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Costco Builds Momentum on Early Holiday Strength
The holiday shopping season is an important one for retailers, and Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) is one of the first companies to provide a firm reading on how the holidays have gone. Thanks to....
T-Mobile's Latest Plan to Steal Away AT&T's Customers
"There are some very large companies soiling themselves today," T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) CEO John Legere said as he signed off a conference call announcing his company's acquisition of Layer3....
Casey's General Down Big on Weak Numbers
In today's episode of the MarketFoolery podcast, Chris Hill talks with Bill Barker from Motley Fool Asset Management about the day's market news. Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS) is up 4% today for no....
Is Ford Finally Turning the Corner in Europe?
Things are looking up for Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) in Europe. Ford said that its sales in Europe rose 4% in November from a year ago, its second monthly year-over-year increase after five....
Apple's "Award" to Finisar Looks Like Prepayment for 3D Sensing Components
Yesterday, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced that it had awarded $390 million to Finisar (NASDAQ: FNSR) as part of a brilliant bet on the future of 3D sensing. However, Apple interchangeably referred....
Why This Tech Company Is Nearly Doubling Its Dividend
By and large, companies in the tech sector don't usually pay out dividends. And those that do seldom raise their payouts by meaningful amounts.One happy exception to these norms is telecom and IT....
Why Tractor Supply Company Rose 13% in November
Shares of rural lifestyle retailer Tractor Supply Company (NASDAQ: TSCO) rose 13.2% last month, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence .Tractor Supply stock continued to benefit....
Why Twenty-First Century Fox and Disney Stock Popped Today
Shares of Twenty-First Century Fox (NASDAQ: FOX)(NASDAQ: FOXA) and The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) climbed 6.5% and 2.7%, respectively, on Thursday after Disney announced it would acquire most of....
What Happened in the Stock Market Today
Stocks sold off on Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) and the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) posting moderate losses.Data source: Yahoo! Finance.Health care stocks....
Twitter Inc Stock Surges As Buyout Rumors Reappear
Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) stock surged on Thursday in heavy trading volume as takeover talk resurfaced yet again. The shares were on track to close at their highest level in more than a year—with....
With the New iMac Pro, Apple's Mac Momentum Looks Poised to Continue
When Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) new iMac Pro was unveiled this summer, two things were clear: It was a beast, and it was expensive. With the space-gray iMac Pro finally launching this week, the new....
Is Macy's Real Estate Really Worth $16 Billion?
The value of Macy's (NYSE: M) real estate may be worth more than the company itself, as an analyst recently calculated, but is it really worth $16 billion as investment management firm Cowen....
3 Ways Fox Will Reshape Disney's Theme Parks
The long seductive dance between Twenty-First Century Fox (NASDAQ: FOXA) (NASDAQ: FOX) and Disney (NYSE: DIS) finally has some paperwork. The all-stock deal will bring a lot of assets to the House....
Should Kraft Heinz Avoid M&A in 2018?
Sometimes, you have to do the unglamorous work of paying your dues to earn respect. That's the uncanny situation Kraft Heinz Co (NASDAQ: KHC) finds itself in, 2.5 years after its debut on the....
Once Again, Spotify Wants Antitrust Regulators to Crack Down on Apple, Inc.
When done right, operating a platform can be an incredible business. However, it gets murky when the platform operator jumps in and competes with other companies that are building their own....
Google AI Can Now More Accurately Sequence Your Genome
It seems that we see almost daily news stories about artificial intelligence (AI) and innovations that are being realized as the result of this technology. While terms like "groundbreaking" are....
What to Watch When Nike Reports Earnings
Nike's (NYSE: NKE) stock is up 17% over the last three months, as investors become more optimistic about Nike's growth strategy and less concerned about competitors' market share gains earlier in....
This Energy-Dividend Stock Fell 50% and Kept On Minting Money
You can't tell by its stock, but Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI) has become more profitable since cutting its dividend.Not only that, but based on Kinder Morgan's distributable cash flow (DCF), it has....
Target to Launch Same-Day Delivery -- What You Need to Know
Just as Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced a major expansion of its one-day and same-day shipping ahead of Christmas, Target (NYSE: TGT) shared its own announcement about bolstering its....
3 Fast-Growing Oil Stocks to Put on Your Watchlist
After an up-and-down year for oil prices, it seems like crude should be much more stable in 2018. Not only have OPEC and several non-members already agreed to hold back production, but oil companies
Tiffany & Co. Stock Upgraded
Every day, Wall Street analysts upgrade some stocks, downgrade others, and "initiate coverage" on a few more. But do these analysts even know what they're talking about? Today, we're taking one....
Could a Disney-Fox Deal Get By Regulators?
Rumors had been bubbling for weeks that Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) could take over Twenty-First Century Fox (NASDAQ: FOX) (NASDAQ: FOXA), and this morning they came true. Disney said it would....
Dollar General Q3: Good Dollar Figures as Results Meet Estimates
You might consider spending a few dollars on shares of Dollar General (NYSE: DG). The deep-discount retailer put up some good numbers in its just-reported Q3.Like its archrival Dollar Tree....
Cryptocurrency Market Value Just Hit $500 Billion -- but Don't Thank Bitcoin
What an incredible year it has been for anyone with the right mix of smarts and luck to have invested in cryptocurrencies. At the beginning of the year, according to data from CoinMarketCap.com,....
The Vision Used by Self-Driving Cars Just Got a Major Upgrade
One of the amazing technological feats behind advances in self-driving cars is the light detection and ranging system, or LiDAR. This remote sensing device sends out pulses of laser light and....