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Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) is acquiring a financial technology company for $5.3 billion, the company announced on Monday. What Happened The acquisition of Plaid, which provides the intermediary technology between banks and payment services like Transferwise, Acorns, and PayPal Holdings Inc.'s (NASDAQ...

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella criticized India's recent Citizenship Amendment Act, saying it is against India's plurality and hurts the country's economic prospects. What Happened "I think it's just bad if anything," Nadella told Buzzfeed...

Benzinga has examined the prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls included leaders in electric vehicles and streaming video. Bearish calls included the iPhone maker and a top cannabis stock. The major U.S. indexes ended the last full trading week of the year...

Benzinga has examined the prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls included a couple of software stocks and a mining giant. Bearish calls also included the iPhone maker and an entertainment colossus. More small gains this past week were enough to keep the...

Welcome to the busiest day of earnings season, a day when more than 40 S&P 500 companies—about 8% of the total—open their books to investors.  You’d think on a day like this the market might show more excitement, but stock futures pointed to a flat to just slightly higher...

The rumor has surfaced yet again. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT)'s newest Surface laptop iteration will have processors from Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD), according to a report in WinFuture. Microsoft is set to unveil Surface Laptop 3 at a hardware event in early Oct., and...

Benzinga has examined the prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls included what may be a couple of surprises this past week. Bearish calls included a few recent IPOs and an industrial stock. The big U.S. indexes ended the first week of September up about 2.5...

The cover story in this weekend's Barron's offers stock picks for an energy sector rebound. Other featured articles discuss how the trade war is hitting tech's bottom line and why banks are not an alternative to utilities. Also, the prospects for an apparel retailer, a discount grocer...

Investors’ heads were in the cloud this morning on solid Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) earnings even as hopes of a more-aggressive rate cut by the Fed later this month kept sentiment lofty.  Shares of MSFT were up more than 2.8% in early trading this morning after the technology...

It may sound like a movie, but “JEDI” could be a hot earnings call topic for both Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) this quarter. JEDI stands for joint enterprise defense infrastructure, a $10 billion Department of Defense contract both...

This weekend's Barron's cover story takes a look at whether the hot IPO market is a bubble. Other featured articles review Dividend Aristocrats on a roll and offer the results from a survey of tech CIOs. Also, the prospects for a pharmaceutical merger, a best-in-class cruise line operator...

Benzinga has examined prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. M&A candidates were among both the bullish and bearish calls last week. Top software stocks also saw both bullish and bearish calls. The big U.S. indexes ended the past week down marginally as investors...

This weekend's Barron's cover story offers seven dividend stock picks for volatile times. Other featured articles have picks from the Sohn Conference and examine a little-known key to better stock performance. Also, a disappointing initial public offering, two bargain transport plays, and...

Benzinga has examined prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls a top automaker, a telecom leader and a tech giant. And bearish calls included FAANG stocks and an old-school chip maker. A remarkably solid earnings season overall rolls on, despite the low...

Wall Street analysts gushed over yet another strong quarter from Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) as investors pumped the computing giant’s stock even higher. Reactions on the Street ranged from astonishment over what one analyst called a “no blemishes” quarter to those no...