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What Investors Need to Know About Verizon's Mammoth NFL Deal
Football fans and cord-cutters rejoice, because Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) just kicked off the week with some great news. On Monday, the telecom giant announced a new five-year distribution....
Wal-Mart Wants to Eat Blue Apron's Lunch (and Dinner)
Blue Apron (NYSE: APRN) may have pioneered the meal-kit business, but brick-and-mortar grocery stores aren't going to let it steal its business. Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), the nation's largest grocery....
Intel Corp. Expects to Sample 10-Nano FPGAs in 2018
In 2013, chip giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and programmable logic chip vendor Altera announced a collaboration whereby Intel would manufacture chips Altera designs. This move, Altera hoped, would....
Is Apple Catching Up to Google and Tesla in Self-Driving Technology?
While Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been arguably the most dominant tech company of the past decade, some regard it as a laggard in the race for self-driving cars. Its Project Titan initiative has been....
Walmart Has Struck a Chord With Online Grocery Sales in China
Don't look now, but Walmart (NYSE: WMT) is crushing the online grocery market in China. Walmart's net sales in the People's Republic of China for the third quarter of 2017 increased 4%, and....
Better Buy: Microsoft vs. Oracle
With their respective transitions to the cloud, analytics, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) in full swing, both Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) have been powering a profitable....
Intel Reportedly Prepping Ice Lake for First Half of 2019 Launch
A little while back, noted tech leaker "chrisdar" indicated that chip giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) was planning yet another generation of products built using a derivative of its 14-nanometer chip....
15 Dividends That Have Grown for 10 Straight Years (or More)
Image source: Getty Images.One of the many benefits of owning stocks is the chance to receive small chunks of a company's profit in the form of regular checks. We're talking about dividends, of....
Home Depot Stock Beats Apple in This Key Investor Metric
On the surface, Home Depot (NYSE: HD) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) have nothing in common. One's a high-flying technology company that redefined communications with its smartphones, and the other is a....
1 Figure That Sums Up Why Bitcoin Is So Dangerous
Over the long term, there's been no more consistent creator of wealth than the stock market. Stocks have returned an average of 7% per year, inclusive of dividend reinvestment and adjusted for....
3 Dividend Stocks to Buy on Sale
Stocks that pay out the highest dividend yields aren't always the best ones to buy. Sometimes, the yields are artificially high in advance of a big dividend cut. And sometimes the dividend is....
Intel Corp. Needs Better Manufacturing Leadership
At Intel's (NASDAQ: INTC) November 2013 investor meeting, then-manufacturing chief Bill Holt gave a detailed presentation in which he aimed to assure investors that its lead in chip manufacturing....
Why Instacart May Be Wal-Mart and Amazon's Biggest Rival
If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then Instacart may soon have a whole lot of friends.To be fair, the same-day delivery service isn't quite Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) enemy -- the two companies....
Canada to Axe Boeing Fighter Purchase as Trade Dispute Heats Up
Canada is reportedly planning to cancel a plan to buy 18 Boeing (NYSE: BA) fighter jets, following through on threats to escalate a cross-border trade dispute with the U.S. aerospace giant. Boeing....
If Disney Buys a Piece of Fox, Marvel's the Biggest Winner
If you look back at the history of studio acquisitions made by The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), they have been positively brilliant. The House of Mouse acquired Pixar in 2006 for $7.4 billion,....
3 Dividend Stocks Perfect for Retirees
Retiring today is a lot different from retiring 30 years ago. People today are living much longer, which means you'll need to continue investing long after you've hung up your work coat or gloves....
1 Surprising Rumor About Apple's Upcoming 6.1-Inch iPhone
Next year, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is expected to launch three new iPhones. The lowest-cost of the bunch is expected to be a device with a 6.1-inch liquid crystal display (LCD), which means the....
It's Deal Time for Boeing and Airbus as 2017 Draws to a Close
Entering 2017, most pundits expected a meaningful slump in aircraft orders, following years of record order activity early in this decade. Even top airplane manufacturers Boeing (NYSE: BA) and....
Intel Corp.'s "Whiskey Lake" Revealed
Back in August, chipmaker Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) launched a new family of processors for the mainstream notebook PC market known as Kaby Lake Refresh. These chips were based on the same basic....
iPhone X Availability Is Impressive Ahead of Christmas
With the iPhone X launching more than a month after Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) typical new iPhone releases, there was good reason for investors to believe production of the device could fail to ramp....
What Does Xbox Mean to Microsoft?
While the Xbox One is a top-tier gaming console and only second in sales to Sony's (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation 4, it's actually not a big part of Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) overall business. That,....
3 Top Stocks With High Dividend Yields
Income-seeking investors don't have to sacrifice growth to enjoy a healthy payout. Some stocks offer both a steady stream of income along with strong growth potential. With that in mind, we asked....
Did Apple Inc. Make a Huge Mistake in 2017?
In 2017, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) introduced three new smartphones: iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X. The iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus share the same form factor and display as their respective....
Why Wal-Mart Stock Gained 11% in November
Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), the world's biggest retailer, gained 11% last month, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence, compared to a 2.8% boost for the broader market.WMT....
Intel's 2 Biggest Growth Opportunities
Chip giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is hardly the first company that springs to mind when the phrase "growth stock" is mentioned. It's a large, mature company that has dominant market share in the....