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Connected fitness specialist Peloton (NASDAQ: PTON) announced yesterday after the close that it is acquiring Precor for $420 million in cash. The news sent shares to record highs in extended

Nike (NYSE: NKE) and Levi Strauss (NYSE: LEVI) both suffered a drop in sales at the onset of the pandemic earlier this year, but Levi was hit much harder. Over the last year, Nike's stock has

Shares of electric vehicle (EV) charging equipment provider Blink Charging (NASDAQ: BLNK) have zoomed upward by 1,790% year-to-date as of this writing. Growing enthusiasm for electric vehicles

Over the past five years, MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI) has grown from a $5 billion company to one with a market cap of more than $83 billion. The increase in size has seen a corresponding increase in

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That was quick. Part of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) new iPhone 12 lineup, which supports 5G connectivity throughout all models, has already become the No. 1 5G smartphone in the world, according to fresh

The year 2020 has been difficult for the financial stocks. The banks and real estate investment trusts (REITs) have been working through credit issues as their customers have been negatively

The S&P 500 index is up 14.2% year to date and the Nasdaq Composite has climbed 41.8% over the same timeframe, but not every industry has thrived in this difficult year. Companies in the energy

You probably know that a Roth IRA is a great way to save for retirement on top of an employer-sponsored retirement plan. You've no doubt heard about the sweet tax advantages, too: Forgo a tax break

There aren't too many brick-and-mortar chains holding their own these days, but Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) and Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) are near the top of the list. They have been thriving for

Last week, some Americans began receiving their first dose of BNT162b2, the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech (NASDAQ: BNTX). Soon after the vaccine began shipping

Some oil companies avoid mergers and acquisitions (M&A) because they're often costly and can destroy shareholder value. However, for Diamondback Energy (NASDAQ: FANG), "M&A activity is as

Most dividend stocks haven't exactly found themselves anywhere near the spotlight in 2020. Characteristics like stability, consistency, and value have taken a backseat to paradigm-shifting growth

In early November, General Motors (NYSE: GM) stunned Wall Street by reporting an unprecedented $5.3 billion adjusted operating profit for the third quarter. Adjusted earnings per share reached

The S&P 500 is up more than 14% in 2020, as of the market close on Dec. 21. That's a great year for the market average, but some individual stocks have fared far better. Consider plant-based-meat

The oil industry has had had a strange decade as the seeming rise and fall of oil stocks have happened over and over again. The decade started with depressed demand because of a global recession

There's little doubt that 2021 will look much different than this past year. Hopefully, for instance, we'll reach an inflection point in the pandemic and the threat of COVID-19 will largely recede

Canadian marijuana stock HEXO (NYSE: HEXO) wasn't a winner in 2020, to be blunt: $1,000 spent on its shares on the first trading day of 2020 would have shriveled to only $628.90 today.

Hexo's

Last week was a very good one for Moderna's (NASDAQ: MRNA) COVID-19 vaccine mRNA-1273. An advisory committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unanimously voted to recommend Emergency

Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., have finally reached a tentative deal to authorize the issuance of a second coronavirus-related stimulus check to qualified recipients. This is follow-up legislation

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Would you want to invest in a company if you knew that it was a major polluter? What about if it underpaid its workers, or didn't communicate transparently with its shareholders? For people who

Axon (NASDAQ: AAXN) didn't intend to be in the spotlight in 2020, but that's the way things played out. Policing in the United States has been a hot-button issue this year, with several high-profile

Agios Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: AGIO) threw investors a curveball recently. Instead of being a commercial-stage business, Agios will sell Tibsovo and the rest of its oncology pipeline to Servier

Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) introduced the free, ad-supported Roku Channel in late 2017. Over the last three years, it's seen a lot of changes, most of them behind the scenes. The company originally