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Microsoft (MSFT) stock fell 1.76% in pre-market trading on Thursday, a day after the company said it doesn’t expect to meet the quarterly revenue guidance it previously provided for the segment that includes Windows.Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) said on Wednesday it probably will not meet the quarterly revenue guidance due to the coronavirus it previously said it will. In the official statement, the company said that on January 29, as part of its second quarter of the fiscal year 2020...

Amazon (AMZN) stock has been already seriously hit by the coronavirus and things might get a lot worse for the e-commerce giant very soon if nothing changes.Many companies, regardless of their size, are still reeling from the general effects of the coronavirus. These companies are having a hard time controlling losses and maintaining their normal core functions as the epidemic continues to spread. Since the coronavirus has been worsening, the markets have been taking a much deeper plunge and...

Fear, uncertainty, and doubt are causing the global community at large to panic over the potential implications of the coronavirus. The chairman of Virgin Galactic Chamath Palihapitiya believes that in the current situation it would be sensible to keep 1% of assets in Bitcoin.We were already writing numerous times how Bitcoin (together with other cryptocurrencies) is a good asset to have when things are going rough. Nowadays, we are witnessing, not just geopolitical tensions between the...

Some companies had their stocks in the news recently as prices changed for different reasons. And one of them is the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.At pretty much any point in time, the movement of the individual stocks in the equities markets all over the world easily makes news. Analysts are always with their ears to the ground, trying to figure out why certain stocks are performing the way they are. If they soar, most times, it’s a direct effect of certain market factors or decisions the...

Dow Futures dropped 400 after a report of the first coronavirus case in Northern California, of unknown origin. The drop has come even after Donald Trump gave assurances to the investors that the virus is under control and there is no call for alarm.The Dow Futures dropped 400 points in the early hours of trading on Thursday, and it’s indicating a further drop after the first coronavirus case of unknown origin was reported in the U.S. Northern California. The CDC confirmed it does not have a...

As the competitor of Tesla, Nio is discussing its future with the Hefei govt, NIO stock gained 30% on Tuesday. Today the stock keeps growing.Nio inc (NYSE: NIO) stock rose more than 30% on Tuesday. The rise happened after the company indicated a landmark agreement with the Heifei municipality in China.Could Nio becomes the new Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA)? The time will show. At the time of writing, NIO stock is trading at $4.60 indicating a rise of 4.55% within a trading day. TSLA is doing not...

Thousands of Amazon.com Inc. sellers who built their businesses using China’s cheap and efficient manufacturers are on the spot as the coronavirus shuts factories there. AMZN stock was down on Tuesday but seems to start growing in the pre-market.Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) is allegedly doing everything it can to stock up on inventory as the coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads at a rapid pace. Worries about it becoming a pandemic rise and people are buying everything from the stores (like this...

MoneyGram is one of the major partners of Ripple. And it received good investments from it. In the last half-year, it got a sum of another $11 million.It appears that in the last 6 months Ripple provides to MoneyGram an additional $11 million in investments. These indications were reportedly noticed in recent filings with the U.S. SEC by MoneyGram. Last year Q3 and Q4 reports indicate remittances to MoneyGram by Ripple Labs Inc. The sums were broken down into $2.4 million in Q3 and $8.9...

Salesforce has acquired Vlocity, a provider of industry-specific cloud and mobile software built natively on the Salesforce platform, for approximately $1.33 billion. But Salesforce (CRM) stock is in red.An American cloud-based software company Salesforce.com Inc. (NYSE: CRM) announced it bought Vlocity for $1.33 billion – all cash.This interesting acquisition, however, didn’t come as such a surprise. Vlocity is a company that makes six industry-specific CRMs on top of Salesforce. Those are...

Virgin Galactic stock dropped over 7% in the pre-market after the venture published its Q4 2019 results. The company did not meet the Wall Street’s expectations.Virgin Galactic Holdings (NYSE: SPCE), a space tourism company, has long stayed the winner in the extremely unstable market conditions. But following other tech companies, it has also admitted its defeat. While the whole market was in red, Virgin Galactic stock was rising. However, the soaring lasted until the company published its Q4...