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New Jersey just set a record for sports betting for the month of January with $540.1 million wagered, while sportsbooks saw their revenue rise nearly threefold to $54 million for the month.

While

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) took a dive on Tuesday after Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) said that it would fall short of its recently issued revenue guidance. The coronavirus outbreak

Consider three relatively new public companies that have already delivered serious profits for their shareholders: The first one came public in April 2017, and has gained 736% since then. The second

Shares in tobacco giant Altria (NYSE: MO) have been under pressure due to regulatory headwinds in the U.S. and challenges with its JUUL Labs vaping investment. These problems have sent the company's

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (NYSE: BIP) and TerraForm Power (NASDAQ: TERP) have lots of similarities. Both share a common parent in Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE: BAM). They also focus on

PepsiCo's (NASDAQ: PEP) stock recently hit an all-time high after the beverages and packaged foods maker posted its fourth-quarter earnings. Yet investors might be wondering if the stock still has

Domino's (NYSE: DPZ) has been a leader in the fast-food industry when it comes to using technology to make ordering for delivery easy and convenient, but its new Pie Pass technology aims to make

I say it often, but it's worth repeating: Manufacturing is cyclical, and even innovating semiconductor designers like NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) get hit once in a while. After all, when a new end market

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) warned the second quarter revenue guidance it gave just three weeks ago was no longer valid as the effects of the novel coronavirus outbreak was more pervasive than it

You'd be hard-pressed to find two companies with larger user bases than Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) and Facebook (NASDAQ: FB). Alibaba now has 824 million monthly active users (MAU) across its retail

Chipotle Mexican Grill's (NYSE: CMG) most recent earnings report shows just how well the two-year-old road map laid out by CEO Brian Niccol is working. 

Although analysts at the time were skeptical

Give Walmart (NYSE: WMT) credit for continuously trying to punch up, but the retail giant really should just learn to stay in its lane. The well-heeled are just not its target demographic.

That the

Biopharmaceutical giants AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) and Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY) have both provided shareholders with market-crushing returns over the past five years. The secret to their success has been

Advance Auto Parts (NYSE: AAP) had a sluggish finish to its 2019 fiscal year. The leading auto parts retailer on Tuesday announces surprisingly weak fourth-quarter sales results while issuing a

Digital payments company Square (NYSE: SQ) went public at $9 per share in late 2015. It faced plenty of pessimism prior to its debut, due to a chilly IPO market, its lack of profits, and Jack

For most retirees, Social Security benefits are only designed to replace approximately 40% of your pre-retirement income. However, many seniors are depending on their benefits to cover the majority

Energy Transfer (NYSE: ET) has invested billions of dollars over the past few years to expand its energy infrastructure empire. That spending has been fueling fast-paced earnings growth, which it

The coronavirus epidemic in China is disrupting supply chains and seasonal buying trends across the tech sector. The chip sector, which was already pressured by the evolution of the trade war into a

The holiday shopping period wasn't quite as cheery as Walmart (NYSE: WMT) hoped it would be. The world's biggest retailer on Tuesday announced fiscal fourth-quarter results that included a surprise

After three challenging quarters leading up to Cognex's (NASDAQ: CGNX) fourth-quarter financial report, shareholder expectations were extremely low. The machine-vision leader has banged the drum all

The pot wars have officially broken out in earnest. With less revenue to go around than anticipated due to structural and regulatory deficiencies in Canada, the country's top licensed producers have

The market's been in a good mood lately. There were just 387 stocks on the three major U.S. stock exchanges hitting new 52-week lows lately, less than a third the number of investments that hit new

Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) stock has been on a tear, up 15% in 2020 alone. That's coming off a 55% gain in 2019. The software giant now sports a market capitalization of more than $1 trillion

Nintendo's (OTC: NTDOY) Switch game system continued to sell well through the holidays, helped by the launch of the more affordable Switch Lite version in September. Even with double-digit growth

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