Month: September 2020

Billionaire media mogul Barry Diller on Tuesday urged investors to maintain sizable cash positions following the stock market’s robust rally from coronavirus-induced lows in late March.  “Personally, and professionally, every nickel you can, keep it … wherever it’s banked,” the chairman of both Expedia and digital media group IAC said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”  Diller noted that IAC in August
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Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Accenture (ACN) – The consulting firm reported quarterly profit of $1.70 per share, falling 3 cents a share short of Wall Street forecasts. Revenue also came in slightly shy of estimates and the company gave a weaker-than-expected current-quarter revenue forecast, as clients spend less
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Shares in United Healthcare (NYSE:UNH) were the “disaster du jour” on Sept. 21, following the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. At one point, UNH stock was down $17. Source: Ken Wolter / Shutterstock.com The stock’s fall assumed Ginsberg’s death will let the Trump administration have the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare,
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[embedded content] The likes of DraftKings (NASDAQ:DKNG), Virgin Galactic (NASDAQ:SPCE) and Nikola Motors (NASDAQ:NKLA) have had enormous success in using special purpose acquisition companies (or SPACs, for short) to go public in 2020. So it should be no surprise that companies of all sorts — such as Kensington Capital Acquisition (NYSE:SPAC) — are coming out
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Everybody wants to fly at the front of the plane. The bigger, more comfortable seats, a constant supply of snacks and drinks, and boarding and deplaning first are some of the perks that come with first class or business class seating. International and U.S. transcontinental flights often offer both classes. Shorter-duration flights may only offer
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A Tesla Inc. vehicle charges at a charging station in San Mateo, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell:  Jefferies Financial Group — Shares of the financial services firm jumped more than 14% following the company’s third quarter
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Mainland China and Hong Kong telecommunications services provider China Mobile (NYSE:CHL) isn’t heatedly discussed among financial-news pundits in America. You won’t hear much about CHL stock on U.S.-based message boards either. Source: testing / Shutterstock.com Thus, depending on your location, CHL stock might be flying almost entirely under the radar. Yet InvestorPlace contributor Faizan Farooque
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An AWS Ground Station satellite antenna at one of the company’s data center in Boardman, Oregon. Amazon Microsoft will offer a new service called Azure Orbital that connects satellites directly to its cloud computing network, the company announced at its Ignite conference Tuesday. The service will begin in a “private preview” to a select group of
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