Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has turned out to be a terrific investment over the past five years. Shares of the tech giant have comfortably outperformed the broader market thanks to the company's solid revenue and earnings growth.
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Japan's Sega Sammy Holdings Inc is hoping to ride the fast-moving coattails of Sonic the Hedgehog as the character enjoys a renaissance amid a global scramble for entertainment content.
If there's one sector that's taken a serious beating in the course of the pandemic, it's office REITs, or real estate investment trusts. At this point, workers have been doing their jobs remotely for two years and counting. And the fear among investors is that office occupancy le
Beyond the broader tech sell-off, investors in computer giant Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) have had mixed feelings in February. An $80 billion bid to acquire a chipmaker called Arm Semiconductor from SoftBank was terminated due to regulatory challenges.
The video gaming industry received a huge shot in the arm during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic as people stuck inside their homes kept themselves entertained.
Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Microsoft Corporation (Symbol: MSFT), where a total volume of 228,288 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of appr
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U.S. stocks made a dramatic comeback in the late afternoon session on Thursday after President Joe Biden imposed a new round of harsher sanctions against Moscow after Russia’s President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-fledged war against Ukraine. All the three major indexes
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U.S. stock indexes were set for a weaker open on Friday, a day after staging a dramatic late rally, as developments around a raging war in Ukraine kept investors on edge.
On Jan. 18, news broke that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) had agreed to acquire video game developer Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI) in a cash deal valued at $68.7 billion. That's equal to $95 per share, which caused the stock price of Activision Blizzard to spike from the low $60s
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