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Shares of GenMark Diagnostics (NASDAQ: GNMK) were soaring 21.6% as of 11:44 a.m. EDT on Wednesday. The big jump came after GenMark provided preliminary second-quarter results Tuesday evening.

It's

Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ: WBA) announced today that it is partnering with primary care medical clinic operator VillageMD to open between 500 and 700 new full-service doctor offices in

As businesses across the country reopened and millions of Americans returned to work, many feared a COVID-19 resurgence was inevitable.

It appears that the second wave may already be here . The

Standard & Poor's is a household name among investors -- the company's S&P 500 index is the primary benchmark for most stocks. But S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), the company that owns the S&P Dow Indices

As the global economy tries to mount a recovery from the adverse effects created by the coronavirus pandemic, now might be a good time to take a moment to consider the "great redundancy crisis."

Units of MLP Crestwood Equity Partners (NYSE: CEQP) have cratered 60% this year, pushing its dividend yield to an eye-popping 20%. The payout has risen to such heights because the market doesn't

Shares of home-goods retailer Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ: BBBY) had a great run in June, as state and local governments in parts of the United States eased restrictions on retailers in the wake of

On the surface, Nike (NYSE: NKE) and Planet Fitness (NYSE: PLNT) appear to have little in common other than a tie to the fitness industry. However, they have one key similarity. Both companies

Shares of mortgage real estate investment trusts (REITs), including Two Harbors Investment Corporation (NYSE: TWO), Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM), and MFA Financial (NYSE: MFA), rose by

Shares of EOG Resources (NYSE: EOG) slumped 39.5% during the first half of 2020, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. The main factor weighing on the oil stock was the

We're now starting to see the first field reports of how Walt Disney's (NYSE: DIS) resort in Florida will work in the new normal. Disney cast members and their guests were able to visit the resort's

Shares of Intersect ENT (NASDAQ: XENT) were skyrocketing 29.6% higher as of 11:13 a.m. EDT on Wednesday. The big jump came after Bloomberg reported that medical device giant Medtronic (NYSE: MDT)

Most analysis on Activision Blizzard's (NASDAQ: ATVI) business this year is focused on installments in the Call of Duty series and what's next for the Overwatch franchise. Properties including Candy

Shares of Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE) rose over 35% last month, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. The solid-oxide fuel cell pioneer had a relatively uneventful month until

Some trends take years, even decades to play out. It was 25 years ago this month that Amazon sold its first book in its online store, but the trend of e-commerce is really just getting started

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has reached an agreement to buy WDG Automation, a robotic process automation (RPA) company. The Brazilian company produces software based on artificial intelligence (AI) that

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) plans to announce its own membership program later this month in its most direct assault yet on Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN). The subscription loyalty plan, which is expected to be

Shares of Chinese electric-vehicle maker NIO (NYSE: NIO) continued their strong run on Wednesday morning. Shares were up about 10.7% from Tuesday's closing price as of 10:45 a.m. EDT, as investors

Impressively, Wayfair's (NYSE: W) share price has more than doubled since the start of the year. The company has a history of strong revenue growth, and this continued in the first quarter, when its

This March, the markets started to tank because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Like many others, I saw what was happening and rushed to review my investment accounts. 

My action wasn't prompted by fear

Shares of movie theater operator AMC Entertainment (NYSE: AMC) rose more than 9% in the first half hour of trading on Wednesday. Although the stock gave back some of those gains pretty quickly, it

A team of analysts at Citigroup (NYSE: C) has raised its target level for the S&P 500 for the end of this year. Despite the lift, however, the big bank's new estimate is nearly 10% below the current

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) was recently caught in the trade war crossfire as the U.S. Department of Defense added Chinese tech giant Inspur to its "entity list" of companies with close ties to the Chinese

If you invested $3,000 in Amazon.com 20 years ago, it would be worth roughly $253,000 today. The same amount invested in Netflix on this date in 2005 would be worth a whopping $602,000, and the same

Earlier this year, you probably wouldn't have guessed that Fastly (NYSE: FSLY) was a monster stock in the making. Over a period of just 25 days between mid-February and mid-March, Fastly lost more