The Walt Disney Company is among the world's leading mass media and entertainment conglomerates, with its main business operations ranging from operating theme parks, producing movies and television programs, as well as recently having entered the world of online streaming with its Disney + program. 'The House of Mouse' undoubtedly has interests in a wide range of business activities, which makes it a very well-diversified multinational [...]

Gilead Sciences has become one of the most talked-about companies over the last several weeks, as the Biotech giant's drug Remdesivir, which was originally developed as a medicament against Ebola, is now being used as a treatment for the novel coronavirus with a certain degree of success. [...]

Apple and Amazon, which are the last participants of the 'Big Tech' sector to report earnings for the current quarter, are bound to stir heightened price action on their stocks after the market close today, by announcing the pandemic's impact on their performances in Q1. These two reports are anticipated by investors to seal the faith of the US tech industry in the wake of the coronavirus crisis [...]

In a few short months, the global hierarchy in the financial world has been jolted by the coronavirus pandemic, which has drastically hindered the top echelons of the industry and the financial giants there. Microsoft has surpassed Apple as the company with the biggest market cap in the world after the latter's operations were severely distorted by the ripples caused by the national lockdowns of economies worldwide. [...]

Similarly to the stocks of other companies, we have already analysed during the current earnings season, Facebook is a particular type of an internet-based, technology company that is most likely going to benefit from heightened users' retention during the coronavirus pandemic. As more and more people globally are forced to stay in their homes and avoid contact with other individuals, the amount of time they spend on social media [...]

Alphabet Inc., which is one of the world's largest corporations and also the parent company of the Google search engine, is reporting quarterly earnings on Tuesday, and investors are eager to see how the multinational conglomerate is faring during the coronavirus pandemic. The company would be reporting earnings for Q1 of 2020, which ended in March. [...]

Over the past several days, the turmoil in the global financial markets has increased tremendously. With the price of crude oil falling below $0 per barrel for the first time ever, the uncertainty grappling Wall Street ever since the start of the coronavirus pandemic has become an even bigger issue for investors who were left perplexed by the uncharted course the global economy is currently threading on. [...]

Gilead Sciences Inc. is an American biotech company listed on the S&P 500, with a market capitalisation of almost 94 billion dollars. The company is also one of the frontrunners in the race to develop medical treatment for COVID-19, which is the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-Cov-2. [...]

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is the biggest bank in the US with a prominent role in the S&P 500 index, which makes it not only one of Wall Street’s flagships, but also an integral component in the American financial system as a whole. That is why its quarterly earnings reports are so highly anticipated by so many investors, who perceive JPM’s data as a gauge for the performance of the entire financial industry. [...]

Yesterday the British American Tobacco (BAT) Company, announced its participation in the global rush to develop a SARS-COV-19 vaccine. [...]In its statement from yesterday, BAT said that it would be ready to start producing as much as 3 million doses of the vaccine per week as early as June, provided that it receives the necessary government support. The company has worked on a vaccine for Ebola in the past, which gives its claims credence. [...]