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November isn't just a good time to begin your holiday shopping. It's also a great time to buy stocks with tremendous growth prospects. Of course, any time is a great time to buy stocks if you're a

Charles Schwab (NYSE: SCHW) announced in a memo on Monday that it will lay off about 1,000 employees, or roughly 3% of the company's workforce.

The move is a result of cost savings the bank hopes

Shares of Chinese electric-vehicle maker NIO (NYSE: NIO) were rising on Tuesday morning, as buyers waded in a day after the shares were hit in a broad U.S. market sell-off on COVID-19 concerns.

As

One of the best-performing technology companies over the last decade is Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN). Over the past 10 years, Amazon's share price went up more than 20-fold to reach a market capitalization

Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) is reportedly considering dumping its Las Vegas casinos in a $6 billion sale.

Because the casino operator currently derives just 16% of its business from Nevada, the

In this episode of Motley Fool Money, Chris Hill chats with Motley Fool analysts Jason Moser and Ron Gross about the latest headlines and earning reports from Wall Street. They talk about dividends

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) on Monday announced it is plowing fresh equity investments into three lenders that concentrate on services for minority groups. These investments give it stakes of nearly

Waymo has a new partner. The Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) self-driving subsidiary has inked a deal with Daimler's (OTC: DMLRY) heavy-truck unit, in which the two will work to create

Shareholders in aerospace-focused companies have had to endure a difficult year, and it's not over yet. The coronavirus pandemic hit the commercial aviation industry hard, and the recovery is

Pacific Ethanol (NASDAQ: PEIX) is the little engine that could -- as in, it could transform its business from a low-margin maker of gasoline additives into a high-margin producer of alcohol for

Shares of semiconductor tester and packager Amkor Technology (NASDAQ: AMKR) collapsed after the company reported earnings last night. Amkor beat estimates, reporting $0.38 per-share profit on sales

Energy Transfer's (NYSE: ET) distribution is the latest victim of this year's downturn in the energy market. The master limited partnership (MLP) cut its quarterly payout in half (from $0.305 per

Limelight Networks'(NASDAQ: LLNW) shareholders had legitimate reasons to fear third-quarter earnings. On Oct. 14, the competitor Fastly withdrew its full-year guidance and communicated surprisingly

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) will acquire rival Xilinx (NASDAQ: XLNX) in a $35 billion all-stock transaction that sees the chipmaker making its biggest push yet to challenge Intel (NASDAQ:

Shares of Scholar Rock Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: SRRK) were skyrocketing 74.2% higher as of 10:18 a.m. EDT on Tuesday. The huge jump came after the company announced positive interim results from

Shares of Harley-Davidson (NYSE: HOG) jumped 20% on Tuesday morning after the motorcycle manufacturer reported third-quarter results that came in well ahead of expectations. There are some reasons

TJX Companies (NYSE: TJX) has had a rough 2020. Stores were open for about two-thirds of the fiscal second quarter, which led to a significant drop in sales. Still, this is the type of environment

It's not terribly surprising consumer staples giant Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) managed to grow last quarter despite coronavirus-crimped conditions. Consumer staples like diapers, razors, detergent

Both Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Home Depot (NYSE: HD) saw their stocks outperformed the market through the first three quarters of 2020. As leaders in the e-commerce and home improvement spaces

In an effort to expand its streaming video ecosystem, Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) could soon acquire JOYY's (NASDAQ: YY) Chinese operations, according to the digital media outlet Jiemian. JOYY will

In spite of the March market crash, the year has been decent for biotech stocks. The iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (NASDAQ: IBB) is up 11% since the start of 2020. That's compared to the S&P

For most airlines, the pain of the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over. Cash burn has slowed compared to the spring, but revenue remains at a fraction of 2019 levels and breakeven is months away (at

Money market funds and CDs aren't cutting it with income investors these days. With interest rates so low it's only natural for risk-averse investors to find themselves in the stock market for all

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) released the second-generation iPhone SE earlier this year, near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic that has upended the world. Leveraging a familiar strategy of adding

Some of the biggest companies in the world started small. And that's why investors should pay attention to cheap stocks with significant growth potential over the long term. Let's explore the