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'This is a wonderful time to invest:' market strategist
Investors going long may find the best opportunities in technology and ‘serendipity’ stocks, says strategist James McDonald, CEO of Hercules Investments. …read more […]
Year: 2020
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San Francisco Bay Area to open for manufacturing, curbside retail
Businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area may open for manufacturing, retail with curbside pickup and warehouse distribution, health directors of five counties that make up most of the region said Monday.
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Delta to resume flying several major routes in June
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screened 250,467 travelers on Friday, the first time the number has surpassed 250,000 since March 24, according to daily data on its website. Delta is adding roughly 100 more daily flights in June versus May, including service out of its Atlanta hub and New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to Florida, even as its overall second-quarter schedule is expected to be 85% smaller than last year. …read more […]
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Amazon’s French warehouses to reopen with 30% staff: unions
Amazon’s French warehouses are set to reopen on Tuesday with about 30% of employees, three union officials said, ending a month-long dispute over whether the e-commerce giant was doing enough to protect workers from the coronavirus pandemic.
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Moderna Vaccine ‘Hits the Mark’ as Street Sees a Blockbuster
(Bloomberg) — Moderna Inc. got a new Wall Street-high price target from Goldman Sachs as its shares traded at a record after the biotech company revealed positive early results from its experimental vaccine for Covid-19.An initial look at mRNA-1273, as the inoculation is known, “hits the mark,” analyst Salveen Richter said, raising her price target to $105 from $63, or 27% above the prior Street high of $83. Richter rates Moderna a buy. Piper Sandler analysts soon followed raising their price target to $102 from $57 saying Moderna could have “potential blockbuster vaccine sales next year.”The Nasdaq Biotechnology Index rose …read more […]
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Uber to focus on core rides, delivery business as cuts more jobs
Uber Technologies Inc will concentrate on its core businesses in ride-hailing and food delivery, Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi said in an email to employees on Monday, announcing the company’s second round of job cuts during the coronavirus pandemic.
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J.C. Penney to permanently shut about 242 stores as part of bankruptcy plan
J.C. Penney Co Inc plans to trim its store count by 29% to about 604, as the U.S. department store chain looks to focus on those more profitable, a regulatory filing showed on Monday, two days after it filed for bankruptcy protection.
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Moderna coronavirus vaccine shows promising results in early stage
In an early stage clinical trial, Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine produced antibodies that will help ‘neutralize’ coronavirus in patients. Moderna CEO Stéphane Bances joins Yahoo Finance’s On the Move to discuss. …read more […]
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Uber cuts 3,000 more jobs, shuts 45 offices over coronavirus pandemic: WSJ
Uber cut 3,000 more jobs and shut down 45 offices amid the coronavirus outbreak. Yahoo Finance’s Adam Shapiro breaks down the latest developments. …read more […]
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Walmart trailed supermarkets amid peak panic-buying: data
Americans increased their visits to supermarkets far more than to Walmart Inc stores as panic-buying peaked in mid-March, a Reuters analysis of foot traffic to retailers in the United States shows.
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Harvard’s Reinhart and Rogoff Say This Time Really Is Different
(Bloomberg Markets) — When Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff published their heavyweight history of financial crises in late 2009, the title was ironic. This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly reminded readers that the catastrophic 2008-09 credit crisis was far from unique. The authors became the go-to experts on the history of government defaults, recessions, bank runs, currency sell-offs, and inflationary spikes. Everything seemed to be part of a predictable pattern.And yet a little more than a decade later, we’re experiencing what appears to be a one-of-a-kind crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic has catapulted the world into its deepest …read more […]
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Oil futures on track for two-month highs as lockdowns ease
Oil prices jumped on Monday, with both U.S. and Brent benchmarks on track for their highest settles in two months, supported by optimism about resumption in economic activity and steady output cuts from major producers.
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Wall Street soars on hopes of stimulus, coronavirus vaccine
Wall Street’s main indexes surged on Monday as encouraging early data from a potential coronavirus vaccine trial boosted sentiment, with investors also counting on more stimulus to rescue the U.S. economy from a deep slowdown.