Year: 2020

(Bloomberg) — Novavax Inc. climbed as much as 6.7% in extended trading on plans to start enrolling participants for a late-stage study of its experimental shot for the novel coronavirus in 10,000 patients in the U.K.The company joins the ranks of AstraZeneca Plc, Pfizer Inc. with German partner BioNTech SE and Moderna Inc. as its vaccine enters the final stretch on the path toward regulatory approval. There are roughly 38 shots being tested in humans around the world and more than 140 others in earlier stages of study, according to the World Health Organization’s estimates.Half of the people enrolled in …read more […]

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Yahoo Finance’s Dan Howley joins Akiko Fujita to break down the details of Amazon’s latest smart device. …read more […]

If you’re an active investor, it is likely that you’ve considered investing in Tesla. And if you’re new to investing, you may not have learned how to invest in Tesla in the first place. Since the end of 2019, Tesla’s (Nasdaq: TSLA) stock has been climbing at an alarming rate. The stock went from a 52-week low of $44 to a 52-week high of over $502. But even with such rapid growth, many investors are still not biting.

One of the frequent criticisms you might hear about Tesla is that the stock is priced based on the company’s future potential and …read more […]

Wealth Consulting Group CEO Jimmy Lee joins Akiko Fujita to break down the latest market action, as 870,000 Americans file for first time unemployment benefits. …read more […]

Markets are volatile, there can be no doubt. So far this month, the S&P 500 has fallen 9% from its peak. The tech-heavy NASDAQ, which had led the gainers all summer, is now leading the on the fall, having lost 11% since September 2. The three-week tumble has investors worried that we may be on the brink of another bear market.The headwinds are strong. The usual September swoon, the upcoming election, doubts about another round of economic stimulus – all are putting downward pressure on the stock markets.Which doesn’t mean that there are no opportunities. As the old saw goes, …read more […]

Tesla may attract all the headlines among millennial traders on Robinhood.
But in terms of wealth generated for investors over time, Apple trumps Tesla any day of the week.
On August 19, Apple’s shares climbed 1.4% to $468.65, making it the first U.S. company to push through the $2 trillion market cap barrier.
Yes, the Silicon Valley-based tech giant has pulled back from its all-time highs over the past few weeks.
But Apple remains the world’s largest company as measured by market capitalization.

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Not only is it five times the size of Tesla…
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John Kagia, New Frontier Data Cheif Knowledge Officer, joins Yahoo Finance’s Zach Guzman to discuss the cannabis outlook amid COVID-19 and the 2020 Presidential election. …read more […]

Amazon has launched its new Luna cloud gaming service, and could become an even bigger threat to Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. …read more […]

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(Bloomberg) — Just a week after revealing its plan to turn itself into a clean-energy giant, BP Plc watched its share price drop to a 25-year low.Chief Executive Officer Bernard Looney and his new management team gave more than 10 hours of presentations over three days last week, in a bid to show the world that the oil and gas giant could adapt to a low-carbon future without sacrificing returns.BP’s stock closed in London on Thursday at 232.4 pence, the lowest level since October 1995. While falling crude prices and fears of the second wave of the coronavirus didn’t help, …read more […]

Pfizer’s German development partner BioNTech on Thursday joined other leading COVID-19 vaccine developers in ruling out participation in British plans to test experimental inoculations by deliberately infecting trial volunteers. “BioNTech’s vaccine candidate is not part of this study,” a spokeswoman said. Britain is planning to host so-called “challenge trials”, the Financial Times cited people involved in the project as saying. …read more […]

Yahoo Finance speaks with Echelon CEO Lou Lentine about a dust-up with Amazon. …read more […]

5G, first introduced two years ago, is expanding past its initial phases and has reached the edge of a great boom. There are 105 5G networks worldwide, and device manufacturers have released over 160 5G smartphones, tablets, and other products onto the commercial market – and there are over 230 million 5G subscribers worldwide. The new tech is here, and it’s ready to expand.That expansion will bring a series of benefits to wireless users. The higher speeds on the networks have gotten the most attention, but 5G will also over 10 times higher data transfer rates, one-tenth the network latency, …read more […]