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Since January, Amazon.com's (NASDAQ: AMZN) Twitch has seen average concurrent viewers nearly double from about 1.3 million in January to 2.5 million in April, according to TwitchTracker. 

A slide in energy stocks weighed on Wall Street on Monday as crude prices crashed at the start of a week packed with quarterly earnings reports and economic data likely to underline the damage from the coronavirus outbreak.

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U.S. stocks were set to fall on Monday as energy shares took a hit from sliding oil prices, while investors braced for a week packed with earnings reports and economic data that could provide more evidence of the damage wrought by the coronavirus.

U.S. stock index futures fell on Monday as a slump in oil prices pounded energy stocks, with investors also bracing for another batch of dour first-quarter earnings reports and economic data.

Times of market stress are harrowing to go through but often provide some of the very best opportunities to invest for the long term. After all, the market has eventually bounced back from every crisis in the past, whether the 1987 crash, the bursting of the dot-com bubble, the

Imagine you find yourself wandering The Strip in Las Vegas. You aren't much for casinos; you're there because of a conference. But you walk into one anyway.

For the past two months, investors have been taken on a wild ride due to the proliferation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the U.S. and around the world.

Facebook Inc is planning to launch a gaming mobile app on Monday focused mainly on live game streaming in a bid to take on Amazon.com Inc's Twitch, Google's YouTube and Microsoft Corp's Mixer services, the New York Times reported on Sunday.

Artificial intelligence (AI) -- the capability of a machine to mimic intelligent human behavior -- is a huge growth trend. The tech is being used to smarten up countless things large and small -- from cities and homes to cars and computers to factory equipment and healthcare d

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has seen overwhelming demand on its online marketplace amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. The surging number of orders has really thrown a wrench into Amazon's operations, forcing it to hire 175,000 employees in quick fashion, suspend its third-party ship

With the stock market still down significantly off its highs from earlier this year, there are still a lot of attractive stocks that you could buy. But with a limited amount of money available to invest, you have to be very picky. Many investors don't have enough cash to scoop u

Let's get one thing straight: No stock is immune to volatility when the market mood turns sour. When investors are reacting strongly to the latest headlines and macroeconomic indicators, stocks tend to move together in the same direction. Sales of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) an

The coronavirus pandemic has made telehealth a timely topic. Patients are being encouraged by prominent health experts and government officials to access advice from healthcare professionals via telephone or video chat rather than in-person, when possible, in order to slow the s

TJX Companies (NYSE: TJX) -- the off-price retailer that owns TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, HomeSense, and Sierra Trading Post -- has fared better than many of its brick-and-mortar peers in recent years.

Jeff Bezos, Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) CEO and founder, and one of the most respected minds in business, recently released his annual shareholder letter. But rather than focus on the company's long-term thinking or its creative approaches to innovation as he has in the past, Bezo

Do you have a warm and fuzzy feeling that the stock market will keep its upward momentum going? Are you absolutely confident that it won't crash again over the next few weeks or months? I'd wager most investors answered "no" to both questions.

In March, when the market crashed, it seemed as if nothing was safe.

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The COVID-19-inspired economic stimulus package -- which topped out at $2.2 trillion -- was signed into law a few weeks ago. Households that qualify might receive as much as $1,200 per adult and $500 per qualifying child.