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In just two months, Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) has experienced one of the toughest challenges in the history of the company. The COVID-19 pandemic has upended life as we know it, causing

Central Florida's defining theme parks aren't allowed to open just yet in the current phase of the state's recovery efforts, but The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) and Universal Orlando parent

Until fairly recently, energy drink maker Monster Beverage (NASDAQ: MNST) was a plucky little upstart, chasing extreme revenue growth as energy drinks inched their way into the global mainstream

The U.S. economy is slowly opening up in the hopes that the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is over. Oil prices will likely remain depressed from the shockwaves of lower demand, namely from

The energy-producing world is dominated by five major companies: BP (NYSE: BP), Total SA (NYSE: TOT), Shell (NYSE: RDS.A) and (NYSE: RDS.B), ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), and Chevron (NYSE: CVX). Prior to

The coronavirus crisis has systematically suspended large pockets of the mortgage universe. While private lending is still getting done (albeit at a very reduced level), government-backed lending

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KT Corp (NYSE: KT)Q1 2020 Earnings CallMay 13, 2020, 2:00 a.m. ET

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Investors should typically have a long-term mindset when buying a stock, which means thinking about where a stock will be in the next three, five, or 10 years. Yet the current environment

As a general rule, recessions are a bad time to be invested in the financials sector. Ideally, you'd like to wait till the recovery has started and all the asset writedowns and dividend cuts are

Grubhub (NYSE: GRUB) stock was flying higher Tuesday after Bloomberg reported that Uber (NYSE: UBER) had made an offer to acquire the online takeout marketplace. 

Grubhub stock rose as much as 38.8%

COVID-19 has been battering the U.S. economy since cases started multiplying in March. An estimated 20.5 million workers lost their jobs in April alone, driving the unemployment rate up to 14.7% --

PNC Financial Services Group (NYSE: PNC), the holding company of PNC Bank, grabbed headlines by announcing its intention to sell its roughly $17 billion stake in BlackRock (NYSE: BLK), the world's

It was supposed to be the cable television industry's answer to the advent of much cheaper streaming options. Consumers may be increasingly unwilling to pay full price for a full-blown cable TV

The recent results from multi-industry manufacturer Illinois Tool Works (NYSE: ITW) served to highlight many of the difficult decisions investors are facing right now. It's an uncertain

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Phoenix New Media Limited (NYSE: FENG)Q1 2020 Earnings CallMay 13, 2020, 9:00 p.m. ET

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Most consumers -- particularly in the United States -- know Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) pretty well -- or at least its product line. The company owns an array of leading brands like Pampers diapers

Last April, Disney (NYSE: DIS) executives forecast Disney+ would reach between 60 million and 90 million subscribers by the end of 2024. Thirteen months later and about seven months after launching

When COVID-19 began to wreak havoc on the solar industry, resulting in the loss of tens of thousands of jobs, it seemed obvious that most residential solar companies would be impacted in a similar

For years, the marijuana industry was the hottest investment on Wall Street. Investors could practically have thrown a dart at a list of North American licensed producers and doubled their money in

Semiconductor designer Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) is a big winner these days. The stock has been crushing the broader market as well as archrivals Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and Nvidia (NASDAQ:

The defense sector hadn't seen a megamerger since the 1990s, but that all changed last month when the aerospace arm of United Technologies combined with Raytheon to form Raytheon Technologies. The

Simon Property Group (NYSE: SPG), with its 14% dividend yield, is the leading mall real estate investment trust (REIT), and there's a lot to like about it. However, if you are looking to own a

Did Appfolio (NASDAQ: APPF) come up at your last Zoom video happy hour or virtual family gathering? I'm guessing it probably didn't. Since it's not a consumer-facing company, it's not widely known

It's been quite a roller coaster ride for stock investors, with the market plunging into bear market territory with record-setting speed in March before having the best month in decades in April

COVID-19 has swiftly plunged the nation toward a likely recession, and that has left millions of Americans understandably worried about how they're going to pay their bills over the next few months