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Shares of Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) are rising today, up by 4% as of 10:15 a.m. EDT, amid a broad market rally following a report that U.S. retail sales rose much more than expected in May. 

The

In a sign that consumers are coming back, Tanger Factory Outlet Centers (NYSE: SKT) said in a business update that 90% of its occupied stores are now open where in-store retail has been allowed

Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) is preparing to file for bankruptcy within the next week, according to a report by Reuters. The company could file as soon as Thursday, though it's negotiating with

The T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) network suffered a long outage on Monday. Millions T-Mobile and Sprint subscribers across the country were unable to make or receive voice calls and SMS texts for a

Off-price retailer Big Lots (NYSE: BIG) announced it has completed the $725 million sale-leaseback transaction for four of its distribution centers and is ready to use a portion of the proceeds from

Many of the companies working to develop SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus vaccines aren't waiting around for clinical trials to be complete or government regulators to give their approval. They're ramping up

The negative effects of the U.S. trade conflict with China and the COVID-19 pandemic have put reshoring firmly on the agenda for many manufacturing companies. After all, if you've been hit with

Shares of integrated energy giant ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) rose 5% out of the gate on June 16. That's the exact opposite of how the day started out on June 15, when the stock dropped sharply at the

Shares of Chinese electric-vehicle maker NIO (NYSE: NIO) were trading higher on Tuesday morning, after the company announced that it successfully raised over $400 million via a secondary stock

On Tuesday, Big Lots (NYSE: BIG) issued an encouraging operating update as part of its announcement that it has raised over $500 million in cash.

The home furnishings retailer said comparable-store

The second quarter looks like it's shaping up to be a horrible one for McDonald's (NYSE: MCD), as the fast food giant reported comparable store sales have plunged 30% so far in the period. 

Yet it

The financial services industry has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, but like any other industry, the situation may actually present some level of investing opportunity, depending on the

A central theme of the 2020 investing landscape has been the overall strength of healthcare stocks. Investors have gravitated toward the healthcare sector this year due to the ability of most top

While streaming is currently booming, smaller competitors may be at a disadvantage. Large players like Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) have increased engagement faster than the rest

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought more attention to consumer staples stocks such as Brown-Forman (NYSE: BF.A) (NYSE: BF.B), as prolonged lockdowns led to a massive surge in off-premise alcohol

FuelCell Energy (NASDAQ: FCEL) reported $18.9 million in sales in the recently ended second quarter, 21% higher than Wall Street's expectation of $15.6 million. Investors didn't find an equally

It's not exactly news that the COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted the airline industry. Air travel virtually ground to a halt this spring due to the imposition of stay-at-home orders and other

Just weeks after teaming up with Facebook to launch Facebook Shops, Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) has nabbed another titan of industry in its quest to take on Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) in e-commerce. The

As large companies continue to evolve, so too does their impact on society.

But with shareholders demanding a relentlessly rising stream of profits, can massive technology companies like Amazon.com

Canadian e-commerce specialist Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) keeps saying that it isn't trying to compete directly with Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), yet it continues to make moves that increasingly put the

CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) investors may be feeling a bit of deja vu. In early 2019, after repeatedly reassuring investors that the company's huge dividend was safe, management decided to cut the

After a huge run-up in Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) stock price over the past year, the company now has a market capitalization of about $1.5 trillion. As the most valuable publicly traded company in the

Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) is on a roll. Just weeks after announcing a deal to help power the back-office needs of Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) new Shops platform, the e-commerce management provider has now

I'm not a fan of most bricks-and-mortar retail concepts, and that means that I'm not going to bother with traditional mall operators. The chunky distributions that come with many of these retail

Last month, Cerence (NASDAQ: CRNC) pulled the trigger on part of its plan to restructure the bulk of its debt by conducting a convertible senior note offering to raise capital. In addition to