Amid reports of startup Jet.com and other e-tailers struggling to deliver packages before Christmas, it is worth posing the question: Will your Christmas packages arrive on time? That depends. E-commerce leader Amazon.com (AMZN) continues to tell IBD that products ordered on its site will indeed arrive by Christmas if shoppers choose its two-day, one-day or same-day delivery options. In a statement, the company said it will offer its Prime Now,
Amazon.com (AMZN) is likely heading closer to developing its own shipping and delivery service — a new arm of its operation that has the potential to go the same direction its cloud computing division has. The company is currently in talks with Boeing to lease 20 767 jets, the Seattle Times reported, which would add to its rumored fleet of at least four jets that are flying several daily flights from an old DHL facility in Wilmington, Ohio.
The S&P 500 Index is slightly down for the year, but not some of its biggest tech stocks. Notching double- and triple-digit percentage gains as the year barrels toward a close, top-rated Web and online shopping companies look likely to rank among the best-performing big cap stocks of 2015. With its $314 billion market value, IBD Leaderboard stock Amazon.com (AMZN) leads the list with a 116% gain year-to-date through Thursday. Analysts at Cowen &