Text size A man speaks on a mobile phone in front of a Reliance Jio store, the mobile network of Reliance Industries Ltd., in Mumbai, India on Sunday, January 19, 2020. Dhiraj Singh / Bloomberg Times are tough in India, with Covid-19 still spreading and the economy slipping from giant …
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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 »Movie theaters won’t open soon. Studios need to change their playbooks.
Text size Melinda Sue Gordon / Warner Brothers The release of another highly successful film has been delayed. However, studios have another option for movie release, even if they seem reluctant to use it. Warner Bros., the Hollywood studio owned by AT&T (ticker: T), delayed the release date of Beginning, …
Read More »Tesla, AT&T, Microsoft, Intel and other stocks for investors to see this week
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 …
Read More »Ericsson’s shares soar as Swedish telecoms are winning in 5G
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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