It has been a great year for the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Index. The Dow is on pace to finish 2016 up more than 14.5 percent on the year. In fact, there is only one stock in the entire index that is down more than 3.1 percent this year: Nike…
Federal National Mortgage Assctn Fnni Me FNMA 0.77% and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp FMCC 1.2% are making a huge bounce off of multi-week lows on Wednesday. Fannie Mae shares dipped as low as $3.41 on Wednesday morning, and Freddie Mac shares traded down to $3.27.
A Benzinga report that Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN 0.75% will be expanding its relationship with Twilio Inc TWLO 1.61% has Twilio trading higher by 8.3 percent on Wednesday. A source familiar with the matter told Benzinga that Amazon will be teaming with Twilio to work on voice communications solutions.
With Christmas now just a few days away, last-minute holiday shoppers have only a few more days to get those final gifts for friends and loved ones.
Ray Dalio, chief investment officer at Bridgewater Associates, recently posted on LinkedIn in which he reflects on President-elect Donald Trump’s potential economic impact. Dalio also takes a close look at Trump’s top cabinet appointments and gives his take on the choices.
Sarepta Therapeutics Inc SRPT 6.18% has taken quite a disappointing round-trip for shareholders since the stock jumped from $27.99 to $63.73 in a matter of days back in September.
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti just sent out his year-end memo to employees. The year-in-review style memo highlights the incredible growth numbers the online news giant continues to deliver.
Shares of Fred’s Inc. FRED 4.23% are skyrocketing more than 77 percent on Tuesday following the company’s announcement that it has acquired 856 Rite Aid Corporation RAD 0.59% stores for $950 million in cash.
A decade ago, two of the biggest names in the mobile phone business were BlackBerry Ltd BBRY 2.09% and Nokia Corp (ADR) NOK 3.39%. Today, BlackBerry and Nokia phones are endangered species.
On Monday’s PreMarket Prep, host Dennis Dick talked about a handful of stocks that registered large run-ups in share price on Friday’s quadruple-witching expiration day. Quadruple witching expiration days are days on which stock index futures, stock index options, stock options and single stock futures all expire on the same day.