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Sanofi (NASDAQ: SNY) ended the week on an up note, buoyed by an encouraging quarterly earnings release and market-pleasing remarks its CEO made about potential SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus vaccine

One of the market's hottest stocks this year is Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA). The maker of next-gen electric cars is trading 73% higher in 2020. Larger U.S. automakers are driving in reverse. Ford

  Here's a total understatement: The U.S. oil industry has been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.

"Impacted"? More like, "destroyed." More than 95% of Americans are under stay-at-home or similar

One of the most controversial stocks of the COVID-19 downturn is Disney (NYSE: DIS). No doubt, Disney is a timeless brand, with incredible diversity and vast reach across the entire entertainment

Oil prices have gone berserk in the past week. The May contract for West Texas Intermediate, which is the main oil price benchmark, plunged into negative territory on Monday. Like a game of musical

Stocks declined last week after jumping in each of the prior two weeks. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) and the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) lost less than 2%, leaving the

When you can invest in a dividend stock on the cheap, it gives you the opportunity to benefit from not just the steady income from its regularly scheduled payments, but also from the capital gains

Boston Beer (NYSE: SAM) missed analysts' earnings estimates by a wide margin in the first quarter as the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic upended the alcoholic beverages market.

Restaurants

General Electric (NYSE: GE) has existed for over a century, and despite working in different industries, shares traits with Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), a computer networking company born during

Tilray (NASDAQ: TLRY) saw terrific sales growth in 2019, with its top line climbing from $43.1 million in the previous year to nearly four times that figure -- $167 million. However, over the past

Cloud stocks have been some of the biggest winners on the market in recent years, and few have done as well as Alteryx (NYSE: AYX), a provider of a self-service data analytics platform that allows

Investors continue to believe in the long-term prospects of the cannabis industry, but it's been tough to endure the past couple of years. Most of the best-known cultivation stocks, such as Canopy

Most companies are scheduled to report first-quarter 2020 earnings in the next few weeks. When they do, they're likely to provide updated full-year 2020 outlooks that incorporate the effects of the

Along with exacting a devastating human toll in terms of illness and death, the coronavirus pandemic is causing economic destruction. Most companies are hurting because economies around the globe

UnitedHealth Group Inc (NYSE: UNH) is one of the largest health insurance and healthcare service providers in the U.S. Over the last five years, UnitedHealth has seen its share price rise by 145%

Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), like every major media company in the world, has halted production on most of its shows and films amid the coronavirus pandemic.

With productions halted, Netflix expects its

It has been a brutal year in the energy sector. Crude prices imploded -- including going negative at one point -- because of surging supplies amid cratering demand from the impact of the COVID-19

Shares of Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA), Glu Mobile (NASDAQ: GLUU), and Tencent Holdings (OTC: TCEHY) have more than doubled over the last four years and could deliver more gains over the next decade.  

The

The coronavirus pandemic has brought a lot of bleak news for Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS). The company's theme parks remain closed around the world, the movie business has essentially shut down, and even

Efforts to blunt the impact of the coronavirus pandemic have led to some of the most abrupt negative economic changes in modern history. First-time unemployment claims hit record highs as businesses

Many of us have been taught to avoid volatility at all costs. That's a grave mistake. In fact, avoiding non-fatal stressors over the long run is actually fatal. 

Think about it for a second: If you

Target (NYSE: TGT) released another business update on Thursday morning, shedding light on what's changed during the coronavirus crisis.

Like its March update, this one contained some valuable

"Be greedy when others are fearful" has been one of the guiding strategic principles across Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) incredibly successful stock-picking run. With the novel

The coronavirus crisis has brought even the most stable companies to their knees.

Dividend Aristocrats, the vaunted group of S&P 500 companies that have hiked their dividends every year for 25

With the rapid spread of coronavirus causing many diners to avoid restaurant food, it should be no surprise that Chipotle Mexican Grill's (NYSE: CMG) sales trends abruptly turned negative last