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Shares of point-of-sale payments processor Square (NYSE: SQ) jumped out of the gate and are up 5.9% as of 12:40 p.m. EDT.

Two news items appear to be helping the stock today.

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Shares of Unity Biotechnology (NASDAQ: UBX) fell over 63% today after the company announced disappointing results from a clinical trial involving its lead drug candidate, UBX0101. 

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Shares of Planet Fitness (NYSE: PLNT) have jumped more than +2.3% in morning and midday trading today after an announcement New York state will likely allow gyms to reopen next Monday, Aug. 24

Square (NYSE: SQ) announced last week that its Cash App payments service is testing a new feature that will allow users to take small, short-term loans that could represent a challenge to the payday

Sherwin-Williams (NYSE: SHW) stock has outperformed the market through mid-August, with shares up about 15% compared to a 5% increase in the S&P 500. The global paint giant has benefited from a

Vaccine specialist Novavax (NASDAQ: NVAX) announced the launch of a phase 2b clinical trial in South Africa to test the effectiveness of its coronavirus vaccine, NVX-CoV2373. The trial is an

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Beauty company Coty (NYSE: COTY) is not one of the COVID-19 winners. In fact, its stock has performed so poorly that it has barely moved from its March low of $3, currently hovering around $4, a 62%

Shares of Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK) have skyrocketed today, up by 21% as of 12:15 p.m. EDT, after getting a bullish initiation from Wall Street. Piper Sandler kicked off coverage of the

Shares of Singapore-based e-commerce, payments, and online gaming company Sea Limited (NYSE: SE) popped more than 5% in Monday morning trading before settling down to enjoy a still respectable 3.6%

Global demand for Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) is so great for its Switch hybrid mobile game console that it is reportedly asking suppliers to produce enough components for 25 million units this year, 3

Shares of Zoom Video Communications (NASDAQ: ZM) were rising 5% higher in midday trading after the video communications collaboration specialist announced its Zoom Phone cloud phone service is now

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) was the lone loser among the major U.S. stock indices by 10:50 a.m. EDT Monday, down roughly 0.1%. In economic news, Federal Housing Administration

Shares of Tortoise Acquisition (NYSE: SHLL) were moving higher on Monday. The special purpose acquisition company released second-quarter financial information for electric-truck powertrain maker

Shares of graphics chip developer NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) surged on Monday following multiple price target bumps from analysts ahead of the company's second-quarter report. The stock was up about 6.2%

The prospect of future Social Security checks may be existing vaguely in the back of your mind, but not paying more attention to Social Security can turn out to be a costly mistake -- especially if

Shares of fuel cell pioneer Plug Power (NASDAQ: PLUG) were on the upswing Monday, rising 4% through 11:35 a.m. EDT today. Curiously, the reason that the stock is rising may have little to do with

Investors haven't had a stable reading on the value of Stitch Fix (NASDAQ: SFIX) stock lately. The online apparel seller's shares have been lower by almost 60% -- and higher by nearly 20% -- at

Deciding when to sign up for Social Security is tough. File too early, and you'll shrink your benefits for life. File later on, and you'll collect a higher monthly benefit, but you may not live a

Last week was rough for Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU). Shares of China's leading search engine provider tumbled nearly 7% last week, bucking the otherwise rising market. A mixed quarterly earnings report and

There's little doubt that an extra $600 per week in unemployed Americans' pockets supports the mostly consumer-driven U.S. economy. Those benefits ended weeks ago, and their congressional or

Germany's antitrust regulator is launching an investigation into Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) for its effort to stop price-gouging during the pandemic, saying the e-commerce giant "must not be a controller

The stock market got off to a good start on Monday morning, with only the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) holding back investors from celebrating solid gains toward record highs. Both

Shares of GrowGeneration (NASDAQ: GRWG) were soaring 20.1% higher as of 11:22 a.m. EDT on Monday. The big gain appears to be due to continued momentum from the specialty hydroponic and organic

Although Kohl's (NYSE: KSS) was never as financially troubled as J.C. Penney that the coronavirus pandemic would threaten to send it into bankruptcy, a second wave of COVID-19 outbreaks that causes