Text size Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Coca-Cola shares are rising early Wednesday morning, a day after launching better-than-expected earnings. The reason: An update from Morgan Stanley, which argues that stocks have become too cheap. Analyst Dara Mohsenian raised its rating on Coca-Cola (ticker: KO) shares to Equal Weight’s Overweight, …
Read More »Bill Ackman’s blank check company has just started operating. What you need to know.
Text size William Ackman Bryan Bedder / Getty Images for The New York Times A special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, sponsored by Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management, made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday in the largest initial public offering of blank checks. The offering …
Read More »Only a few stocks are fueling the rise in the market. Watch out.
As the S&P 500 falls into positive territory again throughout the year, investors need to be mindful of the fact that a handful of stocks appear to be doing much of the heavy lifting. The benchmark market index rose 1.3% in 2020 through Monday’s close, but much of that profit …
Read More »AstraZeneca Covid-19 data looks positive, but falls short of last week’s hype
Text size Jason Alden / Bloomberg Data on the Covid-19 vaccine in development by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford published in The Lancet on Monday looked positive, but the stock fell after rising last week due to high expectations for the data. Shares of the US deposit receipt for …
Read More »Amazon shares rise when Goldman sets new high street price target
Text size Ina Fassbender / AFP via Getty Images Shares of Amazon.com were trading strongly higher on Monday in a pair of bullish analyst notes as Wall Street raises expectations ahead of the company’s earnings report to be released on July 30. The company is an obvious beneficiary of both …
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