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Executive Sous Chef Judith Cooper carves a turkey at Rosa Mexicano’s near Lincoln Center in New York City. Alexi Rosenfeld | Getty Images Americans are beginning to return to the workforce in big numbers, and that is likely to show up in the March employment report. Economists polled by Dow Jones expect to see 675,000

From Birch Gold Group Scams and frauds are often as creative as they are crooked, and the latest string of Social Security scams that has been sweeping the nation is yet another example of this. Like most scammers, the perpetrators are either looking to get cash before hanging up the phone, or are hoping to harvest

The EV (electric vehicle) sector and semiconductor industry are closely correlated, as chips are an important component in EV systems. Indie Semiconductor stands at the intersection between the two industries, providing the fast-growing autotech segment with next-gen semiconductor and software solutions. The company is soon to go public via a SPAC merger with Thunder Bridge

In this article MSFT QS WING KMX MU WDC F NIO Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., speaks during the Microsoft Developers Build Conference in Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Monday, May 7, 2018. The Build conference, marking its second consecutive year in Seattle, is expected to put emphasis on the company’s cloud technologies

by visualcapitalist Big Tech Just Keeps Getting Bigger It’s becoming increasingly difficult to wrap your head around just how massive some big tech stocks are getting, especially since they keep outdoing themselves. The pandemic has pushed even more activity online, and the FAATMAN stocks (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Tesla, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Netflix) have benefited immensely. With many of

Shares of ZTO Express increased 2.7% to close at $29.15 on March 31 after the Chinese express delivery company announced an increase as well as the extension of its stock repurchase program, which was launched in Nov. 2018. The repurchase program of ZTO Express (ZTO) has been upsized by $500 million to $1 billion and

In this article ACB-CA AAPL HOG BB-CA CLF PVH CHWY APHA-CA WEED-CA TLRY LULU WBA BNTX PFE AMAT Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Chewy (CHWY) – The pet products seller earned a surprise profit of 5 cents per share, compared to expectations of a 10 cents per share

Investors are always on the lookout for the next big thing, the next industry that will bring the great returns. Predicting what stock sector will blast off is an inexact science, at best; but like politics, stocks run downstream from culture. And right now, culture is all-in for clean energy and electric cars. Observing the

In this article MU QS VOW3-DE WING GES In this photo illustration the QuantumScape logo is seen on a smartphone and a pc screen. Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell on Wednesday: Micron – Shares of the chipmaker rose 2.3% after the

by Charles Hugh-Smith Buyers know there will always be a greater fool willing to pay more for an over-valued asset because the Fed has promised us it will always be the greater fool. I realize nobody wants to hear that most of their “wealth” is nothing more than wispy Cloud Castles in the Sky that will dissipate

The global chip shortage has caused havoc for the auto industry. Due to a lack of semiconductor chips, Nio (NIO) even had to recently suspend production for five days at its Nio-JAC factory. Based on talks with various OEMs, J.P. Morgan analyst Nick Lai says that during 1Q or 2Q21, the shortage will see Chinese

In this article MS APHA-CA TLRY WBA AMAT LRCX HOG CHWY CLF AAPL BB-CA A woman on an escalator in a Walgreens store in New York. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.  Walgreens — The drugstore company’s shares rose 6.7% after beating analysts’ expectations for its quarterly earnings.

by jessefelder Just about a year ago, I noted here that corporate insiders were betting heavily on a reversal in the relative downtrend in value versus growth. At the time, executives at companies outside of the most popular sectors in the market were buying shares of their own stock in the open market in size. Since then,

Shares of HyreCar were up 1.4% in Tuesday’s extended trading session after the carsharing marketplace provider reported improved 4Q revenues. HyreCar’s (HYRE) 4Q revenues grew 42% year-over-year to $7 million and fared better than the Street’s estimates of $6.84 million. Top-line growth was driven by higher rental days. Rental days increased 41% to approximately 277,000

Welders work on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve pipeline on June 1, 1980, in West Hackberry, Louisianna. Begun under President Ford to reduce the threat of oil embargoes, the SPR crude oil is stored in huge underground salt caverns along the Gulf of Mexico, a natural choice due to the proximity of many refineries and distribution

by Michael Snyder This wasn’t supposed to happen.  We were promised that 2021 would be the year when things would turn around because the vaccines would bring the COVID pandemic to an end.  Hundreds of millions of doses have already been administered all over the globe, and millions more are being administered with each passing

Investing in biotechs can be a risky business. Success hinges mostly on two criteria; promising data from clinical trials or regulatory approval. Get either of these wrong and the push back from the Street can be brutal. Fortunately, for investors of Aptose Biosciences (APTO), the latest update from the company resulted in the stock blasting

In this article CHWY PVH LULU ILMN Signage is seen ahead of the IPO for Chewy at the New York Stock Exchange, June 14, 2019. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines after the bell on Tuesday: Chewy – Shares of the pet-product retailer rose 8% after the company reported fourth-quarter results

by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors Gold producers had their most profitable year ever in 2020, based on one metric. The average all-in sustaining cost (AISC) margin, which is the gold price minus the cost to produce the metal, hit a record $828 per ounce, according to Metals Focus. What this means is that

Arguably the most controversial on the Street, penny stocks are a hot-button issue. Usually, there isn’t a lot of middle-ground with respect to these tickers priced for less than $5 apiece. Dividing market watchers into two distinct groups, both sides present valid arguments laying out the pros and cons. Sure, there is reason enough to

In this article 8604.T-JP ROKU WFC TGNA CIK DKNG DISCA VIAC FDS BNTX MKC YELP The ViacomCBS logo is displayed on the Nasdaq MarketSite to celebrate the company’s merger, in New York, December 5, 2019. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. ViacomCBS, Discovery — The media stocks ensnared

by howmuch After Obamacare was passed in 2010, the rate of uninsured people steadily declined for several years. But then, a couple years ago the trend reversed, and the number of uninsured Americans started to rise. Our latest map breaks down how many Americans don’t have health insurance living in each state. Use this visualization Texas

NV5 Global, an engineering services company, has acquired Geodynamics, a provider of sonar-based, deep-water geospatial solutions, in a cash-and-stock deal worth $42 million, including an earn out provision. North Carolina-based Geodynamics will operate within NV5’s (NVEE) geospatial vertical, which will add full-ocean depth hydrographic and geophysical surveying to the company’s topographic and nearshore geospatial capabilities,

by Michael Snyder Could you imagine listing your home for sale and having nearly 100 offers in just three days?  This sort of thing is actually happening in hot real estate markets all over America right now.  Even though we are in the midst of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the

Reports of raw materials shortages causing production delays for Novavax’s (NVAX) COVID-19 vaccine forced the company to postpone signing a supply contract with the European Union Thursday. As Reuters reported, the EU was hoping to order 100 million, or even 200 million doses of Novavax’s two-dose vaccine, but now “they are slowing down the process

by Lance Roberts President Biden’s stimulus bill “will cut the number of children in poverty by 40%,” according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. “The current Child Tax Credit and EITC together lift more children above the poverty line, 5.5 million, than any other economic support program. This level of poverty reduction was achieved through multiple expansions

We’ll talk about dividend stocks, but we’ll get there through tax policy. The connection is simple: Government spending is going up, as exemplified by the $1.9 trillion COVID stimulus bill passed this month. Stimulative cash infusions into the economy are likely to boost consumer spending, and there are worries that the Biden Administration has no

by lolfunctionspace Capital requirements were 12-20%, call it 15% on average so could have been 5-6x leveraged with a small cushion. Something like 20b in capital – 80b longs and 40b shorts. Tech / growth tech vs a lot of s&p on short side. 2/ — O&G OG (@EnergyCredit1) March 28, 2021 Was $2billion-plus blocks

In this article TWTR FLY PEBO PFBI AMZN V BILI BA TME CALM LUV 8604.T-JP CSCO GS VIAC DISCA CG Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Discovery Communications (DISCA), Viacom (VIAC) – Both stocks remain on watch this morning, after significant declines last week. A source with direct knowledge

Globe Life Inc. increased its quarterly cash dividend by 5.3% to $0.1975 per share. Prior to this, the life insurance company raised its dividend payout by 9% to $0.1875 in March 2020. Globe Life (GL) announced that the new dividend will be paid on April 30 to shareholders of record as of April 5. The