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Noah Berger | Bloomberg | Getty Images Ambulances are parked outside the emergency room at Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose, California.  HCA Healthcare shares jumped on Tuesday after the company reported third-quarter earnings and revenue that beat Wall Street’s expectations. The Nashville-based hospital behemoth also raised its earnings and …

Ethos Ethos co-founders Lingke Wang, left, and Peter Colis, right. Ethos, a start-up that says it can process life insurance applications in a matter of minutes, has raised $35 million in a funding round led by Accel and backed by Google’s venture capital arm. The latest investment raises the San Francisco-based company’s …

Amazon shares closed down 6.3 percent on Monday suffered their steepest two-day tumble in more than four years, as investors continued to flee the stock following Thursday’s disappointing earnings report. The stock dropped $103.93 to $1,538.88 at the close, after losing $139.36, or 7.8 percent, on Friday, and is trading …

Jepayona Delita | Barcroft Media | Getty Images Members of a rescue team bring personal items and wreckage ashore at the port in Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta, Indonesia on October 29, 2018, after they were recovered from the sea where Lion Air flight JT 610 crashed off the north coast …

Albin Lohr-Jones | Pool via Bloomberg | Getty Images Brad Parscale, digital director for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, speaks at Trump Tower in New York, Dec. 3, 2016. President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale attacked social media companies Monday for allegedly squashing speech in an interview on CBS …

China’s latest report on economic growth fell short of expectations, but for those who monitor traffic on the global water highways, the news was not a surprise. In fact, freight and shipping data over the last several months have been pointing to such a slowdown. An investor can get an …

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jim Hackett, president and chief executive officer of Ford Motor Co., speaks during a discussion at the Automotive News World Congress event in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018.  When Tesla delivered a rare and unexpected profit on Wednesday, investors went …

Visual China Group | Getty Images Alibaba Group Chairman Jack Ma attends 2018 Alibaba Xin Philanthropy Conference on September 5, 2018. The total wealth of global billionaires grew to $8.9 trillion in 2017, an increase of more than 19 percent from the previous year, according to a study released Friday …

Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mounds of coking coal sit piled near the blast furnace at the AK Steel mill in Middletown, Ohio. AK Steel shares plunged as much as 15 percent after-hours Thursday following third-quarter earnings that missed expectations. The company reported earnings of 21 cents per …

Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, speaks at the WSJDLive Global Technology Conference in Laguna Beach, Calif., on Oct. 25, 2016. Amazon’s cloud-computing business grew 46 in the third quarter, trailing analysts’ estimates. Amazon Web Services generated revenue of $6.68 billion …