Investment dents Amazon profits
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Online retailer Amazon sees quarterly profits halve, after higher taxes and investment over the holiday period.
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Amazon.com has reported fourth quarter sales of $3.99 billion, up significantly on the $2.98 billion it achieved a year previously. Although revenue growth continues to be fast despite Amazon's large size and relative maturity, profits are a different story.
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Amazon.com stock is back in the stratosphere, propelled by improved profit margins and swelling revenues.
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This year isn't looking quite as sweet for Amazon.com shareholders as 2007. Despite a possible recession in the U.S. economy, the Web retailer said it expects sales to rise briskly again in 2008. But the gains won't translate as readily to bottom-line growth.
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Amazon.com Inc  on  Wednesday issued quarterly earnings and full-year sales  forecasts ahead of Wall Street targets, but profit margins  declined in what one analyst called a disappointment.
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Amazon.com Inc. posted quarterly net profit on Tuesday that more than tripled, surprising Wall Street as U.S. sales jumped and the company raised its 2007 sales and operating earnings outlook, sending shares up more than 20 percent.
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Amazon.com Inc.'s  quarterly net profit halved due to higher taxes and investment spending, but its shares rose 6 percent as it beat analysts' expectations and gave 2007 forecasts above Wall Street estimates.
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Stocks to watch on Thursday: AMAZON.COM INC. :
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Amazon.com stock closed Friday at $90 a share, up 135 percent over a year ago. As buyers snap up everything from "Harry Potter" books to motor oil at the granddaddy of online retailers, its stock's nightmarish plunge from $106 to less than $6 a share after the tech bubble burst seems a distant me...
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Amazon.com\\'s sales surged during the holiday season, and profits climbed, too, mainly because of a tax break. But the online retailer\\'s profit fell a few pennies a share short of Wall Street\\'s expectations for a third-consecutive quarter, and investors drove its shares down  in after-hours trading.
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No thanks to Harry Potter No surprise here: Amazon is selling more stuff than ever. Today, the world's most famous online retailer announced second quarter profits of $78m, a 257 per cent leap from the same quarter last year, and net revenues of $2.88bn, a 35 per cent increase.â¦
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No magical effect on profits though Amazon beat the Street's expectations for its third quarter but still seemed to disappoint traders yesterday. Shares fell sharply in after-hours trading after rising more than ten per cent during the day.â¦
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Company provides few details on outage, which came two days after online retail giant Amazon.com Inc.'s Web site faced significant performance problems.
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There was stellar revenue growth, but margins and stock compensations pulled the bottom line down.
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Amazon.com Inc.&#39;s (AMZN.O: Quote, Profile, Research) days as a hot-shot dot-com may be behind it as the Internet retailer&#39;s slowing growth makes its business suspiciously
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Plus, Amazon blacks out, a sad day for Colgate, and profiting from questions.
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