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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Elon Musk is now the second-richest person in the world, at least on paper, but he has a long way to go in catching up to the newly-displaced Bill Gates in impact. The Tesla and SpaceX mogul’s

In early trading on Tuesday, shares of Boeing topped the list of the day's best performing Dow Jones Industrial Average components, trading up 3.4%. Year to date, Boeing has lost about 32.9% of its value.

There's seemingly no end to the discussion about which stocks will benefit from stay-at-home measures, and which stocks will benefit from a coronavirus vaccine. However, what about businesses that are likely to see their long-term growth prospects enhanced by the pandemic, as wel

When Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) reported its financial results late last month, expectations were already high. Cloud computing, which underpins much of the company's business, continued its impressive growth streak. This helped Microsoft easily surpass investor expectations.In thi

It's been an exceptionally volatile year for the stock market, and that's been music to the ears of millennial and novice investors who envision getting rich quick on these wild vacillations. Online investing app Robinhood, which is known for its commission-free trades, fractiona

Microsoft, Google and Facebook have asked Malaysia's Prime Minister to reinstate an exemption allowing non-Malaysian ships to carry out repairs to submarine cables in the country's waters, online news service Malaysiakini reported.

In this episode of Industry Focus: Energy, Nick Sciple chats with Motley Fool contributor Lou Whiteman about airline stocks and vaccine news. They also talk about airplane manufacturers, lessors, parts manufacturers, and much more.To catch full episodes of all The Motley Fool's f

Once the preserve of gamers, virtual reality (VR) has been seized on by the financial sector as a way of enlivening home working for lonely traders or isolated executives and replicating real-world sales, networking or training events.

The NASDAQ 100 After Hours Indicator is up 7.57 to 11,913.51. The total After hours volume is currently 117,753,373 shares traded.The following are the most active stocks for the after hours session: Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) is unchanged at $16.50, with 6,278,561

In this episode of Industry Focus: Wildcard, Dylan Lewis chats with Motley Fool contributor Asit Sharma about some of the biggest consumer goods companies' earnings and how they've been performing lately. Discover how these retailers are experimenting with different footprint sty

What happenedShares of Micron (NASDAQ: MU) gained as much as 5% today after two Wall Street analysts increased their price targets. Deutsche Bank and Mizuho Securities both reiterated buy ratings on Micron stock. As of 2:11 pm, EST Monday, shares were up 3.8%.

Leadership may be the most underrated quality in investing.It's not quantifiable or easily measured, and it can't be found in a 10-K filing or quarterly earnings report. But the difference between stocks that deliver life-changing returns and those that fizzle out often comes dow

With continued global uncertainty due to the pandemic, the U.S. equity market has become increasingly focused in recent times, due principally to a handful of large‑cap growth companies’ stellar growth. This has dramatically changed the investment landscape, with success now largely dependent on making the right decisions on a small group of companies that dominate [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (Symbol: IGV) where we have detected an approximate $425.0 million dollar inflow -- that's a 8.0% increase

Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) was arguably the trendiest tech stock of 2020. It went public in September as the largest software IPO in history, attracted big investments from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and salesforce.com, and doubled in value on the first day.It's easy to see

Bitcoin has surged in 2020, with its price climbing roughly 150% year to date. After many months of volatile trading, the cryptocurrency has climbed back to the range of $18,000 per coin -- not far from the high of $19,738 per coin it hit at the end of 2017. With its price surgin

Few companies have become as dominant or as diverse as Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) in such a short period. In barely more than two decades, Amazon has become the dominant online retailer in just about every product category, while also establishing itself as one of the biggest clou

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is a company reborn. Only a few years ago, the software giant was facing an uncertain future. Its formerly dominant operating system business was steadily losing relevance as modern computing moved away from the PC and into mobile, an area the company had

Apple Inc, advertising giant GroupM and others asked the judge hearing the Justice Department's lawsuit against Alphabet's Google on Friday to allow them to designate certain data used by the government as "highly confidential," to ensure that no-one from Google could see it.

Apple Inc and AT&T asked the judge hearing the Justice Department's lawsuit against Alphabet's Google on Friday to allow them to designate certain data in the complaint "highly confidential," to ensure that no-one from Google could see it.