In mid-September, SoftBank (OTC: SFTBY) and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) announced that NVIDIA would buy chipmaker Arm Holdings from SoftBank in a stunningly expensive transaction valued at $40 billion. Billed as possibly the priciest semiconductor sale to date, the deal comes only fou
Gold has been great investment this year, thanks to an equity market crash at the start of the year and the resultant safe-haven rally. The coronavirus outbreak has kept global markets edgy. Gold bullion ETF SPDR Gold Shares GLD has added about 28.4% this year against the 5.3% g
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Shares of Dave & Buster's Entertainment (NASDAQ: PLAY), which owns dining and entertainment centers, fell dramatically on Thursday, declining as much as 22% in the first half of the trading day. A news article from a major financial publication drove the declin
Western Union Co. WU, which was once a completely bricks-and-mortar money transfer company, is investing heavily in developing its digital money transfer platform to stay ahead of the rapidly-changing remittance industry.
At an investor presentation, Triton International Limited TRTN provided a bullish update for the September quarter, primarily owing to the rebound in trade volumes. The recovery followed the easing of coronavirus-related restrictions in Europe and the United States.
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has invested in a battery recycling start-up founded by former Tesla chief technology officer J.B. Straubel, part of the e-commerce giant's pledge to commit $2 billion to green initiatives.
Like many other software companies right now, Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) was flying high ahead of its summer quarter earnings report. The creative software platform's stock is up 47% in 2020 to-date on optimism that the economic lockdown is creating plenty of new demand, and the finan
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Shares of Vaxart (NASDAQ: VXRT) were 15.6% higher as of 11:06 a.m. EDT on Thursday after rising as much as 27.8% earlier in the day. The company didn't announce any new developments, but there are two likely factors behind today's big jump.
ZURICH (Reuters Breakingviews) - A merger of Credit Suisse and UBS has some merits on paper, but would be bloody in practice, says Liam Proud. Plus, the LVMH billionaire’s impeccably ruthless dealmaking is on full display with the Tiffany t
In this episode of Industry Focus: Tech, Dylan Lewis is joined by Motley Fool contributor Brian Feroldi to talk about ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: ZI), which went public this summer, and its unique offering in the software-as-a-service space. They discuss how the company has grown over the
One of the big announcements at Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) September event was the introduction of a new services bundle called Apple One. The top tier of the bundle includes a new service, Apple Fitness+, which streams at-home workouts to your Apple device while gathering data from
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It's Thursday, and the Nasdaq is tumbling again, down 1.6% at 10:30 a.m. EDT. Leading the way down is solar stock First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR). Shares of the solar panel maker fell 10.6% in early trading in response to an announcement on Wednesday night that a corpor
Investors who missed out on the Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) initial public offering (IPO) might not want to pay double the price for its shares now, especially while it trades at over 100 times its annualized sales. Another company that's debuting on the market next week should be on
In normal circumstances, most of what the Fed said, both in terms of their predicted actions and their forecast for the economy, would have been seen as incredibly bullish for stocks. These are not normal circumstances.
The rest of 2020 is expected to keep bearing the brunt of the coronavirus outbreak as it continues to spread. In fact, the total number of coronavirus-infected cases crossed 6.6 million in the United States, with the death toll touching at least 196,000.
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