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The Best FinTech Stock to Buy in 2017
Businesses that exist at the intersection of finance and technology hold tremendous promise for investors. These are massive markets, and the winners in this space are likely to create tremendous....
The Event-Ticketing Industry Is Ripe for Amazon to Disrupt It
If you're a music fan who's tired of being gouged when you buy tickets online, here's some good news for you.Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), the great bulldozer of retail models, is interested in the....
How Will the iPhone X Affect Apple's Financials?
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) finally unveiled its long-awaited iPhone X, with a hefty price tag and a release date that's a bit later than many investors were anticipating.In this Industry Focus: Tech....
Disney's Latest Innovation Is, Quite Literally, Bringing Characters to Life
For nearly a century, Disney (NYSE: DIS) has filled our minds with wonder. The media empire has mastered the use of art and technology to create lifelike characters that tell a story.Innovation....
Exciting Changes in Apple's iPhone X
After a year of speculation, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) finally unveiled its iPhone X.In this Industry Focus: Tech podcast segment, host Dylan Lewis and senior tech specialist Evan Niu dive into what we....
What's Different About Apple's iPhone 8
At Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) long-awaited unveiling event, the company finally released info about its new iPhone models.In this Industry Focus: Tech podcast segment, host Dylan Lewis and senior tech....
Intel Corp.'s 8-Core Gaming Chip Might Not Be Ice Lake-Based After All
A few days ago, gaming PC vendor Eurocom appeared to leak some information about an upcoming Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) processor targeted at the enthusiast and gaming community.Per Eurocom, Intel is....
What Apple Unveiled About the Apple TV Last Week
At their unveiling event, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced that it's adding 4K HDR to its TV line, which left a lot of investors and consumers underwhelmed.In this Industry Focus: Tech podcast....
What Apple Unveiled About the Watch Last Week
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) held its much-anticipated unveiling event last week, and announced several changes coming to its Watch line.In this Industry Focus: Tech podcast segment, host Dylan Lewis and....
Back to School With 2 High-Growth Education Companies
In this episode of Industry Focus: Consumer Goods, Vincent Shen and Motley Fool senior contributor Asit Sharma talk about two of the most exciting companies in education -- Chegg (NYSE: CHGG) and....
3 High-Yield Stocks Safe for Retirees
Stocks that offer retirees strong dividend yields and minimal risk are out there -- if you know where to look. To get you started, here are three that combine both of these key attributes. They....
Better Buy: Palo Alto Networks Inc vs. Check Point Software
The good news for both Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) and Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP) is that the long-awaited rise of the cybersecurity market appears to be taking....
Alphabet, Inc. Just Proved It Really Is Making a Big Bet on Hardware
Hardware is one of Google's "three most promising bets," right alongside YouTube and Cloud, according to Google CEO Sundar Pichai. And now Alphabet's (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) Google is....
The 3 Workplace Benefits Employees Want the Most
We all want to earn as high a salary as possible at our jobs. But the amount of money you get in your paycheck is only a portion of your total compensation package. In fact, in some cases, stellar....
3 Stocks With eBay-like Return Potential
Of all the dot-coms to go public during the late 1990s, only a few are still around today. eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) is one such player -- having found a business model, clientele, and interface that's....
Why Corporations Take the Dollar and Investors Take the Rate
"And we're certainly focused more on margin dollars than margin percent."--Kevin Ozan, CFO of McDonald's Corporation(NYSE: MCD), July 25, 2017"And if you ask me and say would you trade a point of....
3 Biotech Stocks With Major Catalysts Incoming
Axovant Sciences Ltd (NASDAQ: AXON) and PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTCT) have drugs in late-stage development that could propel them to profitability over the next few years. Gilead Sciences,....
What Happened in the Stock Market Today
Stocks retreated on Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) ending a nine-day winning streak and the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) also closing lower.Data source: Yahoo!....
Another Oil Giant Sees Value in an Unexpected Place
Oil production is an incredibly capital-intense business. Producers need to pour billions of dollars into new wells just to maintain their current output rate, with billions more needed to....
Why Intercept Pharmaceuticals Is Tumbling Today
Intercept Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ICPT), a biotech focused on liver diseases, fell 21% as of 3:26 p.m. EDT Thursday. The fall is traceable to a safety announcement released by the FDA that warns....
Why Calgon Carbon, Kindred Healthcare, and Impax Laboratories Jumped Today
Thursday was a down day for the stock market, but major benchmarks managed to limit their losses to modest amounts of less than half a percent. Investors looked at a wide variety of different....
Why Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Transocean, and U.S. Steel Slumped Today
The stock market finished with small losses on Thursday, with major benchmarks falling between 0.2% and 0.5% to pull back from their recent record run. Investors are working through uncertainties....
Tesla, Inc. to Discontinue Cheapest Model S as Model 3 Deliveries Ramp-Up
Electric-car maker Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) has been making some changes to its Model S and Model X lineups as it ramps up production and deliveries of its cheaper Model 3. Namely, Tesla lowered....
The Federal Reserve Just Signaled That Higher Rates Are on the Horizon
If you want to know which way interest rates are headed, one of the first places you should look is the Federal Reserve's dot plot. This isn't as well known as the yield curve, but it's....
IBM Is Beating Microsoft in This Emerging Tech
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is usually considered a better "mature tech" play than IBM (NYSE: IBM) for a few simple reasons: Microsoft pivoted from its aging OS and productivity software businesses....