Stocks opened along the flatline on Friday as traders weighed positive news about a potential coronavirus treatment and another record spike in virus cases.

U.S. regulators have long sought more transparency from Chinese companies with shares trading on U.S. exchanges.

Square gets hit with an analyst downgrade and Walgreens falls on disappointing earnings.

Companies struggling to get through the pandemic slashed the amount of money they returned to shareholders through dividends in the second quarter.

China’s top two foreign ministers kept to a conciliatory tone this week in public remarks about relations with the U.S., amid increasingly fraught tensions between the world’s two largest economies.

Despite its dramatic descent into insolvency last month, Wirecard’s share price has not yet hit zero.

Invesco’s Kristina Hooper is encouraging investors to diversify abroad.

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Walgreens Boots Alliance said its profits were squeezed by a shift in sales to low-margin items, increased supply-chain costs and higher expenses for labor and store cleaning.

This year, the „Oracle of Omaha“ is distributing 15.9 million class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway valued at about $2.9 billion.