Starting Monday, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) will temporarily halt its traditional floor trading and move to an electronic-trading-only model. Like many other adjustments and shutdowns by American businesses in recent days, this one comes in response to the COVID-19 outbr
"You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user," Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook famously said in 2012, taking a jab at Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) hybrid Surface device, which had just been unveiled around th
UDR, Inc. UDR recently rewarded investors with a 5.1% annualized common dividend increase for 2020. For first-quarter 2020, the company will now pay 36 cents per share, higher than the prior dividend of 34.25 cents. This marks UDR’s 190th consecutive quarterly dividend distrib
Fiserv, Inc. FISV announced on Wednesday that it has acquired independent software vendor (ISV) and enterprise point-of-sale (POS) systems expert Bypass Mobile.The financial terms of the deal were kept under wraps.
After yesterday's return of the everything rally, today markets continue to be mostly up on the hope that all the stimulus being offered and promised by governments around the world, currently $3 trillion and counting, will provide sufficient support
In what can't be considered a great surprise, hotelier Marriott International (NASDAQ: MAR) has withdrawn the guidance for its current 2020 fiscal year. The reason, of course, is the sudden and sharply deleterious effect of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, and the COVID-19 disease i
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) recently announced it would sell Amazon Go's automated checkout technology to other retailers. Shoppers will be able to enter stores by scanning their credit cards, cameras and sensors will track the objects they add to their carts, and they can simply wal
Stocks have been experiencing a turbulent phase of late due to the coronavirus’ heavy blow on the economy and the oil price war. Amid this, some analysts believe that markets have hit a bottom and might turn around while some predict more pain ahead (read: Do Low Volatility ET
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc, numerous companies have stepped up to assist their employees and customers whose lives have been disrupted by the outbreak.