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Both Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) have benefited from recent shifts in consumer shopping habits toward e-commerce and omnichannel, as well as from increased spending on technology. But which of the two consumer discretionary companies is the better investment to

Walmart Inc plans to expand its advertising business, adding space for ads at its U.S. stores and sharing its vast trove of shopper data with brands, the world's largest retailer said on Thursday, looking to challenge rival Amazon.com Inc as a media powerhouse.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) recently reported its full-year 2020 financial results to a ho-hum investor reception. Big Blue's revenue remains in stubborn decline, dragged down by its legacy operations that become less important every year as cloud computing demand grows. But hiding just belo

High-risk investors saw their returns soar last year, at least if they invested in one of the year's biggest themes -- the coronavirus vaccine race. Clinical stage biotech companies such as Novavax and Vaxart surged more than 2,600% and 1,500%, respectively. If you're a cautious

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has emerged as one of the top destinations for apparel shoppers in recent years. In 2018, Morgan Stanley predicted the tech giant would dethrone Walmart as the top apparel retailer that year, and Amazon has only continued to gain market share since then. Sti

India's Future Retail has approached a tribunal to seek a key approval for its $3.4 billion asset sale to Reliance Industries, its lawyer told a court on Thursday, even as partner Amazon tries to block the transaction.

While it might seem counterintuitive to ponder if food delivery service DoorDash Inc. (NYSE: DASH) can make a turnaround just slightly more than a month after its Dec. 9, 2020, IPO, the company's extremely high stock valuation when it went public raises the question of whether it

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has existed for 125 years and is one of the most widely recognized stock market indexes in the world.While many investors believe the purpose of the index is to generally represent the U.S. economy, in fact that's true only in broad strokes. Origi

Volatility can be unnerving to some investors, but millennials absolutely love it. We know this because online investing app Robinhood gained roughly 3 million new users in 2020. The average age of Robinhood's investing base is just 31.Though Robinhood is known for offering commi

Norway's $1.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, earned a return on investment of 1.07 trillion Norwegian crowns ($122.7 billion) in 2020, the second highest in its 22-year history, it said on Thursday.

Netflix stock (NASDAQ: NFLX) has increased 13% over the last 5 trading days, after the company reported better than expected Q4 and FY 2020 results. The streaming giant added 8.51 million new subscribers in Q4 2020, much higher than its own forecast and analysts’ expectat

What happenedShares of PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) dropped by as much as 7% Wednesday despite bullish sentiment from Wall Street. The market is selling off aggressively, and the tech sector is faring worse than others. As of 3:46 p.m. EST, the stock was down by 4.8%, while the S&P

A surge of retail stock trading over the last year lit the fuse that sent shares of GameStop Corp rocketing higher without a clear business reason, market watchers say, squeezing hedge funds that had bet against the video game retailer and other companies that were out of favor on Wall Street.

Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Amazon.com Inc (Symbol: AMZN), where a total of 144,397 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 14.4 million underlying shares. That amounts to about 37

Sea Limited's (NYSE: SE) Shopee, the e-commerce leader in Southeast Asia, is mulling an expansion of its operations in Brazil, according to a recent Reuters report. Shopee initially launched a small division in Brazil in 2019 to test out the market, but it is now reportedly recru

Plans to boost the global voluntary carbon market backed by U.N. envoy Mark Carney could hand oil majors and airlines an excuse to pollute for longer and jeopardise international climate goals, the head of Greenpeace International said on Wednesday.

In this episode of MarketFoolery, host Chris Hill is joined by Motley Fool senior analyst Tim Beyers to discuss the latest earnings news. Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) soars 14% higher after global subscriber growth comes in much higher than Wall Street was expecting. Procter & Gamb

IBM's (NYSE: IBM) stock price recently tumbled after the tech giant posted its fourth-quarter numbers. Its revenue dropped 6% year over year to $20.4 billion, missing estimates by $260 million and marking its fourth straight quarter of declining sales. Its adjusted earnings fell

Amazon said it was going to launch a Polish-based website to better serve customers currently diverted to its German site, sending shares in top local e-commerce rival Allegro down by over 7% on Wednesday.

E-commerce unicorn Wish -- trading under parent company ContextLogic (NASDAQ: WISH) -- had one of 2020's most disappointing market debuts. Shares fell 16% on opening day following the IPO, despite hopes the company could one day rival Amazon. The stock trades at $27.10 as of this