Month: September 2021

Dear Quentin, My parents divorced when I was very young due to my father being a physically and emotionally abusive alcoholic and drug addict.  Although my brother and I spent sporadic weekends with him when we were in elementary school, I stopped visiting him during my middle-school years, and cut off all contact when I
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In this article LUV HLF GE ORCL An exterior view of the Oracle Field Office at Wilson Boulevard in Arlington, Virginia, October 18, 2019. Tom Brenner | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Oracle – The tech company’s shares slid 3.7% after Oracle’s first-quarter revenue missed expectations. The company reported sales
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Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) stock seems attractive after some consolidation over the last six months. Source: Jonathan Weiss / Shutterstock.com The Delta variant of Covid-19 has translated into some uncertainty related to global GDP growth acceleration. However, vaccinations continue to provide hope and it seems likely that the world will crawl back to normalcy. Several stocks
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Solar stocks are having a lackluster year so far. There are several reasons why they have witnessed a significant correction, and these headwinds won’t be fading anytime soon. Higher costs due to rising polysilicon prices have severely impacted solar energy companies. The pandemic also disrupted supply chains, which increased transportation costs as a result. Moreover,
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The Asia Pacific accounted for 8.4% of the world’s oil production in 2020. The region was led by China and India, China being the world’s fifth-largest oil-producing nation. In recent years, Asia’s share of world oil production has been on a slow but steady decline, though Asia accounts for 77% of world oil demand growth
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Apple Inc. detailed new iPhones, iPads and smartwatches Tuesday as the most valuable U.S. public company attempts to focus on the coming holiday season instead of its regulatory issues. Apple AAPL, -1.49% typically reveals its new lineup of devices every September, ahead of holiday shopping. In this year’s event at the company’s Cupertino, Calif., campus,
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A customer pushes her shopping cart through the aisles at a Walmart store in the Porter Ranch section of Los Angeles. Kevork Djansezian | Reuters Tuesday’s report of the consumer price index could set the tone for markets ahead of next week’s Federal Reserve meeting, particularly if it is hotter-than-expected. The CPI is expected to
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Rejection can be painful, especially if you’re a longtime investor in Canadian cannabis company Sundial Growers (NASDAQ:SNDL). Time and again, SNDL stock has flirted with the key $1 level, but gravity keeps pulling it back down. Source: Postmodern Studio / Shutterstock.com I’ll admit, I recommended a patient stance on Sundial Growers in July, and my timing wasn’t perfect.
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Let’s be honest: some traders haven’t been too impressed with Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) in 2021. They were probably expecting MU stock to continue climbing like it did during the first quarter of the year, but it simply didn’t work out that way. Source: Piotr Swat / Shutterstock.com A contributing factor to Micron’s challenges has been the
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It was the worst kind of wrong number. A 21-year-old student at the University of California San Diego allegedly commandeered the cell phone accounts of at least 40 people to plunder their cryptocurrency wallets, prosecutors said. Richard Yuan Li, of Hercules, Calif., is accused of operating what is called a SIM-swap scam from his dorm
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