Investing.com - Oil prices settled higher for the fifth session in a row on Friday to log its biggest weekly gain this year as investors cheered signs that rising demand will offset excess supplies in the second half of the year.
Hormel sees potential new customers for its shelf-stable foods: cancer patients. The company known for Dinty Moore stews and Spam canned meats is promoting microwavable meals it says cater to people who ...
An analysis by Statista brought out how massive Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL ) (NASDAQ: GOOG )'s advertising revenues are. The search giant's ad revenues in 2016 were higher than what Germany, Britain and ...
24/7 Wall St. has put together a quick preview Apple, Pfizer, Tesla and some of the other top companies reporting their latest quarterly results in the coming week.
Apple earnings and the monthly jobs report will be the highlights for investors this week.
Shares of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) got hammered on Friday, falling about 3% after the e-commerce giant reported a huge bottom-line miss in its second quarter earnings result after the market close Thursday. AMZN CEO Jeff Bezos has built his company and his wealth by embracing risk. Given that Bezos rose briefly to become the world's richest person on Thursday, those investments have paid off.
Facebook Inc Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg called on governments and companies to do more to close the gender pay gap on Sunday and said both girls and boys should be encouraged to become leaders from an early age. The issue of women earning less than men arose again earlier this month, when the BBC was forced to reveal the pay of its journalists and presenters. Men earning more than 150,000 pounds ($197,000) a year outnumbered women by two to one, and the broadcaster's top-ranking man received more than four times the amount of its highest-paid woman.
