(Bloomberg) – International Business Machines Corp. beat analyst estimates for second-quarter revenue, with cloud sales helping to offset the coronavirus-driven dips in the consulting services business. Shares earned in late trading. Cloud revenue increased 30% to $ 6.3 billion in the period ended June 30, the Armonk, New York-based company …
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Republicans appeared to defeat a Democrat-led legal effort Monday to compel Florida taxpayers to fund the cost of mailing ballots, eliminate deadlines for returning ballots, and void laws restricting the practice of “ballot collection,” which allows political agents to retrieve ballots by mass mail and return them to polling places. …
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Another day of positive results from a possible coronavirus vaccine and an update for a tech giant lifted the S&P 500 Index (SNPINDEX: ^ SPX) 27 points, or 0.8% on Monday. According to a report in a major medical journal, AstraZeneca‘s (NYSE: AZN) The AZD1222 vaccine candidate reported positive results …
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With COVID-19 cases on the rise in the US and with no end in sight, an analyst believes that an excessively bullish market faces two major risks to its assumptions that the economy may recover from the pandemic. On Monday, the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca announced promising results from …
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TThe Jackson County Department of Public Health (JCDPH) and the Cherokee East Band of Public Health and Human Services (EBCI PHHS) have identified a COVID-19 group at a local business. Five employees of the table games section at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort have tested positive for COVID-19. All positive employees …
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