[ad_1] Moderna (MRNA) is expected to join the S&P 500 index on Wednesday, replacing Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ALXN). The stock has skyrocketed amid the pandemic after its vaccine became essential in the fight against the coronavirus. Moderna stock has “taken on a life of its own,” Jefferies managing director and senior research analyst Michael Yee … Read more
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[ad_1] Watch Jeff Bezos soar into space aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocketThe edge Space tourism: rockets emit 100 times more CO₂ per passenger than flights – imagine a whole industryThe UK conversation Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Space Flight Reaches the Karman Line | WSJthe Wall Street newspaper Commercial space cowboys reach for the starsDW … Read more
[ad_1] Jeff Bezos visited the edge of space on Tuesday. He’s back now. Amazon’s multibillion-dollar founder took off in the highly phallic-looking New Shepard spacecraft at 9:12 a.m.ET from Van Horn, Texas, and returned safely to Earth 10 minutes and 19 seconds later (approximately 19 seconds). more than the paid breaks allowed to many Whole … Read more
[ad_1] And stay there! Nearly 165,000 people want Amazon billionaire founder Jeff Bezos to stay in space after it launches into orbit on Tuesday. At around 9 a.m. on Tuesday, when the founder of Amazon exploded into space, more than 164,000 people signed a petition on Change.org titled “Don’t allow Jeff Bezos to come back … Read more
[ad_1] Stock futures traded higher on Tuesday, indicating Wall Street will recoup some losses from Monday’s sell-off as investors turned their attention to a slew of earnings reports. Here are some of the main drivers of Tuesday’s pre-trade negotiation: 1. Nvidia – Up 0.68% Nvidia (NVDA) – Get a report rose as the chipmaker’s shares … Read more
[ad_1] Bitcoin (BTC) breaking through the $ 30,000 mark cost it almost all of its bull gains in 2021 – but a historic silver lining is poised to save the bulls. Binance crypto exchange’s order book data confirms that BTC / USD has almost plunged into the strongest support zone on record. BTC price hits … Read more
[ad_1] The rally in equities gathered strength on Tuesday, as earnings news provided a rise against mixed global action, and as oil prices and bond yields continued to decline. HCA Healthcare, Halliburton and Crown Holdings rebounded from earnings. IBM rose to the top of the Dow Jones today thanks to its second quarter earnings. And … Read more
[ad_1] Alongside the multi-billionaire were Bezos’ brother Mark Bezos; Wally Funk, an 82-year-old pilot and one of the “Mercury 13” women who trained to go to space in the 20th century but could never fly; and an 18-year-old high school graduate named Oliver Daemen who was Blue Origin’s first paying customer and whose father, an … Read more
[ad_1] The bets oil investors have made on the options markets help explain why crude prices fell so sharply on Monday and also shows traders are bracing for another drop in prices. U.S. crude prices faded in tandem with stocks and other industrials to start the week after the spread of the Delta coronavirus variant … Read more