The world looks very different now than it did just a few months ago. COVID-19 has spread across the globe, causing tragedy on a massive scale and triggering huge shifts in lifestyles and business practices. Much of the world's population now lives under stay-at-home and social
The S&P 500 has recently started recovering some of its losses after the past six weeks of brutal stock market turmoil in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the index is still down about 15% compared to where it was at the beginning of the year.
As lockdowns worldwide drive a surge in internet use, boosting online sales for businesses as varied as gaming and food delivery, the stocks of internet providers are an unlikely laggard on global markets.
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The amount of time consumers are spending video streaming is booming as people stay home to help curb the spread of coronavirus. Now that many have gotten through their Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) queue, they're looking for something new.
Dish Network Corp has cut staff and is re-evaluating its business to cope better with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. satellite TV provider told Reuters, without disclosing the number of employees laid off.
The stock market lost ground on Monday morning, giving back a portion of the huge gains it posted last week. Many market participants seemed just as bewildered by the big rise in stocks last week as they had been at the speed of the prior descent, and it's likely that volatility
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Dish Network Corp has cut staff and is re-evaluating its business to cope better with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. satellite TV provider told Reuters, without disclosing the number of employees laid off.
Congratulations are in order. Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) has now attracted more than 50 million subscribers to its Disney+ streaming service. That's still less than one-third of the 167 million paid streaming customers Netflix was serving at the end of 2019. But considering Disney
To the ranks of Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), and the rest of the streaming service gang, you can now add a new name: Quibi. Newer and lesser-known than its peers, Quibi launched on April 6 of this year -- on time, despite the COVID-1
The first quarter of 2020 is now behind us, and it was the worst first quarter ever for the stock market. The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on economies worldwide and wiped out trillions in market value. With so many schools and businesses still closed to contain the outbr
There's little doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic will have a long-lasting effect on how people interact with the world. Much of the population of the U.S. and other countries has been asked to stay at home, and streaming video has emerged as one way for families to while away the
Who would've thought you'd spend your spring wearing sweatpants at home, and longing to see the inside of Applebee's? For many of us, the nationwide push to contain the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. has altered the entire dynamic of both work and play.
The bear market brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic seems -- at least for now -- to be in hibernation, as the major stock market indices have gained between 19% and 29% since bottoming out on March 23. Those indices, though, are still down by 9% to 16% this year.