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A powerful right-wing Hindu group linked to India's ruling party has called for curbs on streaming platforms and cryptocurrencies, saying regulation was essential. "There is a need to regularise these things for the larger good of the society," said Mohan Bhagwat, head of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ideological parent of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party.

Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN): What: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Michigan yesterday charged four individuals in a more than 30 count indictment for their role in defrauding Amazon’s textbook rental program.

Amazon.com Inc-owned Twitch said on Friday that last week's data breach at the live streaming e-sports platform contained documents from its source code. Passwords, login credentials, full credit card numbers and bank details of users were not accessed or exposed in the breach, Twitch said in a statement.

* TWITCH SAYS UPDATES ON THE TWITCH SECURITY INCIDENT. * TWITCH SAYS CONFIDENT THAT SYSTEMS THAT STORE LOGIN CREDENTIALS, WHICH ARE HASHED WITH BCRYPT, WERE NOT ACCESSED. * TWITCH SAYS PASSWORDS HAVE NOT BEEN EXPOSED IN THE PREVIOUS SECURITY INCIDENT. * TWITCH SAYS EXPOSED DATA PRIMARILY CONTAINED DOCUMENTS FROM TWITCH'S SOURCE CODE REPOSITORY, AS WELL AS A SUBSET OF CREATOR PAYOUT DATA.

* Airlines, cruise operators jump on easing U.S. travel curbs. * Retail sales up 0.7% in September despite shortages. * Goldman Sachs (GS) rises on strong third-quarter earnings. * Indexes up: Dow 0.57%, S&P 0.42%, Nasdaq 0.24% By Devik Jain and Federica Urso.

* Retail sales up 0.7% in Sept. despite shortages. * Goldman Sachs (GS) rises on strong Q3 earnings. * Futures: Dow 0.63%, S&P 0.46%, Nasdaq 0.34% By Devik Jain and Federica Urso. Oct 15 - U.S. stock indexes were set for gains on Friday after Goldman Sachs (GS) rounded out a strong earnings season for big banks, while a surprise rise in retail sales strengthened views about economic recovery.

* Futures: Dow 0.42%, S&P 0.34%, Nasdaq 0.27% By Devik Jain. U.S. stock futures edged higher on Friday and pointed to weekly gains for major indexes, ahead of results from Goldman Sachs, which is expected to round out a strong third-quarter earnings season for big banks. Shares of Wall Street's most prolific dealmaker were up 0.7% in premarket trading.

* U.S. Democrat, Republican blast Amazon (AMZN) after Reuters story. * Indian retailers urge New Delhi to investigate Amazon (AMZN). * Reuters story showed Amazon (AMZN) copied products, rigged searches. By Aditya Kalra and Steve Stecklow.

The following are the top stories on the business pages of British newspapers. The Times. - GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK) is embroiled in a row with activist investor Bluebell after it called for the replacement of the drugs group's chairman and chief executive, Jonathan Symonds. https://bit.ly/3mY7Zy0.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers, headed by Senators Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, and Republican Chuck Grassley, plan to introduce a bill that would bar Big Tech platforms, like Amazon (AMZN) and Alphabet's Google, from favoring their products and services. Amazon (AMZN), for example, has been accused of using data from third-party sellers to determine what products it would create.

Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its third quarter 2021 financial results on Thursday, October 28, 2021, at 2:30 p.m. PT/5:30 p.m. ET. The event will be webcast live, and the audio and associated slides will be available for at least three months thereafter at www.amazon.com/ir.

- Institutional investors have been paring their bearish bets on Wall Street's most heavily shorted stocks in response to increasing appetites for riskier bets, according to strategists at Vanda Research. Short-sellers are bearish investors who borrow stocks, aiming to buy them back when the price falls to cover the loan and pocket the difference.

Institutional investors have been paring their bearish bets on Wall Street's most heavily shorted stocks in response to increasing appetites for riskier bets, according to strategists at Vanda Research. Short-sellers are bearish investors who borrow stocks, aiming to buy them back when the price falls to cover the loan and pocket the difference.

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Wall Street's highly shorted stocks rallied on Wednesday as institutional investors pared their short bets due to a strong rebound in risk sentiment, strategists at Vanda Research said in a note. U.S. stocks are up more than 1% on Thursday, building on the previous session's gains that were led by big growth names like Amazon.com (AMZN) and Microsoft.

* Technology stocks rally, led by Apple (AAPL). * UnitedHealth (UNH) jumps on strong results. * Indexes up: Dow 1%, S&P 1.2%, Nasdaq 1.4% By Devik Jain. Oct 14 - Wall Street's main indexes rallied on Thursday as a surge in technology stocks and strong quarterly results helped investors to look away from inflation concerns.

* Big banks report upbeat quarterly earnings. * UnitedHealth (UNH), Walgreens gain on strong results. * TSMC rises on beat-and-raise quarter. * Futures up: Dow 0.87%, S&P 0.95%, Nasdaq 1.09% By Devik Jain. Oct 14 - Wall Street's main indexes were set for a strong open on Thursday after big banks reported better-than-expected quarterly results, helping investors to look away from inflation concerns.

* Treasury yield curve flattens; dollar rally pauses. * Fed speakers, U.S. bank earnings and PPI in focus. * China manufacturing sector inflation hits record high. * Oil and gas prices rising again. * World stock markets climb. By Marc Jones.

* Futures up: Dow 0.61%, S&P 0.69%, Nasdaq 0.81% U.S. stock index futures climbed on Thursday as surging oil prices lifted energy shares, while investors awaited earnings updates from big banks and a fresh reading on inflation data.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers, headed by Senators Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, and Republican Chuck Grassley, plan to introduce a bill that would bar Big Tech platforms, like Amazon (AMZN) and Alphabet's Google, from favoring their products and services. Amazon (AMZN), for example, has been accused of using data from third-party sellers to determine what products it would create.