The S&P 500 index closed at an all-time high on Tuesday, completing its recovery from the stock market crash after the onset of the coronavirus crisis in February.
Has Wall Street missed the news that we are in a pandemic? The U.S. economy remains battered by the coronavirus outbreak and Congress is deadlocked on another stimulus bill - yet the U.S. stock market just closed at a record high.
The NASDAQ 100 After Hours Indicator is up 9.05 to 11,408.08. The total After hours volume is currently 57,682,445 shares traded.The following are the most active stocks for the after hours session: SunOpta, Inc. (STKL) is -0.88 at $6.00, with 3,305,518 shares traded. As reporte
In this episode of Motley Fool Money, Chris Hill chats with Motley Fool analysts Jason Moser and Ron Gross about the latest headlines from Wall Street. They discuss the future of malls, new phone releases, hotel occupancies, the app marketplace, digital payments, and ridesharing
Under pressure to find an American buyer of the popular video-sharing app TikTok and its North American services and assets, Chinese owner ByteDance appears to have a bidding war on its hands. Database software giant Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) is reportedly throwing its hat in the ring
The S&P 500 hit a record high on Tuesday, thanks largely to months of outperformance from Amazon and other heavyweight technology companies viewed by investors as likely to emerge from the coronavirus crisis stronger than smaller rivals.
Tuesday morning once again showed the ambivalence among stock market investors that's plagued Wall Street for weeks now. Even though investors are enthusiastic about the long-term prospects for some of the best growth stocks in the market, they seem less convinced about the dire
The S&P 500 index hit an all-time high on Tuesday, completing its recovery from the stock market crash after the onset of the coronavirus crisis in February.
With stocks hovering near all-time highs again, it can be hard to find a good deal. The economy is still on shaky ground -- the employment recovery is stalling, and the COVID-19 pandemic is still highly active across the country.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Mnuchin on Tuesday declined comment about a report that Oracle Corp had entered the bidding for TikTok, but said any deal to acquire the Chinese-owned short video app would protect U.S. data.
Today's $72 trillion question for investors: To buy or not to buy into the global equities rally? Notwithstanding inflated share prices, politics and the pandemic, the answer from many is a resounding "yes."
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) will begin trading ex-dividend on August 19, 2020. A cash dividend payment of $0.51 per share is scheduled to be paid on September 10, 2020. Shareholders who purchased MSFT prior to the ex-dividend date are eligible for the cash dividend payment. Th
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) may be No. 1 in the overall market for cloud infrastructure services, but there's one sector that wary of using Amazon Web Services (AWS): retailers. Instead, those businesses prefer to use Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) subsidiary Google as th
The Motley Fool recently held its first-ever, fully virtual conference for FoolFest 2020 for subscribers of its various services, and it was awesome! While we surely missed hanging out in person with Fools (friends) from around the world, this virtual version was the next best t
Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank (OTC: SFTBY) is trying to rehabilitate its reputation after the company became widely mocked following the spectacular implosion of WeWork's planned IPO last year. The current state of that saga is that SoftBank has invested nearly $20 billion
This is a particularly exciting time for video game stocks, as both Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) are scheduled to update their gaming consoles this year. Microsoft is releasing a new version of the Xbox (the Series X), and Sony is competing with PlayStation 5.
Norway's $1.15 trillion sovereign wealth fund posted a loss of 188 billion Norwegian crowns ($21.27 billion) in the first half of 2020 as stocks and real estate holdings fell in value during the COVID-19 pandemic, it said on Tuesday.