In early trading on Wednesday, shares of Salesforce.com topped the list of the day's best performing Dow Jones Industrial Average components, trading up 1.4%. Year to date, Salesforce.com registers a 27.1% gain.
Wall Street was set for a mixed open on Wednesday as a solid rise in monthly consumer prices took the shine off stronger-than-expected earnings from JPMorgan and BlackRock.
Today's video focuses on stock price action, valuation metrics, and recent news affecting Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Disney (NYSE:DIS). Here are some highlights from the video.
Tech stocks took a hit earlier this year as the market moved out of some of the most popular names into more consumer cyclical stocks. The Nasdaq 100 Technology Sector index that rose 456% in 2020 is up only 13% this year, and all of those gains have been since mid-May.
U.S. stock index futures edged higher on Wednesday ahead of quarterly results from JPMorgan which will kick off the corporate earnings season, with investors awaiting inflation data for clues on the future path of monetary policy.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has announced that it will be increasing its dividend on the 9th of December to US$0.62. The announced payment will take the dividend yield to 0.8%, which is in line with the average for the industry.
Finding stocks of companies with a strong "moat" -- a defensible position against competitors -- is a necessity when investing for the long term to outpace inflation. But as Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk once alluded to, a good offense is sometimes the best strategy give
COVID-19 has radically transformed the valuations of vaccines in the stock market. Novavax has jumped from $4 a share to $164. Moderna has run up from $19 to $304. The vaccine stocks have run up the most because that subsector is still our best hope for defeating COVID-19 once an
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is one of the largest software companies in the world. And while it's probably best known for productivity applications like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, this tech giant is also doing a lot of work in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
U.S. stock indexes were trading largely flat in a choppy session on Tuesday on worries over the impact of rising inflation on upcoming third-quarter earnings, while Tesla gained after record China-made vehicles sales.
U.S. stock indexes edged lower in choppy trading on Tuesday on worries over the impact of rising inflation on the upcoming third-quarter earnings, but a rise in Tesla shares after record China-made vehicles limited losses on the Nasdaq.
Taboola (NASDAQ: TBLA) and Outbrain (NASDAQ: OB) are two of the world's top providers of chumbox ads, which are often associated with "clickbait" articles.
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U.S. stock index futures edged higher on Tuesday, led by technology shares, although the overall sentiment remained fragile due to worries about higher inflation and its impact on third-quarter earnings starting this week.
Alphabet Inc's Google will tell its cloud customers the carbon emissions of their cloud usage and open satellite imagery to them for the first time for environmental analysis, as part of a push to help companies track and cut carbon budgets.
Nvidia's (NASDAQ: NVDA) GeForce Now cloud gaming service officially launched last year after spending a few years in beta testing. Membership has more than doubled to more than 12 million gamers. The chipmaker's gaming segment has exploded over the last few years and grew 85% yea
Gains in technology stocks kept Nasdaq futures afloat on Tuesday, while futures tracking the Dow and the S&P 500 were pressured by worries of higher inflation and its impact on third-quarter earnings starting this week.
Amazon.com Inc will let individual teams decide for how many days corporate employees would be expected to work from office in a week, Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy said in a message to employees on Monday.
U.S. stock indexes rose on Monday as growth and financial stocks gained, shrugging off inflation worries in the run up to third-quarter earnings reports from later this week.