Francesca Fontana
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2,691 appearances
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first heard Aug 2017
last heard Feb 2025
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But things turned around on Tuesday after The Wall Street Journal reported that Walgreens is in talks to sell itself to private equity firm Sycamore Partners.
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If these talks don't fall apart, a deal could be completed early next year, according to our reporting.
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Before the Journal reported on this development between Walgreens and Sycamore, Walgreens stock was down nearly 70% so far this year.
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And remember, for those of you playing along at home, the S&P 500 is up more than 25% year-to-date.
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But on Tuesday, Walgreens shares jumped a whopping 18%, marking the highest one-day jump in the company's history.
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And the stock ended the week up more than 20%.
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Now, as promised, let's circle back to big tech.
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On Tuesday, two major stocks made two major moves in opposite directions.
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And those two stocks were Oracle and Alphabet.
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Oracle, the software company, was one of the day's biggest losers, thanks to its slightly disappointing quarterly results from late Monday.
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The company said revenue rose 8.6 percent to $14.06 billion, which is just slightly below the $14.12 billion that analysts expected, according to FactSet.
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Though it's important to remember the larger trend we've been seeing from Oracle.
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Before Monday's update, optimism about AI had helped send the stock up more than 80 percent this year.
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So we'll have to wait and see whether this is just a slip or a larger slide downward.
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In any case, Oracle fell more than 6% on Tuesday and notched a weekly decline of more than 9%.
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On the flip side, a bright spot among tech stocks on Tuesday was Alphabet, the parent company of Google, which on Monday unveiled a state-of-the-art quantum chip named Willow.
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And this was a big win for Google in its effort to compete in quantum computing.
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Not a big tech guy myself, but it even just sounds cool, right?
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Quantum computing, quantum mechanics, the show Quantum Leap, all very cool.
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So on that good news, Alphabet shares gained more than 5% Tuesday and ended the week with a gain of more than 8%.
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