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Is Options Trading Gambling? A Look at the Pros and Cons
Options trading is a form of investing that has been around for centuries. It can be thought of as a hybrid between investing and gambling. Some say that options trading is purely gambling…
Like many Americans, the Internal Revenue Service is looking ahead to 2021, and on Monday the agency announced what changes to expect for individual retirement accounts and 401(k) contribution limits.
What savers can actually contribute to their accounts has remained unchanged for 401(k), 403(b), most 457 plans and Thrift Savings Accounts, ...
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Starbucks Corp.’s SBUX, -1.25% ability to adapt has been a key driver for its improved performance despite the dramatic COVID-19-related changes in consumer breakfast habits, according to Quo Vadis.Starbucks is scheduled to report its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday after the closing bell.
“e see the investment case turning on Starbucks’ ...
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With not much left in its coronavirus arsenal, Spain this weekend put its 47 million citizens under a nationwide curfew, a move that experts hope will prove key to controlling an unrelenting virus.Scientists and others face a big worry that weary populations such as Spain’s, eight months into pandemic, could ...
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Well, not exactly. But it might soon be possible to…er…shop your way to a good retirement.
Sort of.
A new venture from a community bank and a Silicon Valley technology company will soon let you finance your individual retirement account with online shopping rebates from 13,000 retailers, including a lot of big ...
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Welcome to the final stretch.
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The home stretch of the U.S. presidential race is usually a positive one for U.S. stocks, but bulls might have to do some heavy-duty campaigning to dig out a win in the eight-day runup to Election Day.
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Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist history, highlighted the ...
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AstraZeneca said on Monday that its experimental COVID-19 vaccine had produced an immune response in both older adults, the age group at highest risk from the disease, as well as younger adults, in the Phase 2 study.The potential vaccine, AZD1222, which is being developed in collaboration with the University of ...
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This is a brief article on the four main big U.S. banks and its recent results. Earnings season has come and gone for America’s biggest ...
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Just when the market was pricing AT&T (T) stock as if it were to announce a dividend cut with its next earnings release as the stock briefly dipped below $27 which is equivalent to an almost 8% yield, AT&T delivered a shockingly positive quarter.
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This quarter's ...
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The numbers: Sales of new single-family homes fell in September, but the housing market remains poised to buck seasonal trends nonetheless.New home sales occurred at a seasonally-adjusted, annual rate of 959,000, the Census Bureau reported Monday. That represents a 3.5% drop from an downwardly-revised pace of 994,000 homes in August. ...
Many people believe that black swan events are unforeseeable. Well, I would agree that the “event” itself may be unforeseeable, but the market declines that accompany them are not unforeseeable.
As an example, whereas many may have viewed the unforeseeable Coronavirus as being the black swan that caused the “surprise” market ...
Investors are gearing up for the busiest week of third-quarter earnings season, as October ends with a flurry of corporate results. Apple AAPL, -0.61%, Google parent Alphabet GOOG, +1.58%, Facebook FB, +2.39%, and Amazon AMZN, +0.88% will all report earnings on Thursday, while Microsoft MSFT, +0.62% reports on Tuesday.
Toy company ...
The Food and Drug Administration’s decision to grant a full approval to Gilead Sciences Inc.’s remdesivir is raising questions about the broader value of a drug that has been praised for being “first” but may only provide limited clinical benefits.Shares of Gilead GILD, +0.19% gained 4.1% in trading on Friday, ...
This interview is part of a series of conversations MarketWatch is conducting with some of the leading voices in the U.S. on the COVID-19 pandemic.Even within one-party families, there is debate about how long it will take to get the U.S. out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, an oncologist, ...
Enbridge (ENB) is a Canadian multinational energy company headquartered in Alberta. It is a major generation, transportation, and energy company with a market capitalization near $60 billion and a near-10% dividend yield. As we'll see throughout the article, the company's impressive asset base and continued cash flow potential make it ...
I’m generally a buy-and-hold type investor, but I do, on occasion, sell my holdings when I see a dislocation in the risk vs. reward, especially when compared to another stock in which I see a favorable risk/reward. This is the case that I found with Ventas (VTR), which I had ...
AT&T (NYSE: T) recently announced its earnings today, watching its share price increase by more than 5%, pushing its market capitalization back over $200 billion. The company has since come slightly back to Earth, however, it's worth highlighting the quality of its earnings. As we'll see throughout this article, AT&T's ...
Dunkin’ Brands on Sunday confirmed that it is negotiating a deal to be bought up by private-equity-backed company Inspire Brands. However, the owner of Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin Robbins fast-food restaurant chains cautioned that there is no certainty that a final agreement will be reached.
Earlier, The New York Times had reported that ...
Bottles of Coca Cola are displayed at a market on April 16, 2013 in San Francisco, California.
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SYDNEY— Coca-Cola Co. agreed in principle to sell its stake in its Australian bottler to one of its European affiliates, its latest move to reduce exposure to costly bottling operations and focus on ...
Italian anti-riot policemen clash with demonstrators over measures to fight the spread of COVID-19 in the center of Naples, southern Italy, on October, 24, 2020.
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European stocks traded lower Monday on a combination of worries, including a profit warning from business software giant SAP, new restrictions on activity ...
So far, October has been a pretty busy time for oil and gas firms looking to merge. The latest example here is the decision of Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) to acquire, in an all-stock transaction, Parsley Energy (PE). This multi-billion-dollar deal will help to create a real power-player in the ...
One of the biggest fears investors have is a stock market crash (SPY). Nobody likes to see the value of his portfolio go down along with other likely negative thoughts related to such a situation. This might be losing your job, economic uncertainty or who know what else can come, ...
Shares of Boston Beer closed 19% higher on Friday after the brewer's 3Q earnings blew past analysts' estimates. The company's 3Q EPS surged 78.4% to $6.51 year-over-year, surpassing the Street consensus of $4.63 fueled by robust revenue growth.
Boston Beer's (SAM) 3Q revenues (less of excise taxes) jumped 30.2% year-over-year to ...
Cannabis producer OrganiGram Holdings invested an additional $2.5 million in Hyasynth Biologicals following the completion of the first milestone linked to Hyasynth’s first sale of CBDa product, which is produced and extracted from yeast.
Hyasynth, a private biotech company, is a pioneer in the field of cannabinoid science and biosynthesis. In ...
NextGen Healthcare shares jumped 8.1% on Oct. 23 as the company posted stellar results for the second quarter of fiscal 2021 (ended Sep.30) and reinstated its full-year guidance.
For 2Q FY21, NextGen’s (NXGN) revenue grew 4.3% Y/Y to $104 million, surpassing analysts’ forecast of $133 million. A 17.4% growth in ...
Wells Fargo is looking for buyers for its asset management business, Reuters reported on Friday citing two people familiar with the matter. According to the report, the US banking giant is in talks with asset management and private equity firms for a potential deal.
Wells Fargo’s (WFC) asset management arm is ...
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“ ‘No one knows the future, but given the general lack of investor confidence amid a pandemic and political polarization, there is a chance that a negative, self-fulfilling prophecy will flourish. This highlights the importance of being well diversified in asset classes — including Treasury securities, which are safe ...
Summary
Q3 was mixed overall.
Pain in data center revenues cannot be ignored and we do not like the sale of memory business at least in the near-term as it makes it tough to compete.
Cash flow is being used for an accelerated share repurchase agreement to repurchase $10 billion in stock and ...
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