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A winter wave of COVID-19 may be brewing in the U.S., with many states reporting distinct increases in confirmed cases. More economic stimulus may be necessary if the pandemic worsens from here, but

Shares of Plantronics (NYSE: PLT) have skyrocketed today, up by 20% as of 12:45 p.m. EDT, after getting an upgrade from Wall Street. The company, which goes by the name Poly, is expected to benefit

Mobile network operator T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) is handing out cake mixes for a magenta Betty Crocker layer cake while supplies last. Why a layer cake? Because the company has a "layer cake"

Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) has signed an agreement to acquire Weir Group's (LSE: WEIR) oil and natural gas division, Weir Oil & Gas, for $405 million in cash. Pending shareholder and regulatory

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) raced out of the gate Monday and are up 5.2% as of 12:30 p.m. EDT. There appear to be at least three reasons why Apple is making this run, and two of them begin on Wall Street.

Shares of DouYu (NASDAQ: DOYU) popped Monday, trading 9.3% higher as of 1:10 p.m. EDT, while shares of Huya (NYSE: HUYA) had dropped by 12.5% after Huya announced  it would acquire rival DouYu

Shares of Aphria (NASDAQ: APHA), Canopy Growth (NYSE: CGC), and Cronos Group (NASDAQ: CRON) climbed on Monday, as marijuana stocks furthered their ascent. As of 12:30 p.m. EDT, their stocks were up

Shares of Vedanta Limited (NYSE: VEDL) are down 11% today as of 12:45 p.m. EDT after the company announced over the weekend that its delisting plan failed to receive enough shareholder support. 

The

Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM), parent company of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC, and other restaurant chains, announced a new appointment to its board of directors Monday morning to replace outgoing director

Shares of Fortress Biotech (NASDAQ:FBIO), a biopharmaceutical company, were down by 22.5% as of 12:26 p.m. EDT on Monday, after dropping by as much as 28.3% earlier in the day. These losses are a

Many cloud computing stocks rallied over the past year even as the broader market was weighed down by the trade war, the COVID-19 crisis, and other macro headwinds. Let's examine three leading cloud

Shares of Wex (NYSE: WEX), which facilitates corporate payments for such varied services as fueling up trucks, paying employee benefits, and making business trips, is seeing its share price rise 7%

Shares of Pinterest (NYSE: PINS) were moving higher today after the image-discovery network got a bullish analyst note from Deutsche Bank. As of 11:05 a.m. EDT, the stock was up 3.2% after gaining

Shares of cloud computing company Cloudflare (NYSE: NET) jumped on Monday, rising as much as 19.3%. As of 12:00 p.m. EDT, the stock was up about 15%.

The growth stock's gain follows Cloudflare's

Fastly (NYSE: FSLY), a provider of cloud-based services for edge networks, went public last May. The company dazzled investors with its robust revenue growth, and its stock subsequently surged

Twilio (NYSE: TWLO) announced on Monday that it would acquire cloud-based Segment -- a start-up that helps businesses move customer information between apps while better protecting and controlling

According to its most recently published snapshot, the average Social Security recipient gets about $1,519 per month in benefits from the program. From that amount, recipients aged 65 or older

With its first few generations of Ryzen desktop CPUs, chip company Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) was aiming to catch up to its larger rival Intel (NASDAQ: INTC). The third-generation Ryzen

General Motors (NYSE: GM) announced today that its Chinese sales rose 12% for the quarter ended in September versus the year-ago period. The gain follows a 5% drop in the second quarter, and marks

Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) is the comeback kid in the second half of the year. Despite being an obvious leader in the booming digital video market -- it has 43 million homes streaming a daily average of

Cord-cutting is slowly killing the nation's cable-television business; of that there can be no doubt. Leichtman Research Group estimates that another 1.6 million U.S. customers cut the cord during

Levi Strauss (NYSE: LEVI) saw its revenue decline substantially in fiscal 2020's third quarter (which ended Aug. 23) due to reduced traffic and store closures during the coronavirus pandemic

Credit Suisse announced this morning it is beginning analyst coverage of sports betting enterprise DraftKings (NASDAQ: DKNG) for the first time, according to a report by Seeking Alpha. The bank's

Chinese live-streaming game platform Huya (NYSE: HUYA) announced today that it has agreed to acquire rival DouYu International Holdings (NASDAQ: DOYU) in a deal that values DouYu at $6 billion. But

Shares of Zynex (NASDAQ: ZYXI) were tanking 26.5% lower as of 11:20 a.m. EDT on Monday. The big decline came after the medical technology company announced lower-than-expected orders for the third