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Unlike its two biggest rivals in the off-price retail landscape, TJX Companies (NYSE: TJX) does have an e-commerce business. That said, e-commerce accounted for just 2% of the company's sales last

General Electric (NYSE: GE) announced a power agreement with the government of Iraq on Wednesday to upgrade, maintain and reinforce Iraq's electricity transmission network. The agreement is in the

It's hard to get a good return on your money these days if you're a conservative fixed-income investor. Treasury bills, notes, and bonds are yielding a pittance, and you'll need a monocle to make

Philip Morris International (NYSE: PM) stock is down almost 8% in 2020, never having regained the levels it traded at before the coronavirus pandemic swept the country and cratered the stock market

The coronavirus pandemic has rearranged consumer shopping preferences in some fundamental ways. One of the biggest trends has been a shift in spending away from discretionary niches like restaurants

Shares of networking semiconductor maker Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) have had a wild year. After halving in value at one point back in late March, the stock has come roaring back to all-time highs

Well-known for its leading position in the Chinese electric vehicle (EV) market, NIO (NYSE: NIO) is spreading its wings. Today, the company announced the launch of its Battery as a Service (BaaS)

When it comes to Social Security, expectations rarely line up with reality. Younger workers often assume they won't get any money from the program because it will have disappeared by the time

In spite of extreme uncertainty brought on by COVID-19 and a less-than-optimistic outlook, both Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) and Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) shareholders have had an exceptionally good year. As of

Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) has produced some amazing gains for those investors willing to take a chance on the then-unknown name after it went public in 2015. From its IPO price of $17 per share to its

The collapse of Luckin Coffee earlier this year caused many investors to become darkly skeptical of Chinese stocks. And the passage of a new Senate bill in May that could force Chinese companies to

To its credit, Zoom Video Communications (NASDAQ: ZM) has already done the hard part: Becoming a household verb. "I'll Zoom you in a little bit" has become part of the daily lexicon for millions of

Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE: CL) stock has outperformed the market through mid-August, with shares up about 12% compared to a 5% increase in the S&P 500. That's better than consumer staples rival

During times of market volatility, it is nice to have good dividend stocks in your portfolio that you can rely on for consistent distributions throughout the year. That way, even if the stock price

Spotify (NYSE: SPOT) has clearly been deemed a winner of the COVID-19 stay-at-home economy. The stock has been on a torrid run this year, up a whopping 71.7% for 2020 thus far, and receiving a

Uber (NYSE: UBER) is warning its customers in California that if an appeals court doesn't issue a motion to stay implementation of a state law classifying drivers as employees, the ridesharing

Industrial biotechnology companies are often concerned with scaling up their manufacturing processes, but there's an argument that the field should focus more on scaling down in certain areas. 

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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) made headlines this week for becoming the first U.S. company to reach a market cap of $2 trillion. That's already a mind-boggling milestone in itself, but even more so when you

The first quarter of fiscal 2020 was a period of extreme volatility for Target (NYSE: TGT). Sales surged in March as people stocked up in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, slowed dramatically

We all would like to be millionaires by the time we retire. With Social Security income likely to provide only a modest fraction of the income we need, most of us will have to come up with the rest

Most consumers have probably heard of the fitness equipment brand Peloton Interactive (NASDAQ: PTON). Its television commercials were already airing regularly before the coronavirus pandemic, but

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If you follow stock market news, chances are you have come across plenty of stories about Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) over the past three months. Pfizer is one of a number of companies racing to develop a

Famed investor Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) went negative on bank stocks in the second quarter. We learned last week in Berkshire's quarterly 13F report that the

At least one investing strategy is to find struggling companies whose shares can be bought at bargain-basement prices and then benefit when the price surges. While in theory that could make