After an extremely volatile week fraught with ups-and-downs, stocks finished today's session with a win. Nevertheless, two of the benchmarks still logged their fourth-consecutive week of losses. The Dow has Big Tech to thank for today's win, as the blue chip managed to tack o
(RTTNews) - Following the roller coast ride seen in the previous session, stocks initially showed a lack of direction during trading on Friday. Buying interest emerged over the course of the session, however, leading to a sharply higher close by the major averages.
AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) signed a large coronavirus vaccine-delivery deal with Canada on Friday. The big pharmaceutical company will deliver up to 20 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine candidate, AZD1222.
Debut trading in Hygo Energy Transition Ltd was suspended on Thursday hours after the liquefied natural gas transport and infrastructure operator's chief executive was named in a corruption investigation in Brazil.
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Shares of alternative-energy providers -- fuel cell stock Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE), solar panel installer Vivint Solar (NYSE: VSLR), and solar microinverter-maker Enphase Energy (NASDAQ: ENPH) -- are all on the upswing in Friday end-of-week trading. As of 1:10 p.m.
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Shares of struggling cruise operators including Royal Caribbean Cruises (NYSE: RCL), Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NYSE: NCLH), and Carnival (NYSE: CCL) (NYSE: CUK) jumped higher today after an analyst weighed in on the sector.
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Shares of Boeing (NYSE: BA) were trading 5% higher at midday on Friday thanks to positive developments in the company's effort to get the 737 MAX airborne again.
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Shares of Zoom Video Communications (NASDAQ: ZM) rose again today, as investors continued to look to the tech stock as a go-to investment during the pandemic.
As the U.S. Presidential elections are just around a month away, investors have started prepping their portfolios. In this regard, investors need to prepare for heightened volatility in the broader equities space.
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Shares of Chinese travel-booking company Trip.com Group (NASDAQ: TCOM) went up on Friday, after the company reported unaudited results for the second quarter of 2020. As expected, revenue and earnings took substantial hits with people traveling less because of COVI
Boeing (NYSE: BA) is the target of a new shareholder lawsuit that claims the company's board failed to provide adequate oversight of the company during the lead up and response to a pair of fatal 737 Max crashes.
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Shares of ZoomInfo Technologies (NASDAQ: ZI), a cloud-based market-intelligence platform, popped today after the company's stock received an upgrade from hold to buy from Canaccord Genuity analyst David Hynes yesterday.
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Shares of DraftKings (NASDAQ: DKNG) are rising today, up by 5% as of 1:30 p.m. EDT, after an analyst issued a buy rating for the stock. Additionally, college football took another step toward returning to normal, which would benefit sports-betting companies like D
Turkey’s central bank raised interest rates for the first time since a currency crisis in late 2018, surprising the world in a low-rate environment. Turkey’s central bank increased interest rates by two percentage points, pulling the beleaguered lira off record lows. The sol