Month: February 2020

Local Chinese authorities have not blocked Apple supplier Foxconn from resuming production amid a coronavirus outbreak, they said in a statement on Sunday, denying an earlier report in the Nikkei Business Daily. The Nikkei, citing four people familiar with the matter, said on Saturday that public health experts had carried out inspections at Foxconn’s factories and told the company that there was a “high risk of coronavirus infection” at the facilities, making them unsuitable for a production restart. Shenzhen’s Longhua district, where Foxconn’s largest factory is located, said in a statement on its official WeChat account on Sunday …read more […]

Benzinga has examined the prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bearish calls included media and electric vehicle leaders. As usual, Benzinga continues to examine the prospects for many of the stocks most popular with investors. …read more […]

Digital Turbine, Inc. (NASDAQ:APPS), which is in the software business, and is based in United States, received a lot… …read more […]

The yearly results for Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK) were released last week, making it a good time to revisit its… …read more […]

Investors will be bracing for another potentially volatile week ahead for markets. …read more […]

It’s been a good week for Medical Properties Trust, Inc. (NYSE:MPW) shareholders, because the company has just… …read more […]

It’s not possible to invest over long periods without making some bad investments. But you have a problem if you face… …read more […]

The cannabis market enters 2020 with plenty of catalysts for higher sales and profits. A lot of companies have made changes in executive leadership to handle the next phase of growth as legalization in cannabis markets slowly progresses and public market veterans are more apt to join the sector.Due to a wide-open market opportunity and readily available capital, most industry participants have gone guns blazing into nearly every segment of the cannabis market. The global cannabis market is expected to be worth $200 billion, but industry participants must deal with the current environment in order to survive and thrive.The executive …read more […]

According to the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL), 70% of the people who graduated from college in 2016 have student loan debt with an average of $30,000 — and the problem gets worse for communities of color. …read more […]

The anti-vax moment is based on a study that was later debunked, the NIH director explained. …read more […]

I’m worried about what will happen to my retirement income when my husband dies. I personally don’t have many assets. What should I do? …read more […]

Your 401(k) is not an all or nothing bet. It is an important investment in your future. So, for goodness sake, don’t just let it ride. …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — It’s an old theory, with shaky proof, that always gets louder right around now. The stock market is so overrun with dumb index money and exchange-traded funds that it can’t even tell when something bad’s happening.You hear it from old hands and stock pickers, lamenting a lost edge in a world where even a pandemic barely registers on charts. Something sinister must be afoot when 30,000 people are infected with coronavirus, the global economic expansion is threatened, and the S&P 500 has its best week in eight months.“The passive flows are set on a schedule the way they …read more […]

China’s finance ministry said on Sunday all levels of government had allocated a total of 71.85 billion yuan ($10.26 billion) as of Saturday afternoon to fight coronavirus. The funds will also be used to ensure that efforts of every region to fight the virus are not hampered by financial constraints, it added. …read more […]