In this episode of MarketFoolery, Chris Hill chats with Motley Fool analyst Bill Barker about the latest news from Wall Street. They talk about the tool in airlines' arsenal to combat COVID-19 and what movie theaters are planning in order to reopen safely. Finally, they answer l
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Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA) closed nearly 6.5% higher on Wednesday thanks to the results of an early-stage clinical study of its coronavirus candidate on older patients.
(RTTNews) - Williams-Sonoma Inc. (WSM) - Shares of the home goods retailer slipped 6% on Wednesday after the bell despite the company reporting a second-quarter profit and revenues that trumped Wall Street expectations, driven largely by online sales. Second-quarter profit rose
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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
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
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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