Animal Crossing: New Horizons returns to No.2 Share this article PS4’s exclusive Ghost of Tsushima retains its number 1 spot on the UK physical charts, despite a 68% drop in sales week to week. It’s a pretty standard drop in sales for the second week of an AAA game. The …
Read More »NRG to buy direct power from Centrica for $ 3.6 billion
Text size JOSH EDELSON / AFP via Getty Images Centrica’s shares soared more than 17% after it agreed to sell Direct Energy, its North American energy business, to NRG Energy for $ 3.6 billion in cash. Houston-based Direct Energy provides electricity, natural gas, and home services to consumers and businesses …
Read More »Can the Fed tame an avalanche of corporate distress? Bond investors are betting on it
The Federal Reserve has shown that it knows how to maintain the flow of credit during a crisis. But bond investors now also expect the Fed’s unprecedented stimulus in financial markets to change the course of the credit cycle – that is, preventing more companies from falling than expected just …
Read More »Honeywell Beat Earnings. What their numbers mean for the industrial economy.
Text size Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images Honeywell’s earnings, reported Friday morning, beat Wall Street estimates for the pandemic-hit second quarter. That’s good news for Honeywell, but the company is a huge and distant industrial conglomerate. Your earnings are a useful read for many companies in many industries. …
Read More »Shares of Amazon.com Inc. outperform the competition despite the day’s losses
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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