The 2022 bear market continues to wreak havoc on high-growth stocks. With the Federal Reserve poised to continue hiking interest rates in an attempt to get inflation back under control, many stocks remain under pressure -- especially those that either don't yet turn a profit, or
It's been multiple generations since investors have contended with such a challenging year on Wall Street. At the halfway mark of 2022, the benchmark S&P 500, which is viewed as the most-encompassing stock market barometer, had delivered its worst first-half return in 52 year
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) market index is down 20% year-to-date, nearly doubling the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) market tracker's 12% price drop.
The stock market went on a record run from the 2009 end of the Great Recession through 2021. The S&P 500 -- an index made up of the 500 largest publicly traded companies in the United States -- produced a total return of 729.4% from March 2009 through Jan. 1, 2022.
It has been nine years since CNBC business news personality Jim Cramer coined the acronym "FANG," which later got expanded to "FAANG," to describe a group of game-changing U.S. technology companies. That cohort consists of:
Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) has had a rocky year so far. Over the first two quarters of 2022, the company has dropped roughly 1.2 million subscribers and its move into the mobile games space has yet to gain traction. Netflix has announced some strategies to stem its customer losses, i
The fundamental principle in investing is the higher the risk, the higher the reward potential. That's what makes stocks so appealing to many people. Stocks are one of the riskier investments because there are no guaranteed returns, and there's always a chance your investment goe
NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Electronic Arts is a tempting target but finding the right players might be harder to master. On Friday, CNBC reported that Amazon.com is not expected to make a bid for the video-game maker, knocking down an earlier report ht
Wall Street likes to see companies with pricing elasticity, so it wasn't a surprise to see the market applauding Walt Disney's (NYSE: DIS) move to jack up prices for its premium streaming services earlier this month. The ad-free Disney+ platform will be getting 38% more expensive
However, the rebranding of Facebook and Google as Meta and Alphabet and the changing stock symbols have made FANG, or FAANG for that matter, a bit anachronistic. So, is it or should it be, still a thing?
Netflix (NFLX) closed the most recent trading day at $233.98, moving +1.9% from the previous trading session. The stock outpaced the S&P 500's daily gain of 1.41%. Meanwhile, the Dow gained 0.98%, and the Nasdaq, a tech-heavy index, lost 0.08%.
The stock market has been rallying of late as many struggling stocks have emerged from deeply discounted valuations. But just because you didn't buy near the bottom doesn't mean this isn't a good time to invest. There is no shortage of promising growth stocks that you can justify
Editor's note: After this article was written, Dollar General reported second-quarter earnings that showed it notched a 9% year-over-year increase in sales, leading it to raise its comparable-store sales guidance for the year to an increase of 4% to 4.5% from its previous outlook
There are many pieces of advice saying essentially the same thing. Some go as far back as 23 B.C., when the Roman poet Horace wrote carpe diem -- an exhortation to seize the day.
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