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President Donald Trump told reporters Thursday he would be fine with prohibiting companies that receive federal bailout funds from buying back stock.

In a stock buyback, a company purchases its own

Shares of FedEx (NYSE: FDX) are up 13% on Thursday afternoon as markets continue to digest the company's third quarter earnings report. The results weren't fantastic, but they were a lot better than

Shares of Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) were on the rebound on Thursday, a day after the company outlined a series of new measures at a virtual annual meeting only to see its shares sell off sharply.

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Share buybacks have long been controversial.

The tactic of inflating earnings per share by repurchasing shares from the market and retiring them gives companies a way of growing earnings per share

Investors continue to assess the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. As the stock market whips around in search of a bottom, genetic testing stocks are being tossed around -- partly due

Shares of American Water Works (NYSE: AWK) fell as much as 11.1% today without any specific news. Considering that the water utility has been a bastion of stability in recent years, investors might

Shares of Axon Enterprise Inc (NASDAQ: AAXN) jumped as much as 22.1% in trading Thursday as the market returned to some sort of "normal" trading. There wasn't any significant news out about the

Thursday has been a strong day for cryptocurrencies. As of 3 p.m. EDT, bitcoin had risen by about 14% over the past 24-hour period, and most other major cryptocurrencies also made double-digit moves

Shares of Novocure (NASDAQ: NVCR), Insulet (NASDAQ: PODD), and Dexcom (NASDAQ: DXCM) all rose by double digits in afternoon trading on Thursday. As of 3:15 p.m. EDT, these healthcare stocks were up

Shares of Stitch Fix (NASDAQ: SFIX) were moving up on Thursday afternoon, as investors looking for retail bargains began snapping up the company's beaten-down shares. 

As of 3:30 p.m. EDT, Stitch

Stocks have taken a beating so far in 2020. Some experts believe the entire market looks cheap, but is it really?

We believe there are great companies with sustainable businesses that are worth

Five top cloud-computing and internet stocks are skyrocketing today. As of 1:05 p.m. EDT Thursday, shares of Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB), Fastly (NYSE: FSLY), Wix.com (NASDAQ: WIX), GoDaddy (NYSE:

Social distancing apparently involves eating a lot of cereal. General Mills (NYSE: GIS) has seen demand shift since the early days of the coronavirus and it's operating what it calls a "control

Alphabet's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google employees in Europe will have a bigger say in operations, with the internet search giant agreeing to the creation of a workers council.

Once the

Shares of Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ: ULTA) surged on Thursday afternoon after an influential analyst team said that the coronavirus pandemic might not hit the retail sector as hard as investors had

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced Thursday that Teams, its real-time, collaborative communications tool that rivals Slack (NYSE: WORK), has seen an "unprecedented spike" in usage since the outbreak

"We are officially declaring that the economy has fallen into a recession."

So declared Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) in a note to its clients reported by CNBC on Thursday morning, before explaining

Shares of shoe retailer Designer Brands (NYSE: DBI) surged on Thursday, after the company disclosed in regulatory filings that its CEO and chief financial officer both bought shares on Wednesday.

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In this episode of MarketFoolery, Chris Hill chats with Motley Fool Chief Investment Officer Andy Cross about the latest news from Wall Street. They also touch upon housing mortgage rates and

Shares of Blue Apron (NYSE: APRN), the meal kit service that turned into a busted IPO, have been making an incredible rally in recent days, as demand for its meal kits seems to be climbing while

TJX Companies (NYSE: TJX), parent company to off-price retailers T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, and others, has joined a lengthening list of store chains struggling with weak consumerism in the wake of the

Drug companies have run into another serious problem stemming from the COVID-19 outbreak -- the pandemic is making it harder to run clinical trials for all types of treatments. The Food and Drug

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Trip.Com Group Ltd (NASDAQ: TCOM)Q4 2019 Earnings CallMar 19, 2020, 8:00 p.m. ET

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The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 and HIV are both RNA-based viruses, so there was hope that current HIV medications might be able to speed recovery of patients with COVID-19. Unfortunately

Shares of ride-hailing specialists Uber (NYSE: UBER) and Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT) skyrocketed today after Uber hosted a conference call with analysts in an effort to reassure investors that the company