Amazon.com shares surged 9% on Friday on signs that both its growth engines, e-commerce and cloud-computing, were faring well in an uncertain economy, helping shield the broader market from Apple's 1.5% slide after gloomy iPhone sales.
U.S. stock index futures rose on Friday as Amazon's better-than-expected earnings trumped Apple's tepid sales forecast, while investors awaited the July jobs report to firm up the likelihood of a "soft landing" for the economy.
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Qualcomm on Friday named Savi Soin president of its India arm, as well as a company senior vice president, at a time when global players are increasing their focus on the South Asian country which has emerged as an innovation hub.
U.S. stocks closed little changed on Thursday after a choppy trading session, as investors weighed another rise in Treasury yields with the latest batch of economic data and earnings.
Apple on Thursday reported sales and profit that beat Wall Street expectations despite a decline in iPhone sales, with its signature device's strong performance in China helping the company navigate a global decline in the smartphone market.
Apple on Thursday reported sales and profit that beat Wall Street expectations despite a decline in iPhone sales, with its signature device's performance in China helping the company navigate a global decline in the smartphone market.
U.S. stocks closed nearly flat on Thursday after a choppy trading session, as investors weighed another rise in Treasury yields with the latest batch of economic data and earnings.
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Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) recently provided investors with a flood of fresh data about its sprawling tech business. The software giant's fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report included updated demand metrics across its key product lines, along with new projections for fiscal 2024.
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Wall Street's main indexes were set to open lower on Thursday as a jump in bonds yields, spurred partly by Fitch's downgrade of U.S. long-term credit rating, pressured rate-sensitive shares.
Specialized cloud provider CoreWeave has raised $2.3 billion in a debt facility led by Magnetar Capital and Blackstone and collateralized by Nvidia chips, with the funds to be used to expand to meet rising AI workload, the company said on Thursday.
The TipRanks All-star Analyst of the Day title goes to
Alex Zukin of Wolfe Research. Remarkably, Zukin ranks #20 out of the 8,543 Wall Street analysts tracked by TipRanks. One of the key stocks in his coverage is Microsoft (
NASDAQ:MSFT
), for which he is both the Most Accurate and Most Profitable analyst.
Most Profitable and Accurate Analyst on MSFT Stock
When we look at Zukin’s recommendation for Microsoft, one of the leading software providers, we see that over the past year, Zukin has had a 97% success rate on the stock. Plus, he has earned an average return of 32.54% in the said period.
On an overall basis, copying Zukin’s trades and holding them for a year would give you an average return of 25%, with 68% of your trades generating a profit!
Not Just MSFT
Zukin primarily focuses on covering the
technology sector in the U.S. and German markets. Importantly, his most profitable rating to date was a Buy on the work management platform Asana (
NYSE:ASAN
). The analyst earned a massive 431.6% return on the call between October 26, 2020 and October, 26, 2021.
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