What to watch Salesforce: Ahead of its Thursday earnings report, Salesforce announced a partnership with Workday yesterday to deliver tools aimed at helping companies reopen safely, which sent Salesforce stock up more than 2% in after-hours trading. Salesforce’s share price is up more than 8% in 2020 so far, as the software and services it…
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Overall, US markets enjoyed a significant rally on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 gaining 2.7%. Notably, the Nasdaq Composite is now less than one percentage point away from being back to where it started 2020. The Nasdaq was led higher by 8% plus gains from Micron, Marriott, Alphabet (Google’s parent) and Align Technology. S&P 500:…
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In the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which fell 2.4% yesterday, Boeing, Dow and Walt Disney were among the bottom five performers, along with Chevron and Exxon. Disney fell 4.1% as investors reacted to its decision to stop paying more than 100,000 workers during the shutdown while still planning to pay a $1.5bn dividend, while Boeing…
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China 2020 Earlier this year, the same happened. When the coronavirus cases started to pick up in China, the Shanghai composite started to decline. The cases picked up quickly. However, the Chinese government acted fast, and on February 4, the Shanghai composite bottomed out, and about one day later, we saw the peak in the…
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The Nasdaq Composite also gave up gains in an end-of-day selloff, which in the Nasdaq’s case took it into negative territory for the day. Several names that have been faring better than the broader market overall fell hardest, including Netflix and Gilead Sciences, which sank 4.2% and 5.8% respectively. S&P 500: +1.2% Wednesday, -23.4% YTD…
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Late on Thursday evening, California – which would be the world’s fifth largest economy if it were a separate country – ordered all 40 million residents into lockdown (essential activities exempt) due to the continued spread of the coronavirus. US cases have now passed 10,000 and New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has made…
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Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for September 5, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Highlights include: Top of Bitcoin Range Declines: Bitcoin bulls find themselves in all too familiar chart setup - the…
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