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Walmart (NYSE: WMT) plans to hire 500 more truck drivers for its private fleet, primarily on the East and West Coasts, to help meet the increased demand from its growing e-commerce business.

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Shares of Etsy, Inc. (NASDAQ: ETSY) rose 18.4% in February, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The e-commerce stock bucked trends thanks to strong fourth-quarter earnings results

FedEx (NYSE: FDX) said Monday night that long-serving chief financial officer Alan Graf would retire later this year, leaving it to his successor to complete a massive overhaul of the business

Shares of Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) crashed a stunning 53% today as the oil market endured its worst sell-off since 1991. Overall, crude oil prices cratered more than 25% because Saudi Arabia

Shares of Axos Financial (NYSE: AX) dropped 12.7% on Monday, coinciding with a major sell-off in bank stocks and the market as a whole.

The financial markets, already reeling from fears that the

Okta (NASDAQ: OKTA), Zoom Video Communications (NASDAQ: ZM), Slack Technologies (NYSE: WORK), Teladoc Health (NYSE: TDOC), and DocuSign (NASDAQ: DOCU) are all technology stocks promising to make our

Square's share price (NYSE: SQ) rose 11.6% in February, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The fintech stock gained ground thanks to strong fourth-quarter results that allowed

Shares of monitoring and analytics platform specialist Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) were slammed on Monday, falling as much as 12.9%. The stock closed the trading day down 11%.

The stock's decline was

The stock market suffered one of its worst declines in years on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 both falling by more than 7%.

The financial sector was particularly

Shares of SolarEdge Technologies (NASDAQ: SEDG) plunged as much as 17.9% in trading on Monday, as the entire market had one of its worst days ever. At the close of trading, shares were down 16.3%. 

Investors in Pinterest (NYSE: PINS), Shopify (NYSE: SHOP), Wix.com (NASDAQ: WIX), and Square (NYSE: SQ) are having a tough start to the week. Shares of all four of these tech stocks declined by

In a move that breaks wildly from the industry's current norms, off-price retailer Burlington Stores (NYSE: BURL) is getting out of the e-commerce game so it can focus on its brick-and-mortar

The novel coronavirus is among us, and it's time to panic.

At least, that appeared to be the consensus among consumers last week. Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) shelves on the West Coast were

Shares of Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) declined as much as 14.4% by 3:30 p.m. EDT on Monday. The diversified technology company was among the myriad stocks tumbling today as the stock market

Alphabet's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Jacquard by Google technology has been slowly rolling out to consumers, first in a couple of Levi Strauss jeans jackets and a Saint Laurent backpack. A

The stock market is having one of its worst days in years, with the S&P 500 index down by about 6% at 3:50 p.m. EDT, but some sectors are getting hit harder than most. Financials are the

Shares of MasTec (NYSE: MTZ) fell more than 18% on Monday despite a lack of company-specific news. A sharp drop in the price of oil put the stock under pressure, as did increasing worries that the

Monday brought new records for the stock market, suffering their largest single-day point drops ever. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), and Nasdaq

The S&P 500 fell more than 7.5% on Monday, its worst single day decline since December 2008, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 2,000 points on a day dominated by increasing

The stock market experienced its worst day in several years on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 closing more than 7% lower.

Many stocks did even worse, especially in the

Shares of Kellogg (NYSE: K) were stumbling last month after the cereal-maker offered up disappointing guidance in its fourth-quarter earnings report. As a result, the stock finished the month down

Shares of Editas Medicine (NASDAQ: EDIT) fell nearly 12% today as part of a broader market correction. Last week, investors were growing increasingly worried about the economic impact of efforts to

Shares of Latin American e-commerce giant MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI) fell as much as 12.5% on Monday. Investors backed away from the stock as the novel coronavirus expanded its spread over South

Innovative Industrial Properties (NYSE: IIPR) and Green Thumb Industries (OTC: GTBIF) have signed a new sale-leaseback deal, the two companies announced in separate press releases Monday. The former

I've been successful as an investor over the past 15 years, managing to build up a sizable portfolio along the way. And while a significant amount of my success is a product of fortunate timing -- a