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On Monday, Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM) announced new efforts aimed at supporting its employees during the COVID-19 containment efforts now gripping the U.S. economy.

The restaurant chain, which operates

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) announced Monday that it expects to begin clinical testing in humans evaluating its lead coronavirus vaccine candidate by September 2020 at the latest. It stated

Carvana Co. (NYSE: CVNA), a well known e-commerce platform for buying and selling used cars, announced a registered direct offering of 13.3 million shares of Class A Common Stock. Shares are being

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has struggled to keep up with increased demand on its grocery delivery services due to coronavirus keeping many people confined to their homes. The retailer offers same-day

Cheesecake Factory (NASDAQ: CAKE) has furloughed 41,000 hourly workers due to the impact of the coronavirus. The furloughed workers will keep their benefits through June 1. They will also be

The emerging coronavirus pandemic highlights the world's dependence on pharmaceutical and biotech companies to produce drugs and vaccines to help overcome all types of illness. This outbreak may

Marijuana stocks rose at the end of last week, beating most top-share market indexes, quite dramatically in certain cases. Why the sudden and sharp rise? It seems to be down to two major factors.

Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) is offering 30 days of free access to a collection of over 20 premium channels on its platform through its Home Together initiative it launched last Friday.

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Some industries are getting hit harder than others during the COVID-19 pandemic, and one of the worst is the vacation and tourism space. Revenue for resorts, hotels, and theme parks is in stall mode

Online infrastructure is under strain as more people work from home and practice social distancing. One industry that is benefiting from this is cloud services. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is seeing a

Yields may be falling on fixed income investments, but cascading share prices find stock yields going the other way. There are now plenty of stocks yielding more than 4% that could deliver capital

Shares of Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) tumbled nearly 20% over the past month as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic hammered the broader markets. Yet the memory chipmaker's second-quarter

In response to the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, the federal government has extended the tax filing deadline to July 15 for the 2019 tax year. Taxpayers can both wait to file and wait to pay their

Inovio Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: INO), a pre-revenue vaccine company, saw its shares rise by as much as 10% in pre-market trading Monday morning. The biotech's shares appear to be responding to the

As the COVID-19 coronavirus sweeps across the country, most states are now issuing shelter-in-place orders, essentially prohibiting residents from venturing outside and gathering in public places

Patrick Stewart, who plays Captain Picard on Star Trek: Picard, announced on Twitter last week that ViacomCBS (NASDAQ: VIAC), which hosts the TV program on its CBS All Access streaming video

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) employees at a Staten Island, NY, warehouse are planning to go on strike today at 12:30 p.m. because they think the e-commerce giant hasn't done enough to protect them

March has undoubtedly been one of the most volatile months investors have seen on the markets, perhaps ever. The Dow Jones went from more than 27,000 points early in the month to a low of barely

Sports apparel and sneaker leader Nike (NYSE: NKE) handed the business and investment community a shred of good news when it reported its latest quarter of earnings -- you know, the quarter that

At the beginning of the year, residential homebuilders  D.R. Horton (NYSE: DHI), NVR (NYSE: NVR), and PulteGroup (NYSE: PHM) were flying high. Sales figures and margins were soaring across the

After limiting the bandwidth used by its PlayStation gaming service in Europe last week, Sony (NYSE: SNE) announced it will throttle speeds here in the U.S. as well to "preserve internet access for

The markets have recently experienced one of the quickest and most painful drops in market history. But like the many market crashes that have come before, this bear market will be over soon enough

Last fall, Brookfield Renewable Partners (NYSE: BEP) outlined its five-year growth strategy. It's a bold vision, which would see the company deliver high-powered earnings growth along with healthy

Costco (NASDAQ: COST) has decided to close its stores at 6:30 p.m. in order to give its workers more time to stock shelves Monday through Friday. Weekend hours will not change and gas stations will

As the coronavirus outbreak intensifies in this country, Kroger (NYSE: KR) is taking on tens of thousands of workers. Many of these workers were recently let go from restaurants and other businesses