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Apple and Microsoft are two of the most widely held stocks in the world, and Wall Street is generally bullish on both companies. Apple has a median price target of $200 per share which implies a 15%

Fool.com contributor Parkev Tatevosian reviews Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and financial metrics that are vital to understanding its dividend payout.

*Stock prices used were the afternoon prices of Sept

Stock markets fell sharply on Tuesday, continuing the downward momentum from last week after a one-day break. The losses for the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite were roughly equivalent, but even

Intel's (NASDAQ: INTC) worst mistake in recent history was its failure to make the technological leap from personal computer CPUs to mobile CPUs. It flopped because the British chip designer Arm

Sam Altman is a co-founder of OpenAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) start-up that took the world by storm thanks to the screaming success of ChatGPT. Tech giant Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) was quick

If you're an overnight subway rider in New York City, you might soon spot a 5-foot-3 blue and white robot on wheels that looks like a cross between Star Wars' R2D2 and one of the Coneheads from the

Part of the reason to own stocks in general is protection from inflation. After all, while a bond's coupon is fixed, a stock's earnings should, hopefully, grow. Ideally, it would be a high-quality

Over the past week, rumors have been circulating on the internet that may have caused some artificial-intelligence (AI) winners like Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) to sell off.

Last week, the Taiwan Business

So far, 2023 has been a year of recovery for the stock market overall. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up roughly 2.5%. That's not bad given the Dow's 8.9% drop in 2022, but it's also quite a

For more than three years, Wall Street's major stock indexes -- the iconic Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), broad-based S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), and innovation-fueled Nasdaq

Investors came into the new week feeling somewhat nervous about the state of the stock market, particularly given the losses earlier in September. However, some renewed confidence in the economy's

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The stock market could really use some good news this week. Investors have watched major market benchmarks give up most of their summer gains in the past couple of weeks, and sentiment as the fall

In an era of software mega-deals, old network infrastructure giant Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) apparently doesn't want to be left out. It just announced it intends to acquire Splunk (NASDAQ: SPLK)

Investors in Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) waited a long time. The one-time darling of the tech industry briefly achieved the world's largest market cap in 2000. But since the dot-com bust, it

International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) has spent the better part of the past decade repositioning itself for the era of cloud computing and artificial intelligence. The $2 billion acquisition

Visa's (NYSE: V) reported net revenue of $8.1 billion and diluted earnings per share of $2 in its most recent three-month period (Q3 2023 ended June 30). Both of these headline figures were up

E-commerce is back to its old ways. After declining for most of the past two years, the niche is now growing as a percentage of the total retail pie. That rate has more or less steadily increased

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is the most valuable company in the world by market cap, and its business has hit record heights since its founding 47 years ago. The company has had immense success with

UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) has seen its shares decline more than 6% so far this year. That may not seem like much of a drop, but for a company as steady as UnitedHealth, that represents a

Chip giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is taking a big risk with its Meteor Lake CPUs, which are set to become available in December. Almost everything is changing all at once. Unlike its

Oil prices have caught fire in recent months, surging 30% over the past 90 days. That rally has pushed crude prices over $90 a barrel. The main driver has been OPEC's decision to reduce its supply.

No doubt about it: NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) is an impressive sight.

Standing 322 feet tall, the Boeing (NYSE: BA)-built SLS stretches twice the length of the space shuttle and is taller than

It was no surprise that Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) had to walk away from its bid to acquire Israel's chip manufacturer Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ: TSEM). The clock was ticking, and regulators in China

It's easy to find companies that are experiencing short-term gains as a result of hype rather than real growth. Finding companies that are growing fast and have the potential to go the distance in