Friday, October 5, 2018

How Wall Street has reacted to Amazon’s pay raise for employees

Amazon.com Inc. has been trending downward on Wall Street this week on the news that the company is raising wages for workers in the U.S. The e-commerce giant announced Tuesday it’s increasing its minimum wage to $15 per hour, effective Nov. 1. Since Monday, Amazon shares have lost about $92 in value. For most companies that would be huge, but because Amazon shares are so high-priced, that’s only about a 4 percent decline. Amazon shares were down slightly Friday morning to $1,906.28. The wage…



from https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2018/10/05/amazon-amzn-15-min-wage-wall-street-stock-reaction.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search
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