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Last year, marijuana investors still would have likely considered cannabis companies Aurora Cannabis (NYSE: ACB) and Canopy Growth (NYSE: CGC) to be the industry leaders in the Canadian pot market

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Farfetch Limited (NYSE: FTCH)Q2 2020 Earnings CallAug 13, 2020, 4:30 p.m. ET

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The standard investor playbook says that if you think we are heading toward a recession or a crash, you should sell financials, consumer discretionary stocks, and cyclicals and buy defensive stocks

Investors have been hearing rumblings about Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) working on a services bundle for over two years now, and the package may finally be ready to launch within a couple months. Bundling

For a long time, the retirement system in America was built around a simple concept: Those who had left the workforce would be supported by a "three-legged stool." These three legs included Social

Oil prices have gone on a wild ride in 2020, with energy companies like Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) and Chevron (NYSE: CVX) taking massive hits on the top and bottom lines. It shouldn't be much of a

Over the past several months, companies have increasingly chosen to go public via the special purpose acquisition company -- or SPAC -- route. Some, like Nikola Corporation and Virgin Galactic

Patients need access to medicine to treat or manage serious health conditions, no matter what state the economy is in. Drugs are effectively a recession-proof business. As a result, most

Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) shares have stumbled in 2020, having underperformed the market by over 10 percentage points through mid-August. That gap might seem surprising to investors who see the consumer

America witnessed history being made earlier this week. On Tuesday, August 11, the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for president Joe Biden announced via tweet that his 2020 running mate would

Though the COVID-19 pandemic has done a number on the economy, small businesses have perhaps been hurt the most. Over 100,000 small businesses have closed permanently in the course of the ongoing re

Do you need dividend income? Do you want to keep things simple? As an investor, you can easily achieve both without sacrificing results. There are plenty of dividend-oriented exchange-traded funds

You'd have to look pretty far afield to find someone who hasn't heard of Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE). Its suite of software tools are used by creative professionals everywhere, and the company has an

On Monday, Equinor ASA (NYSE: EQNR) announced a shift change as six-year CEO Eldar Saetre retires to open the door for 23-year Equinor veteran Anders Opedal. With an engineering background and a

It may seem inconceivable that businesses can continue to grow during this COVID-19 pandemic. After all, the lockdowns and movement control restrictions have resulted in large swaths of the world

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Grupo Aeroportuario Del Pacifico, S.A. de C.V. (NYSE: PAC)Q2 2020 Earnings CallAug 13, 2020, 9:00 a.m. ET

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Lawmakers in Washington have been struggling for weeks to find a consensus on how to provide Americans with more coronavirus relief money. Although there's bipartisan agreement that a second direct

There hasn't been much good news for either Cronos Group (NASDAQ: CRON) or Tilray (NASDAQ: TLRY) so far this year. Both companies hoped that the Canadian cannabis retail environment would improve in

AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) ranks as one of the top big drugmakers in terms of stock performance so far this year. That's not surprising, considering the company's solid quarterly updates and the

Rotten, no good, horrible, abysmal! Take your pick of adjectives to describe how Myriad Genetics (NASDAQ: MYGN) has performed so far in 2020. Over half of the molecular-diagnostics company's market

After a huge run-up for many growth stocks this year, investors in these highfliers were tested earlier this month. Many growth stocks fell sharply as investors took profits during earnings season

Once COVID-19 cases started multiplying in the U.S., the unemployment rate exploded. Now, months later, we're still in a recession, and the outbreak is showing no signs of getting better.

These are odd times. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has made it almost impossible for friends and family members (outside of their own household) to gather together in order to

We all have different dreams of what the perfect retirement looks like. Hot versus cold; fast-paced or taking it easy. No matter how you envision it, we can all agree that having a little extra

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) is one of the most-followed companies in the stock market. It's rare for investors not to have an opinion about CEO Elon Musk and his company, whether it's highly positive or