European benchmarks rose broadly on Thursday as investors responded to another round of solid corporate earnings figures and a series of individual company announcements. The FTSE 100 in London gained 0.57% to 7,229.

The three major U.S. stock indexes posted intraday record highs as oil prices rallied. Coca-Cola was the biggest loser on the Dow Jones Industrial Average , tumbling even though the beverage giant posted earnings and sales that topped estimates.

Whole Foods had a ‘disappointing’ quarter, yet it’s taking the right action to correct the problem, TheStreet’s Jim Cramer says. Shares of Whole Foods were up higher in late morning trading Thursday, despite reporting a miss on the top and bottom line for the 2017 first quarter after Wednesday’s closing bell.

Take-Two Interactive Software is expanding its partnership with the National Basketball Assn. to create a professional basketball eSports league, the latest indication that the video game developer is shifting its focus away from console gaming.

Something keeps gnawing at me. I see the market rising — and yes, I see the fiscal flows rising too, though not by much.

Today the stock of Twitter is down hideously after a pretty decent quarter and many are aghast that it could slash its earnings forecast so drastically and not even offer a revenue outlook….581 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money.

ADR has had its ups — and certainly some downs — but that is behind us. We want to be forward looking, and looking ahead on the charts of BP tells us to find a place to buy.

United States President Donald Trump prepares to sign three Executive Orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on Monday, January 23, 2017. These concerned the withdrawal of the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership , a US Government hiring freeze for all departments but the military, and “Mexico City” which bans federal funding of abortions overseas.

Continued progress signing large customers helped drive Zendesk’s results, and the company maintained its goal of reaching $1 billion of revenue by 2020. Here’s what investors need to know about Zendesk’s fourth-quarter report.

For a good part of 2016, gold exchange traded products, including the SPDR Gold Shares , iShares Gold Trust and ETFS Physical Swiss Gold Shares , were prolific asset gatherers, but that theme ebbed late in the year amid concerns about the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy.

Valeant has come under fire for its drug-pricing practices for older drugs, has been embroiled in legal woes tied to its subsidiary drug distributor Philidor Rx Services, is buried under $30 billion in debt, and has witnessed its core business struggle with double-digit percentage sales declines. Since peaking at $264 per share in the summer of 2015, Valeant has lost about 94% of its value.

The tech industry has poured an estimated $1.2 billion into diversity initiatives over the past five years, according to Intel and Dalberg’s 2016 Decoding Diversity study , yet the investment has barely moved the needle. Racial and ethnic minorities today secure only 1% to 2% more available jobs in the industry than they did 15 years ago, according to the same report.

Zurich Insurance Group AG fell in Zurich trading after posting a quarterly profit supported by one-time gains as Chief Executive Officer Mario Greco presses ahead with an overhaul of Switzerland’s largest insurer. Net income for the three months through December amounted to $685 million compared with a loss of $424 million a year earlier due to restructuring costs and claims from storms in Britain and Ireland, the Zurich-based company said Thursday in a statement.

European shares climbed for a third consecutive session on Thursday, with some major companies such as France’s second-biggest listed bank Societe Generale and oil major Total advancing after their results. Eutelsat also surged, up 6 percent and the top gainer in the STOXX 600 index, after the telecommunication services firm’s first half revenue fell less than expected.

We think of fashion as a creative industry. But is it innovative? “I’ve found that fashion is not at the forefront of technology as a lot of other industries,” says Yael Aflalo, founder of Reformation, an eco-friendly, fast-fashion brand favored by Rihanna, Taylor Swift, and Karlie Kloss.

How Mon Purse’s Lana Hopkins shook up the supply chain and embraced technology so consumers can design their own bags at non-luxury prices. Mon Purse customers design every aspect of their handbag, from the shape and type of leather to hardware and monogram options.

When you start working for yourself full-time, it’s like taking a crash course in business ownership-but with no instructor and extremely high stakes. But if you can get past the one-year mark and still see a path ahead, it’s likely because you’ve learned from the inevitable pitfalls of going in blind.

Millennials at top employers-and the recruiters who hire them-explain how to land internships and entry-level jobs that don’t suck. Entry-levels jobs usually aren’t much fun.