Amazon and Apple are the most valuable brands in the world -- but these Chinese companies are catching up
These are the top 100 most valuable global brands for 2021, according to a company that analyzes brand equity.Amazon and Apple are the world's most valuable brands, but watch out -- these Chinese e-commerce leaders are slowly but surely rising in the ranks.Tech giants Amazon $$, Apple $$, Google $$ and Microsoft $$ lead this year's list of Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands by Kantar BrandZ, a company that analyzes brand equity, but Chinese social media and video games company Tencent is close
S&P 500 rises on Friday to close out winning week near a record high
U.S. stocks climbed on Friday as the key May jobs report showed solid gains, boosting confidence in the economic comeback.The S&P 500 rose about 0.9% to 4,229.89, sitting less than 0.2% from its all-time high reached last month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 179.35 points to 34,756.39. The Nasdaq Composite outperformed with a nearly 1.5% rally to 13,814.49.The major averages all registered modest gains for the week. The blue-chip Dow and the S&P 500 advanced about 0.7% and 0.6%, respec
The market for initial public offerings has recently delivered some great first-day gains for investors who were able to get shares before the companies went public.That left us with 11 names. First up:CureVac, which was the screen’s best-performing IPO and had a total return of 596.75%. CureVac specializes in the messenger RNA, or mRNA, technology that is the basis of several leading Covid-19 vaccine programs. The German biotech company went public inAugust at $16 a shareand soared 249% in its