Brazilian soybean exports may hit a consecutive record monthly high in April on strong demand from China, agribusiness consultancy Safras & Mercado said on Thursday, citing shipping data.
The Bank of England will give Britain's financial system an extra health check next month to make sure it can handle the coronavirus outbreak's colossal impact on the world's fifth-largest economy and its financial markets.
Lockdowns in Brazil's largest cities to slow the coronavirus outbreak are beginning to slip, according to new data this week seen and analyzed by Reuters, with more people leaving their homes as President Jair Bolsonaro continues to criticize the measures.
On 4/13/20, Diana Shipping Inc's 8.875% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Shares (Symbol: DSX.PRB) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.5547, payable on 4/15/20. As a percentage of DSX.PRB's recent share price of $21.15, this dividend wor
For years, the VC community bashed the IPO market and its public investors as being too myopic and tied to old-fashioned metrics to appreciate the inflated valuations of giant technology unicorns in which the VCs had invested billions.
Wall Street rose for the third time in four days on Thursday as the U.S. Federal Reserve rolled out a massive $2.3 trillion program to bolster local governments and businesses hammered by the coronavirus outbreak.
In trading on Thursday, shares of Trupanion Inc (Symbol: TRUP) crossed above their 200 day moving average of $29.94, changing hands as high as $31.14 per share. Trupanion Inc shares are currently trading up about 4.3% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performanc
In trading on Thursday, shares of PTC Therapeutics Inc (Symbol: PTCT) crossed above their 200 day moving average of $45.31, changing hands as high as $47.81 per share. PTC Therapeutics Inc shares are currently trading up about 2.4% on the day. The chart below shows the one y
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The stock market is finishing a strong week with another rally on Thursday before heading into the long Easter weekend. As of noon EDT, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 index were both higher by approximately 2%.
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Shares of Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) jumped as much as 6.8% on Thursday, after the media giant announced that the Disney+ video-streaming service now has 50 million paying members. By 11:10 a.m. EDT, the stock had pulled back to a 4.3% gain.
Tobacco titan Philip Morris International (NYSE: PM) said today it won't lay off any of its workforce during the coronavirus pandemic. Additionally, the company said it will continue providing full pay for all of its employees, regardless of whether they are currently able to w
With the coronavirus pandemic raging on in the U.S. and across the world, social media giants Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Alphabet's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google, Twitter (NYSE: TWTR), and Snap (NYSE: SNAP) are seeing a huge uptick in usage. But that isn't translating into i
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Shares of Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) were rising on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve expanded a corporate-lending program to include companies with credit ratings that have been downgraded recently to just below investment-grade status. Ford is one of thos
After suffering through a protracted decline in craft beer sales, Boston Beer (NYSE: SAM) might very well be on the verge of recording its first quarterly gain in five years for the Samuel Adams brand.
In trading on Thursday, shares of Alliant Energy Corp (Symbol: LNT) crossed above their 200 day moving average of $52.82, changing hands as high as $54.38 per share. Alliant Energy Corp shares are currently trading up about 5.5% on the day. The chart below shows the one year
In this episode of Industry Focus: Consumer Goods, Emily Flippen chats with gaming expert and Motley Fool advisor Aaron Bush about how the novel coronavirus has affected the gaming industry. Aaron provides a unique perspective on the gaming industry for both gamers and investor