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The mortgage real estate investment trust (REIT) sector has had a wild ride over the past three months. Virtually every stock in the sector reported a reduction in book value and has been forced to

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the way people live their lives. One of the most obvious changes is that it has accelerated our shift toward e-commerce, as many of us chose to

If you follow tech news, it is hard to miss press from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Slack Technologies (NYSE: WORK), which are battling it out for the highly coveted hub of the digital office

Investors weren't expecting much good news from Dave & Buster's Entertainment (NASDAQ: PLAY) in its first-quarter earnings report. The selling period included six full weeks during which all of its

Shares of Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) climbed today after the Commerce Department released new data showing that U.S. retail sales popped in May. Groupon's stock rose as much as 14.1% in the morning, and

Investment banker J.P. Morgan predicted "a reasonable, albeit slow, recovery in operations" for cruise lines Carnival Corporation (NYSE: CCL) (NYSE: CUK), Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NYSE: NCLH)

Shares of Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY) surged on Tuesday morning after the drugmaker reported positive results from a clinical trial for Verzenio (abemaciclib), a cancer treatment. The company's stock is

The combination of strong retail sales numbers and a potential breakthrough for treating severe cases of COVID-19 sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) higher on Tuesday. While the

Costco's (NASDAQ: COST) warehouse club model, which lets members buy bulk products at steep discounts, has become a major threat to traditional supermarkets like Kroger (NYSE: KR) in recent years

When people look back on how businesses fared during the COVID-19 pandemic, many may see Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) as one of the relative surprises. Despite its stores remaining largely closed since late

Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) has been one of the undisputed beneficiaries of the widespread stay-at-home orders issued in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Forced into government-imposed lockdowns

COVID-19 has thrown many investors into a frenzy. Should I buy stock in cleaning companies? Home exercise equipment? But the same investing principles that applied before still apply now. Even if

SoftBank (OTC: SFTBF) is gearing up to sell a stake in T-Mobile USA (NASDAQ: TMUS) as part of its plan to shore up cash via asset sales. 

In a press release issued Tuesday, the Japanese tech stock

Tuesday morning brought a big move up for the stock market, adding onto Monday's modest gains. Some strong economic data created a more positive mood on Wall Street, with evidence supporting the

Hertz (NYSE: HTZ), a vehicle rental company now in the middle of the bankruptcy process, continued to mystify market onlookers as its share price jumped 21% Tuesday morning before quickly reversing

Shares of General Electric (NYSE: GE) stock popped nearly 7% in early trading Tuesday before giving back some of its gains. At 11:40 a.m. Tuesday, GE stock retained a healthy 3.2% gain -- about

Shares of Infinera Corp. (NASDAQ: INFN) were rising today after economic data was published showing that retail sales rose in May. Shares of Infinera were up as much as 15.6% before the afternoon.

Privately-held Epic Games, maker of the uber-popular Fortnite video game, is rapidly catching up to the big publicly traded videogame companies -- at least in terms of valuation.

Within the

Shares of Chinese streaming video champ iQiyi (NASDAQ: IQ) soared more than 20% on Tuesday on word that rival Tencent Holdings (OTC: TCEHY) is looking to buy a stake in the company -- its biggest

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is deploying cameras to ensure employees maintain social distancing while at work. 

In a blog post, the tech stock said the technology, dubbed "Distance Assistant" will give

Shares of Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU), the company called the "Chinese Google," are easily outperforming shares of Google's parent today. As of 11:20 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, Alphabet stock was up 1.5% while

This has been a good month for Carnival (NYSE: CCL) (NYSE: CUK) investors. The stock has risen 24% through Monday's close, but an important date is coming later this month that could send this ship

Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) efforts to monetize WhatsApp -- the messaging app it paid $19 billion for in 2014 -- have been delayed and rethought several times over by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his

Two years ago, Elon Musk's Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) made a big splash on the world stage with his plan to link 50,000 solar-panel-equipped homes in South Australia to create a 250-megawatt "virtual

A tightly packed movie theater is the last place most people want to be with a highly contagious disease spreading around the world. That's partly why shares of AMC Entertainment Holdings (NYSE: