Stocks

Stocks are a type of security that gives stockholders a share of ownership in a company. Stocks also are called “equities.”

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Noble Prize-Winning Economist Says Bitcoin Should Be “Outlawed”
Noble Prize-Winning Economist Says Bitcoin Should Be “Outlawed”
November 30, 2017  |  Bitcoin

Joseph Stiglitz, the economist who won the Nobel Prize has called on bitcoin, the wildly popular cryptocurrency, to be outlawed. During an interview on Bloomberg...

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New York Fed President Not Feeling The Bitcoin Giddiness
New York Fed President Not Feeling The Bitcoin Giddiness
November 30, 2017  |  Bitcoin

Bitcoin may be trading close to $10,000 after starting the year around $1,000, but Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley isn’t sharing...

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Walmart CEO Says Turnaround Giving Them (Wall) Street Cred
Walmart CEO Says Turnaround Giving Them (Wall) Street Cred
November 22, 2017  |  Investments

Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said the company’s turnaround, which was aimed at pushing back against Amazon’s dominance, is finally starting to resonate with Wall Street....

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Dollar Tree Snags An Earnings Beat
Dollar Tree Snags An Earnings Beat
November 21, 2017  |  Retail

The largest dollar store chain operator in the U.S., Dollar Tree, has reported solid 3Q earnings that came in ahead of analyst expectations on Wall...

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SAP CFO Assures Investors Margins Will Grow — Eventually
SAP CFO Assures Investors Margins Will Grow — Eventually
November 20, 2017  |  B2B Payments

SAP says its margins are expected to finally flatten out in the year’s fourth quarter, according to the firm’s CFO Luka Mucic. News from Reuters on Friday...

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Investors Short Big Retail
Investors Short Big Retail
November 20, 2017  |  Retail

Among the many headwinds U.S. department stores are facing that make the possibility of a Merry Christmas seem unlikely, a new one has started blowing....

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Best Buy Blames Earnings Miss On The iPhone X
Best Buy Blames Earnings Miss On The iPhone X
November 16, 2017  |  Earnings

Best Buy’s Q3 earnings report disappointed analysts this week, as both results and forecasts for the coming holiday quarter came in below expectations, according to...

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Deal Or No Deal? Mattel Snubs Hasbro Offer
Deal Or No Deal? Mattel Snubs Hasbro Offer
November 16, 2017  |  Retail

If you thought Jim and Pam on “The Office” took forever to get together, you’ve clearly never followed the decades-long mating dance between the world’s...

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Blue Apron’s Market Cap Cut By Two-Thirds
Blue Apron’s Market Cap Cut By Two-Thirds
November 14, 2017  |  IPO

In Wall Street parlance, a busted initial public offering (IPO) is one that trades below the initial price afforded right out of the gate, on...

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