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Stock futures opened slightly lower Thursday evening after a record-setting session earlier in the day, with strong earnings results and more encouraging economic data helping support the latest leg higher in risk assets.  Contracts on the S&P 500 edged down, after the index closed at an all-time high of more than 4,200 earlier in the session. Dow and Nasdaq futures also retreated. Shares Amazon (AMZN) jumped in late trading after reporting first-quarter results and current-quarter guidance… Source link

Google parent Alphabet Inc. rang up record profits for a third straight quarter during the pandemic, catapulting shares 5% to a 52-week high in after-hours trading Tuesday. The search-engine behemoth  GOOGL, -0.82% GOOG, -0.84% reported net income of $17.93 billion, or $26.29 a share in its fiscal first quarter, compared with net income of $6.84 billion, or $9.87 a share, in the year-ago quarter. Revenue after… Source link

Home price growth in the U.S. surged at the fastest pace in 15 years in February. Standard & Poor’s said Tuesday that its S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index posted a 12% annual gain in February, up from 11.2% in January. The rate is the highest year over year gain recorded by the index since February 2006. The 20-City Composite posted a 11.9% annual gain, up from 11.1% the previous month, beating consensus estimates of 11.9%, according to Bloomberg. “Housing’s strength… Source link

MMA Weekly UFC 261 fans not required to wear masks | COVID-19 Precautions On Tuesday, the Ultimate Fighting Championship announced two partnerships to assist in fan safety for those attending Saturday’s UFC 261 pay-per-view. The event sold out the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla. in minutes. The event represents the first, sold out, major sporting event with full capacity at an indoor arena in the United States since the pandemic lockdowns and restrictions. A capacity crowd… Source link

Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) saw unusually large options trading activity on Tuesday. Stock investors acquired 7,627 call options on the company. This is an increase of 1,573% compared to the typical daily volume of 456 call options. Several hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the company. Royal London Asset Management Ltd. raised its stake in shares of Yandex by 4.7% in the 1st quarter. Royal London Asset Management Ltd. now owns 106,168 shares of the information services… Source link

Coinbase founder and CEO Brian Armstrong attends Consensus 2019 at the Hilton Midtown on May 15, 2019 in New York City. Photo: Steven Ferdman/Getty Images Bitcoin’s (BTC-USD) price reached another all-time high on Wednesday, touching $64,717.01 (£46,908.11), ahead of Coinbase’s historic stock market listing in New York. Bitcoin, which has been up and down over the last few weeks, crossed $64,000 on Wednesday and at the time of writing was 6% higher to $64,585.594. Just yesterday, it had… Source link

Bloomberg TikTok Founder’s $60 Billion Fortune Places Him Among The World’s Richest People (Bloomberg) — Just last year, the world’s most valuable startup, ByteDance Ltd., was being squeezed from all sides.The Trump administration wanted the Chinese firm, which owns the ubiquitous TikTok video-sharing platform, to get rid of assets. Beijing was cracking down on tech businesses, and India blacklisted some of its social-media apps.For all the obstacles, ByteDance kept growing. Now its… Source link

TipRanks Analysts Say These 3 Stocks Are Their Top Picks for 2021 Remember back in February, when we were worried about a market correction? Back when the NASDAQ dipped 10% from its peak… Yeah, well, never mind about that. Markets are up, up, up lately. A strong jobs report last Friday has helped, showing 916,000 new positions in March, the best print since last August, and almost a quarter-million higher than expectations. Rising markets make it a good time to look at the ‘top picks’… Source link

The New York Times As Mask Mandates Lift, Retail Workers Again Feel Vulnerable Marilyn Reece, the lead bakery clerk at a Kroger in Batesville, Mississippi, started noticing more customers walking around the store without masks this month after the state mandate to wear face coverings was repealed. Kroger still requires them, but that doesn’t seem to matter. When Reece, a 56-year-old breast-cancer survivor, sees those shoppers, she prays. “Please, please, don’t let me have to wait on… Source link

Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Monday, March 29, 2021 Wall Street pros see gains, but modest gains With the S&P 500 (^GSPC) closing at an all-time high on Friday and the first quarter coming to a close this week, investors and traders are asking where the stock market is headed next. Though, when are they not? Overall, the tone on Wall Street is a modestly bullish one thanks to bullish expectations for the economy. At Barclays,… Source link