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After some big sell-offs last year, 2023 has generally been a very strong year for growth stocks. The growth-heavy Nasdaq Composite index has rallied roughly 30% year to date, and it's possible that

Being a PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) investor has been painful the past few years. If you initiated a position in the summer of 2017, you saw the stock nearly gain 500%, only to crash back down to the same

Shares of technology giant International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) have bounced back from their pandemic-era lows, but the stock remains down about 21% from its all-time high reached more than a

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) stock is seeing big sell-offs in Tuesday's trading. The company's share price was down 12% as of 2:15 p.m. ET, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

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Vivek Pandya, manager of Adobe Digital Insights, talks through the trends he's seeing so far in

Someone forgot to tell ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) that the cloud software industry has been slowing down in 2023. The digital transformation platform's revenue growth has actually been accelerating

In this video, I will be talking about Alibaba (NYSE: BABA), the Chinese economy, Pinduoduo, and why I believe Alibaba stock could double from the price it's at today.

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Investors came into this week looking at the potential impact of inflation on the Federal Reserve's plans for monetary policy in 2024. The latest reading of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was

Many dividend stocks lost their luster over the past two years as rising interest rates boosted the yields for CDs and Treasury bills above 5%. But over the long term, stable dividend stocks usually

When domestic investors think of e-commerce companies, Amazon is often the first name that comes to mind -- and rightly so. It dominates North America's online shopping landscape, after all

You don't have to identify the hottest trend or company to be a successful investor. Instead, you can invest in the company behind many businesses. Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) is one of those companies for

Sometimes being a contrarian can pay off. While it can be a challenge, doing your own homework and not following the crowd are attributes that distinguish some of the best investors.

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Many tech stocks fell out of favor over the past two years as rising interest rates compressed their valuations and highlighted their financial weaknesses. But hastily retreating from the entire

PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) stock is down in the dumps, with a 16% decline this year versus a comparable 19% gain for the S&P 500. That might scare off some investors, while other investors might

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However, some businesses, like Shopify (NYSE: SHOP),

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