Text size A man speaks on a mobile phone in front of a Reliance Jio store, the mobile network of Reliance Industries Ltd., in Mumbai, India on Sunday, January 19, 2020. Dhiraj Singh / Bloomberg Times are tough in India, with Covid-19 still spreading and the economy slipping from giant …
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Text size It is the busiest week of the second quarter earnings season, with 171 S&P 500 companies slated to report. Things start slowly on Monday, before 3M, Advanced Micro Devices, eBay, McDonald’s, Pfizer, Starbucks and Visa reported on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Boeing, Facebook, General Electric, PayPal Holdings, Qualcomm and …
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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 …
Read More »“We want a stable dollar,” says US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin: “It is the world’s reserve currency and we are going to protect that.”
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 …
Read More »Microsoft’s earnings beat estimates, thanks to “at home” trend
Text size Denis Charlet / AFP via Getty Images Microsoft released better-than-expected financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter as demand for its cloud-based software increased amid the pandemic-induced change to work and learn from home. For the quarter ended June 30, Microsoft (ticker: MSFT) posted revenue of $ 38 …
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