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Every day, Wall Street analysts upgrade some stocks, downgrade others, and "initiate coverage" on a few more. But do these analysts even know what they're talking about? Today, we're taking one

The stock market had managed a small gain by Thursday afternoon. An interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve on Wednesday may be helping the cause.

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A year ago today, investors were falling all over themselves to grab a piece of Tilray (NASDAQ: TLRY), the hot Canadian pot grower. A bubble that had been forming in the stock following its July

Shares of Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI) were down 3.9% as of 1:00 p.m. EDT Thursday after the parent company of chains including Olive Garden and Longhorn Steakhouse served up mixed quarterly

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Herman Miller Inc (NASDAQ: MLHR)Q1 2020 Earnings CallSep 19, 2019, 9:30 a.m. ET

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"We look at Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) as a wonderful company and service and they're a good customer of ours," FedEx (NYSE: FDX) CEO Fred Smith said in December of last year. "We don't see them as a

As we begin to contemplate year-end 2019, professional-environments manufacturer and design-house Herman Miller (NASDAQ: MLHR) is one of my candidates for small-cap sleeper stock of the year. The

There was probably a lot of eye rubbing as Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) shareholders tried to assess the streaming pioneer's nearly 14% slide on Wednesday. The surprising culprit -- Comcast's (NASDAQ: CMCSA)

We are leading [Starbucks] to try to redefine the role and responsibility of a public company.-- Howard Schultz, former Starbucks Chairman and CEO

The Seattle-based coffeehouse chain single-handedly

On Monday, investors woke up to the news that Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) had secured the global streaming rights for Seinfeld, the iconic TV show whose popularity hasn't waned since its premiere over 30

The great investor Benjamin Graham famously said: "In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it is a weighing machine." We could also say that the market is a

Comcast's (NASDAQ: CMCSA) NBC recently offered details about its intentions to jump on the video streaming bandwagon through Peacock, a platform that will feature over 15,000 hours of content when

Shares of Beyond Meat (NASDAQ: BYND) often benefit when a restaurant chain announces that the company's imitation meat products have been added to the menu. On Wednesday, the stock moved in reverse

It's been barely a month since U.S. Steel (NYSE: X) reported its second-quarter earnings. The news back then wasn't especially good, with earnings plunging and free cash flow deeply in the red at

Retail giant Lowe's Companies (NYSE: LOW), which specializes in home improvement products for the everyday homeowner, is setting itself up for a successful second half of the fiscal year.

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Recent growth initiatives appear to be bearing fruit at Kroger (NYSE: KR), the nation's largest traditional food retailer, where management has made several moves surrounding e-commerce to defend

For years, the health of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been most reliant on sales of the iPhone -- that device accounted for the large majority of its revenue. Even as it pushed prices higher, consumers

The We Company, parent of popular co-working space operator WeWork, has been driving toward an initial public offering for a while now, but the road has been bumpy, and beset with detours.

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In recent years, some wily upstarts have been upending the traditional orthodontics business with teledentistry and 3D-printed clear aligners. One of those, SmileDirectClub (NASDAQ: SDC), went

Chewy (NYSE: CHWY) shares traded down 6% Wednesday following release of the online pet products seller's fiscal second-quarter 2019 earnings on Tuesday evening. Management showcased some items

In this week's episode of Industry Focus: Consumer Goods, host Shannon Jones talks with the Fool's Dan Kline about what he's seeing at this year's Groceryshop conference. How is Target (NYSE: TGT)

Thursday morning brought modest gains for major benchmarks as investors took more time to consider the impact of the Federal Reserve's decision yesterday to cut interest rates by a quarter

MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI) has often been labeled the "eBay of Latin America," and rightfully so, as it's built a dominant online marketplace ecosystem, which also includes a fast-growing mobile

Another day, another start-up making headlines about its transformational technology set to disrupt a traditional sector or scientific breakthrough changing the treatment standard for a horrible

While a lot has changed this year for Coherent (NASDAQ: COHR) stock, the overall outlook for business remains the same: uncertain, at least in the short term.

The laser systems and components maker