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Mastercard (NYSE: MA) was trading higher Thursday as the company posted earnings that beat analysts' estimates in the fourth quarter.

Net income was down about 15% in the quarter year over year to

Rising price targets on Wall Street pushed fuel cell stock Plug Power (NASDAQ: PLUG) higher in Wednesday-morning trading (up 3.5% as of 10:30 a.m. EST). Shares of rival fuel cell company FuelCell

Cryptocurrency specialist Silvergate Capital (NYSE: SI) saw its stock appreciate more than any other bank in 2020, growing 367% last year. With the stock continuing to rise in 2021, Silvergate, a

Game and consumer electronics retailer GameStop has undergone a spectacular short squeeze recently, with its stocks exploding from approximately $40 a week ago to over $260 currently. Hedge funds

Futu Holdings (NASDAQ: FUTU) has been on a remarkable run since late December, with its stock price up 350% from the end of December to its high on Monday morning, far outperforming the financial

Shares of Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) were jumping 7.6% higher as of 10:53 a.m. EST on Thursday. The big gain came after Raymond James analysts upped the price target for the stock to $126

One of the first start-ups to be hailed as a "Tesla killer" is finally going public. 

California-based Faraday Future said on Thursday that it has agreed to merge with a special-purpose acquisition

Recent events have thrust the practice of selling a stock short into the spotlight. With companies like GameStop (NYSE: GME) and AMC Entertainment Holdings seeing their shares soar as the result of

Last year was extraordinary for the mortgage banking sector. The COVID-19 pandemic caused the Federal Reserve to lower its benchmark interest rates to the floor in order to support the economy. In

Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) and Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) are both household names for designers and media professionals. Adobe's creative software products -- including Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Illustrator

Altria Group (NYSE: MO) reported its cigarette business has held up spectacularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, with fourth-quarter sales rising 5% to $6.3 billion and handily beating analyst

GameStop's (NYSE: GME) share price is up over 670% in the last five days alone. Fueling the rise is a group of individual traders who use social media sites like Reddit, Discord, Facebook, and

Shares of American Airlines Group (NASDAQ: AAL) jumped as much as 30% higher on Thursday morning following the airline's fourth-quarter earnings announcement. The results came in a bit better than

Heico (NYSE: HEI) has been an outstanding stock -- up 843% in the last decade -- and it's a great company with exciting growth prospects. However, do these characteristics add up to make the stock a

So far, 2021 has been the year of the "short squeeze," with some select unloved companies finding new life. That has created some excessive trading hype for these companies.

Shorting a stock means

Before the market opens next Monday, Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) will release its financial results for the holiday quarter. It is a big quarter for the company, as the holiday season in December

After a stellar 2020 performance, shares of Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) got off to a strong start in 2021. The streaming video company's stock price is up by about 25% year to date, and Wall Street analysts

If you invested in The Lovesac Company (NASDAQ: LOVE) when it went public in June 2018, then you've more than tripled your money. Often when a stock crushes the market like this, it's because the

General Electric (NYSE: GE) investors couldn't have expected much better from the company's fourth-quarter earnings and 2021 guidance. In terms of the key metric to follow -- namely, free cash flow

Approximately two-thirds of investors believe we're currently in a stock market bubble, according to a survey from E*Trade. If -- or when -- that bubble will burst, however, is anyone's guess.

I recently sold several of my Chinese tech stocks for regulatory, merger-related, and ethical reasons. Those divestments reduced the weight of Chinese stocks in my portfolio from about 20% to less

Synaptics (NASDAQ: SYNA) stock has gained tremendous traction in the past six months, beating the broader market handsomely thanks to a string of impressive quarterly results that have surpassed

In theory it shouldn't matter how or why AMC Entertainment Holdings (NYSE: AMC) finally got its stock into double digits for the first time in more than a year on Wednesday. The multiplex operator

With most entertainment venues closed or operating under restricted circumstances, the pandemic has only served to emphasize just how important home entertainment is to us.

Fortunately, streaming

Extreme Networks (NASDAQ: EXTR), an equipment maker for data center networks, reported second-quarter results after the closing bell on Wednesday that smashed analysts' estimates across the board