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By Abigail Summerville (Reuters) – Wall Street’s major indexes ended higher on Friday, rebounding from the previous day’s sell-off as Amazon’s strong earnings countered a significant drop in U.S. job growth in October. Amazon.com (NASDAQ:) rose 6.2% after it reported earnings on Thursday that revealed strong retail sales, boosting profit…

By Virginia Furness (Reuters) -Amazon has become the first company to sidestep a global standard for verifying carbon offsets that was developed by a non-profit funded largely by the U.S. technology conglomerate’s founder and executive chair, Jeff Bezos. Amazon (NASDAQ:) is backing the development of a new standard that could…

(Reuters) – Futures tracking the Nasdaq leapt on Thursday on gains in heavyweight technology stocks, aided by broadly unchanged bets on the Federal Reserve easing interest rates in September despite the central bank projecting just one cut this year. Investor sentiment got a boost from softer-than-expected inflation data and Fed…

By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government unveiled on Tuesday its policy for using voluntary carbon credits that seeks to put “guardrails” to boost confidence in a nascent market after some high-profile offset projects failed to deliver the promised emissions reductions. The heads of the Treasury, Energy and…