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Going big doesn't mean you have to sacrifice growth. It's a common misconception that to find millionaire-making stocks you have to invest in small growth companies, but that's not necessarily the

The stock market's 2020 got off to a roaring start on Thursday, the first trading day of the year. With the headwind of a strong 2019 behind it, investor optimism burst into the new year. Top stocks

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Resources Connection Inc (NASDAQ: RECN)Q2 2020 Earnings CallJan 2, 2020, 5:00 p.m. ET

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Of all the stock purchases Warren Buffett made last year in Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE: BRK-B)(NYSE: BRK-A) portfolio, arguably most confounding was his third-quarter buy of roughly 1.2 million

Shares of Novocure (NASDAQ: NVCR) are down 9.3% at 3:37 p.m. EST, after being down down as much as 11.5% earlier in the day, after an analyst at Evercore ISI downgraded the medical-device maker to

General Electric (NYSE: GE) stock had a great year in 2019 -- its best year since 1982, reports MarketWatch, with GE shares surging 53% through Tuesday's close.

But given that investors ordinarily

After a big run-up in its share price following better-than-expected earnings and guidance in November, Antares Pharma (NASDAQ: ATRS) shares are down 10% at 3:30 p.m. EDT on Thursday. The company

Industrial lubrication and chemicals manufacturer WD-40 (NASDAQ: WDFC) plans to release results from its fiscal first quarter of 2020 to investors on Jan. 8 after the markets wrap for trading. The s

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Borr Drilling Limited (NYSE: BORR)Q3 2019 Earnings CallNov 26, 2019, 9:00 a.m. ET

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Last year was a difficult one for Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) investors, with a trifecta of issues hitting the Chinese internet search leader, driving its stock down as much as 40% at one point in the

Next to dieting and exercising, being better with money is always one of the most common New Year's resolutions.

It's easy to understand why: Americans have over $1 trillion in credit card debt, and

Happy New Year, China investors!

2020 started off with a bang on the first trading day of the year, as shares of Chinese tech giants Weibo (NASDAQ: WB), Netease (NASDAQ: NTES), and Sohu.com (NASDAQ:

Shares of Signet Jewelers (NYSE: SIG) were down 14.8% as of 11:00 a.m. EST Thursday after analysts at Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) downgraded the parent company of jewelry chains including Kay, Zales

Shares of youth-oriented video-sharing specialist Bilibili (NASDAQ: BILI) rose as much as 17.6% in Thursday morning's trading, lifted by a new partnership with Tencent Music Entertainment's (NYSE:

Shares of DURECT (NASDAQ: DRRX) are down 33% at 11:57 a.m. EST following the failure of the company's phase 2a clinical trial of DUR-928 in patients with plaque psoriasis. Based on the results of

Momo (NASDAQ: MOMO), the top online dating company in China, is frequently compared to Match Group (NASDAQ: MTCH), which owns Tinder, OKCupid, Hinge, and other popular dating apps across the world.

Uniform rental and business services provider UniFirst (NYSE: UNF) is on deck to report first-quarter fiscal 2020 results on Jan. 8 before the markets open for trading. The Wilmington

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) failed to impress in more than one way during 2019. The company's Portal devices didn't seem to gain any meaningful traction with consumers, and a virtual currency (Libra) that

The Dow Jones Industrials (DJINDICES: ^DJI) had a strong performance in 2019, extending a long string of solid gains during a decade-long bull market. Coming into 2020, investors are hoping for more

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) soared on the first trading day of 2020, up 0.6% at 11:30 a.m. EST. The Dow was up around 22% in 2019.

Helping to drive Thursday's gains were two

Shares of Innate Pharma (NASDAQ:IPHA) were soaring 19.5% higher as of 11:10 a.m. EST on Thursday. The big gain came after the company announced earlier in the day that the European Medicines Agency

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL), the parent company of Google, both outperformed the S&P 500 over the past decade. Microsoft's stock rallied over 400%, as a new

Pot stocks took a tremendous beating in 2019, and most kicked off 2020 trading on Thursday at prices near their 52-week lows. HEXO (NYSE: HEXO), a top Quebec-based cannabis grower and distributor

Investors punished Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) stock when it reported a decline in profit for its third quarter, the first time in more than two years. The e-commerce giant blamed investments in

Visa (NYSE: V) leads the global digital payment market with a secure payment network that is capable of processing over 65,000 payments per second. The company does not extend loans or credit but