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First Financial Bancorp (NASDAQ: FFBC)Q4 2020 Earnings CallJan 29, 2021, 8:30 a.m. ET

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If anyone ever asks you what a stock is worth, the answer should be as simple as pulling up a current quote. The price point that intersects where the most ambitious buyer is willing to buy and the

Online brokerage app Robinhood reversed course and will let investors buy shares of GameStop (NYSE: GME), AMC Entertainment (NYSE: AMC), and 11 other volatile stocks that it previously prevented

Shares of Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) jumped as much as 12% today after the company reported fourth-quarter earnings results. The network equipment provider has also been experiencing heightened

Hedge funds that shorted GameStop (NYSE: GME) stock have a big problem. There's not enough stock to go around to let them cover their positions, so as the video game retailer's shares race higher

Shares of Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX) were jumping 4% as of 11:07 a.m. EST on Friday after rising as much as 6.7% earlier in the day. The gain came after Citigroup analyst Ralph Giacobbe raised

Aggressive investors are not strangers to making assumptions about a new technology, product, or market. When you combine all of them into one investing decision, things can get complicated. 

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GameStop (NYSE: GME) has been all over the news lately as a Reddit group, WallStreetBets, touted the stock. As GameStop's share price has shot up, short-sellers have scrambled to purchase the

Popularized by Reddit traders on WallStreetBets early in the week then crushed by brokers' reaction to the WSB phenomenon on Thursday, shares of BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB) are taking off again in

Shares of special-purpose acquisition company Property Solutions Acquisition (NASDAQ: PSAC) were sharply higher on Friday morning. After weeks of speculation, the SPAC confirmed that it has struck a

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T (NYSE: T) are old companies seeking new connections with investors through 5G technology. Time will tell whether massive investments in this technology breathe new life

The stock market was having a rather negative day on Friday morning, with all major market indexes in the red. But Chamath Palihapitiya-led special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Social Capital

Shares of Skyworks Solutions (NASDAQ: SWKS), which makes semiconductors for smartphones, soared in early trading Friday, rising 11.4% through 10:30 a.m. EST because of a good old-fashioned earnings

Shares of computer memory maker Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC) are spinning higher Friday, up 10.8% as of 10 a.m. EST -- not due to any internet-inspired market manipulation, but because

A common measure of dividend sustainability is the payout ratio, the percent of earnings that are paid out to shareholders. Unfortunately, earnings don't always represent how much money is available

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) generally aren't considered competitors, since the former mainly sells hardware, software, and services and the latter generates nearly all its revenue

Shares of beleaguered theater operator AMC Entertainment Holdings (NYSE: AMC) popped another 85% at the market open Friday and had settled back to a 58% gain at 9:55 a.m. EST. 

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Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC)Q4 2020 Earnings CallJan 29, 2021, 3:00 a.m. ET

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"Buy now, pay later" pioneer Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM) was probably right to list now, and not later. Riding the ongoing wave of red-hot tech IPOs, Affirm's shares have doubled since trading began on

Back in the good ole' days when you had to schlep to the mall to buy your clothing or to the local supermarket to buy your groceries, it was always exciting when the L.L.Bean or J.Crew catalog

FedEx (NYSE: FDX) delivered for investors in 2020, as its shares gained 71% due in large part to the pandemic-fueled surge in residential shipments.

Those gains followed years of disappointing

Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) offered up its fourth-quarter results on Friday. Most investors will gravitate to the metrics that matter most to the market bellwether. How is the churn holding up for its

By almost any measure, Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) stock seems incredibly cheap as we look forward to the world moving beyond the coronavirus pandemic. The company's market cap of $37.5 billion is

You probably think a lot about how much you'll need to save for retirement. But how often do you think about just how you'll use that money when the time comes?

The accumulation phase of retirement

Clean energy stocks have been absolutely on fire the last few months. It's easy to get excited about this growth industry: A new administration is already pushing for more wind and solar energy