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Stock futures opened slightly higher on Tuesday investors awaited another batch of corporate earnings results and the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) January monetary policy decision. S&P 500 futures traded higher by about 0.2% as the overnight session kicked off, holding near the index’s all-time high. Contracts on both the Nasdaq and Dow also increased. Late Tuesday, shares of heavily weighted tech stock Microsoft (MSFT) jumped after the company posted fiscal second quarter… Source link

(For a Reuters live blog on U.S., UK and European stock markets, click LIVE/ or type LIVE/ in a news window) * IBM hits two-month low on quarterly revenue miss * Intel slips on avoiding outsourcing embrace * Yellen wins unanimous Senate panel vote for Treasury * Dow down 0.57%, S&P 500 down 0.30%, Nasdaq up 0.09% (Updates market prices to close; adds closing details) By Echo Wang NEW YORK, Jan 22 (Reuters) – The Dow and S&P 500 ended modestly lower on Friday, dragged down by losses in blue-chip… Source link

Stock futures rose Tuesday evening, extending earlier advances as investors looked ahead to the first actions of the incoming Biden administration. Contracts on the Dow added more than 50 points, or 0.2%, as the overnight session kicked off. Shares of Netflix (NFLX) spiked 12% in late trading after the company added more users than expected in the fourth quarter and surpassed 200 million paid subscribers for the first time ever. On Wednesday, all eyes will turn to the inauguration of… Source link

The Canadian Press The Latest: Swiss hunt down virus variant in St. Moritz BERLIN — Swiss authorities have started mass testing residents and visitors in St. Moritz after a new variant of the coronavirus was detected in the upscale skiing resort. People were asked to register online and come in for free tests to a local gym and a beverage store on Tuesday, after two luxury hotels were put under quarantine Monday. All schools, kindergartens and skiing schools were closed. Officials said at… Source link

Benzinga Here’s What it Took to Help My Millennial Colleague Plan Her Million-Dollar Nest Egg I’m a nosy person, so I elbowed my millennial colleague, Jessa, in the next cube over, and asked her, “Pssst… How much do you save for retirement per year?”Instead of ignoring me, she furtively Slacked me all of her financial details (it was like a giant ice cream sundae for a finance nerd): * Jessa, at 28, still owes $15,000 in student loans, and her husband, who is 30, still owes $20,000. *… Source link

TipRanks 3 Monster Growth Stocks That Can Charge Forward in 2021 With 2020 winding down, there’s a growing belief that 2021 is going to be a growth year for the stock markets. The US elections have returned a divided government, one unlikely to have the broad majorities – or the broad support – needed to enact wide-ranging reform legislation from either the right or left, and that bodes well for the economy generally.The COVID vaccines are entering distribution, and while new anti-virus… Source link

TipRanks 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks That Are Still Undervalued After a year that most of us want to forget, 2021 is shaping up to start with stability and an even keel. The election is safely behind us, the new Biden Administration promises a ‘no drama’ approach, a closely divided and hyper-partisan Congress is unlikely to enact any sweeping legislation, reform or otherwise, and COVID vaccines are ready for distribution. It’s a recipe for a calm news cycle.Which makes it a perfect time to… Source link

Stock futures rose Wednesday morning, pointing to another session of gains as investors considered lawmakers’ final efforts to get a stimulus package through before year-end, and awaited the Federal Open Market Committee’s December monetary policy decision. Contracts on all three major indices headed toward a higher open, but came off overnight session highs after a much weaker-than-expected print on November retail sales, which showed a sharper drop in consumer spending than anticipated… Source link

Stocks rose Tuesday as more updates on the stimulus front out of Washington helped at least temporarily offset concerns over the potential for more virus-related restrictions. The S&P 500 increased by about 0.7% around noon in New York, after the index logged a fourth straight session of declines a day earlier. The Dow rose more than 150 points, or 0.6%, and the Nasdaq increased 0.5%. COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continued to march higher across the U.S., and the country crossed the… Source link

TipRanks 3 U.S. Cannabis Stocks Gearing up for Growth; Cantor Says ‘Buy’ At the end of 2018, Canada fully legalized cannabis, nationwide, for both medical and recreational use. With the incoming Biden Administration, the US is expected to follow suit with Federal-level legalization, or at least formal decriminalization, sometime in the next four years. An exact timetable is impossible to predict; much will depend on the partisan makeup of Congress after the Georgia Senate runoff vote in… Source link