This weekend's Barron's cover story examines where to find opportunities in China's stock market now.
Other featured articles discuss a fund manager's picks for a pricey market and housing stocks poised to keep rising because there is no bubble yet.
Gainers
Support.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRT) shares climbed 87% to $36.83 on abnormally high volume amid continued volatility. The stock has recently been mentioned as a potential short squeeze play by traders on social media.
Gainers
RenovoRx, Inc. (NASDAQ: RNXT) rose 106% to $15.00 in pre-market trading. RenovoRx shares dropped 19% on Thursday as the company priced its IPO at $9 per unit.
Some of the stocks that may grab investor focus today are:
Wall Street expects Big Lots, Inc. (NYSE: BIG) to report quarterly earnings at $1.13 per share on revenue of $1.48 billion before the opening bell. Big Lots shares rose 1.4% to $55.00 in after-hours trading.
PC shipments in the U.S. increased in the second quarter, although at a pace markedly slower than in the first quarter.
PC Demand Holds Up: Shipments of PCs, including desktops, notebooks, tablets and workstations climbed 17% year-over-year in the second quarter, a new report from Canalys showed.
Shares of HP (NYSE:HPQ) decreased 1.0% after the company reported Q3 results.
Quarterly Results
Earnings per share increased 104.08% over the past year to $1.00, which beat the estimate of $0.84.