ETFs to Watch as Alphabet Rides Cloud Surge, Beats Estimates
Alphabet GOOGL came up with first-quarter 2026 earnings on April 29, after market close. Earnings of $5.11 per share surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.64 by a staggering 93.56%. The bottom line marked an improvement of 81.85% from earnings of $2.81 per share recorded in the same period last year.
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Amazon’s AI spending problem may have a demand answer.
The company’s cloud backlog — future business Amazon has already contracted but has not yet turned into revenue — jumped to $364 billion in the first quarter, CEO Andy Jassy said on the company’s earnings call.
And that figure doesn’t include Amazon’s recently announced Anthropic deal for more than $100 billion.
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ESG Investing Market Estimated to Reach USD 186,930 Billion by 2035 | SNS Insider
The ESG investing market has reached a critical inflection point, transitioning from a niche values-aligned philosophy to a mainstream portfolio construction discipline embedded across the world’s largest pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, and asset managers, with the U.S.
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Stunning Earnings Forecasts Set To Power Ecommerce Giant Higher
When you need help setting up an online shop, Shopify Inc. (NYSE:SHOP) is the place to go and is widely considered the leading e-commerce company. Over the years, it became a powerful ecosystem that’s helped millions of merchants all over the world.
Shopify is loved by merchants because it’s easy to setup an online store.
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3 Dividend Stocks That Could Pay You for Life, Even in a Recession
When the market entered a correction in February and March, uncertainty about America’s economic future weighed heavily on investors’ minds with many people are looking for high-yield dividend stocks with the potential to help their portfolios weather tougher times.
Unfortunately, the S&P 500 average is currently offering a yield of just 1.3%, which is fairly low by historical standards.
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Market Commentary: Is This 7.9% Dividend Real?
In my view, Verizon’s generous dividend isn’t just stable, it’s on track to climb even higher. As it stands, Verizon offers a tantalizing dividend yield of 7.9%, a figure amplified by the recent dip in its stock price. The stock has lost about a fifth of its value from its peak over the past 52 weeks,
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