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Wall Street opened higher on Friday, with stocks aiming to re-test the week’s records in thin, post-Thanksgiving trading, as hopes for a COVID-19 vaccine momentarily counterbalance soaring infection rates. The New York Stock Exchange will end the trading day at 1p.m. Eastern. Stocks are consolidated their gains after the Dow Jones Industrial Average was catapulted above 30,000 for the first time ever on Tuesday, with an increasing number of investors encouraged by expectations that a… Source link

Wall Street consolidated its gains on Wednesday, with stocks opening flat to slightly lower a day after major benchmarks scaled to new highs. Ahead of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, optimism over the imminent deployment of a COVID-19 vaccine propelled the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 30,000 for the first time ever on Tuesday, extending a breathtaking rally that’s carried stocks deep into a bull market. However, caution set in early Wednesday, as investors digested weekly jobless claims… Source link

Stock futures were flat to slightly weaker on Sunday evening, as investors weighed new COVID-19 infections — which are leading to rising deaths and a record number of hospitalizations across the U.S. — against the rapidly unfolding timetable for the deployment of a vaccine. Investors have been broadly encouraged by the steady flow of positive news over a coronavirus cure. Pfizer (PFE) and BioNTech (BNTX) said on Friday they plan to file for an emergency use authorization with the U.S…. Source link

If you thought the NBA’s silly season would take a holiday in an unconventional offseason, that memo did not reach John Wall. Wall apparently wants out of Washington, requesting a trade in the wake of the rumors surrounding discussions of a swap involving himself and Houston Rockets guard Russell Westbrook — who also has asked out of his current situation. That makes three All-Star guards looking for a change of address if you include Westbrook’s teammate, 2017-18 MVP James Harden. Wall… Source link

The Wall Street Journal published a short article Thursday night on Hunter Biden’s business dealings that concluded: “Corporate records reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show no role for Joe Biden.” The same night, the Journal published an opinion piece that asserted the Democratic presidential nominee had been aware of and/or involved in his son’s business endeavors, about 24 hours after Breitbart News published a statement from a former Hunter Biden business partner, Tony Bobulinksi. That… Source link

Bitcoin has come a long way in the ten years since it was created but, for some, it still feels early. The bitcoin price, climbing to year-to-date highs this week and recapturing some of the late 2017 bullishness that pushed it to around $20,000 per bitcoin, has found fresh support from Wall Street and traditional investors this year. Now, Wall Street legend and billionaire Paul Tudor Jones, who made headlines when he revealed he was buying bitcoin to hedge against inflation earlier this… Source link

Fox Business Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. Google is reportedly allowing its artificial intelligence technology for the Trump administration’s “virtual” border wall. The move comes nearly two years after it controversially ended its work with Project Maven. According to The Intercept, the tech giant won a contract from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to provide its Google Cloud technology to facilitate the use of artificial intelligence… Source link

Long term investing can be life changing when you buy and hold the truly great businesses. And highest quality companies can see their share prices grow by huge amounts. Just think about the savvy investors who held Yandex N.V. (NASDAQ:YNDX) shares for the last five years, while they gained 315%. And this is just one example of the epic gains achieved by some long term investors. Also pleasing for shareholders was the 51% gain in the last three months. The company reported its financial… Source link

Dozens of women wearing yellow linked arms to form a protective “wall of moms” around Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland, Oregon, on Sunday as the protesters clashed with federal law enforcement. Video from the scene showed crowds chanting “Feds stay clear, moms are here!” and “Feds go home!” before protesters toppled a fence erected around the federal courthouse. Federal agents fired back with what appeared to be tear gas and flash bangs, the video showed. Hundreds of people had… Source link