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Mattel Shelves Baby Smart Speaker After Outcry
Voice-activated smart speakers are all the rage. Though the category only debuted with the 2014 release of the Echo by Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), growth in the segment has been staggering.....
Renewable Energy This Week: What You Need to Know
Last week was another week of milestones for renewable energy, both big and small. For investors, there may be some good news that will help shape solar energy and energy storage, in particular,....
Better Buy: Berkshire Hathaway vs. American Express
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A)(NYSE: BRK-B) and American Express (NYSE: AXP) are two behemoths in the financial sector. In last year's comparison of the two as stock....
Blue Apron Lays off Hundreds of Employees
Meal kit maker Blue Apron (NYSE: APRN) recently announced that it would lay off about 300 employees, or 6% of its workforce, in a bid to boost the company's "future growth." Employees in the....
Amazon: Wo steht die Aktie in 50 Jahren?
Die Amazon-Aktie schwächelt bereits seit Ende Juli und konnte die jüngsten Hochs an der Technologie-Börse Nasdaq oder beim DAX nicht mehr nachvollziehen. Seit dem Jahreshoch bzw. dem Abstecher....
Amazon Prime Has Nearly as Many Subscribers as Cable
Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) Prime service now has 90 million members in the United States, according to new data from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP).The report shows that 63% of the....
Costco Is Worried It's Losing to Wal-Mart and Amazon
Costco (NASDAQ: COST) never bought into the idea it was immune to the threat Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) poses, but since the e-commerce giant purchased Whole Foods Market, the warehouse club....
American Express Reports Higher Third-Quarter Earnings Across the Board
American Express (NYSE: AXP) has spent the past two years working through a turnaround strategy after ending its relationship with Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST), which had accounted....
10 Things You Didn't Know About Amazon.com, Inc.
Despite the fact that millions of people purchase items from Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) every day, there are some interesting aspects to the e-commerce giant that many people are not aware of.Here....
Why Now Is Not the Time to Get Greedy With MercadoLibre Stock
For years, MercadoLibre, Inc. (NASDAQ: MELI) has been an excellent stock to own.Until its recent slide, the stock had more than tripled over the last five years on the back of rapidly growing....
MercadoLibre Shares Take a Hit on Fears That Amazon Is Moving South
In this segment of the Motley Fool Money podcast, host Chris Hill, Million Dollar Portfolio's Jason Moser, Supernova and Rule Breakers' David Kretzmann, and Motley Fool Hidden Gems' Andy Cross....
3 Top Consumer and Retail Stocks to Put on Your Radar
Restaurants, big box stores, and other retail chains have struggled in the past few years, but there are still a few stocks in the sector that have managed to stand out from the competition.It's....
eBay Takes a Small Step Toward Fixing the Internet's Huge Counterfeiting Problem
The internet has made it easier to sell counterfeit or fake goods.In fact, trade in counterfeit and pirated goods has grown from $250 billion annually in 2008 to $461 billion in 2013, according to....
Why Does Amazon Want to Scan My Body?
Recently Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced it was buying 3D modeling start-up Body Labs, for what sources say is close to $70 million. Body Labs makes software that models true-to-life 3D....
Retailers Will Fail If This Is Their Solution to Amazon.com's Threat
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) is causing the retail industry to lose its dang mind. Retailers are so fearful of losing customers to the e-commerce giant, they're forgetting why they're even in....
3 Top Housing Stocks
The SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF has been on a tear, with gains north of 18% over the past 12 months, enough to eke out a win against the broader S&P 500 index. If investors really want to....
How Tractor Supply Is Defying the Train Wreck of Retail
I know you've read the headlines. "Bricks and Mortar is Dying." "Malls are Doomed." "Retail is Falling Apart."Every day, it seems we read about another retailer kicking the bucket. My colleague....
Earnings: 3 Hot Stocks to Watch
Just as earnings season is kicking into high gear, some big names are getting ready to report. PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), Twitter (NYSE: TWTR), and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) are three high-profile....
Costco's Sinking Margins and E-Commerce Fears Tank the Stock
Investors in Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST) have been on something of a roller coaster ride.Shares of the company have been pushed around by the overall retail environment than....
Amazon.com, Inc. Earnings: 3 Metrics to Watch
E-commerce giant Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) suffered a pullback in its stock price when it announced its last earnings report. While revenue continued to surge higher, net income plummeted from....
What Ramen Noodles Can Teach You About Packaged Food Stock Investments
You can be sure that the economic tides have truly shifted within an industry when customers begin to demand of commodity products the qualities they once sought out only in high-end goods.Last....
Is Wal-Mart Stores Inc. a Buy?
Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) treated the internet as a sideline for a very long time. That changed in August 2016, when the retailer bought Jet.com for $3.3 billion.That was a very risky deal. The....
3 Stocks for an Approaching Bear Market
After an eight-and-a-half-year bull market, lots of people on Wall Street are wondering when it will be time for this bull to be put out to pasture. Bull markets this long are inevitably going to....
Why Domino's Pizza, MercadoLibre, and Blackhawk Network Holdings Slumped Today
Thursday marked the beginning of third-quarter earnings season in many investors' eyes, with big bank stocks reporting their latest results. Amid a backdrop of solid economic conditions in the....
MercadoLibre, Inc. Shares Were Decked Following This Report -- Here's Why
Shares of MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI), an online commerce platform throughout Latin America, plunged as much as 12% during Thursday's trading session, after a report surfaced that Amazon.com....