Amazon’s October 2025 Shockers: AI Ambitions, $2.5B Settlement and a Surging Stock
Amazon stock rebounded to the mid-$220s in late October after a volatile month but remains flat for the year, trailing the Nasdaq’s 15% gain. The company agreed to a $2.5 billion FTC settlement over Prime sign-ups in September. A major AWS outage on Oct. 20 briefly disrupted thousands of sites, but shares rose 1.6% that day. Amazon will report Q3 2025 earnings on Oct. 30, with Wall Street expecting $177–178 billion in revenue.