The rally on Wall Street faces a fresh test next week with a flood of earnings reports from major U.S. companies, including the tech and internet behemoths that have recently retaken leadership of the market.
One of the most intimidating aspects of investing in the stock market is dealing with crashes. Market crashes are normal, but they can also be unpredictable and severe. And if you're investing in the wrong places, you could lose a substantial amount of money.
Evidenced by Friday’s record close for the Dow, which for the first time cleared the 35,000 threshold, investors are seemingly feeling more confident that the upcoming earnings results from the most-influential companies in the S&P 500 will be supportive of higher valuations.
There's an open secret in the investing world: You don't have to embrace big risk in order to see huge gains if you're willing to adopt a long-term approach. Consider that Microsoft stock delivered a total return of 1,200% over the last decade. The even less risky S&P 500 ind
Do you like money? If you're reading this, then you probably do, and you'd probably like to make more of it. Yet for many of us who participate in 401(k) plans, we're not doing everything we can to maximize our upside.
The start of earnings season has put investors in a good mood. Stocks rose last week, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) gained 1% and the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) hit a new high while jumping 2%.
Many investors have portfolios of 30, 50, or even more stocks, but Fool.com contributor Brian Withers takes a more concentrated approach with just 19 stocks in his personal portfolio. In this Fool Live video clip, recorded on July 9, Withers gives viewers a rundown of all 19 stoc
Investors are always searching high and low for the "next big thing". However, sometimes they search for something novel, believing they're too late to profit from ongoing, multi-year trends. One example is streaming. Consumers have been "cutting the cord" for years now, cancelin
The technology sector has been the most impressive part of the stock market for some time now -- certainly over the past decade as it provided the propulsion for the longest bull market in U.S. history. How things will play out over the next 10 years is impossible to know, but ex
Teladoc Health (NYSE: TDOC) has been an amazing stock for long-term investors. The company was founded in 2002 and went public in 2015. In its S-1, Teladoc billed itself as "the nation's first and largest telehealth platform." Simply put, Teladoc is a website where people can vis
Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) represents the "N" in the FAANG cohort of top tech companies, which also include Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google's parent company Alphabet.
Former chief executive officer of Virgin Galactic Holdings, George Whitesides, will fly to space on the aerospace company's next test spaceflight, CNBC reported on Friday.
Wall Street gained ground for the fourth straight session on Friday, extending a rally that pushed all three major U.S. stock indexes to record closing highs as upbeat earnings and signs of economic revival fueled investor risk appetite.
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Amazon.com Inc (Symbol: AMZN), where a total volume of 355,346 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximat
Electric car startup Rivian said on Friday it has closed a $2.5 billion fundraising round led by investors Amazon.com Inc, Ford Motor Co and T. Rowe Price.
Wall Street gained ground for the fourth straight session on Friday, extending a rally that pushed all three major U.S. stock indexes to record closing highs as upbeat earnings and signs of economic revival fueled investor risk appetite.
Electric car startup Rivian said on Friday it has closed a $2.5 billion fundraising round led by investors Amazon.com, Ford Motor Co and T. Rowe Price.