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What happened Shares of 21Vianet (NASDAQ: VNET) skyrocketed today, booking gains of 17% at the close, after the company reported pricing for a previously announced follow-on offering. The deal priced at a very modest discount to yesterday's close, allowing the company to raise c

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) are about to split their stocks, and both have been going higher since making their announcements. Is a split really a meaningless numbers game, or does it add actual value for investors? Also, reports are showing that short-selling

Now that the coronavirus-induced tensions can cause volatility in Wall Street at any point in time, the hunt for quality stocks has increased. In this respect, Return on Equity (ROE) is often the most favored metric.

In trading on Wednesday, shares of ExlService Holdings Inc (Symbol: EXLS) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $64.77, changing hands as low as $64.58 per share. ExlService Holdings Inc shares are currently trading off about 1.2% on the day. The chart below shows th

(RTTNews) - Williams-Sonoma Inc. (WSM) Wednesday reported a second-quarter profit and revenues that trumped Wall Street expectations, driven largely by online sales. However, shares of the retailer slipped 6% in the extended trading session.

Investors are starting to get used to record performances from the stock market, and Wednesday brought some more good news for market participants. Despite some calls that the markets might be getting frothy, gains came across the board. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDIC

In trading on Wednesday, shares of Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Symbol: ALXN) crossed above their 200 day moving average of $104.36, changing hands as high as $104.47 per share. Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. shares are currently trading up about 0.9% on the day. The chart be

Stocks finished on a high note on Wednesday, lifted by positive coronavirus vaccine news as well as a red-hot tech sector. The Dow finished the day close to 100 points higher for its fourth win in five days. The S&P 500 scored its fifth-straight win and fresh intraday rec

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Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), never the best of tech industry friends, are at odds over the latter's upcoming update to the iPhone's operating system. In an official company blog post today, Facebook wrote that due to changes being implemented in iOS 14, "[o]ur

One of the leading COVID-19 vaccine candidates currently in development is getting closer to a potential finish line. Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) said on Wednesday that the recruitment for the crucial U.S. phase 3 clinical trial of its BNT162b2 is more than 50% complete. The company is a

Policy responses, global management of the pandemic, and equity prices may enable investors, collectively, to remain comfortable with assuming risk.

What happened Shares of Altimmune (NASDAQ: ALT) were down by 15% as of 3:27 p.m. EDT on Wednesday. The biotech announced before the market opened that it would present preclinical data for ALT-801 in treating nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) at the European Association for th

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Tesla Inc (Symbol: TSLA), where a total of 577,036 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 57.7 million underlying shares. That amounts to about 445.4

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Target Corp (Symbol: TGT), where a total volume of 25,856 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Anthem Inc (Symbol: ANTM), where a total of 4,369 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 436,900 underlying shares. That amounts to about 45.4% of AN

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in United States Steel Corp. (Symbol: X), where a total of 79,074 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 7.9 million underlying shares. That amounts to

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Twitter Inc (Symbol: TWTR), where a total of 155,458 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 15.5 million underlying shares. That amounts to about 116

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in PURE Storage Inc (Symbol: PSTG), where a total of 19,709 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 2.0 million underlying shares. That amounts to about