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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is preparing to ramp up production of its newest 5G iPhone, but reports suggest it won't be able to hit the 80-million-unit threshold it was aiming for as the coronavirus

The major U.S. stock indexes were mixed Friday morning, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) holding onto a solid gain. The Dow was up 0.6% at 11:40 a.m. EDT.

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International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) said in a statement Friday that the U.S. government should consider curbing exports of facial recognition systems, singling out "the type of facial

Gold has had a fantastic year so far in 2020, with its price climbing from around $1,500 per ounce at the end of 2019 to briefly above $2,000 per ounce recently. That's put the cherry on top of a

Shares of Evofem Biosciences (NASDAQ: EVFM) are down by 20.6% as of 11:43 a.m. EDT on Friday, after dropping by as much as 25.4% earlier today. These massive losses came after it was made public

Of all the companies reporting earnings over the past week, none was of more interest to me than BigCommerce (NASDAQ: BIGC). Trotted out by many -- including some here at The Motley Fool -- as "the

Shares of sportswear retailer Zumiez (NASDAQ: ZUMZ) are ending the week on a high note, rising 13% through 11:05 a.m. EDT on Friday after the company reported three times the profit Wall Street

Chinese tech giant Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) is in talks with interested parties to invest up to $2 billion in a biotech start-up over the next three years, according to Reuters. The company has been

Friday brought a solid advance for the stock market, as investors went into the last day of the week on a positive note. Despite ongoing concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic

Shares of Spero Therapeutics (NASDAQ: SPRO) are sliding today, down 9.5% as of 11:17 a.m. EDT, after the company announced the pricing of a public stock offering.

On Wednesday, Spero announced that

With a large part of the population working remotely and the use of work-from-home solutions soaring in popularity, expectations were high going into Slack Technologies' (NYSE: WORK) second-quarter

Shares of Dave & Buster's Entertainment (NASDAQ: PLAY) were pulling back today after the eat-and-play chain posted dismal results in its second quarter. With much of its restaurant base closed

Shares of Laureate Education (NASDAQ: LAUR) were soaring 18% in morning trading Friday after Adtalem Global Education (NYSE: ATGE) announced it was acquiring Walden University from Laureate for

While most stock investors don't pay close attention to them, commodity prices can influence the share prices of natural resource companies. And one commodity that has been soaring in price lately

The vaunted theme parks operated by Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) are not the only assets the entertainment company is reopening; it will also turn the lights back on in many of its hotels and resorts. In

Are you worried about a market crash? You shouldn't be, despite all signs pointing to the fact that one is coming. That's because a market crash can't hurt your portfolio over the long term except

Shares of at-home fitness company Peloton Interactive (NASDAQ: PTON) went up on Friday after the company reported fourth-quarter results for its fiscal 2020. Not only did Q4 results include

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has been in the news in recent days due to potentially dangerous manufacturing flaws involving a handful of its 787 Dreamliners. On Friday came word of an additional issue, raising

We know that the castle is king these days. Folks are spending more time at home in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, and that's only accelerating the shift to e-commerce and away from traditional

Oil titan ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), remains one of the few oil majors that hasn't cut its dividend this year. But this accomplishment is more due to Exxon being stubborn than it is to Exxon

Shares of Northern Oil and Gas (NYSEMKT: NOG), which owns non-operator interests in onshore U.S. oil and natural gas projects, rose sharply at the start of trading on Sept. 11, jumping as much as

As the world went on lockdown to attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19, an already fast-growing digital world got a shot in the arm and is now more important than ever. As a result, after a very

Peloton Interactive (NASDAQ: PTON) impressed the market yesterday by crushing analyst expectations on earnings, and the connected fitness guru's new "better, best" product strategy aims to keep the

The pandemic's boost to Kroger's (NYSE: KR) business hardly waned in recent months and is likely to extend at least into early 2021. That was the key takeaway from the grocery chain's latest

When was the last time you got a Social Security statement in the mail? Chances are good that you don't remember.

That's because the Social Security Administration cut back on sending mailed