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Investors have gotten used to seeing tech stocks act as leaders in 2020's market action, and Wednesday brought more of the same. Even as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) once again

Shares of Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) jumped as much as 9.7% higher on Wednesday morning, goosed by a rosy analyst report. By 11:15 a.m. EDT the media-streaming technologist's stock had settled down to a

E-commerce sales are booming, and Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) wants a piece of the action. The social media giant has been moving toward making shopping on its platforms, Facebook and Instagram, easier

Last September, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) launched Facebook Dating in the U.S. after testing the feature in other markets for a year. Earlier this year, Facebook upgraded the feature with video calls to

Over the coming 12 months, the stock of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is headed more than 20% higher from Tuesday's closing price. So says Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives, who raised the stock's price

Shares of American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO) are rising 6% in morning trading Wednesday on no apparent company-specific news but with apparel retailers generally running higher.

Investors may be

Shares of Chinese electric-vehicle maker NIO (NYSE: NIO) were rising on Wednesday, following bullish comments from analysts at Morgan Stanley and Citibank. 

As of 11:15 a.m. EDT, NIO's American

Over the last four years, Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) has scooped up top-performing mobile game studios around the world while delivering market-beating returns to investors. Doing lots of mergers and

COVID-19 has turned the part of the economy that relies on in-person interaction on its head, and the restaurant industry has been hit particularly hard. Things are starting to normalize, but many

The U.S. Department of Justice announced late Tuesday that Teva Pharmaceutical (NYSE: TEVA) has been charged with three counts of conspiring to fix prices of generic drugs, among other crimes.

The

Shares of Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) jumped on Wednesday, rising about 4.5% as of 10:40 a.m. EDT.

Bullishness for the electric-car maker's shares was likely driven primarily by an analyst's decision to

Shares of e-learning specialist K12 (NYSE: LRN), which develops curricula and software for students studying at home, dropped 11.5% through 10:10 a.m. EDT.

It's not immediately clear why.

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The over-120-year-old Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is getting a serious makeover that could mean profits for your portfolio.

Technology giant Salesforce.com is replacing ExxonMobil

Over the past few weeks, high-profile companies such as Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) have announced stock splits. A stock split is when a company decides to multiply its existing

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) can kick the massively popular online game Fortnite out of its App Store after a judge ruled on Monday that developer Epic Games' "predicament appears of its own making."

But

Shares of Sorrento Therapeutics (NASDAQ: SRNE) were up 4.7% as of 10:33 a.m. EDT on Wednesday after rising as much as 14.9% earlier in the day. Why did the stock bounce back after plunging earlier

Spotify Technology (NYSE: SPOT) has been taking the streaming audio world by storm over the last several years by prioritizing relentless subscriber growth. The number of premium subscribers has

Shares of Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ: URBN) are soaring today after the company reported results for the second quarter of its fiscal 2021. This brick-and-mortar clothing retailer was left for dead by

For at least one major cruise line, the coronavirus pandemic has begun to impact business into next year as well, with Carnival (NYSE: CCL) (NYSE: CUK) shutting down sailings scheduled for the start

A special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) is a shell company that raises money through an initial public offering (IPO) in order to take a private company public through an acquisition. SPACs

China is the largest digital commerce economy in the world and, according to researcher eMarketer, is on pace to pass the U.S. as the largest retail market outright in 2020. Though dominated by

Dick's Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS) touched all the bases in the second quarter, reporting record sales and earnings as consumers increasingly participated in a growing number of outdoor activities

Most Americans have serious concerns about the future of Social Security. In fact, according to a recent survey from Nationwide, 79% of millennials, 81% of Gen Xers, and 66% of baby boomers worry

Citigroup's (NYSE: C) view on the prospects for the S&P 500 index has become much rosier. A team of analysts from the big bank, led by its chief U.S. equity strategist, Tobias Levkovich, upped its

Shares of the developmental biotech Heat Biologics (NASDAQ: HTBX) jumped by as much as 21% in pre-market trading Wednesday morning. The company's shares perked up in response to the release of a