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BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK)Q4 2019 Earnings CallJan 15, 2020, 8:30 a.m. ET

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SmileDirectClub (NASDAQ: SDC) shareholders are grinning today as they watch their stock soar 17% -- as of 12:25 p.m. EST -- on news that the supplier of "direct" to consumer teeth-straighteners will

Shares of Momenta Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: MNTA) continued to climb after the biotech updated investors on its pipeline progress and what to expect this year. Shares were up nearly 24% on Tuesday

Shares of Chinese electric-car maker NIO (NYSE: NIO) were sharply higher on Wednesday morning after a Chinese business-news outlet reported that the cash-strapped company had secured new financing

The doubling of Target's (NYSE: TGT) stock price in 2019 reflected surging optimism on the part of investors who have been betting on the chain's retail rebound. The company provided plenty of data

Shares of Mattel (NASDAQ: MAT) were falling today after the toy maker reacted poorly to news from Target (NYSE: TGT) that toy sales were sluggish during the holiday season. The holiday season is

Pinterest (NYSE: PINS) this month surpassed Snap's (NYSE: SNAP) Snapchat to become the third most popular social media platform in the United States by monthly users, according to a report from eMar

The stock of First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR) was flaming out on Wednesday, down 9.8% as of 11:45 a.m. EST, and you can blame Barclays Capital.

This morning, the British investment bank threw major shade

Shares of Clovis Oncology (NASDAQ: CLVS) gained over 25% today after the company announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had granted priority review to Rubraca for advanced

If the idea rings a bell, it may be because the prospect of e-commerce behemoth Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) acquiring brick-and-mortar outfit Kohl's (NYSE: KSS) first surfaced in 2017. Neither name

Music streaming has been the growth engine behind the music industry's resurgence over the last decade.

Last year, the number of songs U.S. consumers streamed topped one trillion for the first time

With the first phase of a trade deal between the U.S. and China set to be signed today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) reacted by rising sharply. The Dow was up 0.5% at 11:20

Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ: NKTR) is down 17% in early trading after a joint advisory panel for the Food and Drug Administration unanimously voted down the company's opioid medication, oxycodegol

The stock market posted solid gains on Wednesday morning, as market participants looked forward to the scheduled signing of a preliminary agreement between the U.S. and China on certain trade

Shares of Target (NYSE: TGT) were sliding this morning after the big-box chain posted underwhelming results for its holiday season. Comparable sales came in lower than expected as the company dealt

Teladoc Health (NYSE: TDOC) has been one of the best healthcare investments in the years since its IPO i n the summer of 2015. Shares are up 240% since their public debut as the connected-health

We're going to look at last year's 11 best-performing utility stocks. Given that winners tend to keep winning, you might find one or more stocks here that you'd consider investing in. 

The utility

So much ink has been spilled about Netflix's (NASDAQ: NFLX) prospects in a world of increasing video-streaming competition from the likes of Disney (NYSE: DIS), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), AT&T's HBO Max

Alphabet's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google agreed to buy wearables maker Fitbit (NYSE: FIT) for $2.1 billion last November. It initially seemed like a win-win deal: Google would strengthen its

After the hospital systems operator provided a preliminary look at its financials from last year and offered up guidance for this year at the annual J.P. Morgan healthcare conference, shares of

Shares of Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ: NKTR) had sunk 15.1% lower as of 11:06 a.m. EST on Wednesday. The decline came after two U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committees voted

Sales of Clovis Oncology's (NASDAQ: CLVS) Rubraca could get a big lift just in time for summer. Today, the company told investors a supplemental application that could expand the addressable patient

Transportation companies might be the backbone of an economy, but stocks in the sector don't always get the attention they deserve, partly because of the "boring" nature of the business. 2019

Detente on trade relations between the U.S. and China continues to progress, with President Trump removing China from the list of currency manipulators. While China is obviously a strategic trading

Segments of traditional brick-and-mortar retail continue to get squeezed by e-commerce, and one of the hardest-hit areas has been clothing. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, clothing and