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Wall Street braces for a big week ahead of the election, with megacap tech earnings, key data on tap
Wall Street is about to get hit with the newsiest week yet ahead of the election — just as the stock market has started to falter. Investors will contend with earnings results from five of the Magnificent Seven companies next week. Alphabet’s results are set to be released Tuesday. Microsoft and Meta Platforms post their […]
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Mastercard to buy Swedish startup that makes it easier to manage and cancel subscription plans
BARCELONA, SPAIN – MARCH 01: A view of the MasterCard company logo on their stand during the Mobile World Congress on March 1, 2017 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Joan Cros Garcia/Corbis via Getty Images) Joan Cros Garcia – Corbis | Corbis News | Getty Images Mastercard said Tuesday that it’s agreed to acquire Minna […]
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Justice Department accuses Visa of debit network monopoly that impacts price of ‘nearly everything’
Justin Sullivan | etty Images The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday sued Visa, the world’s biggest payments network, saying it propped up an illegal monopoly over debit payments by imposing “exclusionary” agreements on partners and smothering upstart firms. Visa’s moves over the years have resulted in American consumers and merchants paying billions of dollars in […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Visa, Starbucks, Salesforce, Lowe’s and more
Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading: Thor Industries — Shares dropped 2% after the RV maker issued disappointing fiscal-year earnings guidance. The company expects earnings per share to range between $4 and $5, well below a StreetAccount estimate of $6.27 per share. Arlo Technologies — The security systems company popped 3% after […]
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Visa debuts a new product designed to protect consumers making bank transfers
Key Points Visa said it plans to launch a dedicated service for account-to-account (A2A) payments, skipping the traditional — and often inflexible — direct debit process. Visa said consumers will be able to monitor these payments more easily and raise any issues by clicking a button in their banking app. The product will initially launch […]
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Fund manager reveals his top stock picks that rose during the market sell-off
Shares of Visa hold significant growth potential and could even help investors weather market volatility, according to fund manager Freddy Lait at Latitude Investment Management. Lait, who is also a managing partner at the firm, pointed to Visa’s 0.8% gain on Monday — despite a very risk-off mood in the broader market — as a […]
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Two major investor groups love these stocks, according to Goldman Sachs
Hedge funds and mutual funds — two of the biggest investor groups — piled into a handful of the same stocks last quarter in anticipation of changing market leadership and higher volatility, according to Goldman Sachs. The Wall Street bank analyzed the holdings of 693 hedge funds with $2.8 trillion of gross equity positions as […]
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Food delivery fees are rising, and everyone’s feeling the pinch
A food delivery messenger is seen in Manhattan. Luiz C. Ribeiro | New York Daily News | Tribune News Service | Getty Images Food from the restaurant of your choosing, delivered right to your door — at what cost? Third-party food delivery is becoming the norm for American consumers, as delivery apps like Grubhub, DoorDash […]
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Buy and hold these 5 attractively valued growth stocks for the next decade, the pros say
Growth stocks have been rallying for most of this year, though they’ve been volatile recently. Investors rotated out of mega-cap tech stocks for smaller names last week, as expectations of rate cuts in September grow. But overall, growth stocks have still gained this year, with the large-cap Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth ETF still up nearly […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Intuit, AMD, LegalZoom.com, Baidu and more
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Intuit — Shares of the TurboTax parent company fell nearly 4% after it said it will slash 1,800 jobs , or about 10% of its workforce, as it boosts investments in artificial intelligence. Intuit said it plans to rehire 1,800 people for engineering, product and consumer-focused […]
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