Category: Market Summary
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Dow Snaps Eight-Day Winning Streak After Lackluster Session
Following the strong upward move seen last week, stocks turned in a relatively lackluster performance during trading on Monday. The major averages moved to the upside early in the session but spent the day bouncing back and forth across the unchanged line. The major averages eventually ended the day narrowly mixed. While the Nasdaq rose…
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Arm Sets 2025 Target for AI Chip Development, Amazon and Microsoft Commit Billions to French Investments, and More
Arm Holdings (NASDAQ:ARM) – SoftBank is collaborating with Arm to develop AI chips, aiming to start mass production in 2025. SoftBank is financially contributing, negotiating with manufacturers like TSMC (NYSE:TSM). Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) – France secured new jobs and investments on Sunday before hosting a foreign investment summit. Macron led the ‘Choose France’ event, aiming to…
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Dow Closes Higher For Eighth Consecutive Session
Stocks moved to the upside early in the session on Friday but showed a lack of direction over the remainder of the trading day. The major averages eventually ended the day mixed, although the Dow closed higher for the eighth consecutive session. While the tech-heavy Nasdaq (NASDAQI:COMP) edged down 5.40 points or less than a…
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Novavax Surges 57% Post $1.4 Billion Sanofi Deal; Apple Boosts Data Centers with AI and Internal Chips, and More News
Novavax (NASDAQ:NVAX), Sanofi (NASDAQ:SNY) – Novavax closed a $1.4 billion deal with Sanofi to commercialize its Covid-19 vaccine and develop a new combined vaccine against coronavirus and influenza, boosting NVAX shares by 56.70% in pre-market. The deal led Novavax to suspend its continuity warning, reversing its previous financial decline. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) – Apple plans to…
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U.S. Stocks Move Mostly Higher, Dow Extends Winning Streak To Seven Days
Following the lackluster performance seen over the two previous sessions, stocks moved mostly higher during trading on Thursday. The Dow extended its winning streak to seven sessions, once again reaching its best closing level in over a month. The major averages ended the day just off their highs of the session. The Dow jumped 331.37…
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Bain Capital in Talks to Acquire PowerSchool; Blackstone Emerges Victorious in Hipgnosis Bidding War, and More News
Bain Capital (NYSE:BCSF), PowerSchool Holdings (NYSE:PWSC) – Bain Capital is in talks to purchase PowerSchool, an educational software provider, in a private deal that could value the company at about $6 billion, including debt. PowerSchool provides cloud-based software for primary education in North America, serving over 50 million students in more than 90 countries. Blackstone…
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Dow Extends Winning Streak Amid Another Lackluster Session
Stocks showed a lack of direction over the course of the trading day on Wednesday, extending the lackluster performance seen during Tuesday’s session. Despite the choppy trading, the Dow closed higher for the sixth straight day, reaching its best closing level in over a month. The major averages eventually finished the day mixed. While the…
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Reddit Rises 15% After First Quarterly Report, Upstart and Twilio Plunge Due to Weak Q2 Forecast, and More in Earnings
Reddit (NYSE:RDDT) – Shares of the social media company rose 15% in pre-market trading due to better-than-expected quarterly earnings in its first report since the company went public in March. Reddit generated revenue of $243 million, surpassing the $212.8 million expected by FactSet analysts. The loss per share was $8.19, which may not be directly…
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U.S. Stocks Close Little Changed But Dow Extends Winning Streak
Stocks saw modest strength throughout much of the trading session on Tuesday but gave back ground in afternoon trading to end the day little changed. The Dow still managed to close higher for the fifth consecutive session, reaching its best closing level in a month. The major averages ended the day narrowly mixed. While the…
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Tesla’s April Sales Down 18% in China, Amazon’s Multi-Billion Dollar Cloud Expansion in Singapore, and More News
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) – Amazon plans to invest $8.88 billion in Singapore over the next four years to expand its cloud infrastructure, bringing its total in the region to over $17.06 billion by 2028. Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) – Tesla laid off employees in software, services, and engineering on Monday, as part of the announcement to reduce its…