The Dow Jones closed slightly lower on Monday. Global Payments (NYSE: GPN) reported better-than-expected Q2 earnings results and also announced it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire EVO Payments.
With US stock futures trading lower this morning on Monday ahead of earnings reports from several big companies, some of the stocks that may grab investor focus today are as follows:
Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), the world’s oldest cryptocurrency, dropped on Monday, but still managed to remain above the $23,000 mark at the start of the August month.
Global Payments's (NYSE:GPN) short percent of float has fallen 44.68% since its last report. The company recently reported that it has 4.35 million shares sold short, which is 1.56% of all regular shares that are available for trading.