Pandemic

Moderna Inc (NASDAQ: MRNA), a company founded in 2010, is now worth more than the 130-year old Merck & Co., Inc (NYSE: MRK) in terms of market capitalization. What Happened: Moderna’s shares spiked Monday amid a string of positive news including being granted provisional registration...

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) is reinforcing the face-mask wearing requirement at its Nevada gigafactory starting Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. What Happened: The Palo Alto, California-based electric vehicle maker is telling workers they will be required to wear a mask indoors...

The fares of Uber Technologies Inc (NYSE: UBER) and Lyft Inc (NASDAQ: LYFT) in the U.S. are at a record high, despite their drivers returning to work. The fares have risen month-to-month from February through July, WSJ reports quoting Rakuten Intelligence’s...

Novavax, Inc (NASDAQ: NVAX) shares slipped nearly 10% in the after-hours trading on Thursday. What’s Moving? The biotechnology company’s shares crashed 9.79% to $213.07 in the after-hours session on Thursday after closing 5.54% higher at $236.20. The fall in the shares came after the...

Moderna Inc (NASDAQ: MRNA) shares traded higher Thursday after the company reported better-than-expected earnings per share and sales results. The company reported earnings per share of $6.46, beating the $6.04 estimate. Sales results came in at $4.4 billion, beating the estimate of $4.28...

Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) is reinforcing face-mask wearing requirements at most of its U.S. retail stores beginning Thursday for both shoppers and employees, Bloomberg reported, citing a company memo circulated to employees on Wednesday. What Happened: The mask-wearing requirement is being...

Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s donation of $1 billion in Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) coins to an India Covid-19 relief fund about two months ago has been slow in reaching the people due to several issues, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. What Happened: Only about $...

Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) is delaying a planned return to desks for its employees by a month as COVID-19 variants ravage multiple countries, Bloomberg reported Monday. What Happened: The Cupertino, California-based tech giant’s plan involved employees working at their desks for at least three...

CNBC host Jim Cramer said that Moderna Inc.’s (NASDAQ: MRNA) stock is “too high at this point” and the biotechnology company’s crucial test is whether it can offer personalized cancer vaccines in time to offset the decline in COVID-19 vaccine sales. What Happened: Cramer...

Shares of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) rose 0.7% in the regular trading session on Thursday and were trading slightly higher in the market session on Friday. What Happened: Johnson & Jonson said late Thursday that its single-shot COVID-19 vaccine showed strong promise against the fast-...

Berkshire Hathaway Inc (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK-B) Vice Chairman Charlie Munger has been critical of many top-performing trading assets over the years. Munger spoke out about SPACs, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and the GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) rally. But, there is one high riser Munger uses and is a...

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) co-founder Joe Tsai believes that Asian Americans get “scapegoated” whenever there is a crisis in the U.S. What Happened: In an interview with CNBC, Tsai noted that when the U.S. economy is doing well, Asian Americans...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) plans to drop its mask requirement for fully vaccinated customers at many U.S. stores beginning this week, Bloomberg reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter. What Happened: Apple has started to inform its retail employees of the impending change in its mask...

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration on Saturday said that it screened 2.03 million travelers at U.S. airport checkpoints on Friday. For the first time since March 2020, the number of security screenings surpassed 2 million in a single day, AP reports.  According...

Cathie Wood-led Ark Investment Management on Wednesday diluted its stake in DocuSign Inc (NASDAQ: DOCU) for the third straight session after boosting confidence in the e-signature company's ability of continuing to draw customers post-pandemic. Shares of the San Francisco, California-based...