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Volatility Closes at Post-Covid Low as Confidence Sweeps the Market

Volatility Closes at Post-Covid Low as Confidence Sweeps the Market

The "fear index" just broke 20 for the first time in almost a year. It was one of several milestones suggesting the market sees further recovery from last year's coronavirus pandemic. Cboe's volatility index fell 0.9 point this week to 19.97. It was the lower close on...

Twitter Steals the Show This Week on Signs of Advertising Breakthroughs

Twitter Steals the Show This Week on Signs of Advertising Breakthroughs

Twitter is having its best week in six years as its advertising business finally starts to gain traction. Twitter (TWTR) is up 27 percent since Friday, February 5. That makes it the best-performing member of the S&P 500 for the period. It's also the biggest weekly...

L Brands, MGM Led the S&P 500 This Week as Reopening Optimism Spreads

L Brands, MGM Led the S&P 500 This Week as Reopening Optimism Spreads

L Brands and MGM Resorts were the top-performers member of the S&P 500 this week as economic optimism overshadowed strong earnings from Big Tech. L Brands (LB) rose 21 percent since Friday, January 29, after preannouncing better-than-expected fourth quarter...

Apple Stuns as the IPhone Upgrade Cycle Takes Hold: Earnings This Week

Apple Stuns as the IPhone Upgrade Cycle Takes Hold: Earnings This Week

Apple led a busy week of earnings by crushing estimates as users clambered for new iPhones. Most other companies also had strong results -- especially chip makers and industrials. The tech giant generated $65.6 billion of revenue from iPhones last quarter, up 21...

Tesla Is Falling Behind as FANG Stocks Begin to Report Quarterly Results

Tesla Is Falling Behind as FANG Stocks Begin to Report Quarterly Results

Stocks broke out to new highs last week, but something changed. For the first time in months, Tesla didn't lead the charge. Traditional Nasdaq companies like Netflix (NFLX), Alphabet (GOOGL) and Apple (AAPL) outperformed the electric-car maker by a wide margin. The...