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The uncertainty brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic led to significant changes in consumer spending habits. The personal savings rate jumped to a record level, as people put cash away for a rainy

In a step reflecting its desire to achieve net zero carbon by 2040, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today that it is dedicating $2 billion to The Climate Pledge Fund. According to Amazon's founder

Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) Oculus virtual-reality unit announced on Monday that it had acquired Ready at Dawn, the video game studio responsible for titles including Lone Echo and The Order: 1886

The number of companies saying they will boycott placing ads on Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) continues to grow after outdoor apparel brand Patagonia said it would pause its marketing campaign on the social

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is offering App Store developers some olive branches, announcing that it will enable them to challenge guidelines and push out updates even if they are having a dispute with the

Investors in miniaturized digital imaging sensor-maker MicroVision (NASDAQ: MVIS) had a good day yesterday -- but are having a pretty bad day today. As of 12:15 p.m. EDT, MicroVision's share price

The CEO of tax prep specialist Inuit (NASDAQ: INTU) told employees in a company blog post that 7% of its workforce was being fired because it faces "a fundamental shift as the pace of change has

Shares of American Airlines Group (NASDAQ: AAL) traded down 7% at noon EDT on Tuesday after the airline priced new debt and equity offerings, raising $2 billion in additional capital but at a cost

Some of the biggest companies in the U.S. are largely unknown to the public. While the following products or services pervade daily life, the corporate entities behind them are not well known, at

Countless fast-food chain concepts have exited the market in the last fifteen years. It's a brutally competitive industry, after all, characterized by low profit margins and constantly shifting

Online sports gaming company DraftKings (NASDAQ: DKNG) has only been a public company since April 17, 2020, and little sports has been going on since that time. Yet the share price has more than

A consortium of six investors, including Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE: BAM), has agreed to a massive energy infrastructure deal. The group will invest $10.1 billion into a natural gas pipeline

Shares of Translate Bio (NASDAQ: TBIO), a clinical-stage biotechnology company, jumped today after the company announced an expanded partnership with Sanofi (NASDAQ: SNY) that includes the

The coronavirus pandemic made revenue and profit growth much harder to find for investors, but there have been outliers maintaining growth through the worst of the outbreak. Here are two examples.

Shares of e-coupon hawker Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) surged more than 5% in early trading Tuesday before falling back to about a 3.2% gain as of 11:50 a.m. EDT. You can probably thank company co-founder

Shares of Fastly (NYSE: FSLY) are climbing on Tuesday, as investors grow increasingly excited about the cloud service provider's growth prospects.

As of 11:30 a.m. EDT, Fastly's stock was up more

Jabil (NYSE: JBL) manufactures products for myriad sectors, but its top customer is Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), which accounted for 22% of its sales last year. Most of that revenue came from casings for

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Kroger (NYSE: KR) recently revealed some operating metrics that shocked investors, even considering the soaring demand in the wider supermarket industry through the early phases of the COVID-19

Charging up investors' hopes that electric growth was on the horizon, Plug Power (NASDAQ: PLUG) stated in September 2019 that it was forecasting revenue of $1 billion in 2024. Now, management is

The financial sector may not look great right now, down about 22% year to date as of Monday's close, but when you look long-term, you'll still find some great performers. Mastercard, for example

Stocks were generally higher on Tuesday morning, with investors shrugging off concerns about the rise in reported COVID-19 cases in key states like Florida, Texas, and California. Instead, the focus

The last Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) branded theme park resort to announce reopening plans will surprisingly enough be the next one to unlock its turnstiles. Tokyo Disney announced on Tuesday morning

Shares of BioNTech (NASDAQ: BNTX) were falling 7.3% as of 11:24 a.m. EDT on Tuesday. The German biotech didn't announce any news. The most likely reason behind the decline was that Sanofi (NASDAQ:

Shares of U.S. oil and gas exploration and production company Centennial Resource Development (NASDAQ: CDEV) rose more than 6% out of the gate on Tuesday. They quickly lost around half of that gain