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To the chagrin of investors, NuScale Power (NYSE: SMR) stock dipped lower more than 7% through the first four months of 2025, giving back a bit of the whopping 445% gain that it had logged in 2024.

During the first half of 2025, the stock market was heavily influenced by new tariff policies introduced by the Trump administration. Now, a week into the second half of the year, President Donald

XRP's (CRYPTO: XRP) token price is rising in Friday's trading. The cryptocurrency was up 13.1% over the previous 24 hours of trading as of 4:45 p.m. ET. Meanwhile, Bitcoin was up 4.1% over the same

Shares of FuboTV (NYSE: FUBO) soared in the first half of the year, as the company agreed to a merger with Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS). According to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence, the stock

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has had a successful run during 2025. It reached an all-time high of almost $118,900 in July 10 and is up 25% on the year. The S&P 500, often used as a measure of how the stock

Shares of Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ: HOOD) have soared this year as the stock has been one of the biggest under-the-radar winners on the market.

The disruptive brokerage has benefited from a boom in

Shares of AMC Entertainment (NYSE: AMC) are jumping on Friday, up 10.6% to $3.32 as of 2:05 p.m. ET. At that point in the session, the S&P 500 was off by about 0.2% and the Nasdaq Composite was

Shares of USA Rare Earth (NASDAQ: USAR) jumped this week, up from last Thursday's close at 1 p.m. ET for the Fourth of July holiday by 10.4% as of 1:30 p.m. ET Friday. The rise came as the S&P 500

Shares of shoes and sportswear company Nike (NYSE: NKE) gained 1.4% on Thursday before turning tail and losing nearly twice that much Friday. As of 12:45 p.m. ET, the stock is down 2.7%.

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XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) is on the rise this week, up 25.3% from last Thursday at 1 p.m. ET as of 12:43 p.m. ET on Friday. The rise comes as the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) gained 0.5% and Bitcoin reached an

Patience has worn thin for many who track or invest in what I believe is a great dividend ETF, in the Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF (NYSEMKT: SCHD). The ETF provides stability to any portfolio as it

Shares of Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Nio (NYSE: NIO) were on the rise for a second straight day on Friday, adding 5.6% through 1 p.m. ET on top of Thursday's 6% gain.

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Shares of Plug Power (NASDAQ: PLUG) jumped this week, up from last Thursday's close at 1 p.m. ET for the Fourth of July holiday by 17.5% as of 12:30 p.m. ET Friday. The spike comes as the S&P 500

Leading cryptocurrency Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) soared to brand new all-time highs on Friday, reaching new heights for the first time since May 21. The price peaked at $118,856 per coin just before 6

QuantumScape (NYSE: QS) is working to bring major enhancements to the performance of electric vehicle (EV) batteries. Investors hope its solid-state battery technology will become the new standard

Earnings season unofficially kicks off next week. Financial stocks are typically the first to step up with their latest quarterly results, but Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) is also hoping to make a splash

Intuitive Machines (NASDAQ: LUNR) stock rocketed up nearly 10% in early trading on the Nasdaq Friday, before giving up essentially all its gains. As of 11:05 a.m. ET, the lunar exploration company's

The Pentagon is doubling down on drone procurement, and one of its biggest drone vendors is trading higher as a result.

Shares of AeroVironment (NASDAQ: AVAV) were trading up 9.2% as of 12:01 p.m

The U.S. government appears set to divert some of the billions in funding traditionally earmarked for fighter planes to drone manufacturers, and investors are excited about the opportunity. Shares

After plummeting 28.3% in 2024, Lucid (NASDAQ: LCID) investors were very much looking forward to ringing in 2025, hoping that the luxury electric vehicle (EV) maker would recover from the previous

Break out the party hats, because Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) just set a fresh record, reaching $118,856 on July 10 and leaving its old $111,560 peak in the dust.

Hitting a new all-time high always tempts

Lithium mining hopeful Standard Lithium (NYSEMKT: SLI) -- it's too early to call it a "lithium miner," as it has yet to actually start extracting the mineral -- was trading 6% higher as of 11:25

On July 2, 2025, Theodore Blegen, EVP and CFO, executed an open market sale of 6,000 shares of Monolithic Power Systems(NASDAQ:MPWR), with a transaction value of $4.5 million.

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After announcing a major deal with the U.S. government on Thursday that sent its stock rocketing upward in that session, rare earths producer MP Materials (NYSE: MP) is heading still higher on

We're approaching the 10-year anniversary of the first of Rule Breaker Investing's 30 five-stock samplers, picked from 2015 to 2021. In this special episode, Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner