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Stock futures mixed as tech shares advance

TipRanks 3 Top Dividend Stocks With Growth Opportunity; Goldman Sachs Says ‘Buy’ Investing is all about finding profits, and investors have long seen two main paths toward that goal. Growth stocks, equities that will give a return based mainly on share price appreciation, are one route. The second route lies through dividend stocks. These are stocks that pay out a percentage of profits back to shareholders – a dividend, usually sent out quarterly. The payments vary widely, from less than… Source link

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Tech Leads Gains in Stocks; Crude Oil Climbs: Markets Wrap

(Bloomberg) — Markets started the week in the green, with tech shares climbing and investors continuing to focus on the U.S. administration’s $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief plan. Futures on the Nasdaq 100 Index added almost 1%, outperforming contracts on the Russell 2000 Index of small-cap shares. GameStop Corp. extended its extreme rally, surging 46% in premarket trading. In Asia, Chinese internet firm Tencent Holdings Ltd. jumped 11%, the biggest gain since 2011, as mainland traders… Source link

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Google will turn some of its offices into COVID-19 vaccination sites – Yahoo Tech

TipRanks 3 Top Dividend Stocks With Growth Opportunity; Goldman Sachs Says ‘Buy’ Investing is all about finding profits, and investors have long seen two main paths toward that goal. Growth stocks, equities that will give a return based mainly on share price appreciation, are one route. The second route lies through dividend stocks. These are stocks that pay out a percentage of profits back to shareholders – a dividend, usually sent out quarterly. The payments vary widely, from less than… Source link

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Hedge Funds Beef Up Tech Holdings Before Apple, Amazon Earnings

InvestorPlace 7 Dividend Aristocrats That Will Outlive Us All Most long-term investors love passive income stocks. Therefore, today we introduce seven “Dividend Aristocrats,” or businesses that have increased the base dividend every year for the past 25 years. According to metrics from S&P Global (NYSE:SPGI), “Since 1926, dividends have contributed to approximately one-third of total return while capital appreciations have contributed two-thirds. Therefore, both sustainable dividend… Source link

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3 Surging Tech Stocks to Buy as the Nasdaq Hits Records in 2021

The technology-heavy Nasdaq jumped to yet another new record on Thursday, on the back of strong gains from Apple AAPL, Amazon AMZN, and other giants. The broader market positivity comes as Wall Street celebrates the possibility of more government spending on coronavirus relief under the Biden administration. All three major U.S. indexes did slip slightly through early afternoon trading Friday, yet they rest within striking distance of their all-time highs. The S&P 500 is currently up around… Source link

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How the world’s biggest tech companies are working to prevent more violence on Inauguration Day

In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, tech companies ranging from Facebook and Twitter to Google have moved to stop the spread of violent content on their platforms. With the presidential inauguration set for Jan. 20, those sites, as well as others including Shopify and Etsy, have moved to address similar content on their platforms related to the day’s event. Here’s how some of the biggest tech companies in the world are working to address the volatile situation in Washington and… Source link

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Google and Microsoft chat accessibility in tech – Yahoo Finance Australia

The Telegraph Jose Mourinho: Stop moaning about having to play at short notice – do you want to finish the season or not? Jose Mourinho has claimed Fulham will owe Tottenham Hotspur an apology if Scott Parker fields a full-strength team on Wednesday night while dismissing the complaints of the west London club over the rearranged fixture. Parker described the Premier League’s decision to rearrange their game against Spurs at 48 hours’ notice as “scandalous” because Aston Villa could not… Source link

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Capitol Hill siege 'may be the beginning of the end of Big Tech': Scott Galloway – Yahoo Tech

TipRanks 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks with Over 9% Dividend Yield Markets ended 2020 on a high note, and have started 2021 on a bullish trajectory. All three major indexes have recently surged to all-time highs as investors seemingly looked beyond the pandemic and hoped for signs of a rapid recovery. Veteran strategist Edward Yardeni sees the economic recovery bringing its own slowdown with it. As the COVID vaccination program allows for further economic opening, with more people getting back to… Source link

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3 tech stocks that are on fire in 2021 (hint: apple isn’t one)

TipRanks 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks with Over 9% Dividend Yield Markets ended 2020 on a high note, and have started 2021 on a bullish trajectory. All three major indexes have recently surged to all-time highs as investors seemingly looked beyond the pandemic and hoped for signs of a rapid recovery. Veteran strategist Edward Yardeni sees the economic recovery bringing its own slowdown with it. As the COVID vaccination program allows for further economic opening, with more people getting back to… Source link

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Stocks retreat from record highs, tech stocks sink

Stocks fell Monday morning as investors took a pause following last week’s record-setting rally. The S&P 500 dipped 0.8% after touching a fresh record closing high on Friday. The Dow dropped by more than 200 points, or 0.8%, while the Nasdaq underperformed and fell more than 1% as tech stocks came under pressure. Last week, stocks had kicked off 2021 on a strong note even amid last week’s violent protest at the U.S. Capitol, as markets looked through the near-term political turbulence and… Source link

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