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Retail banking has gone through a digital transformation in the past two decades. The advent of mobile banking has been the key driver of thinning foot traffic at physical bank branch locations,

Just as it looked like shares of Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) were on the verge of topping July’s all-time high earlier this month, investors of the cyber security stock got a rude awakening

Rideshare operator Lyft Inc. (NASDAQ: LYFT) has all been left for dead after rival Uber Technologies Inc. (NYSE: UBER) reported a 49% revenue spike and double-digit metrics growth in 2023. Lyft

Barring a sharp reversal, the U.S. stock market's five-month winning streak will come to an abrupt end in August. Fortunately, with the S&P 500 having advanced nearly 20% from November to July

Once again, Marketbeat.com’s list of Most Downgraded Stocks has some interesting names. While some are worthy of bearish sentiment, others are on the list because the analysts have reset their

Payment platforms have experienced impressive growth as consumers and businesses migrate to digital solutions for e-commerce, sending and receiving money. Many platforms have expanded their

With 2022 clearly a bear market for U.S. real estate investment trusts (REITs), 2023 can be described as an awakening bear. 

After declining 24% last year, the S&P United States REIT index is up

Higher engagements grow revenues: This maxim applies to many things in the digital economy, including digital advertising.

It also applies to rideshare and food delivery, as illustrated by Uber

Despite assurances from CEO Mark Zuckerberg that Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ: META) is keeping its metaverse dream alive, it's increasingly clear that the real focus is AI. 

That pivot has driven

Fast Food stocks have a trying time in 2023, and their shares are under pressure. The problem is not that the companies can’t grow because they are or that they can’t improve profitability because

There’s an investing phenomenon called “home country bias,” which refers to the tendency of investors to disproportionately favor assets from their own country, despite the potential benefits of

The technology sector, which has been the top-performing sector this year, has seen a minor decline this week. The Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQ) has retreated by 1.38% this week. Although the

An analyst from Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) recently stated that the AI bubble was in its late inning. The analyst’s thesis is that the performance of Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock is a

Current economic environments and wild swings across the data that investors and traders digest, such as inflation and other important drivers, drive a wide wedge regarding where markets prefer to

Having rallied as much as 60% since the start of the year, big data stock Snowflake Inc (NYSE: SNOW) has been taking a breather for the past month. Shares are down 20%, and while some bears are

The slowdown in digital advertising triggered many technology stocks to sell off, notably social media platforms like Snap Inc. (NASDAQ: SNAP). However, a light at the end of the tunnel was lit when

With AI spending on the rise by giants such as Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), other chipmakers besides juggernaut Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA) are set to benefit

Shares of PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) has given investors a brutal 2021-2023 period, full of swings and stress, as the stock gave up more than 80% of its value, which reached an all-time high level as

Watching a stock soar ahead of earnings, like we’re seeing now with data analytics software maker Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR) can be frustrating. 

Palantir, which one analyst touts as

Social media platform Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP) stock was pummeled (again), falling over 20% after releasing its Q2 2023 earnings report. The company continues to lose money amid declining revenues

Shares of ServiceNow Inc. (NYSE: NOW) may be down since the company’s July 26 earnings report, but this isn’t a stock to count out. 

In fact, the current pullback may offer a buy opportunity, as

Share buybacks (also called stock buybacks or stock repurchases) are a common way for a publicly traded company to deliver value to its shareholders. As the name implies, a share buyback is a

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) delivered a genuinely exceptional Q2 report. The expectation was for signs the year of efficiency was paying off, but that story reverted to the original: Meta

In 2021, many investors learned a painful lesson that the time it would take to make self-driving cars a reality didn’t match up to the hype. But that doesn’t change the fact that the underlying