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 US stocks rose slightly in pre-trade, as investors worried about rising tensions between the US and China, as well as cases of coronaviruses continuing to rise in what appears to be a stereotypical summer. on Friday. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were up 75 points, or 0.3%. S&P …
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Asian stock markets were mostly on Friday after Wall Street closed lower amid uncertainty about the US economic outlook. Overnight, the Wall Street benchmark S & P-500 index lost 0.3% after reports including one showing more layoffs. “This may indicate nothing more than a brief pause for repositioning, or a …
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Spirit Airlines. Florida. It is not necessary to say much more. The combo delivered the commotion this week after a Spirit employee told three women in Fort Lauderdale that their flight to Philadelphia had been delayed. Here’s a clip from the scene, courtesy of Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool …
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Text size Another day, another touch of technology. The Nasdaq Composite has been outperforming the rest of the market this year, but the preference for the heavy tech index appears to have ended this week. Shortly after Thursday’s opening, the Nasdaq Composite fell 1%, while the S&P 500 and Dow …
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