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U.S. stock indexes fell on Monday, with the earnings season set to kick off in earnest this week amid concerns of weaker corporate profit due to the impact of surging inflation.

What happened Shares of gaming company Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI) gained 17% in the first half of 2022, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. That's a sweet gain considering the S&P 500 fell more than 20% over the same time frame. It's all due to i

U.S. stock indexes slid on Monday, with the earnings season set to kick off in earnest this week amid concerns of weaker corporate profit due to the impact of surging inflation.

DocuSign (NASDAQ: DOCU), the maker of digital signature software, is having a horrible year. The company's stock is down nearly 79% from last year's all-time high. Moreover, chief executive officer Dan Springer stepped down on June 21, less than two weeks after the company report

Adyen (ENXTAM: ADYEN) may not be on the radar of U.S. investors, but perhaps it should be. In this clip from "The Future of Fintech" on Motley Fool Live, recorded on June 30, Fool.com contributors Matt Frankel and Lou Whiteman discuss the enterprise payment processing company's p

The stock market is having a rough year, as inflation recently hit a 40-year high, forcing the U.S. Federal Reserve to increase interest rates rapidly. But the core measure of inflation, the Consumer Price Index (CPI), is a lagging indicator and might not be the best representati

Shares of electronics company HP (NYSE: HPQ) -- not to be confused with business cloud company HP Enterprises -- showed up in Warren Buffett's stock portfolio this past spring. In a regulatory filing, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) revealed it had taken a more than

The pandemic led to stellar results in the stock market for many gaming companies. With more and more players headed outside to "touch grass" and fewer stuck indoors with their computers, those hot and heady days for gaming investors might seem like history. Still, major players

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Who doesn't like to get paid to own something while doing nothing? That's precisely the allure of dividend stocks. Although it's usually mature companies that pay dividends because management feels the company has the capacity to generate returns for shareholders by paying them s

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Lucid Group Inc (Symbol: LCID), where a total of 155,148 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 15.5 million underlying shares. That amounts to about

Are These The Best Metaverse Stocks To Buy Right Now?One of the hottest areas of technology that has taken the stock market by storm in the past few years is the metaverse. For many years, the virtual reality space has long been part of sci-fi novels and movies. And thanks to adv

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed the latest batch of the 22 most recent 13F filings for the 06/30/2022 reporting period, and noticed that Microsoft Corporation (Symbol: MSFT) was held by 17 of these funds. When hedge fund managers appear to be thinking alike, we find it is

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Twitter TWTR recently announced the layoff of 30% of employees from its recruitment team amid the $44 billion takeover by Elon Musk. The micro-blogging platform had earlier announced halting most hiring processes across various divisions as part of a broader attempt to cu

In early trading on Friday, shares of Walmart topped the list of the day's best performing Dow Jones Industrial Average components, trading up 0.8%. Year to date, Walmart has lost about 12.7% of its value.

Wall Street's main indexes slipped on Friday after stronger-than-expected jobs data fueled expectations of another big interest rate hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve later this month.

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