Shares of Microsoft Corp. retreated from record levels on Thursday when an analyst downgraded the shares despite Wall Street’s general agreement that the software giant was well diversified to handle the challenges posed by COVID-19. Microsoft MSFT, -4.12% Shares fell to an intraday low of $ 204.42 and last lost …
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 »Existing home sales rebounded sharply in June from the lows fueled by the pandemic, but will the recovery be sustainable in the long term?
The counts: Previously owned home sales increased 20.7% in June when states reopened their economies following coronavirus-related blockades. Existing home sales occurred at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.72 million, the National Association of Real Estate Agents reported Wednesday. It was a big rebound from May, when sales fell …
Read More »DIY renovation projects offer the best return to homeowners, but there is a catch
Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, Americans have much more free time, and they spend that time at home. Earlier in the health crisis, economists predicted that spending on renovation projects would actually sink in much of the country. But recent data shows that there has been a definite increase in …
Read More »Snap ‘is performing better than its social media peers’ as it moves into the second half of 2020
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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