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Square (NYSE: SQ) announced recently that it's obtained an industrial banking charter. Investors may be wondering what this means for the company and why it made this move. On a Fool Live episode

Tech stocks have been hit hard recently. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index was down as much as 10.5% from its 52-week high earlier this week, and many individual stocks have dropped much more. But that

Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) has had a rough go of it as management closed its theme parks temporarily due to the coronavirus outbreak. Even with the parks back open, traffic still hasn't returned to

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) have fought each other for market share since the late 1970s. At various times, one has appeared to dominate the other. But in recent years, some

The combination of Mylan with Pfizer's (NYSE: PFE) Upjohn unit to create Viatris (NASDAQ: VTRS) was supposed to create a cash-generating generic-drug company with the potential for future growth

AstraZeneca (NASDAQ: AZN) ranked as one of the earliest and biggest investors in Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA). But now, the big British drugmaker has reportedly sold all of its shares of the up-and-coming

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Bill Gates, former CEO and founder of Microsoft, loved having cash on the balance sheet. Gates always felt that having a large cash hoard would protect the company from an extended recession or the

Growth at diagnostic testing expert Guardant Health (NASDAQ: GH) appears to be slowing down. But the company still expects to put up revenue growth of at least 26% this year, which isn't too shabby

Higher oil prices have made investors interested in energy stocks again. Dual forces of less demand and excess supply that created a rout in oil prices last year seem to have flipped positions this

Square (NYSE: SQ) started out as a way for merchants to capture in-person credit card payments, which has been a foundational growth engine as the company has built out its ecosystem. But since the

Last year was a watershed for cannabis stocks, with several states legalizing marijuana sales in some form, but 2021 has even more potential.

New Jersey will soon roll out adult sales, and there's a

The Trade Desk (NASDAQ: TTD) makes its money when advertising agencies are buying ad space for their clients. So for this ad tech platform, 2020 was a crazy year. During most of the year

So far this year, the market has been on a roller coaster, especially for tech stocks. For investors who have owned stocks for only a little while, the broad pullback in tech stocks can be

Most gold stocks surged upward in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic led to an unnerving level of uncertainty and volatility in equity markets. Investors seeking safety flocked to gold, driving

Sometime in the next few weeks -- indeed, it could be happening even as you are reading this article -- space company Nanoracks is going to get acquired.

In December last year, privately held space

One of the books on many investors' must-read list is William Thorndike's The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success. It tells the story of eight

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Genetic testing is a hot market right now. But some of the companies involved in genetic testing have very different business models. In this Motley Fool Live video recorded on March 3, 2021

It seems like companies in every sector are launching their own SPACs these days. And one of those companies is mall operator Simon Property Group (NYSE: SPG). But in this Fool Live video clip

Investors could do worse than follow the advice of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) CEO Warren Buffett. The legendary investor has racked up quite a track record during his long and

It's only a matter of time. According to The Motley Fool co-founder and CEO Tom Gardner, the stock market declines 1 out of every 3 years. The severity of those pullbacks will vary. The markets will

Investors looking for stocks that can rocket higher overnight know the biotech space is full of them. None of these companies have products to sell but all of them are working on potential new drugs

We're well past 2020 at this point, and the world is hoping for a better 2021. The stock market ended the year with gains despite a global economic disaster, but many top stock prices are falling in

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are always exciting news. But the temperature has really been dialed up on the upcoming mega-merger between two big Canadian cannabis players, Aphria (NASDAQ: APHA)