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Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Netflix Inc (Symbol: NFLX), where a total volume of 165,830 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximatel

What happened Shares of Chinese education company GSX Techedu (NYSE: GSX) just keep climbing higher, and reached all-time highs on Thursday. The company has been berated with fraud allegations over the past few months, but the stock continues rising all the same.

(RTTNews) - After failing to sustain an early rally, stocks gave back some ground over the course of the trading session on Thursday. The major averages pulled back well off their best levels of the day but still managed to close in positive territory, with the Nasdaq reaching a

The world can't wait for a COVID-19 vaccine, but the world might just have to wait a touch longer. According to a report published Thursday on biotech industry news site STAT, citing investigators presumably involved in the research, a phase 3 clinical trial of Moderna's (NASDAQ

Vertex, which provides comprehensive tax software for businesses, filed on Thursday with the SEC to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering. Vertex delivers comprehensive tax solutions and derives its revenue from software subscriptions and services. It automa

What happened Shares of Genius Brands (NASDAQ: GNUS) were soaring today after the company said this morning that it would hold a conference call on Monday morning "to discuss an exciting business development." It was unclear what that was referring to, but the news sparked ple

What happened Shares of Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA) were sliding 4.5% lower as of 3:39 p.m. EDT on Thursday after falling as much as 9% earlier in the day. The decline came after STAT News reported the company's planned late-stage study of COVID-19 vaccine candidate mRNA-1273 could b

Wall Street closed higher and the Nasdaq reached an all-time closing high on Thursday as investors headed into their long holiday weekend buoyed by a record surge in payrolls, which provided assurance that the U.S. economic recovery was well under way.

Technology stocks were mostly higher in late Thursday trading, with the SPDR Technology Select Sector ETF climbing 0.5% while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index was rising 1.3%.

Health care stocks continued to rise this afternoon, with the NYSE Health Care Index posting a 1.0% gain while the SPDR Health Care Select Sector ETF also was up 1.0%.

Venezuelan security operations killed at least 1,324 people in the first five months of 2020, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Thursday.

Consumer stocks were adding slightly to their mid-day advance, with the SPDR Consumer Staples Select Sector ETF climbing 0.9% this afternoon while the SPDR Consumer Discretionary Select Sector ETF was rising 0.8%.

Financial stocks gave in to modest profit-taking in afternoon trading, with the NYSE Financial Index rising 0.8% while the SPDR Financial Select Sector ETF was ahead 0.4%.

Argentine state energy giant YPF on Thursday that it was seeking a swap deal on $1 billion of international bonds to push back payments currently due in March 2021, a move which comes as the sector has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.

Energy stocks have drifted away their prior session highs, with the NYSE Energy Sector Index climbing 1.9% in late trade while the SPDR Energy Select Sector ETF was up 1.6%.

More than 75 U.S. senators and House members on Thursday urged the Trump administration to take a tougher stance on China over its crackdown in that country's Xinjiang province and make a formal determination whether its treatment of Muslim Uighurs and other groups constitutes an atrocity, including genocide.

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Wall Street is moving some bets on COVID-19 vaccines to large pharmaceutical companies with robust manufacturing capabilities, signaling that a love affair with small biotech firms might be ending after the sector’s best quarter in almost 20 years.

NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Tesla’s electrifying rise claimed its biggest victim yet. During morning trading on Wednesday, shares in the Silicon Valley upstart rose some 5% to briefly hit a market value of $210 billion, overtaking Toyota Motor as the world’s l

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell spoke in May with Turkey's central bank chief, records released by the U.S. central bank on Thursday showed, as fallout from the coronavirus pandemic was putting enormous pressure on the Middle Eastern country's economy, and its currency.