The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Alibaba, Coca-Cola, Visa, Intel and Procter and Gamble

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Chicago, IL – Feb 12, 2018 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include Alibaba BABA, Coca-Cola KO, Visa V, Intel INTC and Procter and Gamble PG.

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Here are highlights from Friday’s Analyst Blog:

Play the Winter Olympics with These Stocks

Finally, it’s the day for the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics, at Pyeongchang, South Korea. The event will take full control of sports lovers all over the world till Feb 25. And it is not only meant for sports lovers, it also means a lot for the economy of the hosting country. So, there are many reasons to participate in Winter Olympics financially.

For the coming two weeks, sponsors of the event will take full charge of your television and radio, erect hoardings and use every means of advertisement to promote their brands, definitely within the rules set by regulators. In short, this sporting extravaganza will have a substantial impact on several companies and their related ETFs.

Let’s delve a little deeper into the Olympic partners, as per CNBC.com.

Alibaba

The Chinese internet and e-commerce giant is the official cloud and e-commerce provider of the games in a deal continuing till 2028.

Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola, a long-time IOC partner, is executing a host of "TV commercials featuring South Korean figure skater Yuna Kim and actor Park Bo-Gum.”

Visa

Visa – an IOC partner since 1986 – recently launched its Winter Games ad showing “the sportspeople using contactless cards and wearable payment devices as they get ready to compete.”

Intel

Intel was accredited a top-level Olympic partner last June. The company will be deploying drones to shoot footage. Intel is endorsing its VR technology via an ad that shows “people in different countries watching the games on VR headsets.”

Procter and Gamble

According to an article published on CNBC.com, “P&G continues its Olympics campaign with a series of six ads showing athletes' struggles with prejudices featuring Gus Kenworthy, one of the first openly-gay action sports athletes at the Olympics, and Emirati figure-skater Zahra Lari, among others.”

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