A few factors have contributed to the recent bout of market volatility, including concerns about rising inflation and changes to the Federal Reserve's monetary policy. Specifically, rising prices often lead central banks to boost benchmark interest rates, and the Federal Open Mar
Decarbonization might be one of the biggest megatrends of our lifetime. To blunt the impact of climate change, the global economy needs to invest more than $150 trillion to reduce carbon emissions over the next three decades. One of the big beneficiaries of this decarbonization t
2021 has been a wild period for growth stocks. Some names are now (as of December) in the midst of a third pullback this past year and down double-digit percentages from their all-time highs. Among the hardest-hit stocks are recent IPOs, which tend to be especially volatile in th
Shares prices of Rivian Automotive (NASDAQ: RIVN) are hovering around a 52-week low after the electric truck, SUV, and delivery van manufacturer reported its first quarterly earnings as a public company.
Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) has rapidly grown into a massive force in the e-commerce landscape, but its growth has mainly taken place during strong economies. In this Fool Live clip, recorded on Dec. 6, Fool.com contributors Matt Frankel, Toby Bordelon, and Danny Vena discuss whether Sh
When it comes to companies that provide web hosting services, Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) AWS is among the best known and most established in the space. However, investors shouldn't ignore small-cap competitor DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN), which has found a niche to exploit and had a st
Building a portfolio is often as much about how you construct it as the actual investments you pick. Investors can benefit from building a foundation for a portfolio using blue-chip technology stocks. While they aren't necessarily going to make you rich overnight, they can be rel
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is currently the world's most valuable company with a market capitalization of $2.82 trillion. That isn't surprising as the tech titan is a dominant player in the smartphone market and has ancillary products and services to drive growth.
One of my favorite traits to find when looking at new potential growth stocks is growth optionality, or the ability of a company to create new sources of revenue. This is especially the case when a company has a strong cash-generating core business that allows for funding new, al
Amazon.com Inc was marketing a collection of President Xi Jinping's speeches and writings on its Chinese website about two years ago, when Beijing delivered an edict, according to two people familiar with the incident. The American e-commerce giant must stop allowing any customer ratings and reviews in China.
Wall Street finished lower on Friday, weighed down by Big Tech as investors worried about the Omicron coronavirus variant and digested the Federal Reserve's decision to end its pandemic-era stimulus faster.
Wall Street finished mostly lower on Friday, weighed down by Big Tech as investors digested the Federal Reserve's decision to end its pandemic-era stimulus faster.
Wall Street was mixed on Friday, with the S&P 500 down and Tesla helping keep the Nasdaq in positive territory as investors digested the Federal Reserve's decision to end its pandemic-era stimulus faster.
Top E-commerce Stocks For Your List This MonthThe stock market has seen the rise of various industries over the past few years. Some of which greatly benefitted from the global pandemic that has kept people in their homes for long durations. An example of this would be e-commerce
Wall Street's main indexes fell on Friday, weighed down by cyclical stocks linked closely to the economy, as investors digested the Federal Reserve's decision to end its pandemic-era stimulus faster.
NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Oracle has spent the past few years buying back an extraordinary amount of its own stock. The $270 billion enterprise-software firm founded by Larry Ellison, now chairman and chief technology officer, has bough
Wall Street's main indexes fell on Friday as big technology-related shares tumbled, reeling from the Federal Reserve's decision to end its pandemic-era stimulus faster.
In its recent quarter, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) missed on both top and bottom lines and provided fourth-quarter guidance that was below consensus estimates. Amazon's CEO, Andy Jassy, discussed on the recent earnings call that he expects "several billion dollars" of additional costs
As the world slowly tries to put the pandemic in the rearview mirror, businesses that previously surged in the wake of lockdown measures are now seeing their shares pull back. Etsy (NASDAQ: ETSY) is one such stock with a 20% decline in the past month. Worries about consumers resu