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Many students who had planned to jet off to the US over the coming weeks have been left in limbo as they still have not received their visas

Booking Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:BKNG) owned travel platform Agoda has partnered with Visa Inc (NYSE:V) to offer interest-free credit card installments across its booking platform. The installments are exclusively applicable to HSBC Bank Malaysia credit card holders. Visa and Agoda plan to progressively roll out the offering regionwide to locations like Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand,…

The Senate Judiciary Committee took aim at credit card fees, complaining that inflation is pushing up the profits of Mastercard and Visa,.

The stock market faces intense selling pressure due to ongoing geopolitical and macroeconomic headwinds. However, the number of S&P 500 companies beating earnings expectations exceeds the five-year average. Mega-cap companies Visa (V), Meta Platforms (FB), and Microsoft (MSFT) reported quarterly results last week, handily beating Street estimates. Let’s discuss.

A market rally attempt is underway, but the major indexes lost ground. Apple and Facebook led key earnings. Elon Musk will buy Twitter.

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Visa (NYSE:V) has outperformed the market over the past 10 years by 10.18% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 21.9%. Currently, Visa has a market capitalization of $464.49 billion.

Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) has reported Q1 sales of $5.2 billion, up 24% (28% currency-neutral), beating the consensus of $4.91 billion. Gross dollar volume increased 17%, on a local currency basis, to $1.9 trillion. Cross-border volume growth of 53% on a local currency basis, with switched transactions growth of 22%. Other revenues increased 18%,…

Dow Jones futures jumped after Wednesday's market rebound fizzled. Facebook led big earnings winners. But ARK Stock Teladoc plunged.