Joe Biden attacked Donald Trump as a clueless “clown” who was trying to take away healthcare from millions of Americans during a pandemic as the first debate between the two presidential contenders got off to a chaotic start. In the opening minutes, the two candidates sparred over the Supreme Court opening left by the death
Month: September 2020
After Hadi Yousef began to invest in stocks, he soon learned the value of listening to a company’s earnings call. It didn’t take long for the then-Indiana University student to realize that tracking them down for a range of companies was a challenge. “Around that time, five years ago, I had really gotten into podcasts,
Earnings season kicks off in a couple weeks and here’s why it may be better than expected. The S&P 500 is down 4% for the month, the first down month since March, but investors are expecting big things from corporate earnings reports, which begin Oct. 13 when JPMorgan releases results. “September has been a rough
Ethan Brown, founder and chief executive officer of Beyond Meat, center, celebrates with his wife Tracy Brown, center left, and guests during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, on Thursday, May 2, 2019. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday
The previous months have given incredible volatility across the boards, including Bitcoin (BTC). However, in recent weeks, the volatility drastically decreased to a state of boredom. The overall momentum and bullishness have left the crypto markets only to be replaced by range-bound sideways movements. In other words, very boring. However, what is the crucial Bitcoin
Gabriel Sofa Sixpenny While the economy has declined overall during COVID, home furnishing sales have been on the rise. This is especially true for direct to consumer brand Sixpenny, which at just three years old, is on its way to becoming a major player in the direct to the consumer furniture market. By the end
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak about the administration’s coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing plan in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, September 28, 2020. Carlos Barria | Reuters The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday it will not seek to enforce a subpoena for President Donald Trump‘s income tax returns until
Tuesday’s economic indicators shed some positive light on the economic recovery, as consumer confidence jumped way up after two months of declines and home price indices came in higher than what was expected. The consumer confidence index rose in September to 101.8 from 86.3 in August, ending a two-month streak of declines, The Conference Board
Author’s note: This article was released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members on September 22, 2020. Please check latest data before investing. The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund [CEF] sectors in the last week, as well as to highlight
The world’s largest oil traders are rushing to plough billions of dollars into renewable energy projects in the next five years, as they speed up preparations for a dramatic shift in the world’s energy mix. Marco Dunand, chief executive of Swiss commodity trader Mercuria, said the company was investing $1.5bn into projects in North America
Currency has had a fruitful and largely charmed life, and watching it come into its crypto own is heart-warming indeed. Currency as we know it has been evolving throughout our lifetimes. Along the same timeline and gently curving slope that it has evolved along since the advent of currency. From bartering and trading for goods,
European stocks on Monday had their best day since June, leading a global equity market rally driven by investors scooping up shares in beaten-down sectors as a choppy month draws to a close. The region-wide Euro Stoxx 600 index was 2.2 per cent higher, its best showing in three months, with German’s Dax 30 posting
Wharton School professor Jeremy Siegel told CNBC on Monday the stock market is likely primed for strong gains next year, regardless of whether President Donald Trump or Joe Biden occupy the White House. Siegel, who has been mostly bullish over the years, cited a number of reasons, including the increased money supply as a result of
Evan Spiegel, co-founder and chief executive officer of Snap Inc., speaks during the New Work Summit in Half Moon Bay, California, U.S., on Monday, Feb. 25, 2019. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines midday Monday: Devon Energy, WPX Energy — Shares of Devon jumped 9% while WPX
Will they be back? Barclays thinks not. At least not in their entirety. getty Is working from home here to stay? Barclays Capital thinks it is. In a special report published on September 22, Barclays equities analysts Ryan Preclaw in New York and Paul May in London wrote that working from home could reduce demand
Mary L. Trump interview on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow MSNBC President Donald Trump and two of his siblings were sued on Thursday by their niece Mary on fraud charges accusing them of swindling her out of millions of dollars to which she was entitled after the death of her father. “For Donald J. Trump, his sister
After a steep revenue drop, the North Texas Tollway Authority plans to lower its debt service costs with a $758.3 million refunding deal Thursday. Since restructuring its debt in 2014, NTTA has reported more than $1 billion in interest savings through refunding in a low-interest-rate environment. “We are seeking to achieve long-term interest savings and
As the idea of economic “lockdowns” transitioned from a conversation to reality, both short-term and long-term interest rates collapsed as a major recession was triggered. With much of the world economy shut and a dollar shortage the result, the Federal Reserve had no choice but to slash interest rates to the zero-lower-bound “ZLB,” restart their
You can invest in the growing space economy with these ETFs. Procure Space ETF: https://www.zacks.com/funds/etf/UFO/profile?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID SPDR S&P Kensho Final Frontiers ETF: https://www.zacks.com/funds/etf/ROKT/profile?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID Virgin Galatic: https://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/SPCE?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID Maxar Technologies: https://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/SPCE?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID Dish Network: https://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/SPCE?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID Intelsat: https://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/I?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID Northrup Grumann: https://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/NOC?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID Lockheed Martin: https://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/LMT?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from forcing Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their US app stores, in a ruling that came just hours before the companies were required to implement the ban. Judge Carl Nichols ruled in favour of TikTok, which had argued that the Trump administration was infringing on
Donald Trump on Sunday raised the prospect of the Supreme Court striking down the Affordable Care Act just a day after announcing his third nominee to the US high court. The healthcare law introduced under Barack Obama is set to be a key flash point in next month’s confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett, Mr
The crypto industry is known for its dramatic price action, euphoria and bubbles. In the latest sustained fad since the 2017 initial coin offering, or the ICO boom, the decentralized finance niche of the industry now captivates the attention of many participants. One particular asset within this niche, YFI, has pumped to amazing price heights,
A man wearing a face mask walks past a Nike store in Central Business District, Beijing, China on February 17, 2020. Andrea Verdelli | Getty Images The market is looking treacherous right now to end September, but top analysts still believe there are compelling stocks out there with robust upside ahead. Even in challenging economic
Tesla vehicles are displayed in a Manhattan dealership on September 08, 2020 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Bristol-Myers Squibb — Shares of the pharmaceutical company rose 1.2% after it announced positive interim results from a phase three trial of an immunotherapy drug
California’s ultra luxury market is hot in Southern California getty In April when COVID hit California’s real estate market hard, I reached out to San Francisco-based Compass California President Mark McLaughlin and CoreLogic’s CLGX Deputy Chief Economist Selma Hepp, Ph.D. for their expert insights. Once again, we discuss market fundaments, as we move into Fall
The coronavirus remote work experiment will become a permanent trend, but at some point, employees will return to the office in numbers that match the past. When? It could take five years, according to a new forecast from Cushman & Wakefield. Global office vacancies will not return to their pre-Covid peak levels until 2025 and,
A project to bring a rail link to New York’s LaGuardia Airport is closer to breaking ground in the face of fiscal headwinds created by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Federal Aviation Administration released its draft environmental impact statement for the proposed AirTrain last month with the public comment period scheduled to conclude on Oct. 5.
The Vanguard IT ETF (VGT) is up 23% YTD and 38% over the past year. It has been driven by a COVID-19 impacted market that has been rewarding the large-cap tech stocks for demonstrating excellent top- and bottom-line growth. This article will compare VGT with two leading technology ETFs and attempt to answer the most
For anti-abortion campaigners, the ascension of Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court would be the victory of a lifetime. Ms Barrett, a faithful Catholic and deeply conservative lawyer, is set to be Donald Trump’s third appointee to the court — tilting it firmly to the right for a generation or more. A longtime
The US government has sanctioned China’s biggest chipmaker, dealing further damage to the country’s semiconductor industry after cutting Huawei off from its chip suppliers. On Friday, the US Department of Commerce told companies that exports to Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) posed an “unacceptable risk” of being diverted to “military end use”, according to a copy