Year: 2020

After weeks of historic uncertainty, global stock markets are quickly settling down from now what is now nearly a month of record share price volatility. It appears that social distancing is helping slow new cases of the coronavirus, and there is hope that the global economy will return back to normal. Many stocks have bounced significantly from their lows because of this hope, but there are still plenty of deals to be had.Some well capitalized energy firms, which are already operating in uncertain times as many economies around the world remain in standby mode from the social distancing required to …read more […]

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Stimulus checks to arrive by April 15 for millions of taxpayers. A new portal where some can supply direct deposit information could be out next week. …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Zoom Chief Executive Officer Eric Yuan pledged that his company will meet the highest security standards, seeking to put millions of new users at ease after numerous security lapses on the video-meeting application.Zoom Video Communications Inc. is launching a feature called Security that sets all privacy settings to their highest level, including putting passwords on meetings and employing waiting rooms that force meeting hosts to filter conference attendees, Yuan said Wednesday on a webinar. The San Jose, California-based company is planning to roll out upgraded encryption for its video calls and meeting rooms for large webinars.“Zoom is safe …read more […]

The battle against COVID-19 is well underway, and now’s the time to send in the big guns. Sorrento Therapeutics (SRNE) is on it, offering both active and passive immunization strategies. As a result, it has received positive investor attention, as demonstrated by its 35% one-month gain.As part of these efforts, the healthcare name, which develops therapies to reduce the malignancy of life-threatening tumors, improves the safety of current treatments and brings solutions to make living with cancer more tolerable, partnered with Celularity. Celularity is a privately-held cell therapeutics company that specializes in transformative allogeneic cellular therapies developed from the postpartum …read more […]

The stock market often experiences turbulence in times of economic instability. It can be nerve-wracking to watch your portfolio go up and down over the course of a week, only to end down four, five or more percentage points. When this happens, murmurings of a stock market crash tend to creep into headlines. Are they warranted? What is a stock market crash?
Stock market crashes are very real and devastating when they occur. But they’re not as simple as the market closing down three or four days in a row. A loss of four or five basis points in a day …read more […]