How much of your retirement savings are you currently gambling with the fortune of just six companies? If you have them on an S&P 500 SPX, -0.14% Stock index fund, the answer is: about a quarter. That’s what the so-called “FANMAG” —Facebook FB, -0.70%, Apple AAPL, -0.46%, Netflix NFLX, -7.44%, …
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Text size George Whitesides, left, will become Virgin Galactic’s chief space officer. Michael Colglazier takes over as CEO. Courtesy of Virgin Galactic. Shares of Virgin Galactic, a pioneer of space tourism, shot up after the company named a new CEO. He comes from Disney and the former CEO stays. The …
Read More »Wall Street is optimistic about Dell’s spin-off of its VMware stake
Text size Denis Doyle / Bloomberg Analysts at JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley are optimistic about the announcement by Dell Technologies that it is considering a spin-off of its valuable 81% stake in VMware., It is now worth more than all of Dell’s market value. Dell shares (ticker DELL) rose …
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Shoppers wearing face masks leave a shopping mall in Berlin on April 29, 2020 amid the new coronavirus pandemic COVID-19. john macdougall / Agence France-Presse / Getty Images European stocks fell on Tuesday, reversing the gains of the previous day on concerns about the closure of the state of California …
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Online food prices have risen 4.2% in the past six months according to the latest data from Adobe Inc. as grocery e-commerce accelerated amid the COVID-19 pandemic and producers of Foods struggled to keep up with continued high demand. “We have always thought that the online market is a ‘value …
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