Twitter, Inc. TWTR 4.21% traded higher on Wednesday on reports the company is experimenting with its ad load, and one analyst said Thursday that improving Twitter’s ad business is one of several reasons for investors to love the stock.

Oil prices plunged on Thursday, losing about 5% as trade tensions dampened the demand outlook, putting the crude benchmarks on course for their biggest daily and weekly falls in six months.

A European pilots’ group Thursday urged the region’s aviation regulator to conduct its own thorough and independent review of the Boeing 737 Max before allowing the planes to fly again.

Shares of Avon Products surged almost 12% on Wednesday as Brazilian cosmetic maker Natura Cosmeticos SA moved another notch closer to acquiring the U.S. company via an all-stock deal to unite two of Brazil’s most popular makeup brands.This will likely move Natura closer to its goal of being a global player. In the said deal, Natura would become the majority shareholder in the 133-year-old U.S. group, which has a market capitalization of about $1.4 billion and is most popular for its direct sales model. Following the news of the deal, Avon shares were up 11% bringing their rise this year to 137%. On the other hand, Natura accumulated a 32% rise this year. Two years ago, Natura acquired The Body Shop from L’Oreal for nearly $1 billion.

While Amazon still holds the sway when it comes to digital marketing, Walmart is gradually closing its gap with the e-commerce giant. The first quarter of 2019 witnessed Walmart’s comparable same-store sales growth of 3.4%, the best in 9 years, and a grand total of $80.3 billion in net revenue out of which the e-commerce segment accounted for 1.4%.The company revealed that e-commerce sales grew 37% compared to the year ago. In comparison, Amazon’s online sales stores increased by 10% to $29.5 billion, and physical stores were up a meager 1% to $4.3 billion after plunging 3% in Q4. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, e-commerce grew 10.4% during the first four months of 2019.

Presently, the health innovation segment at Comcast is working on an in-home device to monitor people’s health, especially at-risk people like seniors and the ones with disabilities, and plans to start pilot-testing later this year.The pricing and roll-out time is yet to be finalized. The company has been working on the device for more than a year now and under the guidance of the new senior vice president and health manager, it is building a strategy and a team to bring the new health hardware to market. The said device will be able to monitor people’s basic health metrics using ambient sensors and will particularly focus on whether someone is frequenting the bathroom more often or spending more time in bed than normal.

Tesla shares rose for the first time in seven days even after more Wall Street analysts joined the growing list of brokerages concerned with the company’s financial health.

U.S.manufacturer growth hit new lows in May, the latest sign that the trade war may be slowing the economy. The U.S. manufacturing PMI (Purchasing Managers Index) was 50.6 in May, the lowest level since September 2009, according to results from financial data firm IHS Markit released Thursday.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell Thursday to its lowest level since 2017 as Wall Street became more nervous that the U.S.-China trade war could drag on longer than expected.

U.S.tariffs on Chinese goods are hurting an unintended target as the trade war rages, an International Monetary Fund study found. The study, released Thursday, said that tariff revenue collected from levies on Chinese goods “has been borne almost entirely” by U.S. importers.

Sales of new U.S. homes sank 6.9% in April, mostly influenced by a decline in the sale of homes worth less than $300,000. The Commerce Department said that new homes sold at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 673,000 in April, down from 723,000 in March.However, year-to-date home sales are running 6.7% above the pace set in 2018. Buyers have been helped by lower mortgage rates and a solid job market.

Amgen Inc. has offered to buy Denmark-based drug discovery platform biotech company, Nuevolution, at $3.36 per share in cash.The shares of Nuevolution are listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm Small Cap exchange. The board of Nuevolution unanimously recommended an acceptance of the offer and three top shareholders, representing 59% shareholdings, have also undertaken to accept the offer.

The number of Americans filing applications for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, pointing to sustained labor market strength even as the economy slows.

Huazhu Group (Nasdaq: HTHT) is one of the largest hotel operators in mainland China.The stock moved from under $7 a share back in the first quarter of ’16 to a high over $49 in June ’18. After reaching the all-time high in June, the stock fell to the $25 level in October.

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Casually clothing retailer American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO) is scheduled to release earnings results on June 5.Revenues are expected to come in at $854.88 million and that estimate represents an increase of 3.9% from one year ago. Looking at the weekly chart for American Eagle, the stock has pulled back in recent weeks, but it appears to have a couple of layers of support just below the current price.

In the case of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SPY) and the Invesco QQQ Trust (Nasdaq: QQQ), they have just had their 10-day moving averages cross bearishly below their 50-day moving averages. Looking at each of the charts, it is the first time since October that these ETFs have experienced a bearish crossover in the moving averages and when it happened last fall, it was an ominous sign.In the case of the QQQ, it was trading around $162.50 when the 10-day moved back above the 50-day and it would eventually rise above $190 before pulling back again.

Luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers (NYSE: TOL) is set to report earnings on May 22 and the stock just got a bullish signal from the Tickeron AI Trend Prediction Engine on May 17.Revenue has increased by an average rate of 19% annually over the last three years and it increased by 16% in the most recent quarter. The company shows a return on equity of 15.4% and a profit margin of 13.1% The weekly chart shows another possible long-term bullish signal and that is the fact that the 13-week moving average just crossed bullishly above the 52-week moving average.

Railroad operator CSX Corp. (NYSE: CSX) has rallied nicely since hitting the December low.Since the rallied started there haven’t been many pullbacks, but rather a couple of sideways moves that allowed the 50-day moving average to catch up and for the stock to move out of the overbought territory. A trend channel has formed to some degree.

The mainstream hype surrounding cryptocurrency has cooled, but reports of its demise appear to have been greatly exaggerated.“I think you’re seeing signs that fundamentals are improving, technicals are improving, and now there’s real activity by, essentially, crypto holders,” Lee told CNBC.