The Dow ended the day with a modest 60-point pop, climbing into the black thanks to bank stocks, after a day spent waffling at breakeven. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite also wound up staging mini rebounds near the end of today's session, as optimism over a potential post-
The benchmark S&P 500 closed barely higher on Tuesday while shares in smaller companies soared as investors favored more economically sensitive market segments as they bet on a recovery in 2021.
The S&P 500 was barely higher in Tuesday's volatile session as investors waited for earnings season and monitored developments in Washington after supporters of outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol.
The Ad Council on Tuesday said it has raised $37 million from corporate donors including Bank of America, Facebook and General Motors to fund a nationwide coronavirus vaccine campaign aimed at encouraging Americans to get vaccinated.
Online misinformation that led to violent unrest at the Capitol last week has gone beyond false claims and has reached the point of "radicalization," researchers told a Reuters Next panel on Tuesday.
The benchmark yield on U.S. Treasuries rose for a seventh straight session on Tuesday, while oil was at its highest in nearly a year and stocks edged lower, with eyes on U.S. earnings and Joe Biden's inauguration next week.
U.S. President Donald Trump, facing impeachment on a charge of "incitement of insurrection" on Tuesday disavowed responsibility for his supporters' violent invasion of the U.S. Capitol last week and said his remarks before the siege were appropriate.
The U.S. Government, led by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), has filed a lawsuit against Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), claiming that Facebook is an illegal monopoly that should be remedied -- possibly through a break-up.This would seem like a negative development for the social media
The Ad Council on Tuesday said it has raised $37 million from corporate donors including Bank of America, Facebook and General Motors to fund a nationwide coronavirus vaccine campaign aimed at encouraging Americans to get vaccinated.
Before Apple Inc banned Parler from its App Store store on Saturday, the social media site topped the charts as the most popular free app on its App Store in the United States.
President Donald Trump blamed Big Tech companies on Tuesday for dividing the country days after Twitter and Facebook banned him on their platforms for encouraging the attack on the U.S. Capitol building
Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) slumped on Monday as investors fretted about lost daily users after the company permanently banned President Trump. However, some analysts believe that social media stocks can deal with the political headwinds. That’s good news for the Global X Social Media ETF (NasdaqGM: SOCL). Twitter is one of the largest holdings in SOCL, [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the SPDR— S&P 500— ETF Trust (Symbol: SPY) where we have detected an approximate $1.5 billion dollar inflow -- that's a 0.4% increase we
With all the craziness that existed in the world during 2020, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) managed to have a good year in terms of its business performance. Although out of its direct control, the pandemic-related stay-at-home orders led to a record number of people logging on to Facebo
Wall Street was headed for a steady start on Tuesday as a sell- off in U.S. Treasuries lifted demand for the dollar and markets hoped for a calmer countdown to Joe Biden's inauguration next week.
Investors need to rebalance periodically, and this is especially true following periods with high volatility. In 2020, the S&P 500 climbed more than 18%, but some subsectors did a lot better than others. Technology stocks and some cyclical industries pulled the S&P upward
Uganda ordered internet service providers to block all social media platforms and messaging apps on Tuesday until further notice, a letter from the country's communications regulator seen by Reuters said.
(RTTNews) - Facebook Inc. announced its decision to remove all content in the platform containing the phrase "stop the steal," which has been widely associated with President Donald Trump's baseless claims about election fraud.The removal is part of the social media major's effor
Australia's competition regulator has warned that planned laws to make the country the first in the world to force Google and Facebook to pay for news content were likely just the start of more regulation for digital platforms.
Shares were mixed on Tuesday as investors paused to assess how much worse the COVID-19 pandemic could get while waiting for a new earnings season on Wall Street to inject fresh direction.