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Uber Technologies Inc. is ready to join the ranks of Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Netflix Inc., and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, one analyst said after the company’s latest earnings report. RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Mahaney reiterated his view that FANGU was perhaps a better acronym for big internet companies than …
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BEIJING — China is considering possible countermeasures to cushion the blow from the coronavirus outbreak that is expected cause a temporary disruption to the economy, a central bank official said. “The coronavirus outbreak will be temporary and will not change the long-term improvement of China’s economy,” Pan Gongsheng, a vice …
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Aurora Cannabis Inc. late Thursday said that Chief Executive Terry Booth is retiring amid “sweeping changes” for the Canadian licensed producer, the latest pot company to cut costs amid a cash crunch in the sector. Aurora outlined a “business transformation plan” in a lengthy statement that detailed job cuts and …
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Here are three health stocks and one technology stock that are at, or near, key breakout points. Clovis Oncology Inc. CLVS, +5.85% popped 90 cents, or more than 10%, to $ 9.73 on 11.7 million shares traded Wednesday on no news released by the company. The move edged the stock …
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ING Groep NV on Thursday reported a significant fall in net profit for the fourth quarter of 2019, reflecting increases in risk costs, expenses and effective tax rate. The Dutch bank ING, +1.89% made a net profit of 880 million euros ($ 972.4 million) for the three months ended Dec. …
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Dear Moneyist, My mother was married to our stepfather for 20 years. She died in 2003. We’ve always had a great relationship with my stepfather and it continued until his passing a few months ago. The house that they lived in was bought with the proceeds from two homes they …
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Snap Inc. shares plunged 14% after the company’s fourth-quarter earnings fell short of Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, momentarily blunting a year-long financial bounce-back. Advertising led the way for Snap SNAP, -11.93% to record revenue of $ 561 million, vs. expectations of $ 563 million from analysts polled by FactSet. …
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Dear Moneyist, When my father passed away, he left his house and all his money to my son. I was not included in the will. I took care of my father seven days a week when he came back from the hospital. I never received any payment from him except …
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