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Shares of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (NYSE: WAB), or Wabtec, closed down 18.2% on Wednesday, on growing fears the economy is headed toward a recession. If so, the company's railroad

Oil prices continued plunging today. WTI, the U.S. oil benchmark, dove another 21%, falling to its lowest level in 18 years. At one point, WTI was within pennies of the $20-a-barrel level, though it

Increased concerns about COVID-19 slammed the stock market again on Wednesday, hitting several healthcare stocks especially hard. Shares of Align Technology (NASDAQ: ALGN) were falling 14.9% lower

Shares of Home Depot (NYSE: HD) were falling sharply today as stocks plunged over concerns about the coronavirus outbreak, and the company announced that it would temporarily cut store hours due to

It's hard to know just how many ventilators U.S. hospitals will require to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic because the demand will largely depend on how rapidly the disease spreads, and how high the

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China Distance Education Holdings Limited (NYSE: DL)Q1 2020 Earnings CallMar 18, 2020, 8:00 a.m. ET

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Shares of Novavax (NASDAQ: NVAX) were jumping 10.4% higher as of 3:45 p.m. EDT on Wednesday after rising as much as 20.8% earlier in the day. How did Novavax stock perform so well while the overall

Contributing to the nationwide effort to "flatten the curve," GE Appliances recently announced that it will reduce shifts or suspend operations in four states: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, and

Shares of auto parts supplier BorgWarner (NYSE: BWA) were down sharply in trading on Wednesday afternoon, after several major automakers said that they will temporarily shut down their North America

Shares of Textron (NYSE: TXT) fell 13% on Wednesday after the company announced it was furloughing 7,000 aviation workers. Investors had worried that the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic would depress

Shares of mega-technology stocks Alphabet, Microsoft, and Facebook slumped on Wednesday as the stock market continued to convulse due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. At 2:50 p.m. EDT, the S&P 500

Shares of Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) are down more than 16% on Wednesday, performing significantly worse than most other defense stocks. There is no company-specific Raytheon move, but the shares appear

Shares of retail stocks were down again on Wednesday, as investors continued to adjust their expectations in light of the fast-moving coronavirus pandemic.

Here's where things stood for these stocks

Shares of Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS), Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE: LYV), and Planet Fitness Inc (NYSE: PLNT) are down 15%, 33%, and 29% respectively as of 2:16 pm EDT on March 18, in one of the

Cronos Group (NASDAQ: CRON) management announced on Tuesday that they will be restating items from the first three quarters of the cannabis company's fiscal 2019. In a press release, they stated

When you hit rock bottom, the only way to go is up. Except you don't always know when you've hit that level and, in retail, you can also go bankrupt.

Gap (NYSE: GPS) has been struggling for a few

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General Mills Inc (NYSE: GIS)Q3 2020 Earnings CallMar 18, 2020, 8:30 a.m. ET

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Shares of Camping World Holdings (NYSE: CWH) traded down 33% on Wednesday despite no company-specific news. Investors are increasingly pricing in a recession, and it is hard to imagine a substantial

AeroVironment (NASDAQ: AVAV), Axon Enterprise (NASDAQ: AAXN), and II-VI (NASDAQ: IIVI).

For the longest time, we here at The Motley Fool have been recommending that investors buy into these three

A study done in China has found that people who have blood type A may be more vulnerable to the coronavirus. Researchers looked at more than 2,100 patients in Wuhan and Shenzhen, and found that not

Clean Energy Fuels (NASDAQ: CLNE), First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR), Plug Power (NASDAQ: PLUG), Ballard Power (NASDAQ: BLDP), and Vivint Solar (NYSE: VSLR).

Together, these five stocks make up a good

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Futu Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: FUTU)Q4 2019 Earnings CallMar 18, 2020, 8:00 a.m. ET

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Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX). Weibo (NASDAQ: WB). Telkom Indonesia (NYSE: TLK).

What do Russia's biggest search engine, China's version of Twitter, and Indonesia's giant phone company have in common? And

Shares of Square (NYSE: SQ) have gotten destroyed today, down by 25% as of 1:30 p.m. EDT, as the coronavirus sell-off continues to wreak havoc on the market. The drop comes shortly after an analyst

The market's whiplash continued today, with stocks giving back all of Tuesday's gains. Investors again pounded the retail sector, afraid that lockdown-style conditions keeping many Americans in