Pfizer is the IBD Stock Of The Day as scientists grapple with a new variant that could undo Covid vaccines. Pfizer may be ready for it.

Stifel Chief Equity Strategist Barry Bannister joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the investor implications of a newly discovered COVID-19 variant as we enter the second winter of the pandemic.

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Qiagen closed higher Friday after the diagnostics company reaffirmed the efficacy of its PCR tests against the new Covid variant which scrambled stock markets on Friday. Qiagen (ticker: QGEN) said it assessed its SARS-CoV-2 PCR tests against the new genetic mutations of the variant, known by its scientific name, B.1.1.529. “We are pleased to report that the emergence of this new variant of concerns, as has been the case with other variants, has had no impact on the effectiveness of our SARS-CoV-2 PCR tests,” said Davide Manissero, chief medical officer at Qiagen.

Vaccine stocks Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna popped Friday as scientists grappled with a new Covid variant first detected in South Africa.

U.S. stock futures slumped Friday as global markets plunged, amid fears surrounding a new coronavirus variant in South Africa that could lead to new lockdowns.

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Shares of stay-at-home stocks such as Zoom Video Communications and vaccine makers like Moderna closed sharply Friday as concerns over a new variant of Covid-19 rocked global stock markets. Zoom Video (ticker: ZM), the videoconferencing company, rose 5.7% to $220.01. Moderna (MRNA), the Covid-19 vaccine developer, rose 21% to $329.63.

ICU physician Dr. Lakshman Swamy, from Cambridge Health Alliance and Boston Medical Center, speaks on Yahoo Finance Live about the new reports of a surge in cases involving COVID-19. and importance of vaccines.

Health authorities fear that a variant identified in South Africa might spread faster than previous strains.

Steve Sosnick, Interactive Brokers chief strategist, examines how to expect market and investor reactions to the new COVID-19 variant in addition to ways the Fed chair Jerome Powell will seek to tackle inflation.

Yahoo Finance's Seana Smith details some headlines that we are watching on Friday.

Yahoo Finance's Ines Ferre looks at how markets and travel sectors plunged on Friday amid concerns of a new COVID-19 variants while certain work-from-home and vaccine companies are rising.

Oppenheimer Wall Street Analyst Hartaj Singh joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss what type of regulatory responses we could see from countries reacting to the new COVID-19 variant in addition to laying out how this news could create opportunities for vaccine manufacturers.

Dr. Amesh A. Adalja MD, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the newly discovered COVID-19 variant and the potential implications based on what is currently known.

Joseph Little, HSBC Global Asset Management's chief strategist, gives insights onto what new regulations stemming from the emerging South African COVID-19 variant may hold for markets and travel sectors.

Stock market futures dropped on Friday amid uncertainty about a newly discovered COVID-19 variant.

BioNTech, the inventor of the western world's most widely used COVID-19 vaccine, said it expects more data on a worrying new coronavirus variant detected in South Africa within two weeks to help determine whether its shot would have to be reworked. "We understand the concern of experts and have immediately initiated investigations on variant B.1.1.529," the biotech firm, which is in a vaccine alliance with Pfizer, said in a statement when asked to comment. Should it be necessary, Pfizer and BioNTech would be able to redesign their shot within 6 weeks and ship initial batches within 100 days, BioNTech added.

BioNTech, the inventor of the western world's most widely used COVID-19 vaccine, said it expects more laboratory data on a new worrying coronavirus variant detected in South Africa within two weeks to help determine whether its shot would have to be reworked. Global authorities reacted with alarm on Friday to the new variant, with the EU and Britain among those tightening border controls as scientists sought to find out if the mutation was vaccine-resistant.

Qiagen closed higher Friday after the diagnostics company reaffirmed the efficacy of its PCR tests against the new Covid variant which scrambled stock markets on Friday. Qiagen (ticker: QGEN) said it assessed its SARS-CoV-2 PCR tests against the new genetic mutations of the variant, known by its scientific name, B.1.1.529. “We are pleased to report that the emergence of this new variant of concerns, as has been the case with other variants, has had no impact on the effectiveness of our SARS-CoV-2 PCR tests,” said Davide Manissero, chief medical officer at Qiagen.

HILDEN, Germany & GERMANTOWN, Maryland, November 26, 2021--QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced its polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests remain accurate and effective in detecting SARS-CoV-2 infections in light of the emergence of a new variant of concern detected in South Africa.

Jefferies Group, an investment management firm, published its third-quarter 2021 investor letter – a copy of which can be downloaded here. In the letter, the fund talked about the Metaverse and discussed some of the key companies involved in this virtual/augmented reality technology. You can take a look at the fund’s top 5 holdings to […]

Jefferies Group, an investment management firm, published its third-quarter 2021 investor letter – a copy of which can be downloaded here. In the letter, the fund talked about the Metaverse and discussed some of the key companies involved in this virtual/augmented reality technology. You can take a look at the fund’s top 5 holdings to […]

Jefferies Group, an investment management firm, published its third-quarter 2021 investor letter – a copy of which can be downloaded here. In the letter, the fund talked about the Metaverse and discussed some of the key companies involved in this virtual/augmented reality technology. You can take a look at the fund’s top 5 holdings to […]

Investors are optimistic about Abbott (ABT) owing to strong third-quarter results and bullish 2021 outlook.

There are plenty of boobirds when it comes the streaming-video pioneer. Let's see how to silence them.

Richemont selects Amazon's (AMZN) AWS as its preferred cloud provider to expedite product innovation, automation and digital transformation.

The holidays will see the highest spending in almost four decades, but retailers need to leverage A.I. to improve their customer experience.

Maneesh Bajaj runs an equal opportunity mutual fund. He doesn't care whether a stock is categorized as growth or value so long as it meets his criteria for a buy.

When Motley Fool analysts Brian Stoffel and Brian Feroldi first dug into the company, they were skeptical. Brian Feroldi: Is SEMrush, ticker a symbol SEMR, a good investment? Brian Stoffel: My name is Brian Stoffel.

Italy's antitrust regulator has fined Alphabet's Google and iPhone maker Apple 10 million euros ($11.2 million) each for "aggressive practices" linked to the commercial use of user data. Both Google and Apple said they disagreed with the antitrust's decision and that they would appeal it. The watchdog said that when users set up their account with Google, the system was designed in such a way that the terms and conditions on data usage were set up to be accepted.

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The search engine has been investigated over concerns competition could be hit when third-party cookies are phased out.

ROME (Reuters) -Italy's antitrust regulator has fined Alphabet's Google and iPhone maker Apple 10 million euros ($11.2 million) each for "aggressive practices" linked to the commercial use of user data. Both Google and Apple said they disagreed with the antitrust's decision and that they would appeal it. The watchdog said that when users set up their account with Google, the system was designed in such a way that the terms and conditions on data usage were set up to be accepted.

Italy's antitrust regulator has fined Alphabet's Google and iPhone maker Apple 10 million euros ($11.23 million) each for "aggressive practices" linked to the commercial use of user data. The authority said in statement that the two tech groups did not provide "clear and immediate information" with regards to how they collect and use the data of those who access their services. It added that when users set up their account with Google, the system is designed in such a way that the terms and conditions on data usage are set up to be accepted.

Google has pledged more restrictions on its use of data from its Chrome browser to address concerns raised by Britain's competition regulator about its plan to ban third-party cookies that advertisers use to track consumers. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been investigating Google's plan to cut support for some cookies in Chrome - an initiative called the "Privacy Sandbox" - because it is worried it will impede competition in digital advertising. Alphabet Inc's Google has said its users want more privacy when they are browsing the web, including not being tracked across sites.

Google has pledged more restrictions on its use of data from its Chrome browser to address concerns raised by Britain's competition regulator about its plan to ban third-party cookies that advertisers use to track consumers. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been investigating Google's plan to cut support for some cookies in Chrome - an initiative called the "Privacy Sandbox" - because it is worried it will impede competition in digital advertising. Alphabet Inc's Google has said its users want more privacy when they are browsing the web, including not being tracked across sites.

Today's Research Daily features new research reports on 16 major stocks, including Microsoft Corporation (MSFT), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Chevron Corporation (CVX).

The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended October at record highs, as the current stock market rally weakens. The best Dow Jones stocks to buy and watch in November 2021 are American Express, Apple, Goldman Sachs, Merck and Microsoft.

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Investors' holiday cheer received a rude interruption on Thanksgiving Day 2021: In South Africa, a new coronavirus variant is rising -- and it's terrifying investors with fears of a prolonged cruise industry recession. Shares of Carnival Corporation (NYSE: CCL) (NYSE: CUK), Royal Caribbean (NYSE: RCL), and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NYSE: NCLH) sank in quick succession as of 10:10 a.m. ET today, falling 10%, 10.2%, and 10.3%, respectively. Initially detected in South Africa, reports CNN, the virus has also popped up in neighboring Botswana and in Hong Kong (carried there apparently by a traveler from South Africa).

U.S. stock futures fall on Black Friday after South Africa warns about a new strain of Covid-19, pulling travel, tourism, oil and energy stocks lower.

Travel platform Expedia (EXPE) and home sharing site Airbnb (ABNB) are some of the stocks swept into the travel sell-off on Friday over concerns of a variant first detected in southern Africa.

Yahoo Finance's Ines Ferre looks at how markets and travel sectors plunged on Friday amid concerns of a new COVID-19 variants while certain work-from-home and vaccine companies are rising.

Yahoo Finance's Ines Ferre breaks down today's market trends where energy and travel are taking hits amid news of the latest COVID-19 variant.

More bad news for an already-crushed industry is making investors wonder how much more these companies can take.

Companies benefiting from this year's economic reopening, including AMC Entertainment, United Airlines and Carnival Corp, were hammered on Friday by fears that a possibly vaccine-resistant coronavirus variant could mar their recovery. Travel and leisure stocks bore the brunt of the selloff in the United States, with carriers United, Delta Air and American Airlines losing between 8% and 10% to open at their lowest levels in several months. Hotel chains Hyatt, Marriott and Hilton fell between 8% and 11%, while cruise operators Carnival , Royal Caribbean and Norwegian slumped about 10% each.

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Joseph Little, HSBC Global Asset Management's chief strategist, gives insights onto what new regulations stemming from the emerging South African COVID-19 variant may hold for markets and travel sectors.

Companies benefiting from this year's economic reopening, including AMC Entertainment, United Airlines and Carnival Corp, were hammered on Friday by fears over a new and possibly-vaccine resistant coronavirus variant. Trading before the bell showed U.S. stocks were set to join the selloff, with carriers United, Delta Air and American Airlines losing between 8% and 9%. Hotel chains Hyatt, Marriott and Hilton fell between 4.7% and 6%, while cruise operators Carnival, Royal Caribbean Cruises and Norwegian Cruise Line plunged 10% each.

On Thursday, the airline industry was hit by fresh bad news, and stocks of companies that rely on airlines for profits are taking it on the chin on Friday. Shares of Spirit AeroSystems Holdings (NYSE: SPR) fell as much as 14% on concerns a new COVID-19 variant could push back airline growth plans and crimp demand for new planes. Spirit makes fuselages and other large pieces of planes for Boeing, its former parent, and Airbus.

Shares of Boeing (NYSE: BA) fell out of bed Friday, dropping 6.5% by 9:40 a.m. ET after Reuters reported the company might be out of the running to sell Canada new fighter jets. For more than a decade, Canada has been weighing the merits of buying F-35 stealth fighter jets from Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) to replace the aging CF-18 jet fighters that currently make up the bulk of its fleet.

Joseph Little, HSBC Global Asset Management's chief strategist, gives insights onto what new regulations stemming from the emerging South African COVID-19 variant may hold for markets and travel sectors.

The Boeing Company (BA) secures a $212.6 million modification contract for procurement of six MH47-G renew rotary wing aircraft and eight spare shipsets.

Travel platform Expedia (EXPE) and home sharing site Airbnb (ABNB) are some of the stocks swept into the travel sell-off on Friday over concerns of a variant first detected in southern Africa.

John Grant, Senior Aviation Analyst with tracking service OAG, joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss how airline stocks have dropped as countries curtail air travel.

Joseph Little, HSBC Global Asset Management's chief strategist, gives insights onto what new regulations stemming from the emerging South African COVID-19 variant may hold for markets and travel sectors.

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Yahoo Finance's Seana Smith details some headlines that we are watching on Friday.

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A new COVID-19 variant has travel investors worried that the world will face another wave of lockdowns.

Travel and financial stocks, along with oil and cryptocurrency plays, fell hard Friday on concerns over a new Covid variant.

Just as domestic air travel is approaching 2019 levels, a potentially threatening new COVID-19 variant has emerged that could set the airline industry's recovery back.

Today we'll do a simple run through of a valuation method used to estimate the attractiveness of Howmet Aerospace Inc...

Investors' holiday cheer received a rude interruption on Thanksgiving Day 2021: In South Africa, a new coronavirus variant is rising -- and it's terrifying investors with fears of a prolonged cruise industry recession. Shares of Carnival Corporation (NYSE: CCL) (NYSE: CUK), Royal Caribbean (NYSE: RCL), and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NYSE: NCLH) sank in quick succession as of 10:10 a.m. ET today, falling 10%, 10.2%, and 10.3%, respectively. Initially detected in South Africa, reports CNN, the virus has also popped up in neighboring Botswana and in Hong Kong (carried there apparently by a traveler from South Africa).

U.S. stock futures fall on Black Friday after South Africa warns about a new strain of Covid-19, pulling travel, tourism, oil and energy stocks lower.

Travel platform Expedia (EXPE) and home sharing site Airbnb (ABNB) are some of the stocks swept into the travel sell-off on Friday over concerns of a variant first detected in southern Africa.

Yahoo Finance's Ines Ferre looks at how markets and travel sectors plunged on Friday amid concerns of a new COVID-19 variants while certain work-from-home and vaccine companies are rising.

Yahoo Finance's Ines Ferre breaks down today's market trends where energy and travel are taking hits amid news of the latest COVID-19 variant.

More bad news for an already-crushed industry is making investors wonder how much more these companies can take.

Companies benefiting from this year's economic reopening, including AMC Entertainment, United Airlines and Carnival Corp, were hammered on Friday by fears that a possibly vaccine-resistant coronavirus variant could mar their recovery. Travel and leisure stocks bore the brunt of the selloff in the United States, with carriers United, Delta Air and American Airlines losing between 8% and 10% to open at their lowest levels in several months. Hotel chains Hyatt, Marriott and Hilton fell between 8% and 11%, while cruise operators Carnival , Royal Caribbean and Norwegian slumped about 10% each.

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Joseph Little, HSBC Global Asset Management's chief strategist, gives insights onto what new regulations stemming from the emerging South African COVID-19 variant may hold for markets and travel sectors.

Companies benefiting from this year's economic reopening, including AMC Entertainment, United Airlines and Carnival Corp, were hammered on Friday by fears over a new and possibly-vaccine resistant coronavirus variant. Trading before the bell showed U.S. stocks were set to join the selloff, with carriers United, Delta Air and American Airlines losing between 8% and 9%. Hotel chains Hyatt, Marriott and Hilton fell between 4.7% and 6%, while cruise operators Carnival, Royal Caribbean Cruises and Norwegian Cruise Line plunged 10% each.

SAN ANTONIO, November 26, 2021--Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE: VLO, "Valero") announced today that its previously announced cash tender offer (the "Any and All Tender Offer") for any and all of its outstanding 2.700% Senior Notes due 2023 (the "Any and All Notes") (CUSIP No. 91913YAX8) expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on November 24, 2021. According to information provided by D.F. King & Co., Inc., the tender and information agent for the Any and All Tender Offer, $594,520,000 aggrega

Halper Sadeh LLP, a global investor rights law firm, announces it is investigating the following companies:

Petrobras (PBR) expects to produce an average of 2.7 million and 3.2 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2022 and 2026, respectively.

ExxonMobil (XOM) and Viridos will develop infrastructure and agronomic methods to produce algae biofuels in commercial quantities.

CALGARY, Alberta, Nov. 26, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gran Tierra Energy Inc. (“Gran Tierra” or the “Company”) (NYSE American:GTE) (TSX:GTE) (LSE: GTE) today announced that Gran Tierra Resources Limited (“GTRL”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Gran Tierra, has procured private purchasers for the sale by GTRL of an aggregate of 137,093,750 common shares (the “Purchased Shares”) of PetroTal Corp. (“PetroTal”) at a price of US$0.2198 per Purchased Share, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately

Chapwood Investments Managing Partner Ed Butowsky shares his views on Friday's market selloff, asserting an "overvalued" market and providing areas that investors should avoid.

Raymond James Analyst Pavel Molchanov assess crude oils' trading performances being attributed to the South African COVID variant.

Yahoo Finance's Rick Newman details how President Biden is in a tough spot politically when it comes to gasoline prices.

U.S. stock futures fall on Black Friday after South Africa warns about a new strain of Covid-19, pulling travel, tourism, oil and energy stocks lower.

Just as domestic air travel is approaching 2019 levels, a potentially threatening new COVID-19 variant has emerged that could set the airline industry's recovery back.

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General Electric Co. said Friday it expects to achieve $80 billion in gross debt reduction between the end of 2018 and the end of 2021, up from its $75 billion projection made on Nov. 10. The company said it's on track to achieve deleveraging targets and deliver high-single-digit free cash flow margins in 2023. About $33.3 billion in aggregate principal was tendered at or prior to an early participation date. GE accepted for purchase about $25 billion in aggregate principal.

OXFORD, England & CHALFONT ST GILES, England, November 26, 2021--GE Healthcare and Optellum today announced that they have signed a letter of intent to collaborate to advance precision diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer. GE Healthcare is a global leader in medical imaging solutions. Optellum is the leader in AI decision support for the early diagnosis and optimal treatment of lung cancer.

BOSTON, November 26, 2021--GE (NYSE:GE) announces the results as of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on November 24, 2021 (the "Early Participation Date") for its previously announced offer to purchase for cash, for its own account and on behalf of the Subsidiary Issuers (as defined below), upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase, dated November 10, 2021 (as amended hereby, the "Offer to Purchase"):

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