A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after positive news on corporate earnings, easing political and trade tensions, and optimism about future interest rate cuts all converged to lift investor sentiment.
October 20, 2025 – Today, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) found itself at the center of market attention, not for groundbreaking innovation, but for a significant operational stumble: a widespread outage of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform. While the immediate impact on Amazon's stock was surprisingly muted, closing down
Shares of technology real estate company Opendoor (NASDAQ:OPEN)
jumped 5.2% in the afternoon session after Morgan Stanley significantly raised its price target on the company's shares to $6 from $2, though it kept an Equal Weight rating. The move from the investment firm signaled increased confidence ahead of the company's upcoming third-quarter earnings report. Adding to the positive sentiment, Opendoor also announced a key leadership addition. The real estate technology firm hired Giang LeGrice, previously the vice-president of operations at Shopify, to lead its operations. Opendoor's new leader, a former Shopify executive himself, described LeGrice as a "world-class leader.".
Earnings results often indicate what direction a company will take in the months ahead. With Q2 behind us, let’s have a look at ON24 (NYSE:ONTF) and its peers.
San Francisco, CA – October 16, 2025 – Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), a leading cryptocurrency exchange, has made a monumental leap into the global payments landscape, launching a comprehensive stablecoin payments platform in June 2025 and significantly expanding its business offerings in October 2025. These strategic moves, leveraging its Ethereum Layer-2 network Base, aim to simplify [...]
Shares of e-commerce platform Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) jumped 1.2% in the afternoon session after the company announced an expansion of its payment services through a partnership with Global-e, a platform that helps merchants sell internationally. As part of the new agreement, merchants on Shopify that used Global-e's platform could now offer Shop Pay's one-click checkout. This feature simplified the shopping process by using pre-filled details, which aimed to improve the experience for international customers. The move built on a multi-year partnership between the two companies.
In a landmark announcement that sent ripples across the retail and technology sectors yesterday, October 14, 2025, retail behemoth Walmart (NYSE: WMT) officially unveiled a strategic partnership with artificial intelligence pioneer OpenAI. This collaboration is set to revolutionize the online shopping experience by integrating advanced AI capabilities directly into ChatGPT, allowing customers to engage in [...]
Walmart (NYSE: WMT) has announced a groundbreaking partnership with OpenAI, integrating ChatGPT directly into its online shopping experience. This collaboration, unveiled on Tuesday, October 14, 2025, aims to usher in an "AI-first" era for retail, fundamentally transforming how customers browse, discover, and purchase products. The immediate significance of this alliance lies in its potential to [...]
In a landmark announcement made today, Tuesday, October 14, 2025, retail giant Walmart (NYSE: WMT) has officially partnered with OpenAI to integrate a groundbreaking shopping feature directly into ChatGPT. This strategic collaboration is poised to redefine the landscape of online retail, moving beyond traditional search-and-click models to usher in an era of intuitive, conversational, and [...]
Wall Street has issued downbeat forecasts for the stocks in this article.
These predictions are rare - financial institutions typically hesitate to say bad things about a company because it can jeopardize their other revenue-generating business lines like M&A advisory.
Quarterly earnings results are a good time to check in on a company’s progress, especially compared to its peers in the same sector. Today we are looking at Sprout Social (NASDAQ:SPT) and the best and worst performers in the sales and marketing software industry.
