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MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE
Apple hit $2 trillion market cap during trading Wednesday. See full story.
Nvidia’s server business eclipses gaming chips for first time as earnings, forecast blow away expectations
Nvidia Corp.’s earnings and forecast blew past expectations Wednesday despite the COVID-19 pandemic, as the company’s data-center chips brought in more money than the gaming specialist’s core business for the first time. See full story.
‘A tale told by an idiot’ — CNBC’s Jim Cramer urges investors not to be fooled by new highs in the stock market
“The winners in this market are the companies that are most divorced from the underlying economy,” Jim Cramer said on his show Tuesday. “The actual economy is in precarious shape.” See full story.
Johns Hopkins scientists examining weird side effects of COVID-19 suggest one way coronavirus ‘gains a foothold in the body’
The findings could offer one reason why COVID-19 is so infectious and potentially offer clues to more effective treatments, researchers say. See full story.
Some Americans have started to receive that extra $300 unemployment benefit — if you live in these states, you’re next on the list
An executive order President Donald Trump signed Aug. 8 calls for distributing an additional $300 in weekly unemployment benefits from a $44 billion fund set aside for disaster relief. See full story.
MARKETWATCH PERSONAL FINANCE
Wednesday’s top personal finance stories See full story.
