With the economy in a deep freeze due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the government passed the CARES Act to help mitigate the negative financial effects created by having so many people out of work. Part of that act funded a Federal Reserve initiative called the Main Street Lending P
Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) stock recently hit an all-time high as the COVID-19 crisis lit a fire under its e-commerce and cloud businesses. Orders on its online marketplace soared as more people stayed at home just as the usage of AWS (Amazon Web Services) spiked with the higher us
U.S. retail sales fell in March, with clothing and accessories stores seeing declines of more than 50%. The figure isn't too much of a surprise, considering that most physical shops closed as the coronavirus outbreak deepened. Record job losses over the past month haven't help
Unsurprisingly, Citrix Systems (NASDAQ: CTXS) posted strong first-quarter results. After all, the company's products allow computer working environments to be available anywhere at any time, which is what many enterprises needed almost overnight as they shifted to work-from-
It only takes a few minutes of skimming headlines and articles covering the automotive industry to turn a smile upside down. Major manufacturing plants from automakers such as Ford (NYSE: F) and General Motors (NYSE: GM) have halted vehicle production, and analysts predict billi
For years, there has been rampant speculation that Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) copies the hot products third-party merchants sell on its ubiquitous e-commerce platform, releasing similar products under any number of its private label brands while undercutting the seller. A Bloombe
Teladoc Health (NYSE: TDOC), the leader in virtual healthcare, is slated to report its first quarter 2020 results after the market closes on Wednesday, April 29.
While all things travel, hospitality, and entertainment have been hit especially hard by the coronavirus lockdown, movie theaters are in especially dire straits. Most theater chains are long on debt, short on cash, and dealing with revenue reduced to practically zero. Even befor
By some estimates, you make 35,000 different decisions in a single day. You make choices about what to eat, what to wear, how you spend your time, and, of course, how you spend your money. Across those topics, there's a recurring conflict between the right decision and the most
The strongest companies can provide you with a reliable dividend income stream that you can count on quarter after quarter and year after year. This is true even during times of crisis and economic devastation, such as what we're facing now during the COVID-19 pandemic.
It would be overstating matters to suggest AT&T's (NYSE: T) very survival hinges on HBO Max being a smashing success when it launches in late May. But there's no denying the media and telco name needs a big win on the television front. The company lost nearly 900,000 cable T
The auto business may be in the biggest transition period we've seen in decades. Sales in the U.S. and Europe are expected to plunge 60% to 80%, according to LMC Automotive, which follows a more than 40% drop in March. The economic slowdown caused by COVID-19 could also have a l
The investment thesis behind buying railroad stocks got a boost recently with the earnings report from the smallest Class 1 railroad, Kansas City Southern (NYSE: KSU). Let's take a look at what happened, and why investors should be feeling a bit more positive after management's
The recent panic selling in the stock market brought a lot of share prices back down to earth, but also excessively took down some steady, profitable industrial companies. Finding shiny gems in the rubble can be very rewarding. Let's take a look at two opportunities that just ca
World Wrestling Entertainment (NYSE: WWE) thrashed analyst estimates in its latest quarter, and investors rewarded the stock with a championship belt on Friday.