Tech companies including Facebook, Google and Microsoft on Thursday pledged to improve and standardise annual disclosures around online child exploitation, as they fight off moves to limit encryption.
Asian shares eased on Thursday while bonds rallied after a downbeat economic outlook from the U.S. Federal Reserve stoked speculation it would have to add to already historic levels of stimulus to safeguard recovery.
In the past, U.S. corporations have largely remained silent as protests erupted over killings of African-Americans by police officers. That changed with the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which has set off a flurry of corporate statements of solidarity with the black community – along with pledges of more than $1.7 billion to advance racial justice and equity.
In this episode of MarketFoolery, Chris Hill chats with Motley Fool analyst Jason Moser about the latest earnings reports and news from the markets. They do a pre-earnings walkthrough of one of the big retailers out there. Also, a cloud business with strong growth ahead just ann
In afternoon trading on Wednesday, Technology & Communications stocks are the best performing sector, up 0.4%. Within that group, NVIDIA Corp (Symbol: NVDA) and Microsoft Corporation (Symbol: MSFT) are two large stocks leading the way, showing a gain of 3.8% and 3.6%, res
The S&P 500 and Dow slipped on Wednesday, as losses in financial stocks countered a boost from the technology sector, with focus now shifting to the Federal Reserve's first projections on the economy since the coronavirus outbreak.
Slack Technologies (NYSE: WORK) was already an intriguing opportunity before remote work was accelerated due to the coronavirus. Now that many workers are now doing their jobs from a distance, and some of them are not planning on coming back into a physical office for a long tim
The S&P 500 and Dow slipped on Wednesday, as losses in financial stocks outweighed a boost from technology, with focus shifting to the Federal Reserve's first projections on the economy since the coronavirus outbreak.
The S&P 500 and Dow eased on Wednesday, as losses in financial stocks outweighed a boost from technology, with focus shifting to the Federal Reserve's first projections on the economy since the coronavirus outbreak.
Looking at units outstanding versus one week prior within the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, the biggest outflow was seen in the iShares ESG MSCI USA ETF, where 8,550,000 units were destroyed, or a 8.1% decrease week over week. Among the largest underlying component
In early trading on Wednesday, shares of Apple topped the list of the day's best performing Dow Jones Industrial Average components, trading up 1.8%. Year to date, Apple registers a 19.3% gain.
Slack Technologies (NYSE: WORK) recently signed a new multiyear enterprise deal with Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN). Slack will start using Amazon Chime for voice and video calls, and increase its usage of AWS (Amazon Web Services) for additional storage, compute, database, security, ma
While the Fed isn’t expected to make any new policy changes, investors will be parsing the Fed’s post-meeting press release and Fed Chairman Powell’s comments during his 2:30 PM ET presser.
After this month's incredible rally, investors on the sidelines may feel as if they've missed the boat. With the U.S. economy reopening and adding jobs again, the "out-of-home" plays have skyrocketed recently, as they were among the hardest hit in March's sell-off.
In the past, U.S. corporations have largely remained silent as protests erupted over killings of African-Americans by police officers. That changed with the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which has set off a flurry of corporate statements of solidarity with the black community – along with pledges of more than $1.7 billion to advance racial justice and equity.
In the past, U.S. corporations have largely remained silent as protests erupted over killings of African-Americans by police officers. That changed with the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which has set off a flurry of corporate statements of solidarity with the black community – along with pledges of more than $1.7 billion to advance racial justice and equity.
In this episode of Industry Focus: Tech, Dylan Lewis is joined by Motley Fool contributor Brian Feroldi to take a deep dive into Zoom Video Communications (NASDAQ: ZM). It has achieved an insane amount of growth and attention in a really short period of time. Is the momentum sus