Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, wears a face mask as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19 and speaks to a patient participating in a COVID-19 vaccine trial at the Oxford Vaccine Group facility in Oxford, England, June 24, 2020. Steve Parsons / Agence France-Presse / Getty Images AstraZeneca and …
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Text size Dominick Reuter / AFP via Getty Images Microsoft shares have climbed to new highs during the Covid-19 pandemic, as companies accelerate their adoption of cloud-based software. This has given a boost to both Azure, the company’s public cloud service, and cloud-based apps like Office 365 and Teams. How …
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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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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 …
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Text size CEO of Ericsson Börje Ekholm (Per Myrehed). Shares in Ericsson soared more than 10% on Friday, after the Swedish telecoms company reported higher-than-expected second-quarter earnings, fueled by an increase in 5G network sales and software revenue. The back story. Ericsson has made a recovery under Börje Ekholm, who …
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