The onset of the pandemic spurred adoption of both e-commerce and digital payments. Growth that was expected to take years materialized in a matter of months. Companies positioned to handle the surge in new digital customers have been rewarded with an expanding bottom line.On thi
DoorDash (NYSE: DASH) stock made a dash of its own as it surged almost 86% in its first day of trading.However, despite this early momentum, I do not see a scenario in which I will buy DoorDash stock. This is not because the consumer discretionary company lost some of its gains i
It faces an army of new competitors, but streaming giant Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) is still the first name consumers choose when picking a new on-demand video service. It's also the one they're least likely to cancel.That's the takeaway from a recent survey conducted by television m
As holiday shopping season wraps up, U.S. equity investors are gauging whether long-languishing shares of brick-and-mortar retailers can sustain their recent rebound in anticipation of a full economic reopening in 2021.
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Stitch Fix (NASDAQ: SFIX) offer investors two distinct ways to get exposure to e-commerce.One is a global giant and the dominant online retailer in the U.S, as well as a cloud computing powerhouse, while the other is an upstart trying to disrupt the appa
Should you buy stocks now before they soar in 2021? Or should you sell everything you own before the imminent crash? This is the question everyone's asking, and I wish I could answer, if only my local crystal ball dealership was still open.Heading into the new year, investors can
The year 2020 has been one of the wildest in history for investors. The market was already at all-time highs coming into the year, and then in February and March the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world hard. Markets crashed and panic ensued, but before long the recovery was on and so
When you're building a retirement portfolio, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are the perfect place to start. You get an instantly diversified portfolio, plus you can buy and sell them the same way you would a regular stock.Investing across the stock market using an S&P 500 index
Warren Buffett is one of the richest people in the world, and he didn't get there by accident. Unlike other top billionaires, many of whom acquired their wealth through entrepreneurship, Buffett has made most of his money by buying shares and ownership of established companies th
In spite of the odds at the onset of the pandemic in March, I've had plenty of winners -- some of them up triple-digit percentages in 2020. I learned early on in my career that it's often best to buy more shares of a winning investment, rather than selling it for a profit. I plan
Small, continual changes often go unnoticed until they are too big to ignore. One such consequential shift in America has been the concept of the nuclear family, notably as it relates to parenthood. In 1950, the U.S. birth rate was approximately 24 children per 1,000 people, vers
Many U.S. holiday shoppers, wary of spending time in stores during the latest surge of COVID-19 cases and nervous about packages not arriving before Christmas, were on a mission on Saturday: snatch up last-minute gifts fast or pick up online purchases in-store.
As it did with most elements of our lives, the coronavirus pandemic had a withering effect on many stocks in 2020. Companies in more than a few sectors suddenly had to contend with stay-at-home orders and mandatory business closures, a challenging set of circumstances for which f
This year will probably be remembered as one of the worst for many investors. The March market crash sent portfolios into a tailspin. The S&P 500 lost 30% from January through its March low as the coronavirus outbreak turned into a pandemic and businesses around the world tem
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) may have lagged the overall market of late. But let's face facts -- the Oracle of Omaha has outperformed the market more often than not, and his disciplined, value-oriented approach should drive superior results agai
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos famously said, "Your margin is my opportunity." It seems no market is safe from the company's onslaught. Amazon recently made an announcement that sent shivers down the spine of an entire industry, as it appears to be next in the company's cro
Binary narratives are powerful, mostly due to their simplicity. Ultimately, there's something authoritative in believing one solution is clearly right and the other is definitively wrong. Unfortunately, this simplicity obscures the fact that binary narratives are often wrong, mos
In this episode of Rule Breaker Investing, Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner shares some of his favorite board games and card games for this holiday season. He also shares a tool to keep track of your game stats and an IMDb for games where you can find all the game details. Th
Italy's top flight soccer league Serie A aims to raise at least 1.15 billion euros ($1.4 billion) per season over the next three years from the sale of pay-TV rights for its home market, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Friday.