Wall Street was set for a higher open on Monday after a two-day slide, as bets on more stimulus to revive a battered domestic economy lifted the mood ahead of a week packed with quarterly corporate updates from companies including Boeing and Apple.
Constructing an investment portfolio takes time and patience. You would want to include companies that demonstrate a strong track record of growth and resilience and can hold their own during crises and downturns. These businesses should have clear catalysts for growth, as well
U.S. stock futures rose on Monday after a two-day slide for Wall Street, as bets on a more dovish outlook from the U.S. Federal Reserve brightened the mood ahead of a busy week for quarterly earnings reports from companies including Boeing and Apple.
This has been a year unlike anything before it, with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic exacting an immense physical and financial toll. More than 144,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, as of July 23, with more than 20 million people pushed out of the workforce
Stocks were roughly flat last week as investors processed news about COVID-19 outbreaks along with a flood of generally strong second-quarter earnings reports. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) and the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) fell by less than 0.75%
British interior minister Priti Patel said on Sunday she had asked Twitter and Instagram for a full explanation of why anti-Semitic comments made by rap artist Wiley remained on the social media platforms for so long.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has challenged a Supreme Court order that blocked several of his supporters' profiles on social networks amid an ongoing fake news investigation, the right-wing president said using his own social media accounts on Saturday evening.
The second quarter earnings season ramps up this coming week with results expected from technology heavyweights Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN) and Google parent Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL).
A congressional hearing on digital marketplace competition featuring the chief executives of four of the largest American tech companies has been rescheduled for Wednesday, a House subcommittee said on Saturday.
Planet Fitness (NYSE: PLNT) was on quite a hot streak prior to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. From its IPO in Aug. 2015 to Feb. 20 of this year, the stock had gained 450%. It had all the makings of a growth stock as revenue nearly doubled from 2015 to 2019.
Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) was already facing difficulties from reduced marketing budgets as a result of COVID-19 before large public companies started announcing that they would pause advertising on Facebook in support of the Stop Hate for Profit campaign, which criticizes Facebook
Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc took down the accounts of several high-profile supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro following a Supreme Court order, a move that underlines the tricky territory the social media titans are navigating in some of the world's largest jurisdictions.
The S&P 500 Index (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) closed down 20 points, or 0.62%, on July 24, a second-straight sell-off to close the week lower than it started for the first time in almost a month. Today's decline was driven by worries that tensions between the U.S. and China are risin
A U.S. congressional hearing scheduled for next week to question the chief executives of Facebook Inc Amazon.com Inc Google parent Alphabet Inc and Apple Inc has been officially delayed, the Judiciary Committee said on Friday.
In this episode of MarketFoolery, Chris Hill chats with Motley Fool analyst Abi Malin about the latest earnings reports and news from Wall Street. They discuss a big partnership in the entertainment space. They go through the reports of iRobot (NASDAQ: IRBT), a social media gian
After activist investing firm Elliott Management built a 4% stake in Twitter (NYSE: TWTR), it called for CEO Jack Dorsey to step down from his current position. Dorsey and Elliott struck a deal, however, that Dorsey could stay if he could grow Twitter's monetizable daily active
Companies seeking to transfer data to the United States must revert to new arrangements with immediate effect after the Privacy Shield transatlantic pact was declared invalid last week, a European Union watchdog said on Friday.
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF (Symbol: ESGV) where we have detected an approximate $109.1 million dollar inflow -- that's a 7.1% increase week over w