Month: May 2020

Mehmet Ali Ozcan | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images A rally in bitcoin led the cryptocurrency market higher ahead of a major technical event for the digital coin and as industry participants report an increased interest from institutional investors. Bitcoin crossed $10,000 on Friday morning Singapore time, the first time it has hit that price
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Check out the companies making headlines after the bell. Booking Holdings — The travel booking service’s stock whipsawed in extended trading after the company released its first-quarter earnings. Booking Holdings said it had earnings of $3.77 per share excluding some items with revenue of $2.29 billion, while analysts estimated earnings of $5.64 per share on
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As the month of May kicked off, stocks got off to a rocky start. The market slumped in response to a first quarter profit miss from eCommerce giant Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and its plan to put all second-quarter earnings towards its COVID-19 response, with all three of the major U.S. indexes landing in the red on the week’s final day of trading. Aside from
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The stock market’s coronavirus-driven bottom in late March is “definitely going to be the low” during the crisis, Wharton School professor Jeremy Siegel told CNBC on Friday.  In fact, Siegel said the massive monetary policy response from the Federal Reserve, along with additional progress on treatments and possible vaccines for Covid-19, could really boost stocks next year.
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Earnings reports are a cornerstone of fundamentals-based research for stock market investors and traders. This is true across all economic sectors, and today we’ll apply this concept to companies in the pharmaceutical industry and their big stock charts. Source: Shutterstock Don’t get the wrong idea. One good earnings report doesn’t mean that a company’s stock
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Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Bill Ackman has found another typical investment for him: a high quality business with predictable cash flows, durable growth and a catalyst in the coronavirus to separate it from other stocks. Company: Restaurant Brands International Inc. (QSR) Business: A quick service restaurant
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In Best Stock Market Charts this week we discuss which stocks we plan on swing trading this coming week. We like certain technology stocks such as Slack $WORK Consumer Stocks such as Beyond Meat $BYND and sectors such as the banks $XLF and $FAS ETFs and utility ETFs such as the $XLU and the leveraged
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[Editor’s Note: “Sell Moderna (MRNA) Stock as Covid-19 Catalyst Inflates Valuation” was originally published April 2, 2020. It is regularly updated to include the most relevant information.] Source: Shutterstock Is it too late to buy Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) stock? The prospective novel coronavirus vaccine has made much headway in recent weeks. But many other biotech firms
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