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Shares of online car parts shop CarParts.com (NASDAQ: PRTS) are hopping Wednesday, rising more than 11% in early trading and still up a good 7.8% as of 1:45 p.m. EDT. In part, this is a continuation

American Express (NYSE: AXP) might soon be the owner of ambitious young fintech company Kabbage. According to a report published Wednesday by Bloomberg, citing "a person familiar with the matter,"

Pinterest (NYSE: PINS) is the target of a lawsuit from one of its former top executives. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, former COO Francoise Brougher is suing the hobby-pinning website operator for

Easy come, easy go. After two straight days of gains, cruise line stocks were headed back down today.

Whether it's Carnival's (NYSE: CCL) 5.4% decline, Royal Caribbean's (NYSE: RCL) 5.2% slide, or

COVID-19 slammed into the U.S. economy like an iceberg, and crushed the cruise line industry like it was the Titanic.

As America shut down and sheltered in place in late March and for much of the

Churchill Downs (NASDAQ: CHDN) unveiled a plan today for running the Kentucky Derby on September 5 as scheduled earlier in the year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Among many other measures and

Shares of over-the-top (OTT) streaming company Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) were up a solid 2% at 12:50 p.m. EDT today after being up even more at 5% earlier in the day, and they may return to that level and

Wednesday was a good day on Wall Street, with none of the recent divided markets that we've seen frequently over the past few weeks. Enthusiasm about the potential for another coronavirus stimulus

The owner of Calvin Klein, Izod, and other name brands is poaching Nike's (NYSE: NKE) executive officers for new hires. PVH (NYSE: PVH) announced it had hired Julie Fuller as its new human resources

Shares of OneSpan (NASDAQ: OSPN) tumbled on Wednesday after the cybersecurity solutions provider to the financial industry reported its second-quarter results. OneSpan missed analyst estimates

Blink Charging (NASDAQ: BLNK), which operates a network of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, is scheduled to report its Q2 2020 earnings after close of trading on the Nasdaq tomorrow

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Consumer staples businesses have always been considered recession-resistant. The recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic has given suppliers of cleaning products an even stronger boost. Clorox

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For every $1 a gambler "invests" in lottery tickets, studies show they can expect to get back

Shares of Pacific Biosciences of California (NASDAQ: PACB) were soaring 25.6% as of 11:54 a.m. EDT on Wednesday. The big gain came after the gene-sequencing systems maker announced a public stock

Shares of CoreCivic (NYSE: CXW), a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns jail and halfway-house properties tied to the criminal justice system, jumped more than 10% in early trading

Coronavirus-related stocks declined sharply on Wednesday, extending their losses following Russia's announcement on Tuesday that it had developed the world's first COVID-19 vaccine. 

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Shares of Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) soared on Wednesday, rising more than 10% as of 12:20 p.m. EDT.

The growth stock's gain follows news that the company's board of directors approved a 5-for-1 split of

Shares of Omeros (NASDAQ: OMER) fell as much as 13.3% today after the company announced the pricing of a public offering of common stock and more details about a debt offering. 

The biopharma will

Shares of Personalis (NASDAQ: PSNL) fell nearly 14% today, after the company announced the pricing of a public offering of common stock. The genomics company will issue up to 7.56 million shares of

Shares of Trevena (NASDAQ: TRVN), a biopharmaceutical company, were down by 16.2% as of 11:27 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, after the drugmaker announced the pricing of a public offering of common stock

Investors have pushed the stock of Home Depot (NYSE: HD) far above the return of the wider market in 2020. Even though U.S. economic conditions would normally imply a difficult selling period ahead

Shares of Jumia Technologies (NYSE: JMIA) were taking a dive today after the African e-commerce company posted disappointing results in its second-quarter report. Revenue fell even as investors were

Shares of American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO) are trading 4% higher Wednesday morning, after an analyst at J.P. Morgan upgraded his outlook on the stock to "overweight" with a $17 price target

Shares of Inovio Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: INO) were sinking 12.2% lower as of 11:16 a.m. EDT on Wednesday. This marked the second consecutive day of steep declines for the stock after Inovio's Q2