Industry groups for U.S. providers of pre-paid cards and mobile wallets are in talks with the U.S. Treasury Department about allowing stimulus payments designed to help millions of Americans struggling due to coronavirus lockdowns be made via their products, the groups said.
Another week of elevated jobless claims failed to stop the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) from rising on Thursday. The Dow was up 1.2% at 12 p.m. EDT despite another 4.43 million Americans filing for unemployment last week. The total number of claims over the pas
The chair of the House Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel on Thursday called for a moratorium on mergers in the next coronavirus stimulus package and a ban on deals that are not directly related to companies about to fail.
In this episode of Industry Focus, Emily Flippen chats with Anthony Coniglio, the CEO of NewLake Capital Partners, a real estate cannabis investment business, about the cannabis industry. Discover the risks and rewards for investors, employees, and businesses in this space, how
The smartphone boom during the late 2000s and 2010s meant money in the bank for many semiconductor companies. Lots of new users, frequent phone upgrades, and rising prices as each year packed more tech into the mobile devices meant big increases in sales and profitability. Prima
In this episode of MarketFoolery, Chris Hill and Motley Fool analyst Bill Barker look at the latest business headlines from consumer staples, technology giants, and car rentals. They also go through some earnings reports, announcements, and much more.
Investing legend Warren Buffet loves it when the stock market goes crazy. "The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business-like investor," he wrote in the preface to Ben Graham's The Intelligent Investor, fourth edition.
In this episode of Rule Breaker Investing, David Gardner chats with Motley Fool analysts Buck Hartzell and Robert Brokamp about dividend investing. Discover how dividends have behaved historically and their importance. Which one is better for shareholders: dividends or share buy
In this episode of Motley Fool Answers, Alison Southwick, personal finance expert Robert Brokamp, and Motley Fool contributor Brian Feroldi take on some listeners' questions. Learn which companies investors are most curious about, why you should keep your lizard brain out of the
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) was rallying Wednesday morning, up 1.6% at 11:15 a.m. EDT. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told Fox Business Network that he expects most of the U.S. economy to be reopened by later in the summer. That may be giving inves
Keep calm and play Fortnite. The popular Battle Royale game is back in the Google Play Store after 18 months in the wilderness of third-party app stores.
Not so long ago, the streaming market appeared to be well served by relatively few competitors. Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) had the lion's share of the market, followed by Disney's (NYSE: DIS) Hulu (then jointly controlled with other partners), and Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) Amazon Prim
Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicroelectronics said on Wednesday it expected second-half sales to grow compared to the first half, betting on initial signs of a recovery in demand in Asia as efforts to contain the coronavirus start working.
The U.S. stock market has been on a roller coaster ride of late, thanks to the novel coronavirus pandemic that has put businesses in a major spot of bother. The economic fallout of the COVID-19 disease is expected to be severe, with Goldman Sachs predicting that the U.S. economy