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Shopping priorities have been scrambled by COVID-19 containment measures in recent weeks, but themes are starting to emerge as everyone adjusts to more time spent at home. On Wednesday, specialty

Forever is a long time, so before committing to buy stock in a company that you plan to hold onto for that long, you should have a lot of confidence in the company's long-term revenue prospects. I'm

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread financial distress and resulted in massive job losses. The severity of this pandemic and its grim human toll suggests that this is a major problem that

In just the past few weeks alone, millions of Americans have lost their jobs. Approximately 22 million people filed for initial unemployment benefits between mid-March and mid-April, and more

Fast-food chain Jack in the Box (NASDAQ: JACK) is withdrawing its financial guidance for the remainder of 2020, according to a press release from the company on Wednesday. With the COVID-19 pandemic

With demand in the ridesharing industry getting broadly crushed due to lockdowns and other coronavirus containment efforts, Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT) has at long last decided that it's time to expand

Fans and followers of the adult beverage industry are undoubtedly aware of the impact hard seltzers have made. For the first time in 25 years, 2019's wine sales in the United States fell, while data

The COVID-19 crisis is sparking robust demand for PCs as more people work and study from home, but PC makers still can't produce enough units to meet it. The ongoing chip shortage at Intel (NASDAQ:

Shares of Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) have plummeted more than 66% this year. The main factor driving that sell-off has been cratering crude oil prices as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak's

Semiconductor stocks are notoriously volatile, and becoming accustomed to the frequent up-and-down sales cycles -- a norm for all businesses related to manufacturing -- is a must. Memory chip maker

Stocks are starting to claw their way back after the brutal correction that started in late February, but there are still bargains to be had out there. I decided to scour the universe of stocks that

Vir Biotechnology (NASDAQ: VIR) shares have soared 134% since the start of the year as the company jumped into the race to find a treatment for COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus

Marijuana investors have seen a massive erosion of wealth over the past 12 months. Companies in the cannabis sector were expected to consolidate sales in a high-growth market in 2019; instead, they

Carnival Corporation (NYSE: CCL) CEO Arnold Donald told CNBC during an interview this week that the embattled cruise company now has enough liquidity to survive and meet its obligations even in a

Facing a significant strain on its business due to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic, Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) has announced steps to save costs in the near term.

The electronics retailer will

The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way Americans live their daily lives, affecting everything from how we work to how we shop to how we communicate with loved ones.

It's also affected millions

There are some very cheap companies on the stock market right now. Movie theaters, for instance, have been crushed by COVID-19. AMC Entertainment is down a shocking 70% in 2020. Cinemark is down

Following many months of speculation, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) this week announced the second-generation iPhone SE (not the "iPhone 9," as some rumors had suggested). Many analysts had expected the

When oil prices get volatile, oil producers' success or failure depends in part on how they've balanced their focus between high-margin upstream projects and cash-flow-rich downstream ones. Now

The coronavirus pandemic appears to have pushed already damaged J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) to potentially seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. If that happens, the company would attempt to

British American Tobacco (NYSE: BTI) is suing two of its longtime rivals, Altria Group (NYSE: MO) and Philip Morris International (NYSE: PM), for copyright infringement.

In the lawsuit filed in a

After climbing by about 29% last year, the S&P 500 has slid by about 14% year to date as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, some companies have largely escaped the recent sell-off and have

The stock market is full of inexpensive stocks right now. The S&P 500 index has fallen 18% from its 52-week highs, and 377 of the index's 505 tickers are doing even worse. Some of these suffering

Discussions about a phase-four federal aid package to help the country recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have included funding for programs to upgrade America's roads, bridges

I admit, I haven't very been very bullish on cruise stocks amid the coronavirus outbreak, despite their large price declines. I happen to think cruises won't begin sailing as early as many hope