Bitcoin price racked up more losses Friday as the crypto market pulled back for the third straight day with the spotlight shifting to a dip in Donald Trump’s odds in the US presidential elections. 

Amazon's push to offer more everyday essentials like toothpaste is hurting its average selling prices, but it is also a guard against rivals such as Temu and Shein that offer rock bottom prices on goods they ship from China.

Frankfurt-listed shares of "Magnificent 7" stocks Apple and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) were broadly steady on Friday, in light volumes after both companies reported quarterly earnings after-market on Thursday.

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL)'s Google on Thursday announced a set of features that incorporated Gemini, its artificial intelligence chatbot, into its suite of mapping applications.

Oil prices extended gains in early Asian trade on Friday, following reports that Iran was preparing a retaliatory strike on Israel from Iraqi territory in the coming days.

Microsoft predicted increased spending on artificial intelligence this quarter but slower growth in its cloud business Azure, signaling that big AI investments were not enough to keep pace with capacity constraints at its data centers.