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An abridged trading week kicks off Tuesday, and widely held streaming giant Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) will report its fourth-quarter financial results shortly after the market closes for the day. But

In this episode of Industry Focus: Tech, analyst Dylan Lewis and contributor Evan Niu survey the social media landscape today. Pinterest (NYSE: PINS) has been rising since its IPO, and it has huge

Gap (NYSE: GPS) has called off its plans to spin off its Old Navy brand from the parent company and its iconic namesake brand.

That makes sense, given that the separation was always of questionable

In this episode of Motley Fool Money, analysts Emily Flippen, Ron Gross, and Jason Moser hit on some of this week's biggest business news. Gap (NYSE: GPS) cancels its Old Navy spin-off. Target

Chipmakers NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) and Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) have been busy getting their businesses on track over the past year. While graphics card specialist NVIDIA is on the verge of a

With the US markets near their all-time high, trade and geopolitical uncertainties have added to investors' concerns of a sell-off. While you cannot control what happens in China or Iran, you can

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos recently visited India and announced that the e-commerce giant will invest $1 billion in small businesses in the country. While speaking at a summit for

Nobody wants to retire broke, but it's an unfortunate reality many Americans will face.

Today's workers face a unique struggle in that the majority of their retirement income will need to come from

Pinterest (NYSE: PINS) is slated to report its fourth-quarter and full-year 2019 results after the market closes on Thursday, Feb. 6. 

Investors will likely be approaching the report with caution

Canopy Growth (NYSE: CGC) started talking publicly about cannabis-infused beverages more than two years ago when Constellation Brands made its first investment in the Canadian cannabis producer. At

Many investors are worried that the introduction of new streaming services from Disney (NYSE: DIS), AT&T (NYSE: T), Comcast, (NASDAQ: CMCSA), and others will cut into the amount of time spent on and

Many Americans are used to getting a refund during tax season. But what if the opposite holds true for you this year? What if you find out you underpaid your taxes and now have an IRS bill on your

CSX's (NASDAQ: CSX) fourth-quarter earnings and guidance need to be put into context. It's no secret that the first quarter of the year is going to be a difficult one for the industrial sector

Turnkey asset management programs, or TAMPs, are a burgeoning segment of the financial services industry that investors should get to know.

The industry is poised for growth, and the largest player

Over the past 50 years, consumers have looked more and more to nutritional labels on their foods to guide their shopping decisions. What would happen if consumers began to notice a food's carbon

At this time last year, cannabis stocks appeared primed to push toward profitability. To our north, Canada had recently legalized adult-use weed sales, while higher-margin derivatives were set to

Cable communications and media juggernaut Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) -- ignored by most investors even though it has more than doubled the return of the S&P 500 index over the last decade -- has gotten

When Blue Apron (NYSE: APRN) initiated its IPO in 2017, meal kits were trending. That led many investors to overpay for the stock despite several warning signs, and it made grocery chains look into

Mid-cap stocks are generally classified as companies with a market capitalization between $2 billion and $10 billion. They are ideal for those investors who don't have the risk appetite to buy

It would be difficult to overstate the importance of Tesla's (NASDAQ: TSLA) fourth-quarter earnings release later this month. The report follows a period of extraordinary gains for the stock. Shares

Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI) bounced back nicely in 2019. Overall, the energy company's stock rallied 37.7%, which blew past the equally red-hot S&P 500's 28.9% gain. Add in dividends, and the

Life has a way of costing us more money than expected. Your car could break down, your home's HVAC system could fail, or you could wind up in the hospital with a string of medical bills to cover

To say that marijuana stocks have been volatile would be a bit of an understatement. Last year, more than a dozen pot stocks wound up gaining in excess of 70% during the first quarter. But the final

All events considered, last week was a rather good one for marijuana stocks. Encouraging fundamentals in some quarterly results announced last week added to overall bullishness for the sector, while

Investing can be your pathway to riches, and many people resolve to do a better job with their money at the beginning of a new year. Yet like many resolutions, it can be easy to get intimidated by