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The S&P 500 Index (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) has been doing its best yo-yo impression over the past week. Today's close was almost 1.8% lower, giving up almost 60 points after gaining 67 points, or 2%,

Thursday brought another bout of volatility to the stock markets, which started the day on the upside but then reversed to move sharply lower. New data on first-time unemployment claims didn't show

For several years, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has had a notable presence on the fields of National Football League games through a sponsorship with its Surface tablet brand. Now it'll be in the

Shares of SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ: SPWR) fell as much as 10.7% Thursday after the company hosted an analyst day and provided updated full-year guidance. The stock closed the day down 9.1%. 

The stock market has been resilient in 2020, but skeptical investors wonder how long the good times can last. For the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) in particular, record highs have come even

Shares of DraftKings (NASDAQ: DKNG) were up 5.4% by the close of trading on Thursday, just a few hours before the opening game of the National Football League's 2020 season.  

Despite a dearth of

Shares of IT consultant Virtusa (NASDAQ: VRTU) are up 23.8% in 9:55 a.m. EDT trading on news that private equity firm Baring Private Equity Asia (BPEA) will acquire the company in a merger

Shares of movie meister AMC Entertainment (NYSE: AMC) lost 5.2% in Thursday trading and continued to fall in the after-hours. There's been no "new" news today to explain the decline, so I can only

Shares of Purple Innovation (NASDAQ: PRPL) jumped 12.2% higher on Thursday after the bedding maker priced a secondary offering at $18.50 per share, over $1.50 per share below where the stock had

Shares of Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK) jumped 25% this morning and remain up 9% as of 3:55 p.m. EDT. The gain is related to news on a cryptocurrency subsidiary of the online retailer. 

Overstock has

Shares of distance-education company K12 (NYSE: LRN) were plummeting on Thursday, after Florida's Miami-Dade School Board unanimously voted to stop using the platform. According to the Miami Herald

Vertex Pharmaceuticals' (NASDAQ: VRTX) blockbuster cystic fibrosis drug Trikafta might soon have a larger addressable market. The company announced Thursday that a phase 3 trial of the drug, in

Progress on AstraZeneca's (NYSE: AZN) coronavirus vaccine candidate took a breather this week after an adverse health event triggered a pause in enrollment at trial sites around the globe. Despite

Football is in the air. The NFL season kicks off on Thursday night, and this has historically been a good time for DraftKings (NASDAQ: DKNG). However, with the football season literally springing up

Would you offer to buy something on the internet and then tell the seller not to bother delivering what you bought? Probably not. And yet, this is essentially the deal that the National Aeronautics

According to an interview with one of the company's two Chief Executive Officers, Reed Hastings, streaming service Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) probably won't be buying a theater chain in the near future

Major U.S.-based pork producer Tyson Foods (NYSE: TSN) saw its share value bid up more than 4% this morning after African swine fever, also known as ASF or "pig Ebola," was confirmed to be present

Luxury furnishings retailer RH (NYSE: RH) reported earnings that beat consensus estimates on both the top and bottom lines, and said demand and margins were strong. 

The company formerly known as

Shares in Agenus (NASDAQ: AGEN) are rallying 23.65% at 2:10 pm EDT today ahead of a planned oral presentation of clinical trial data at the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) Conference on

An early rally gave way to a decline on Thursday for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI). The Dow was down 0.5% at 1 p.m. EDT today after initial jobless claims for last week came in

Like many relationships that turn sour, the engagement of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (OTC: LVMUY) to Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF) is quickly unraveling and ending up in court.

A day after the

For the first time, a woman will lead one of America's largest banks.

Citigroup (NYSE: C) has announced that CEO Michael Corbat will retire from the bank after 37 years at the company, the last

Shares of Athenex (NASDAQ: ATNX) were down by 14.3% as of 1:35 p.m. EDT on Thursday, following the company's announcement of the pricing of a public offering of common stock. With Athenex set to

Shares of Wayfair (NYSE: W) were climbing today, apparently in sympathy with RH (NYSE: RH) after that company smashed earnings estimates and reported strong demand in its second-quarter earnings

Shares of food-delivery service Waitr Holdings (NASDAQ: WTRH) were absolutely on fire Thursday, and no one seems to know why. As of 12:30 p.m. EDT today, the stock was up a whopping 19%. A lot of