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The Dow Jones Industrial Average consists of 30 of the most established businesses in the world. Thus, it shouldn't be a surprise to learn that many of the components that belong to this index have

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) currently offers a big-time dividend. The yield is up to an eye-popping 7%, following a roughly 30% slide in the stock price over the past year. That puts its payout several times

The relationship between new technologies and investors can be summed up by a term known as the Gartner hype cycle.

Tracking investor sentiment in relation to disruptive forces, the Gartner hype

In this podcast, Motley Fool senior analyst Jim Gillies and producer Ricky Mulvey discuss:

Plus, Motley Fool analysts Tim Beyers and Meilin Quinn interview DigitalOcean CEO Yancey Spruill about how

Regardless of your investing experience or risk tolerance, putting cash into stocks takes a certain tolerance for volatility and uncertainty. No investment has a guaranteed outcome. However, if you

Dollar Tree (NASDAQ: DLTR) is still growing, but its short-term earnings outlook is worsening. That was the big-picture takeaway from the retailer's late May earnings update that covered the selling

Demand for NVIDIA's (NASDAQ: NVDA) AI chips is proving insatiable. The launch of ChatGPT from OpenAI late last year opened the AI floodgates by demonstrating the power and potential of generative

PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is one of the world's largest digital payment platforms. It initially went public in 2002, was acquired that same year by eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), then spun off again as an

Will Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) benefit or suffer from the huge AI inflection momentum Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) is experiencing? Check out the short video to learn more, consider subscribing,

When it comes to investing for the long term, it is important to not sweat the day-to-day swings in the market and instead remain focused on high-quality stocks trading at great valuations. One of

Within the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has some of the best long-term potential. While times are tough for the chip giant right now, its push to become a

As oil prices go, so goes Occidental Petroleum's (NYSE: OXY) share price. And both are going down.

Oil prices have fallen in large part because of slower demand from China. As a result, Occidental

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a hot topic in the corporate world this year. Thanks to companies like OpenAI and its ChatGPT platform, natural language generative AI has matured to the point that

Revenue for the video games market is projected to hit $385 billion this year and continue expanding at a compound annual rate of 8% through 2027, according to the forecasters at Statista. While its

Over long stretches, the stock market is an undeniable wealth creator. But when we look at it over shorter periods, the directional movement of equities becomes a bit of a guessing game.

For

Spring is in full bloom, and while this time of the year often brings to mind flowers and itchy eyes, it's also an excellent time to bolster your portfolio with solid tech stocks.

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Wall Street finished the month of May on a down note, with major market benchmarks giving back a portion of their recent gains. Declines for the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) and S&P 500

What comes up must come down, as the old saying goes, and that rule of gravity applied to Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock on Wednesday. The days-long rally in the tech company's shares, fueled by its

Shares of semiconductor giants Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE: TSM), and Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) were all falling on Wednesday, down 5.2%

Shares of pharma titan Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) were up by 2.24% on moderate volume as of 2:29 p.m. ET Wednesday afternoon. The drugmaker's stock is trending higher despite every major U.S. stock index

Shares of financial powerhouse Visa (NYSE: V) slipped 1.8% in noonday trading ET on Wednesday, after releasing data on its transactions and payments volume in the U.S. yesterday.  

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Shares of most bank stocks headed south today as concerns over the sector came back into focus and seemed to worry investors that the banking crisis is not yet over.

Shares of Truist Financial

Bill Ackman and Carl Icahn are back in the limelight. Where have we seen this before? Both legendary investors, Ackman and Icahn duked it out during Ackman's memorable activist short campaign