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Twitter's (NYSE: TWTR) stock recently plunged to a seven-month low after the social media company's third-quarter numbers missed analysts' expectations. Its revenue rose 9% annually to $823.7

A summer rally for the stock has pushed Cedar Fair (NYSE: FUN) shares higher as investors grow more confident in the theme park giant's growth trends. Yet that optimism will be tested when the

eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) investors had pushed the stock higher in recent months on hopes that the e-commerce giant might achieve an operating rebound or announce a flood of direct cash returns as part of

Altria (NYSE: MO) saw 28% of its stock price go up in smoke from late March through early October of this year. Most of the drop can be attributed to regulatory and tax attacks on the vaping and

Healthcare is huge. In 2017, healthcare spending in the U.S. totaled $3.5 trillion -- nearly 18% of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), which is the total market value of all products and

Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE: BAM) is a giant Canadian asset manager. Blackrock (NYSE: BLK) is one of its biggest peers, located in the United States. That's about where the similarities end

PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) says its peer-to-peer mobile payments app, Venmo, ended the third quarter with a $400 million annual revenue run rate. That number's quite impressive, up from a $200 million

There's been no shortage of recession predictions lately.

Prognosticators of all stripes, from academics to bankers to analysts, have been calling for a recession, or at least pointing to an

More than seven years ago, Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) announced that it had found a site for a flagship store in midtown Manhattan: its first full-line location in New York City. It took a long time to

Phillips 66 Partners (NYSE: PSXP) has been an excellent dividend stock over the years. The master limited partnership (MLP) has increased its payout every quarter since its initial public offering (

There will likely come a point in your career when you're tired of doing the same job, and as such, will aim to position yourself for a promotion. You can do so in a number of ways -- by taking on

Target (NYSE: TGT) stock has been hitting all-time highs after second-quarter earnings of 3.6% that exceeded Wall Street expectations. The earnings success is thanks to Target's brand strategy that

Understanding the ins and outs of Social Security can seem daunting, but it's critical if you want to make the most of the valuable benefits that you'll probably get from the program over the course

In case you haven't noticed, cannabis has quickly become the next hot investment opportunity. Last year, global weed sales hit $10.9 billion, representing 221% growth from global sales just four

Dividends are nice and value stocks can help you beat the market, but if you want life-changing returns from your investments, you have a lot better chance going after high-growth stocks -- the kind

eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) provided an updated outlook for its full-year operating results alongside its third-quarter earnings release, and investors did not like what management had to say.

In its first

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Universal Health Services (NYSE: UHS)Q3 2019 Earnings CallOct 25, 2019, 9:00 a.m. ET

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The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission continue to probe Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)

One of my favorite investing tricks is to take advantage of the market's bias toward short-termism.

Caught up in the latest quarterly earnings beats and misses, Wall Street often gives too much

Retail has become a market with clear winners and losers. The struggling companies keep closing stores, going bankrupt, and announcing turnaround plans long on buzzwords, but short on actual

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has been working on a News tab that will provide premium news content from prominent outlets. The move is designed to address long-standing criticisms around Facebook's role in

Advanced Micro Devices' (NASDAQ: AMD) third-quarter earnings report -- set for release on Tuesday -- is going to be a crucial one. Investors had given AMD the benefit of the doubt nearly three

In what appears to be a pattern of earnings disappointments, investors sold off IBM (NYSE: IBM) stock after the company reported its third-quarter earnings. In the quarter, it actually beat

The Social Security Administration allows seniors to work and receive Social Security benefits at the same time. But whether working will impact your benefits will depend on how old you are and how

Science and engineering consultancy Exponent (NASDAQ: EXPO) has massively outperformed the S&P 500 over the last decade with an 836% rise at the time of this writing. It's one of those businesses