Amazon Slides 7% as Earnings Miss and AI Spending Turn Free Cash Flow Negative; Meta Falls 2%, Alphabet Dips, Walmart Gains 2%

Amazon Slides 7% as Earnings Miss and AI Spending Turn Free Cash Flow Negative; Meta Falls 2%, Alphabet Dips, Walmart Gains 2%

Amazon’s cloud arm is posting its fastest growth in years, yet the company’s cash position just swung by nearly $60 billion in the wrong direction. Here is what that tension means for investors watching the AI spending wave hit its…

A cash-hungry AI build-out is dominating a still-accelerating cloud business at Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN | AMZN Price Prediction). Amazon stock is at $226.26 in premarket trading, down 7%. Checking on tech stocks in general, the Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ:QQQ) is at $697.49, down 2%. As a broad-market gauge, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) is at $761.91, down 0.97%.

The e-commerce and cloud giant closed at $243.79 on October 29, before releasing its Q3 2026 results. With the slide, Amazon stock is down 2% year to date (YTD).

Amazon’s Earnings Miss Exposes a…

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