The ability of Alphabet Inc.’s advertising business to bounce back amid the pandemic has one analyst hopeful about what’s yet to come. Stifel’s Scott Devitt upgraded Alphabet Inc. stock GOOGL, +1.04% GOOG, +1.00% to buy from hold late Monday, arguing that “the resilience and speedy recovery” of Google’s digital-ad business …
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IG Group has agreed to buy U.S. online brokerage Tastytrade for $ 1 billion, in a move that gives the U.K.-listed spread betting company a foothold in the world’s largest derivatives market. The deal — the biggest ever acquisition for FTSE 250-listed IG Group IGG, -9.46% — comprises $ 300 …
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AFP via Getty Images Shares of General Electric Co. rose Friday toward a nine-month high, after BofA Securities analyst lifted his stock price target by 18%, amid a more upbeat outlook on the industrial conglomerate’s health care business as COVID-19 cases rise globally. The stock GE, +2.64% reversed an earlier …
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Rainbow, North East England. Owen Humphreys/Zuma Press Goldman Sachs has gotten on the bandwagon in terms of thinking defaults by speculative or “junk” rated U.S. companies won’t get a whole lot worse this year. Analysts at the bank this week cut their default forecast for the sector to 10.5% from …
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President Donald Trump on Monday tied the latest gains in the stock market to his coronavirus-aid moves on Saturday, as he spoke at a news conference that was interrupted by a shooting outside the White House. “So we issue those executive orders, and the stock market went up 358 points …
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