As the S&P 500 falls into positive territory again throughout the year, investors need to be mindful of the fact that a handful of stocks appear to be doing much of the heavy lifting. The benchmark market index rose 1.3% in 2020 through Monday’s close, but much of that profit …
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Text size Jason Alden / Bloomberg Data on the Covid-19 vaccine in development by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford published in The Lancet on Monday looked positive, but the stock fell after rising last week due to high expectations for the data. Shares of the US deposit receipt for …
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Text size Microsoft plans to report earnings on Wednesday. Jeenah Moon / Getty Images As Microsoft will report earnings on Wednesday after the close of trading, Wall Street was frantically updating price targets and estimates on Monday to prepare for what could be better-than-expected results. Microsoft’s fourth fiscal quarter should …
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Text size Ina Fassbender / AFP via Getty Images Shares of Amazon.com were trading strongly higher on Monday in a pair of bullish analyst notes as Wall Street raises expectations ahead of the company’s earnings report to be released on July 30. The company is an obvious beneficiary of both …
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Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, wears a face mask as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19 and speaks to a patient participating in a COVID-19 vaccine trial at the Oxford Vaccine Group facility in Oxford, England, June 24, 2020. Steve Parsons / Agence France-Presse / Getty Images AstraZeneca and …
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