How high is high, when it comes to dividend yields? For investors who need income, standards have changed. Long gone are the days when you could enjoy a 5% yield on a tax-exempt bond with a high credit rating. All is not lost. Investors holding stocks can make use of …
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Scott Berg’s T. Rowe Price Global Growth Stock Fund last year more than doubled the return of the S&P 500 Index and did even better against its benchmark by betting on large-cap technology companies and next-generation disruptors. In an interview, Berg, who joined T. Rowe Price as an analyst in …
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As we head through the holidays, hoping new vaccines will take us out of the pandemic, this is a good time for investors to look ahead. Below is a list of companies in the S&P 500 Index that analysts expect to increase their sales the most during 2021. You might …
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Now is the time to consider value stocks for your portfolio as the U.S. economy gathers strength and as promising coronavirus vaccines and treatments are deployed. John Buckingham, editor of The Prudent Speculator investing newsletter, has done for this column a special screen of stocks with value characteristics. That led …
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MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE ‘We are still in a pretty big first wave,’ says Dr. Anthony Fauci, the veteran epidemiologist. See full story. Elon Musk: ‘Another government stimulus package is not in the best interests of the people’ The Tesla CEO said a second coronavirus aid package would be ‘jammed to …
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This is not the first public-health emergency Dr. Anthony Fauci has faced. But it’s up there with the worst of them, he says, and it’s not close to being over yet. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for three decades, was on the front lines …
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Nvidia Corp., long known as a graphics-chip maker for videogaming, is turning into more of a data-center company. Nvidia reported strong first-quarter earnings Thursday, as sales of data-center chips soared 80% and surpassed $ 1 billion in a single quarter for the first time, at $ 1.13 billion, while gaming …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has created a litany of questions for companies around the world, but for chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc., there is only one uncertainty: Will people want to buy computers in the second half of the year? AMD AMD, -1.73% revealed strong first-quarter results Tuesday, and tweaked …
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. showed investors at its big yearly analyst meeting Thursday that it’s not resting on its laurels that made it the best performer in the S&P 500 last year, and presented a convincing case to continue to trust Chief Executive Lisa Su. AMD AMD, -3.99% , which …
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