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The higher they climb, the harder they fall. That's how some investors feel right now, as the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) has put together a three-day losing streak of monumental

More interested in wearing gold than in investing in the yellow stuff? You're not alone. Gold-affiliated stocks are far less popular than those that represent other sectors. However, the metal's

Aurora Cannabis (NYSE: ACB), one of the more high-profile operators in the cannabis sector, announced Tuesday morning that it has tapped Miguel Martin to be its new CEO. The appointment is effective

The news that Saudi Arabia is cutting the price at which it sells oil for October delivery sent Brent crude prices down 5% in Tuesday trading, and WTI off by more than 7%.

U.S. and Canadian oil

Shares of most airlines were in the green on Tuesday, a day when the S&P 500 fell more than 2%, on data indicating that Americans took to the skies over the Labor Day holiday.

Two leisure-focused

Shares of Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) rose 14.4% in August 2020, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The Chinese e-commerce giant was off to a rough start due to American government

Already hammered by the twin blows of the retail apocalypse and the coronavirus outbreak, Kohl's (NYSE: KSS) has now been pounded by another. S&P Dow Jones Indices, the company that operates the S&P

Investors have been cautious about Five Below (NASDAQ: FIVE) this year, given its limited merchandise offering at a time when many shoppers are avoiding trips to malls and specialty retailers. Peers

Shares of oil giant ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) are down almost 5% today, continuing a slide that has seen its stock price fall more than 10% over the past week. Today's move lower is the product of

Shares of COVID-19 vaccine developer Vaxart (NASDAQ: VXRT) and coronavirus diagnostic test manufacturers Opko Health (NASDAQ: OPK) and Quidel (NASDAQ: QDEL) plunged more than 35% in August

Shares of Square (NYSE: SQ) were falling today as investors continued to take their tech stock gains from the past few months. Square's stock fell by as much as 7.5% today, before rebounding

Shares of Fastly (NYSE: FSLY) tumbled by as much as 7.5% this morning as some investors continued a tech stock sell-off that began last week. Investors, particularly in the tech sector, have been

Shares of ACM Research (NASDAQ: ACMR) were tumbling today as the maker of semiconductor cleaning equipment fell in sympathy with Semiconductor Manufacturing International (OTC: SMIC.Y) (SMIC), a

It's been a nightmare 2020 for investors in Boeing (NYSE: BA), with shares down nearly 50% since the start of the year on manufacturing woes and pandemic-related issues.

The story took another turn

Shares of SmileDirectClub (NASDAQ: SDC) were jumping 10.4% higher as of 3:05 p.m. EDT on Tuesday. The nice gain came after two developments for the oral care company. SmileDirectClub announced on

Technology titan IBM (NYSE: IBM) and its Red Hat subsidiary just launched a wide-ranging collaboration with energy services veteran Schlumberger (NYSE: SLB). The companies are building a hybrid

Shares of Despegar (NYSE: DESP) jumped 10.9% in August, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. For context, the stock's August bounce still left it down 37% for the year as of the

Shares of coronavirus vaccine hopefuls Moderna, Novavax, and Dynavax Technologies tumbled by double-digit percentages in August, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence.

There was a lot riding on Christopher Nolan this weekend. He was carrying the weight of the fledgling multiplex industry on his back with the release of Tenet, the cerebral but trippy action

One of the handful of companies stepping up with fresh financials this week is Dave & Buster's Entertainment (NASDAQ: PLAY), and it may also be one of the more interesting reports. The chain of

The impact of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) kicking out Fortnite from the App Store may be far greater than what developer Epic Games imagined when it stirred up a hornet's nest by challenging Apple's

North American rail operator Union Pacific's (NYSE: UNP) fortunes are closely tied to activity in the U.S. economy. And as the economy opens back up at an extremely gradual pace, rail volumes are

The crude oil recovery has hit its first big speed bump.

The surge in COVID-19 cases in many parts of the world, the end of a weak peak-summer demand season in the Northern Hemisphere, and the

After a whopping 95% gain in July, shares of Blink Charging (NASDAQ: BLNK) powered down in August and fell 36%, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. Although the company released

Often, when investing in growth stocks, the narrative propelling a company forward can be temporarily more important than its numbers. But sometimes, the most important narrative is the very story