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Filip De Mott Spencer Platt/Getty Images Stocks were mostly lower on Wednesday after a fresh batch of economic data points.

Semiconductor stocks fell on Tuesday as Super Micro Computer and AMD and Super Micro led a sell-off. Super Micro tanked as much as 34% after its auditor resigned.

AMD and SMCI dragged chip shares lower on Wednesday. Investors are awaiting more big tech earnings from Meta and Microsoft.

Goldman Sachs projects the price of gold will climb 8% to $3,000 an ounce by the end of 2025. They cite central bank buying, Fed rate cuts, and continued safe-haven interest as reasons.

Latest Amazon's consensus third-quarter net sales estimate is $157.29 billion. 3rd quarter Net sales estimate: $157.29 billion

Spending among retired consumers is slowing down amid weaker boosts to Social Security incomes, Bank of America said.

Amazon rose as much as 7.6% on Friday, its biggest intraday gain since early February. The stock surge was driven by better-than-expected third-quarter earnings, as well as a strong outlook.

US crude production notched a new monthly record in August. That's not necessarily welcome news to other countries.

"We see this weakening labor market dynamic across a number of different data points: low hiring rate, low quit rates, new hours worked coming down," she told

Regulators voted against a proposal to fuel an Amazon data center with a nuclear power plant.