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Shares of Myovant Sciences (NYSE: MYOV) were soaring 26.7% as of 11:17 a.m. EST on Monday. The big gain came after Myovant and Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) announced a collaboration to develop and market

Shares of Live Oak Acquisition (NYSE: LOAK) are soaring today, as the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) holds a shareholder vote on its proposed merger with Danimer Scientific. 

Shares were

The pandemic has accelerated consumers' adoption of online shopping around the world. Investors holding e-commerce stocks in 2020 have been richly rewarded, but what will the coming year bring? Will

AT&T's (NYSE: T) decision to release all of its films direct to video on the same day as their theatrical debut in 2021 sounded a potential death knell for cinema if other studios followed suit.

Yet

Shares of fuboTV (NYSE: FUBO) have been on a rollercoaster since the company launched its initial public offering (IPO) in early October. After spiking more than 400%, the stock has been tumbling

If you snapped up some of the hottest debutantes over the past year, you made a lot of money. You more than tripled your investment if you were able to get in on the IPOs for Palantir Technologies

Solar stocks were scorching hot in 2020. The Invesco Solar ETF, an exchange-traded fund (ETF) with 30 solar-focused stocks, soared by more than 230% in 2020. However, as impressive as that was, 

Fastly (NYSE: FSLY) had a banner year in 2020. The provider of content delivery network (CDN) services was already on a roll thanks to explosive growth in the market for video streaming services

Back in August, I compared IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), two aging tech companies that had both been expanding their higher-growth cloud businesses to offset the slower growth of their

Shares of Nikola (NASDAQ: NKLA) climbed 8% higher on Monday morning following some positive commentary on the company from analysts at J.P. Morgan. The year is ending on a sour note for Nikola, but

The payment processing company Mastercard (NYSE: MA) had a turbulent year in 2020, like most other stocks in the financial sector.

But the stock has rebounded since, and overall there seems to be a

Most cannabis companies had a bright 2020 as marijuana sales soared amid the pandemic. Higher revenue growth, profits coming in, and lucrative expansion plans were combined with higher stock

Most people think investing is about money. That's obviously true, but it's not the whole story. Another, perhaps larger part of investing is about emotions -- yours and the emotions of others on

Most people who file taxes wind up getting money back from the IRS in the form of a refund. But what if you're in the minority of people who owe money?

In 2019, nearly 8 million filers wound up with

Tech investors don't typically find themselves dabbling in currency or alternative asset classes, but there's a lot of buzz building around bitcoin. Some notable investors and tech CEOs are dipping

Income investors generally want to maximize their dividend yield, but unfortunately, a winning investment strategy is not as simple as running a screener and buying shares of the stocks with the

When a retiree decides to buy stock, they often start by looking at companies that pay the highest dividends. Unfortunately, those payouts aren't promised, and focusing on them can turn out to be a

What a run it's been for investors in Wingstop (NASDAQ: WING). Shares of the chicken wing restaurant operator have been on a tear since its 2015 IPO of $19 per share, providing investors with a

In the stock market, past performance isn't a guarantee of future returns, but it is a useful screening tool for investors. 

That's because stocks that have a history of outperforming the market are

Renewable energy sources have been around for decades. But of late, growing climate change concerns coupled with falling costs of generation from renewables have resulted in a new enthusiasm for

Like individual people, companies have reacted to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic in divergent ways. As 2020 nears a close, let's examine this topic, since the global health crisis

The video game industry has enjoyed incredible growth over the last decade, and it would be a mistake to think that it's even close to maxing out its potential. Trends such as growth for the global

Follow the market -- even casually -- and you've probably recognized that interest in electric vehicles (EVs) has soared in recent months. And it's not just the wild upswings in the related stocks

NVIDIA's (NASDAQ: NVDA) GPUs are the core of the chipmaker's accelerated computing products. They bring market-leading performance and energy efficiency to various industries, from graphics and

This past year might go down as the worst in ExxonMobil's (NYSE: XOM) history. Thanks to cratering oil prices, the oil giant lost billions of dollars through the third quarter and is expected to