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Akamai gapped up over a 108.35 buy point on a positive analyst comment; 108.35 entry....
Taiwan Semiconductor is still in buy range after a breakout from a cup with handle base; 58.14 buy point....
Editor's note: This column is part of InvestorPlace.com's Best Stocks for 2020 contest. Left Brain Investment Research's pick for the contest is Roku (NASDAQ:ROKU). More than 10% of Roku (NASDAQ:ROKU) shares were recently sold short. One popular short-seller narrative is that investors are so overly exuberant about the company's incredible long-term growth potential that any short-term hiccups will cause the shares to sell off hard. However, that short-term hiccup has arrived in the form of uncertainty caused by the novel coronavirus.And even though stay-at-home behaviors caused Roku's recent quarterly revenue to accelerate even more dramatically than expected, CEO Anthony Wood has decided to temporarily take his foot off the gas. Why? Because overall advertising expenditures in the U.S. are likely to fall in 2020.InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips What Is Roku?If you don't know, Roku is a pioneer in streaming TV. The company should grow dramatically...
The market has had an astounding 2020 so far, and nowhere was this more true than in the tech sector. People are using tech more than ever in all facets of life. That, in turn, is powering a huge run in tech stocks. Yet the exchange where all this is happening, the Nasdaq (NASDAQ:NDAQ), is barely up. In fact, Nasdaq stock is essentially flat since February.Source: Shutterstock In a gold rush, there's great money to be made selling mining equipment. Similarly, if you're going to have a boom in growth companies, Nasdaq is going to get its share of the pie.Historically, it certainly has. The Nasdaq's earnings have more the doubled over the past six years as stocks have rallied. And now, with tech making another surge higher to record levels, it's an ideal time to get long the stock exchange where the magic is happening.InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock...
Yahoo Finance’s Rick Newman joins The First Trade to discuss Ford’s latest partnership with Disney to unveil its Bronco SUV in July. ...
Sixteen banks from Germany, France and three other euro zone countries on Thursday said a "truly European" payments system was expected to be up and running in 2022 to fully digitalise a region where half of all retail payments are still in cash. European Union policymakers and central bankers have long sought a "home grown" rival to take on Mastercard and Visa from the United States, and more recently tech giants like Alipay and Google . The European Central Bank on Thursday welcomed the banks' decision to launch the unified European payment system by 2022, after advocating for years an industry-driven solution to compete with the likes of Mastercard and Visa....
