U.S. stock index futures rose on Monday as more states looked set to lift coronavirus-induced curbs, with investors also turning to quarterly earnings reports from marquee companies including Apple and Microsoft later this week.
Stocks declined last week after jumping in each of the prior two weeks. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) and the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) lost less than 2%, leaving the indexes down 17% and 12% so far this year, respectively.
Along with exacting a devastating human toll in terms of illness and death, the coronavirus pandemic is causing economic destruction. Most companies are hurting because economies around the globe have largely been shut down to help slow the spread of COVID-19.
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) was once considered a mature tech stock that was owned for stability and income instead of growth. But over the past five years, Microsoft stock rallied roughly 300% as a visionary CEO turned its business upside down.
Smart investors look to the future instead of dwelling too much on the past or even the present. As bad as the situation looks right now with rising numbers of people infected by the novel coronavirus and a reeling economy, things will get better. No one knows for sure how long
Earnings season ramps up this coming week with results expected from technology heavyweights Microsoft (MSFT), Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN) and Google parent Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL).
Target (NYSE: TGT) is one of the few retailers seeing their businesses boom amid the coronavirus pandemic. In an update to investors, management said same-store sales increased more than 7% quarter to date. That's driven by over 100% growth in online sales while in-store sales h
The full extent of the damage brought on by the coronavirus and the resulting global economic freeze is still unknown, but the initial reports indicate the cost will be severe. With the vast majority of its global retail stores shut down and its wholesale business disrupted, Ske
Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) stock recently hit an all-time high as the COVID-19 crisis lit a fire under its e-commerce and cloud businesses. Orders on its online marketplace soared as more people stayed at home just as the usage of AWS (Amazon Web Services) spiked with the higher us
Over the past month, the stock market has recouped around half of the record-setting losses it suffered during the first quarter's historic bear market plunge. That rebound has many investors wondering if they missed the boat and if all the best gains have already been had.
Wall Street rallied on Friday, led higher by Apple and Microsoft as investors finished a turbulent week of trading and some states prepared to relax coronavirus-related lockdowns.
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