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Shares of Mesoblast (NASDAQ: MESO) rose as much as 218.9% after the company reported promising early-stage results from a small study in COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome

As the novel coronavirus continues to wend its way through communities across the globe and economies remain shut down, many companies are seeing a larger than anticipated shock to their businesses

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) withdrew its guidance for all of 2020 and offered up a lower-than-expected outlook for the current second-quarter, citing uncertainty driven by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. 

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a minor negative impact on Hershey's (NYSE: HSY) business so far. The confectioner this week revealed a sharp demand slump in China during the fiscal first quarter

Continental Resources Inc. (NYSE: CLR), the largest oil producer in North Dakota, has suspended drilling in its Bakken shale field and shut most wells, CNBC reports. Because of the recent rout in

Delta Air Lines' (NYSE: DAL) first-quarter results were, as expected, terrible, and management expressed confidence that the second quarter will be even worse.

But for airlines right now it isn't

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Snap's (NYSE: SNAP) stock soared nearly 40% on April 22 after the social media company posted impressive first-quarter numbers. Snap's revenue rose 44% annually to $462 million, beating expectations

Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) broke the buck last month, as its shares fell below the $1 mark during the coronavirus-fueled correction. It took nearly four weeks of closing south of a buck to bounce back

Boeing (NYSE: BA) is unlikely to meet its goal of returning its 737 MAX to service by mid-year, The Wall Street Journal reports. This marks a fresh blow for the aerospace giant as it struggles with

Buying into any kind of financial company is tricky right now. While many such stocks have seen their share prices decline significantly more than the market, no one knows exactly what the COVID-19

L Brands (NYSE: LB) filed a scathing response to Sycamore Partners' attempt to back out of its deal to buy Victoria's Secret, saying the private equity firm must live with the choices it made.

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) is slated to report its first-quarter 2020 results after the market closes on Thursday, April 30.

Investors will likely be approaching the report with optimism tinged with

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the related economic fallout, buyback programs have become increasingly controversial, as many companies are struggling financially after spending years repurchasing

Normally, companies with share prices lower than $5 -- commonly called penny stocks -- wouldn't even be worth a glance. These types of equities tend to suffer from poor fundamentals, an exorbitant

The board of directors of Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ: WBA) has declared the latest in that company's very long line of dividends. The pharmacy chain operator will hand out slightly under $0.46

There's no way to ignore the fact that COVID-19 has sent the world into a complex period of economic and social upheaval. However, although everything looks like it is in a state of flux today, it

This has been a crazy year for stocks -- and we're only a third of the way through it! After continuing to push to new all-time highs through February, everything came undone in March with the

Life couldn't have started out tougher for Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX). The newly formed merger of space and defense company Raytheon with the aerospace businesses of United Technologies

The COVID-19 crisis has spurred a huge shift to remote work over the past month or so. In some regards, working from home is easier than going into an office. When you work remotely, you don't have

Royal Caribbean (NYSE: RCL) has seen its operations halted indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic. It's shipped are docked and the company has no set date to return to the seas -- though it

As a supplier to industrial and construction businesses, the performance of Fastenal Company (NASDAQ: FAST) can be a good way to look at the overall health of the manufacturing sector. If its

When Brian Niccol joined Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) as CEO in early 2018, he quickly redirected more of the fast-casual restaurant's efforts toward digital. Under Niccol's helm, Chipotle

We're all hungry for bargains, but sometimes, stocks with fast-food combo meal price tags give your portfolio a bout of indigestion. Stocks don't usually trade at single-digit price points by

As a whole, AT&T (NYSE: T) did pretty well last quarter. Sales were down, but profits were up, and though the top and bottom lines both missed expectations, the coronavirus pandemic has thrown most