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The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. When Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) reveals its Q2 results after the market closes this Thursday, there seems to be little doubt among analysts...

The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. Now’s when it starts to get really interesting. After the close today, investors can look forward to a tech triple-header as ...

Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP) managed to beat expectations across the board for earnings, revenue, and user growth with its latest quarter results. With 293 million daily Snapchat users, it is enjoying its highest user growth in years. Moreover, revenue more than doubled in the latest quarter, easily...

On Thursday, Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) announced stronger than expected second-quarter earnings, lifting the social media company's stock 5% in the premarket Friday. Also after market close, Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP), which also generates much of its revenue from advertising, reported better-than-...

Following up on Friday's record close for the Dow despite the recent rise in the delta variant of the coronavirus., the main attractions have arrived on the earnings calendar with the most influential companies in the S&P 500 reporting this week. So far, the results received have not only...

Welcome to a week that might offer something for everyone.  The next few days include earnings from four of the five “FAANG” companies and one-third of the S&P 500 overall. There’s also a Fed meeting, and Congress could be making progress on an infrastructure bill. Get...

An old phrase on Wall Street goes, “The trend is your friend.” If that’s true, analysts are mostly counting on Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) delivering another quarter of double-digit earnings growth when the Technology giant reports fiscal Q3 results next week. For those keeping...

Investors have continued to friend Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), though its status is complicated. FB’s stock has been on a steady climb, increasing 30% in Q2 alone. When the social media giant unveils its Q2 earnings on July 28, expectations are for its phenomenal run of ad revenue to...

Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) arguably hit it out of the park last quarter when it reported earnings that left analysts’ estimates in the dust. Overall revenue came in strong at $55.3 billion, up 34% year over year, with each business segment topping expectations by a wide margin except for...

Despite Apple Inc’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) distant fourth rank among FAANG peers in terms of first-half gains, Loup Ventures analyst Gene Munster is bullish the Cupertino-based company will emerge as the top performer through the rest of 2021. What Happened: Munster, who leads the research-based...

The broader market witnessed some scare in the early part of the first half of 2021 but came back up strongly to stay close to record territory. The volatility seen in the broader market was largely a function of the swings in technology stocks, especially the big ones. Here's a look at...

Fed week is here, and once again analysts expect Chairman Powell and company to stay the course on rates and stimulus. For now, at least.  Last week’s sizzling May inflation data and continued strong jobs growth could be under a microscope when the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)...

Late spring is often marked by the color green. Today it’s not just grass and trees greening up, but also those trading charts in the early going. And let’s not forget those big green tractors. Bellwether cyclical stock Deere & Co. (NYSE: DE), which is often considered a...

“Tuesday Trade” Journal: One of the most important concepts in trading is to review your work, and learn from the good and the bad. Identifying what is working is critical — to do more of it. So, to lead by example, each Tuesday, you’ll get a trade from my trading journal,...

Jim Cramer isn't giving up on FAANG stocks, he said Wednesday night on CNBC's "Mad Money." FAANG is an acronym for Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB), Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN), Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL), Netflix Inc (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Google parent company ...