Text size Courtesy of Nikola. Investors must prepare for volatile week of stock trading by heavy-duty fuel cell truck pioneer Nikola. Stock guarantees, issued in some of the transactions that eventually brought the company to the public markets, can now be exercised. Shares slumped on the news on Friday, but …
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MENLO PARK, California – Walt Disney Co. has “dramatically” cut its advertising budget on Facebook and Facebook-owned Instagram, according to a report published in the Wall Street Journal. It is the latest setback for the social network, which is facing a growing advertising boycott of its policies and actions on …
Read More »Twitter ’embarrassed’ says last week’s hack targeted 130 accounts
OAKLAND, California – Twitter says the hack that compromised the accounts of some of its highest-profile users was targeted at 130 people. Hackers were able to reset the passwords for 45 of those accounts. The San Francisco-based company said in a blog post on Saturday that up to eight of …
Read More »Tesla, AT&T, Microsoft, Intel and other stocks for investors to see this week
Text size The second-quarter earnings season speeds up this week, with 78 S&P 500 companies on deck to report. Halliburton and IBM publish their results first on Monday, followed by Coca-Cola, Lockheed Martin, Texas Instruments and United Airlines on Tuesday. Tesla, Microsoft and Chipotle Mexican Grill are the best moments …
Read More »This Wall Street analyst turned his Twitter feed into ‘Sales Side Stories with Stacy’
Stacy Rasgon has been on Twitter since 2011, but she recently realized that her tweets were a bit boring. “These are pictures of children and airline seats,” he thought, noting that his employer, global asset management firm Bernstein, does not allow him to tweet about semiconductor companies or most of …
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