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In this photo illustration, the TransferWise app is seen displayed on an Android smartphone with a vintage turntable in the background. Guillaume Payen | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Fintech start-up TransferWise is now valued at $5 billion following a secondary share sale, the company announced Wednesday, highlighting increased investor appetite for online

Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: McDonald’s (MCD) – The restaurant chain reported quarterly profit of 66 cents per share, shy of the 74 cents a share consensus estimate. Revenue came in above Wall Street projections. Comparable-restaurant sales were down 23.9% globally, slightly wider than the 22.8% consensus estimate.

Hong Kong’s new tech index rose on its second day of trading as experts said its diverse list of constituents will be attractive for traders looking to invest across the sector. The Hang Seng Tech Index rose 2.64% as of 2:18 p.m. HK/SIN, beating the broader Hang Seng index which traded up 0.34%.  “It’s a

While lawmakers go back to work on a second coronavirus relief package, Institutional Investor Hall of Famer Richard Bernstein is building strategies to cope with a more contentious market environment. Bernstein, who has spent decades on Wall Street, expects the recovery to be jagged. “Your portfolio has to be a little positioned in terms of matter

Does financial market history even matter anymore? Many pundits say no, since a new wave, of low-to-zero-cost trading, and another wave of high-quality market information has “democratized” investing so much so that the retail public is just as informed, or certainly can be, as multibillionaire investors. Now, some of us have recently questioned this line

Bryn Mawr’s Jeff Mills sees few options for investors looking for big second half gains. Due to the country’s coronavirus surge, he predicts economic setbacks will start to meaningfully impact some of the summer’s most profitable market groups. “We’re past the point where every single data point is going to be ahead of expectations,” the

A man wearing a mask walks by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 17, 2020 at Wall Street in New York City. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images U.S. stock futures rose on Sunday night as investors braced for a big week of corporate earnings and lawmakers continued coronavirus stimulus negotiations. Dow

Warren Buffett Gerry Miller | CNBC Warren Buffett this week added to his already massive stake in Bank of America at a time when the coronavirus pandemic still clouds the U.S. and global economic outlook. A Securities and Exchange Commission filing showed Buffett’s conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway, bought 33.9 million shares of the banking giant between

Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Verizon (VZ) – Verizon reported quarterly profit of $1.18 per share, 3 cents a share above estimates. Revenue beat forecasts as well. Verizon said it experienced a negative impact from Covid-19, which hurt wireless service and ad spending revenue. American Express (AXP) –

Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives at federal court, April 4, 2019 in New York City. A federal judge will hear oral arguments this afternoon in a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that seeks to hold Musk in contempt for violating a settlement deal. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Tesla shares

Copies of the Financial Daily newspaper featuring a front page report on Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are displayed for sale at a stand in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. Nadirah Zakariya | Bloomberg | Getty Images Goldman Sachs said Friday that it settled a key part of an international scandal by agreeing

Laurence “Larry” Fink, chairman and chief executive officer of BlackRock. Chris Goodney | Bloomberg | Getty Images Company insiders are dumping shares as stocks experience their epic rebound from the coronavirus recession. The sales are a major shift from the insider buying frenzy during the market bottom in March. Among the sellers are the heads

Leonhard Foeger | Reuters Gold prices rose to an all-time high Friday as investors sought safety in the precious metal amid rising U.S.-China tensions and lingering fears over the coronavirus pandemic. The metal’s August futures contract rose 0.4% to settle at $1,897.50 per ounce, according to data from the CME Group. This also marked gold’s

NYSE President Stacey Cunningham said Friday that individual investors have participated in a big way during the market’s record rally that’s seen the S&P 500 jump 48% from its March 23 low. “The retail investor has been a big part of the market over the past several months for a variety of reasons,” Cunningham said

PNC Financial’s Amanda Agati warns a winning Main Street trade may burn investors. According to the firm’s chief investment strategist, fundamentals don’t support small cap value’s recent strong run. “If you just look at things from a forward P/E [price to earnings] perspective, small cap value is at an all-time high, if you can believe

Brendan McDermid | Reuters U.S. stock futures rose on Thursday night after broad declines in the major tech names pushed the major averages lower during regular trading. The Dow ended Thursday’s cash session down more than 1% along with the S&P 500. The Nasdaq Composite dropped more than 3% as Microsoft and Apple each lost

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday that any ongoing government assistance to combat the economic slowdown from the coronavirus pandemic will not be a bailout for states. “On the state issue, the president is not going to bail out Chicago and New York and other states that prior to the coronavirus were mismanaged,” he said

Economist Stephen Roach warns V-shaped recovery mania on Wall Street is leading investors astray.  According to Roach, the U.S. is on a collision course with a second dramatic downturn. “The odds of a relapse, not just the virus but in the economy itself — the so-called dreaded double-dip, is very real,” the former Morgan Stanley Asia

Pedestrians wearing protective masks walk past a Microsoft Technology Center in New York, on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg via Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell:  Microsoft — Shares of Microsoft dropped 2% in after hours after the company’s fourth-quarter earnings beat estimates. The technology company reported earnings

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman said he’s bullish on the U.S. and markets over the long term, but companies with a high level of debt will have a hard time surviving.  “We are long-term bullish on America; We are long-term bullish on the markets,” Ackman said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Wednesday. “But I would say