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The stock market has been on a roll lately, but it looked as though Friday morning would have a mixed start on Wall Street. Even though futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average saw modest gains

Even though the stock market is making a comeback this year after declining last year, you can still find great stocks to buy and some bargains. Although it feels great to find a bargain, it's not

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) has long had a leading position in enterprise IT. It's known for having the world's top relational database management system as well as cloud infrastructure, enterprise

After its last earnings report and subsequent jump in share price just a few months ago, Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) co-founder Larry Ellison surpassed Bill Gates on the list of the world's richest people

PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL) is one of the most popular stocks trading on the online brokerage site Robinhood Markets, and for good reason. But the reason might not be what you expect from a

Several of the world's most exciting companies completed stock splits last year, an operation that lowers the value of each individual share. Companies often launch a stock split after their shares

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has been one of the best-performing mega-cap companies in the last five years, gaining more than 190%.

Despite Microsoft's solid stock return, investors are optimistic that

On Wednesday, technology leaders including Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates and Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang met with senators to discuss the future of AI. While corporate

Though investors will have to wait until next month to get a full-fledged quarterly update on Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), there's a lot of good information to digest in the meantime, thanks to an

In the years since it went public, cloud-based cybersecurity specialist CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has been a market-beating investment for shareholders. Although the stock now trades 41% lower than

If you keep close tabs on foreign economies, then you likely know South America's not exactly firing on all cylinders right now. Although the United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America

Fool.com contributor Parkev Tatevosian compares Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) and Block (NYSE: SQ) to answer which is the better growth stock to buy now.

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Fool.com contributor Parkev Tatevosian highlights strategic choices made by Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) and Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) to an increase in competition and what those decisions could mean for

Oracle's (NYSE: ORCL) stock price fell 14% on Sept. 12 after the tech giant posted its latest earnings report. For the first quarter of fiscal 2024, which ended on Aug. 31, its revenue grew 9% year

PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) has seriously crushed investors' portfolios, as the stock is down 79% from its peak price set in July 2021. Even this year, when the overall market has bounced back from last

Since its founding nearly 50 years ago, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has had monster success in tech. The software giant is the second-most valuable company in the world, with a market cap of $2.5

Amid rising uncertainty in the crypto market, a growing number of cryptos are now down as much as 20% over the past 30 days. Two names that particularly stand out are Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) and

The list of $1 trillion companies is thin, as only five U.S. companies are currently above that threshold. But there are also a few companies within striking distance of being worth $1 trillion.

One

The heavy-duty computation required to train the most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models and deliver those models as services is mostly being done in cloud data centers. Cloud giants like

Alibaba's (NYSE: BABA) stock stayed nearly flat this year, even after the company's latest quarterly report in August easily cleared Wall Street's expectations.

The bears are still convinced its

Tech stocks fell out of favor in 2022, with the Nasdaq-100 technology sector index plunging 40% throughout the year. However, easing inflation and excitement over developing industries such as

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META), the company behind Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, has been one of the hottest stocks to own in 2023. The stock is trading up over 155% so far this year, and it has

Just when it seems like things can't get any worse for Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA), POW! Things get worse.

Alibaba Group's former CEO and current head of cloud computing Daniel Zhang is leaving the

Media-streaming veteran Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) has split its stock twice. The last split was a dramatic 7-for-1 affair in 2015. With share prices heading upward again, Netflix stock is back to a

Did you know that Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) was named Yahoo Finance's Company of the Year in 2022? Winners from previous years include Microsoft, Zoom Video Communications, and Target. Costco