norton’s For Cameron Pappas, owner of Norton’s Florist in Birmingham, Alabama, the artificial intelligence boom is a world away. While companies like Nvidia, Alphabet and Broadcom are lifting the stock market to fresh highs and bolstering GDP, Pappas is experiencing what’s happening in the real economy, one that’s far removed…
