Shares of Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -3.65% fell 3.66% to $ 2,986.55 on Thursday, in what turned out to be a poor trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, -1.23% falling 1.23% to 3,235.66 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.30% falling 1.31% to 26,652.33. This …
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says the Trump administration’s goal is a stable US dollar, while, separately, he notes that some foam is seeping into the stock market that has risen from its coronavirus lows to end of march. “ “Clearly there are some individual stocks, I’m not going to mention …
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After Snap Inc. shares initially sank in the news of its second-quarter results on Tuesday, they recovered quickly once analysts read the fine print and dug deep into the numbers. Quarterly losses increased, but so did daily active users and revenue, with strong indications that the current quarter is shaping …
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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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Google Cloud is strengthening security, among other new features, to help its largest customers protect sensitive data during the coronavirus pandemic. The cloud computing unit of Google’s parent, Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, + 0.57% GOOG, + 0.61% announced the beta release of Confidential Virtual Machines at its Cloud Next ’20 virtual …
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