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New Year's Day is a time to reflect on the past year and take steps to make the coming year as good as it can be. From a financial standpoint, 2020 has been incredibly challenging for millions of

Lemonade (NYSE: LMND) is entering 2021 with a customer list of more than 1 million names. On Thursday, the disruptive insurance company announced that it has racked up such numbers within a little

When retrospectives are written about the stock market in 2020, much of the coverage will inevitably be framed in relation to the coronavirus pandemic. Despite the year being characterized by

2020 bordered on the paradoxical on Wall Street. It was understandable that while the tangible economy was down in the dumps because of the pandemic, shares of digitally focused businesses would

This year was filled with challenges for most of us, but the unprecedented conditions actually created big tailwinds for many technology companies. The Dow Jones U.S. Technology Index has climbed

The gap between the first and booster doses of Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech's (NASDAQ: BNTX) coronavirus vaccine has been widened substantially in the U.K. -- and Pfizer is not pleased about it.

This is how to bring a year to a thundering close: On the last day of 2020, shares of fintech company LendingClub (NYSE: LC) shot 26% higher following some excellent news from a regulator announced

In some ways, Peloton Interactive (NASDAQ: PTON) is doing for exercise equipment what Apple did in the personal computing market. It has taken a mundane product and made it feel special.

That's an

Almost every growth stock wants to be known as the Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) of its sector.

After all, Amazon has been one of the best-performing stocks of the last generation, and that growth came

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) is often considered the 800-pound gorilla of the social networking market. Its family of apps -- which includes its main app, Instagram, and WhatsApp -- grew its monthly active

Enphase Energy (NASDAQ: ENPH) will start the New Year off with a bang as the company has been tipped to join the S&P 500 Index. This will occur before market open next Thursday, Jan. 7.

The S&P

Alphabet's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google recently launched a major redesign for its Google Pay app on Android and iOS, and at least one analyst believes that upgrade could threaten Square

The coronavirus pandemic brought the booming business of cruising to a sudden halt earlier this year. Ever since, the top cruise companies together have been burning through about $1 billion a month

It's finally over: 2020 is in the history books. For stock investors, it was an amazing year, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) and S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) closing at

Artificial intelligence and related technology giving machines and systems the ability to make decisions is a fast-growing industry. Global spending on AI grew by a double-digit percentage in 2020

It's not easy to find dirt cheap stocks in today's market.

Valuations got stretched to near-record levels in 2020. Profits tumbled even as stocks shot to record highs, thanks to a surge of interest

Shares of Intrepid Potash (NYSE: IPI), supplier of minerals like potash, salt, and fluids to the agriculture, animal feed, and oil and gas industries, shot up 59% early on Thursday. As of 3:35 p.m

The Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) has been an exciting place for investors in 2020, and so it's reasonable that the high-flying index would take a break to finish a historic year. As of 2:45

Shares of electric-truck maker Nikola (NASDAQ: NKLA) declined 5% on Thursday, as of 1:20 p.m. EST. The drop is a fitting end to a troubled year for the company.

The stock has been in a general

While most Wall Street analysts express a cautious view of fashion retailer Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN), Wedbush Securities decided to break with the consensus today by boosting its price target for the

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) was down about 0.1% at 11:45 a.m. EST Thursday, a small move to end what has been an eventful year for the stock market. The Dow crashed below

Just weeks after Simon Property Group (NYSE: SPG) and Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE: BAM) took possession of J.C. Penney's assets in bankruptcy court, the mall operators announced the department

Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA) has had quite a year.

Developing a vaccine that could help to bring about the end of a pandemic apparently has a way of boosting a company's stock price. So how much good

New Year's celebrations are likely to look a lot different this year than most, as many people heed warnings to steer clear of mass gatherings during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Wall Street also

Yesterday, shareholders approved an acquisition that will move Tiffany under the umbrella of European luxury retailer LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton. The open slot in the S&P 500 index will be