The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite are officially both in bear markets, trading at levels more than 20% below their all-time peaks. However, the cryptocurrency market's sell-off has been much worse. According to CoinMarketCap, the global market cap of all 19,941 cryptos is
eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) is taking its massive collectibles business into the digital realm. The e-commerce giant acquired non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace KnownOrigin to turbocharge its digital asset trading ambitions.
Tech stocks as a class are going through their most challenging times since the 2008-09 financial crisis. Stocks like Meta Platforms have lost more than half their value over the last 12 months. Moreover, the ARK Innovation ETF, which tracks growth tech stocks, has dropped by mor
The economy is facing some serious obstacles. Inflation is chipping away at discretionary income, and a return to normal in the world means people aren't exclusively shopping online anymore. Those are just a couple of the headwinds that could weigh down Shopify's (NYSE: SHOP) bus
Cathie Wood's fame as a star stock picker has taken a hard hit this year. Wood is an advocate of disruptive innovation, and therefore owns some of the highest-flying growth stocks in her ARK Invest group of exchange-traded funds (ETFs). With growth stocks plunging in this bear ma
It’s no secret that many stocks are down significantly from their highs, but that doesn’t mean that they’re all “cheap.” To find true long-term investing bargains, it isn’t enough to simply focus on stocks that have experienced price drops -- you need to focus on companies with s
Market downturns aren't selective. They don't just drag down the stocks of struggling companies. Instead, they impact most players -- even the strongest. And that's why there's one positive point about a market sell-off -- the opportunity to pick up solid stocks for bargain price
The days of Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) stock trading above $2,000 are numbered. And the magic number is 21. That's how many days remain before the technology giant's 20-for-1 stock split scheduled for July 15.
From Silicon Valley shares to U.S. and European government bonds, securities that are already under heavy pressure stand to lose a major buyer as Switzerland ends its long-standing policy of recycling euros and dollars into foreign markets.
Defensive stocks and the Nasdaq were in rare alignment, leading the way Thursday as much of Wall Street watched Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell continue his economic tightrope walk.
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Rivian Automotive (NASDAQ: RIVN) has been a widely followed electric vehicle (EV) stock since its successful IPO last fall. But the realities of ramping up manufacturing volume along with supply chain and inflation headwinds have soured investors' taste for the stoc
One company that benefitted majorly from the stay-at-home orders and a world that had been shut down during the early phases of the pandemic was the all-mighty streaming giant Netflix NFLX.
Value investing is a time-honored and battle-tested investing discipline that focuses on finding and investing in stocks that are underappreciated and thus undervalued by other investors and the market as a whole. These stocks typically look inexpensive based on common valuation
U.S. online retailer Amazon plans to add 2,000 new jobs to its Spanish payroll in 2022, the company's local unit said on Thursday, a move that will take the total number of employees in Spain to 20,000 by the end of the year.
Amazon AMZN ramps up its robotics initiatives by unveiling its fully autonomous mobile robot called Proteus.The new robot, powered by the company’s advanced safety, perception and navigation technology, is capable of working in the same area where humans work and automati
Amazon (AMZN) stock is poised to rebound as the retailer benefits from growing revenues at its cloud services unit Amazon Web Services (AWS), accelerating expansion and even possible acquisitions, market strategists say.
The financial industry has never been short of data, but until recently, the bulk of it has been too complex to do anything meaningful with. A little something called AI is gradually changing that. But what impact will that have on the financial industry?
As Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) continues to rack up billions in e-commerce revenue, its cloud computing business is on a roll. In this video clip from "Ask Us Anything" on Motley Fool Live, recorded on June 14, Fool.com contributor Connor Allen discusses how AWS may be the company's bi