DAILY UPDATE: T-Market Crash, Amazon Healthcare Launches as the Markets Take a Breather

By Staff Reporters

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  • Big banks are sitting on $650 billion of unrealized losses, Moody’s has estimated.
  • It’s a sign even Wall Street’s best-known names are feeling the heat from the Treasury-market rout.
  • Crashing bond prices sank Silicon Valley Bank earlier this year, and there may be more chaos to come.

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Yet, the billionaire Larry Fink says investors should be 100% in equities right now if they can handle it? Can you?

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Amazon.com is turning to Prime members to bolster its healthcare business, an industry where the company has sought to expand for years. The tech giant just revealed plans to offer its millions of Amazon Prime subscribers a low-cost annual membership to One Medical, the primary-care business Amazon purchased for $3.9 billion earlier this year. Amazon says Prime subscribers can now become One Medical members for $9 a month, or $99 a year. The typical cost to become a One Medical member is $199 annually.

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The S&P 500 continued to an eighth positive day, building on its longest hot streak in two years, while the Dow inched downward, ending its best run since July. Warner Bros. Discovery suffered its worst day since March 2021 after reporting that although Barbie raked in $1.5 billion for the company, it still lost money last quarter.

Here is where the major benchmarks ended:

  • The S&P 500 Index was up 4.40 points (0.1%) at 4,382.78; the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 40.33 points (0.1%) at 34,112.27; the NASDAQ Composite was up 10.56 points (0.1%) at 13,650.41.
  • The 10-year Treasury note yield (TNX) was down about 6 basis points at 4.511%.
  • CBOE’s Volatility Index (VIX) was down 0.36 at 14.45.

Retailers and banks were among the weakest performers Wednesday. Energy stocks also slipped in step with WTI crude oil futures, which touched a 3½-month low of under $75 a barrel on escalating concern over global demand. Real estate was one of the few sectors to rise Wednesday.

The U.S. dollar index (DXY) rose to a seven-week high earlier in the day before fading.

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AMAZON in Healthcare

By The Medical Futurist

Amazon In Healthcare: Disruption, Data Nightmares And Digital Health Dreams

Amazon’s healthcare ventures present a double-edged sword. On one hand, there’s undeniable promise, but the flip side paints a cautionary tale.

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AMAZON: Healthcare Act II

By Heath Capital Consultants, LLC

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The launch of Amazon Clinic comes less than two months after the announcement that Amazon Care would be shut down. Amazon Clinic, the retail giant’s virtual and in-person medical care service, was rolled out in 2019 as a pilot employee benefit for their own employees and quickly expanded to servicing non-Amazon employers across the U.S. (including large companies such as Hilton, TrueBlue, and Silicon Labs) by 2021.

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The service combined virtual and in-person care, offering home health services, telehealth appointments, and prescription delivery. (Read more…) 

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Amazon’s New Moves in Health Care

Amazon’s New Moves in Healthcare

By Health Capital Consultants, LLC

Amazon, the largest e-commerce company in the world, has made large, strategic moves over the past several years to make a place for themselves in healthcare. This article will review Amazon’s most recent advancements in the industry, including those related to Amazon’s voice-controlled personal assistant, Alexa, and Amazon’s employee healthcare system, Amazon Care, and how this non-healthcare company is changing the industry. (Read more…)

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