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Recent headlines were saturated with the alarming uptick of new coronavirus cases in several states. Accordingly, the stock market experienced a sell off. Yet, stocks of companies engaged in the search for a COVID-19 vaccine or treatment took the news as a bullish signal. Inovio Pharmaceuticals (INO) skyrocketed over 100% this week, after the coronavirus vaccine maker disclosed it had been given $71 million by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). This will go toward the manufacturing of its Cellectra 3PSP smart device and the purchase of Cellectra 2000 devices. These are the devices through which Inovio’s COVID-19 DNA vaccine …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — At record highs on Tuesday, the popular group of megacap tech stocks known as the Fangs is ending the week with the worst plunge since the depths of the Covid crash.While intermittent stumbles have been a regular feature of the broad market during the recovery phase, ones involving its core constituency of the biggest online companies have been all but unheard of. The group’s automated, algorithmic, stay-at-home moat has insulated them from day-to-day ups and downs, making them a central holding of hedge funds and other institutions who have shied away from retail favorites in the airline and …read more […]

We at Insider Monkey have gone over 821 13F filings that hedge funds and prominent investors are required to file by the SEC The 13F filings show the funds’ and investors’ portfolio positions as of March 31st, near the height of the coronavirus market crash. In this article, we look at what those funds think […] …read more […]

The CEOs of major U.S. airlines, including American Airlines, Delta, JetBlue and Southwest, are meeting with Vice President Mike Pence to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the industry. Yahoo Finance’s Akiko Fujita and Emily McCormick break down the details. …read more […]

America’s up-again, down-again group of cruise line stocks — Carnival Corporation (CCL), Royal Caribbean (RCL), and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH) — went down again, en masse, this week, with all three companies’ stocks sinking 10% or more.Don’t say you were not warned.Analyst Chris Woronka of Deutsche Bank penned a note in which he tweaked price targets ever so slightly higher. At the same as he did this, however, Woronka also warned investors that none of the three publicly-traded cruise stocks is currently cheap enough to buy.Although Woronka raised his estimates (the price target on Carnival going from $11 to …read more […]

Trump’s executive order prevents hundreds of thousands of foreigners looking to work in the United States through the end of 2020. …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Boeing Co. and federal regulators are preparing to hold a critical set of test flights on the 737 Max early next week, which would mark a milestone in its return to service after being grounded for more than 15 months.Aviation industry officials briefed on the plans, which still haven’t been finalized, indicate that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has reviewed Boeing’s extensive safety analysis of fixes it has made and is comfortable moving to the next step: putting the plane through its paces with test pilots.Boeing had privately targeted hosting the FAA flights by the end of June. …read more […]

Inexperienced traders often go after the biggest stocks – Apple, Amazon, etc.
But, as Alexander Green explains, they are missing out on major profit potential by ignoring the small stocks – more specifically, microcaps.

Thanks in part to the coronavirus, more than 500 companies have filed for bankruptcy this year.
The biggest by far is Hertz (NYSE: HTZ), which sought Chapter 11 protection in May with $25.8 billion in assets and $24.4 billion in liabilities.
Some companies restructure and survive bankruptcy. Many do not.
The ones that don’t generally go into liquidation. In a liquidation, shareholders don’t receive a dime until bondholders, creditors and other …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. said it will close its physical store locations permanently but will continue to invest in a digital storefront that, along with third-party retailers, has driven sales of products such as the Xbox game player and Surface tablets.The move will result in a pretax charge of about $450 million, or 5 cents a share, in the current quarter, Microsoft said Friday in a statement.“Our sales have grown online as our product portfolio has evolved to largely digital offerings, and our talented team has proven success serving customers beyond any physical location,” said Microsoft Corporate Vice President David …read more […]

Unilever is ceasing all U.S. ad spending from social-media platforms Facebook, Instagram and Twitter through the end of the year — and possibly beyond — citing the “polarized atmosphere” in the country. The consumer goods giant’s announcement Friday comes amid the widening StopHateForProfit boycott targeted at Facebook, organized by groups that want to pressure Facebook […] …read more […]

Albertsons CEO Vivek Sankaran joins Yahoo Finance’s On The Move to weigh in on the company going public and discuss the latest food trends amid the COVID-19 pandemic. …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Occidental Petroleum Corp. has garnered around $3 billion of orders for its inaugural high-yield bond sale, according to people with knowledge of the matter.Pricing discussions on the company’s planned three-part unsecured offering include a five-year bond with a yield of 7.75% to 8%. A seven-year note may yield between 8.25% and 8.5%, while a 10-year security may yield 8.75% to 8.875%, according to other people, who asked not to be named because the discussions are private.Citigroup Inc. is leading the deal, and the debt may be sold as soon as Friday. Representatives for Citigroup and Occidental declined to …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Bill Foley’s Cannae Holdings Inc. and Senator Investment Group LP made a $7 billion takeover offer for CoreLogic Inc., saying they can “reignite growth” at the real estate data company and increase its operating efficiency.Cannae and Senator sent CoreLogic’s board a letter Friday outlining a proposal to acquire the Irvine, California-based company for $65 a share in cash, they said in a statement. The bid values CoreLogic’s equity at about $5.2 billion, and represents a 23% premium over its closing price on Thursday. Including debt, the offer is worth about $7 billion, according to the letter.CoreLogic climbed as …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — When news broke last month that Amazon.com Inc. was interested in buying Zoox Inc., observers assumed the e-commerce giant was looking to automate its delivery fleet. After all, Amazon already invested in an electric truck maker and is a major buyer of everything from planes to diesel vehicles.But in a statement on Friday confirming its acquisition of the autonomous vehicle startup, Amazon touted Zoox for its ride-hailing ambitions. Ride hailing? Amazon?“You say, does it make sense?” said Mike Ramsey, a Gartner vice president who tracks the auto industry. “Well, does it make sense that the package delivery company …read more […]

A key step in the return to service of the grounded Boeing 737 MAX could take place as soon as early next week, two people briefed on the matter said on Friday. Boeing Co’s best-selling plane has been grounded since March 2019 after two fatal crashes killed 346 people. A certification flight test, which is expected to last at least two days, is likely to take place starting as early as Tuesday but has not been finalized. …read more […]