At the beginning of last week, the shares of Spotify Technology SPOT, + 4.86% took a hit when Guggenheim analyst Michael Morris cut stocks to sell, believing that “the market is now pricing stocks for blue sky growth, which has made the risk reward unattractive “ But that “blue sky …
Read More »Just when it seemed safe to return to restaurants, a new coronavirus outbreak threatens job recovery in the U.S.
The United States received good news Thursday with the rehiring of 4.9 million people in June, but the economy’s two steps forward in May and June could be followed by a step backward in July. The problem? A resurgence in coronavirus cases, especially in states that allowed their economies to …
Read More »Forget about the earnings season. What will the rest of 2020 be like?
Investors will return from a long holiday weekend in the United States on Monday to what could be calm before the storm – a relatively quiet week before a deluge of second-quarter corporate earnings reports is released from July 13. However, most observers are looking at second-quarter earnings as they …
Read More »European stocks up on data, but US holidays keep stocks closed
European stocks were to snap a four-session winning streak on Friday, with bullish economic data overshadowed by lingering concerns about rising virus cases in the US. The Stoxx Europe 600 SXXP Index, -0.96% It fell 0.6% to 365.91, just after a gain of close to 2% on Thursday. For the …
Read More »Here’s why America’s struggles with the coronavirus could lead to Europe’s stock market taking the lead.
A growing number of prominent Wall Street institutions are making the prediction that 2020 will be the year for Europe’s stock market to overshadow its American counterpart as the coronavirus takes divergent paths across the two economic powers. Despite the United States struggling to curb the deadly COVID-19 disease, the …
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