The market ended the day in the red, but several companies went against the trend and rose to new 52 week highs today. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) rose to a new 52 week high today of $125.68 and ended the session up 5.2% to 124.6399. The company is still riding high on last week's solid earnings report. The company was expected to show earnings of 33 cents per share, but came in ...

September turned out to be a really good month for American retailers, which on the whole posted better than expected sales numbers. Today's report shows that retailers saw an increase of 0.6% in sales for the month of September, which has led several retailers to trade up to new 52 week highs today. Granted, the monthly numbers are in comparison to last September when retailers really struggled, but still good news ...