Amazon.com (AMZN) Down 1% in Pre-Market Trading Following Negative Tweet from President Trump

UPDATE: President Trump Posts Negative Tweet Against Amazon (AMZN); 'Doing Great Damage to Tax Paying Retailers'

(Updated - August 16, 2017 6:42 AM EDT)

Amazon is doing great damage to tax paying retailers. Towns,... More

Trump Targets Amazon (AMZN) on Twitter

President Trump took a shot at Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) on twitter, saying the company is doing great damage to tax paying retailers.... More

UPDATE: SunTrust Robinson Humphrey Starts Amazon.com (AMZN) at Buy

(Updated - August 16, 2017 4:35 AM EDT)

(updated to add analyst comment)

SunTrust Robinson Humphrey initiates coverage on Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) with a Buy rating and a price target of $1,220.00.

Analyst Youssef Squali says the stock is "fundamentally compelling" and sees sustainable... More

Amazon.com (AMZN) Sets Size of 7-Part Bond Deal at $16B - Bloomberg

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) Sets Size of 7-Part Bond Deal at $16B - Bloomberg

Amazon.com (AMZN) Introduces Instant Pickup

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today introduced Instant Pickup, a free service offering Prime and Prime Student members a curated selection of daily essentials available for pickup in two minutes or less at five of Amazons fully staffed pickup locations in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Berkeley, Calif., Columbus, Ohio, and College Park, Md. Items available with Instant Pickup include snacks, drinks and electronics, as well as some of Amazons most popular devices.

Instant Pickup is another way Amazon is making life more convenient for Prime members, said Ripley MacDonald, Director, Student Programs, Amazon. As shopping behaviors continue... More

Strong U.S. retail sales bolster third quarter growth outlook

By Lucia Mutikani

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. retail sales recorded their biggest increase in seven months in July as consumers boosted purchases of motor vehicles and raised discretionary spending, suggesting the economy continued to gain momentum early in the third quarter.

Retail sales for June and May also were revised higher, which should help to assuage concerns about consumer spending after a slowdown at the start of the year. Tuesday's upbeat report from the Commerce Department likely keeps the Federal Reserve on course to raise interest rates again in December.

"American shoppers flocked to the... More

Amazon (AMZN) Reports Private Offering of Senior Unsecured Notes to Fund Whole Foods Market (WFM) Bid

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that it is offering to sell senior unsecured notes (collectively, the Notes) in a private offering.

The Company expects to use the net proceeds from the offering to fund all or a portion of the consideration for its acquisition of Whole Foods Market, Inc. (Nasdaq: WFM) and... More

Maverick Capital's 13F Shows New Stakes in Dow (DOW), MGM (MGM), Molson (TAP) (more...)

Maverick Capital released its 13F for the quarter ended June, 2017. Below is a summary:

New Stakes
ADVANCE AUTO PARTS, Inc. (NYSE: AAP) new 18,870 share position
Align Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALGN) new 16,140 share position
Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) new 4,150 share position
AMERICAN EAGLE OUTFITTERS (NYSE: AEO) new 272,722 share position
Authorize.Net Holdings (NYSE: ANET) new 15,960 share position
Bard (C.R.) Inc. (NYSE: BCR) new 7,620 share position
BARNES & NOBLE, Inc. (NYSE:... More

UPDATE: Paulson's 13F Shows New Hertz (HTZ) Puts, Stake in Horizon Pharma (HZNP), (More...)

(Updated - August 14, 2017 5:34 PM EDT)

Paulson & Co filed its 13F for the quarter ended June 2017. Below is a summary.

New Stakes
Albany Molecular Research, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMRI) new 314,200 share position
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) new 12,300 share position
Bard (C.R.) Inc. (NYSE: BCR) new 42,122 share position
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BCRX) new 349,500 share position
Blueprint Medicines (NASDAQ: BPMC) new 65,800 share position
Ctrip.com International, Ltd. (NASDAQ: CTRP) new 173,200 share position
Entellus... More

Tiger Global 13F Shows New Stakes in JC Penney (JCP), Netshoes (NETS), Increase in Microsoft (MSFT), Apollo Global (APO) (More..)

Tiger Global Management filed its 13F for the quarter ending June. 2017. Below is a summary.

New Stakes
Cloudera, Inc. (NYSE: CLDR) new 50,000 share position
Netshoes (NYSE: NETS) new 8,865,903 share position
Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ: OKTA) new 60,000 share position
PENNEY J C (NYSE: JCP) new 850,000 share position

Raised Stakes
APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT, LLC (NYSE: APO) raised from 23,334,899 shares to 32,885,212 shares
ARMSTRONG WORLD, Inc. (NYSE: AWI) raised from 1,645,000... More

U.S. hedge funds bearish on FAANG stocks in second-quarter: SEC filings

By Sam Forgione

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Closely-watched U.S. hedge fund managers were generally bearish on the FAANG group of high-flying tech stocks in the second quarter, with eight such investors in aggregate cutting or liquidating 18 stakes in the companies, regulatory filings showed.

The group comprises Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Google parent Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL), each of which have... More

Viking Global Investors' 13F Shows New Stakes in Wells Fargo (WFC), Anadarko (APA), Aflac (AFL), Increase in Visa (V) (More...)

Viking Global Investors LP released its 13F for the quarter ended June, 2017. Below is a summary comparing this quarter to last quarter.

New Stakes
AFLAC Inc (NYSE: AFL) new 2,133,804 share position
ALIBABA (NYSE: BABA) new 1,100,913 share position
Anadarko Petroleum Corp (NYSE: APC) new 3,964,984 share position
Anthem (NYSE: ANTM) new 286,680 share position
Expedia Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE) new 319,974 share position
FLEETCOR TECHNOLOGIES, Inc. (NYSE: FLT) new 474,690 share position
Kite Pharma (NASDAQ: KITE) new... More

Amazon.com (AMZN) Makes AWS Glue Available For All Customers

Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), launched AWS Glue, a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data into Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Redshift, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and databases running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) for query and analysis. Customers can create and run an ETL job with a few clicks in the AWS Management... More

AWS (AMZN) Announces Amazon Macie Security Service

Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced Amazon Macie, a new security service that uses machine learning to help customers prevent data loss by automatically discovering, classifying, and protecting sensitive data in AWS. Amazon Macie recognizes sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII) or intellectual property, and provides customers with dashboards and alerts that give visibility into how this data is being accessed or moved. The fully managed service continuously monitors data access activity for anomalies, and... More

Omega Advisors' 13F Shows New Stakes in Covanta (CVA), Ocwen (OCN), Increase in Microsoft (MSFT), Valvoline (VVV), (more...)

Leon Cooperman's Omega Advisors filed its 13F for the quarter ending June 2017 Below is a summary.

New Stakes
AMERICAN AIRLINES (NASDAQ: AAL) new 178,400 share position
Autodesk Inc (NASDAQ: ADSK) new 93,400 share position
BLUEBIRD BIO (NASDAQ: BLUE) new 50,000 share position
BYLINE BANCORP (NYSE: BY) new 40,000 share position
Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRZO) new 150,000 share position
CLOVIS ONCOLOGY (NASDAQ: CLVS) new 50,000 share position
COVANTA HOLDING CORPORATION (NYSE: CVA) new... More

Amazon's AWS (AMZN) Chosen by Hulu as Its Cloud Provider

Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Hulu has selected AWS as its cloud provider, and leveraged AWS to launch its new, over-the-top (OTT) live TV service. Hulu turned to AWS for a scalable, agile, and cost effective infrastructure to support the addition of more than 50 live channels for the Hulu with Live TV launch in May 2017. Running its live TV... More

Aldi enters grocery delivery in partnership with Instacart

By Nandita Bose

CHICAGO (Reuters) - German grocery chain Aldi Inc [ALDIEI.UL] said on Sunday it has partnered with Instacart Inc to deliver groceries in three U.S. cities, a move that comes amid intense competition and disruption in the industry.

Aldi will launch a pilot starting the end of this month in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Dallas with the potential of expanding to more cities in the future.

The German retailer does not offer customers an option to shop on its own website now... More