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A year ago, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) introduced a custom Arm-based processor called Graviton to help power workloads at Amazon Web Services (AWS), the company's booming and highly profitable cloud

We're pitting the most recent graduates of The Motley Fool's Investor Development Program against one another in a stock-pitching battle. Four stocks enter. You vote for the winner.

To catch full

In this episode of Motley Fool Answers, hosts Alison Southwick and Robert Brokamp are joined by Sam Robson from Motley Fool UK to explain the ongoing drama as the United Kingdom negotiates to leave

Distribution channels change. Cable has given way to streaming, and DVDs have largely died in favor of streaming as well. As a content provider, however, if you have intellectual property (IP) that

Himax Technologies (NASDAQ: HIMX) and Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) both make crucial components for mobile devices. Himax produces display driver ICs (integrated circuits) for smartphones and tablets

In this week's episode of Industry Focus: Consumer Goods, the Fool's Nick Sciple and Asit Sharma dive into the world of denim companies, especially Levi's (NYSE: LEVI), Kontoor Brands (NYSE: KTB)

Crestwood Equity Partners (NYSE: CEQP) finally hit a long-awaited inflection point during the third quarter as its cash flow soared. That's the beginning of the payoff for the energy company's

Lowe's (NYSE: LOW) recently issued third-quarter earnings report gave investors lots of new information to digest. Sales and profitability appear to be holding up well, even if these figures still

We wear our Motley every month on the mailbag episode, taking on a candy bag of topics from the pedantic to the profound. And as a special treat, here's Brian Withers' stock-tracking spreadsheet, as

The media likes to hype the holiday season as the most wonderful time of the year. But for many, it's the most financially stressful. And new data from Marcus: By Goldman Sachs highlights just how

Big changes are supposedly afoot in Washington.

A little over four months ago, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) introduced America to the Marijuana Opportunity

When Motley Fool co-founder and Rule Breaker Investing host David Gardner picks one of his trademark five-stock samplers, he's usually making his predictions for at least a three-year window. But

Alibaba (NYSE: BABA), the Chinese commerce giant, was founded just 20 years ago but already has over $56 billion in annual revenue, meaning this company moves fast.

And it has a lot of pieces to its

Electric vehicles (EVs) have been the next big thing in transportation for nearly a decade, but they're still a bit player in the auto market. According to a report by McKinsey & Company, despite

Like its giant rivals, British American Tobacco (NYSE: BTI) dodged several bullets recently when President Trump decided to back away from a complete ban on flavored e-cigarette liquids, and the

With retail earnings season winding down, a few lessons are clear from the latest round of reports. 

The biggest trend, continuing a pattern from recent years, is that brick-and-mortar sales are

The stock market has performed well this year. For instance, the S&P 500's year-to-date return is more than 25%. However, some stocks have performed even better, one of which is MercadoLibre

NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) was supposed to win big from the automotive market, especially self-driving cars. The graphics specialist was an early mover in this space and was enjoying terrific financial

My brokerage account had some spare funds sitting around in the spring of 2017, so I made a short list of seven interesting tickers where those assets might do some good. After some further

A year ago, all expectations were that the marijuana industry would have investors seeing green -- and the first quarter certainly suggested this opinion was accurate. At the end of March, more than

Millions of seniors today collect Social Security in retirement and use those benefits to help pay their living costs. But if you're nearing your senior years without much or any savings, you should

Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) and Veeva Systems (NYSE: VEEV) have crushed the market recently, and both have plenty of potential to continue to do so going forward. Nonetheless, one of these stocks will be a

It's been six months since Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) lost its monumental Federal Trade Commission trial. The mobile tech giant was able to score an enforcement delay in August, in part due to the

Wall Street has turned against many recent IPOs in the second half of this year. Inflated valuations, cash-burning operations, and fears of a recession have led many investors to think twice before

Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK) was forged via the 2010 merger of The Stanley Tool Works and Black & Decker, and in the years since, the company has continued to aggressively roll up the tool