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Amazon.com and BestBuy.com have a rough start to the holiday buying season, ringing up site outages just as customers were flocking online after Thanksgiving. But the hottest returns for the past couple of days have come from the e-commerce sector.

E-tail sites crash over holiday weekend Amazon.com and BestBuy.com have a rough start to the holiday buying season, ringing up site outages just as customers were flocking online after Thanksgiving. Investors warned to beware of bargain-bin e-tail stocks Forget about fiber optics, wireless or Net infrastructure stocks: The hottest returns for the past couple of days have been in the e-commerce sector. previous coverage Study: Web sites holding up under early holiday pressure E-commerce companies are doing a good job so far this holiday season of whisking customers through their Web sites quickly, according to a recently released study.