Stock index futures were aiming for a higher start for Wall Street on the last day of July on Friday after Apple and Amazon made windfall profits and Facebook and Alphabet, Google’s parent, beat expectations. However, the lack of progress in Congress on another financial aid bill, the continued increase …
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Shell Oil Refinery at Pulau Bukom off Singapore on July 16, 2020. Roslan Rahman / Agence France-Presse / Getty Images European stocks traded lower on Thursday on the busiest day of the second-quarter earnings season, with growing concerns about a slow economic recovery and a possible second wave of the …
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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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US stocks closed lower on Friday as the tech-laden Nasdaq Composite registered its first consecutive drop since mid-May, while investors worried about rising Sino-American tensions and lack of progress in another. fiscal stimulus bill in Washington. The increase in coronavirus cases in 40 US states is also limiting consumer and …
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German semiconductor maker Infineon was one of the most downed on Friday when European tech stocks plummeted. Matthias Balk / Agence France-Presse / Getty Images European stocks fell sharply on Friday as tech stocks fell and investors were no longer able to avoid mounting tensions between the United States and …
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