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CORRECTED-LIVE MARKETS-What if the June ECB cut is the last one?
STOXX 600 up 0.1%Utilities lead gainersWall St futures lowerWelcome to the home for real-time coverage of markets brought to you by Reuters reporters. You can share your thoughts with us at markets.research@thomsonreuters.comWHAT IF THE JUNE ECB CUT IS THE LAST ONE?ECB's Isabel Schnabel repeated...Reuters
Tue, May 20
The Ultimate Growth Stock to Buy With $1,000 Right Now
Is the market finally recovering? It's tentatively up this year, clawing back some of the gains it lost when tariffs became an unexpected key issue. But the tariff issue is far from over, and economic uncertainty is breeding market uncertainty.If you're looking for an excellent growth stock, your be...The Motley Fool
Tue, May 20
Vipshop Reports Unaudited First Quarter 2025 Financial Results
Conference Call to Be Held at 7:30 A.M. U.S. Eastern Time on May 20, 2025 GUANGZHOU, China, May 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Vipshop Holdings Limited (NYSE: VIPS), a leading online discount retailer for brands in China ("Vipshop" or the "Company"), today announced its unaudited fina...PR Newswire
Tue, May 20
3 Magnificent S&P 500 Dividend Stocks Down 19% to 32% to Buy and Hold Forever
Dividends are more than immediate returns for investors; they represent excellence in a business. When a company can pay and raise its dividend, it's as if the business makes so much profit that it has nothing better to do with the money than to share it with investors.You could say the same for com...The Motley Fool
Tue, May 20
Here's Another Piece of Evidence That Bitcoin Is Becoming "Digital Gold"
Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has often been called "digital gold," supposedly able to preserve an investor's purchasing power from inflation. But for the most part, such claims have yet to face a real test.Nonetheless, there's now one more piece of evidence suggesting that at least some investors are putti...The Motley Fool
Tue, May 20
Prediction: 2 Stocks That Will Be Worth More Than Intel 2 Years From Now
Intel's (NASDAQ: INTC) stock closed at its record high of $74.88 near the peak of the dot-com bubble on Aug. 3, 2000, which boosted its market cap to $298.4 billion. As the world's top producer of x86 CPUs for PCs and servers, the company seemed like a great long-term investment.Where to invest $1,0...The Motley Fool
Tue, May 20
Red, White, and Blue Profits: Profitable Companies Made in the USA
You may not realize it or have thought of it, but lots of well-known American companies actually generate much of their revenue outside the U.S. For example, in its last reported quarter, ExxonMobil posted total revenue of $6.8 billion, 72% of which was generated outside the U.S. And McDonald's gene...The Motley Fool
Tue, May 20
Prediction: This Stock That Buffett Just Sold Will Outperform His Other Stocks in 2025
Warren Buffett's trades and wisdom are always newsworthy, but he just made historic headlines with the announcement of his retirement at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting.Buffett has led Berkshire Hathaway to become the seventh-largest company in the world by market cap, and his trading activity r...The Motley Fool
Tue, May 20
Tencent Music Entertainment Group to Hold Annual General Meeting on June 27, 2025
SHENZHEN, China, May 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Tencent Music Entertainment Group ("TME," or the "Company") (NYSE: TME and HKEX: 1698), the leading online music and audio entertainment platform in China, today announced that it will hold its annual general meeting of shareholders (...PR Newswire
Tue, May 20
PREVIEW: Home Depot seen reporting rise in rev in results due early Tues
** Shares of Home Depot HD.N are down 0.4% in afternoon trading Mon ahead of the home improvement co's quarterly results due before the bell on Tues** Analysts expect Q1 rev up $39.32 bln vs $36.42 bln in the yr-ago period, and adj EPS of $3.59/shr vs $3.63 a yr ago, according to LSEG** Investor...Reuters
Tue, May 20
1 Unstoppable Stock That Could Join Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft in the $3 Trillion Club in 2026
Nine American companies are currently valued at $1 trillion or more, but only three of them graduated into the ultra-exclusive $3 trillion club:Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT): $3.4 trillion.Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA): $3.3 trillion.Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL): $3.1 trillion.I think Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) could join th...The Motley Fool
Tue, May 20
Microsoft Azure's AI Choice: Rather Elon Musk's Grok 3 Than Google or Anthropic
TradingKey - Microsoft (MSFT) announced on Monday at the Build 2025 developer conference that it has integrated xAI's Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini large models into the Azure AI Foundry platform, making them available to developers and enterprise customers.
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Tue, May 20
UnitedHealth Group Stock Just Hit a 5-Year Low. 5 Things Investors Need to Know.
Few stocks have been as resilient as UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH). The company operates the largest health insurance business in the U.S. It runs the second biggest pharmacy benefits manager (PBM). And UnitedHealth Group has a fast-growing healthcare technology and services unit with Optum. Howeve...The Motley Fool
Tue, May 20
Warren Buffett Bought 13 Stocks in Q1. Here's the Best of the Bunch.
Warren Buffett was once again a net seller of stocks in the first quarter of 2025. This marked the 10th consecutive quarter that the legendary investor sold more than he bought. However, Buffett (or perhaps his investment managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler, or even his future successor as CEO, Gr...The Motley Fool
Tue, May 20
GLOBAL MARKETS-World stocks inch higher, Japanese super-long bond prices tumble
Investors shrug off Moody's US credit downgrade Super long Japanese government bond prices fall sharply Dollar drifts as selloff in Treasuries easeRBA cuts rates as expected, Aussie down 0.5% CATL debuts in Hong Kong in world's biggest listing this yearBy Ankur Banerjee, Johann M Cherian and...Reuters
Tue, May 20
Want Super Safe Passive Income? Buy This High-Yield Stock With Over 40 Straight Years of Dividend Raises
When investors think of safe stocks to generate dividend income, stable stalwarts like Coca-Cola or Procter & Gamble may come to mind. And while those companies are good options for risk-averse investors, there are arguably even more attractive opportunities outside the consumer staples sector.Exxon...The Motley Fool
Tue, May 20
Better Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock: Palantir vs. SoundHound AI
Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) and SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN) have witnessed contrasting fortunes on the stock market this year, even though both companies have been growing at a tremendous pace thanks to healthy demand for their artificial intelligence (AI) solutions.While Palantir stock su...The Motley Fool
Tue, May 20
South African rand steady ahead of budget, US meeting
JOHANNESBURG, May 20 (Reuters) - South Africa's rand was steady on Tuesday, as investor focus turned towards this week's budget speech and a meeting between President Cyril Ramaphosa and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump.At 0811 GMT, the rand traded at 18.08 against the dollar ZAR=D3, not fa...Reuters
Tue, May 20
Kontrolmatik jumps after its unit signs production deal with US-based ONE
** Shares in Kontrolmatik KONTR.IS rise around 7% after its subsidiary Pomega signed a production agreement with U.S. battery producer Our Next Energy (ONE)** The Turkey-based engineering company says Pomega will manufacture lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cells developed by ONE** Brokerage Den...Reuters
Tue, May 20
5 Monster Stocks to Hold for the Next 10 Years
The professionals who manage Wall Street funds and cater to wealthy investors live and die by their quarterly performance. However, the individual investor can win the long game by focusing on what will matter the most years into the future.You can't look too far ahead, but there are already early s...The Motley Fool
Tue, May 20
