The career of Jeff Bezos as CEO of Amazon.com has been nothing short of amazing. And a very simple way to measure that is to look at one chart: FactSet This chart shows the total return for shares of Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +1.11%, since Bezos led its initial public offering …
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Careful, man, there’s a beloved actor here. Jeff Bridges revealed that he has lymphoma, which is the most common type of blood cancer. And this sobering news has spurred celebrities and fans to send their best wishes to the star best known for playing “the Dude,” the White Russian–drinking bowler …
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MacKenzie Scott said Tuesday she has donated about $ 1.7 billion of her fortune over the past year since her divorce from Jeff Bezos. The donations largely went to social-justice, public-health and climate-change organizations, Scott, a novelist and philanthropist, wrote in a Medium blog post. Scott — who recently changed …
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Amazon AMZN, +0.79% CEO Jeff Bezos says Juneteenth should be a moment for reflection about the ways we can eradicate systemic racism and create a more just country. But some Amazon workers are holding Juneteenth vigils where they say they want to draw a link between “slavery, racism and Amazon’s …
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Despite the stock market’s recent rally, most U.S. stocks still have losses for the year. And smaller firms are generally doing even worse than their larger peers. Case in point: The S&P 500 index SPX, +1.66% index of the 500 biggest domestic companies is down roughly 9% since Jan. 1, …
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At least one money manager believes Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos — who pledged $ 10 billion to fight climate change from his personal fortune earned by upending global commerce — should funnel his hefty donation into green technology. Steve Freedman, senior product specialist at Geneva-based Pictet Asset Management, posted …
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Bitcoin is back around $ 10,000. But don’t be fooled into thinking that means the cryptocurrency is destined to revisit previous highs twice this level. I’m not saying this means a collapse. For better or worse, bitcoin BTCUSD, +0.99% is here to stay. But that doesn’t mean that investors should …
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