There’s no denying that Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) is still an e-commerce giant in China. Yet, at the same time, the current market sentiment isn’t particularly positive towards BABA stock. Source: BigTunaOnline / Shutterstock.com This is typical in the financial markets. A perfectly good company can be a darling one year, and then hated the next year. Informed
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Dear Quentin, I am the executor of my mom’s estate. I have three siblings. My mom is going to equally divide her assets among the four of us. There are two issues, however. My mom, one of my sisters and I all co-signed student loans for one of my nephews. After he graduated, he got
I didn’t know there was such a thing as a pet care ecosystem but apparently it does exist. That is illustrated by Petco Health & Wellness (NASDAQ:WOOF) stock. The company operates not only in the physical retail space but also e-commerce, veterinary clinics, training, grooming and pet insurance. Source: Walter Cicchetti / Shutterstock.com When I
Hi, I am a 55-year-old single woman with one 19-year-old child, and am a lawyer. My annual salary is $295,000. I own a home worth about $490,000. (I have another $110,000 left on it to pay.) I have $53,000 in cash (in the bank) as of today and that will be growing quickly since I
Traders who’ve held shares of online entertainment platform Roblox (NYSE:RBLX) have done well overall since the company went public. Yet, RBLX stock has been frustratingly directionless in the past couple of months. Source: Miguel Lagoa / Shutterstock.com Roblox is a promising company as it offers gamers an immersive virtual world and an escape from reality for
Uber Technologies Inc. acknowledged Friday it had been showing drivers lower fares than what riders actually paid and promised to change the practice, which it attributed to a California law the company spent tens of millions of dollars to support. Uber UBER, -0.23% made the change after San Francisco news site Mission Local reported that
Editor’s Note: This article is part of Joanna’s Top Trades — a weekly feature dedicated toward making you money within a specific space. Joanna’s picks for this week are Autoliv (NYSE:ALV) and Romeo Power (NYSE:RMO) as the top electric vehicle (EV) supplier stocks to trade this week. I’m a green investor — from cars, to
The pandemic may add a wrinkle to the guessing game that normally accompanies Apple Inc.’s June-quarter conference call. Typically the most important tidbit coming out of fiscal third-quarter earnings, which Apple AAPL, +1.20% is scheduled to report Tuesday afternoon, is the company’s outlook and commentary around its September-quarter revenue, which can hold clues as to
Stick around in the business of assessing investment opportunities, and you’re bound to make your fair share of calls that go awry. That’s exactly what happened with my early June take on Vaxart (NASDAQ:VXRT). While I appreciated the company’s distinct approach toward a Covid-19 vaccine, I felt it was doing too little, too late. Therefore,
U.S. stock futures pointed to further gains for Wall Street on Friday, as investors continued to balance positive earnings news with concerns about how rising COVID-19 cases might affect the economic recovery. What are major indexes doing? Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average YM00, +0.48% rose nearly 0.4%. S&P 500 futures ES00, +0.52% rose
The investing world has certainly changed in recent decades. If I had proposed to my partners at my former firm in the 1990s that one day we could buy stock in a company that grows marijuana, I would have been fired on the spot. Canadian based Sundial Growers (NASDAQ:SNDL) is just one of the many
After hitting record stock prices on high hopes for alcoholic seltzer drinks, Boston Beer Co. Inc. fell flat Thursday, and executives admitted they had “overestimated the growth of the hard seltzer category.” Boston Beer SAM, +1.89%, maker of Sam Adams beer and Truly-branded alcoholic teas and seltzers, reported a second-quarter profit decline and significant earnings
Canopy Growth (NASDAQ:CGC) and CGC stock lost ground in recent days due to the realization by investors that the new cannabis legalization bill being put forward by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has got a long way to go before it goes to a vote. Source: Shutterstock When it does, it’s doomed to fail.
European stocks rose Thursday as traders renewed bets on an economic recovery, ahead of a European Central Bank meeting in which the central bank will communicate its intention to keep monetary policy loose for the foreseeable future. The Stoxx Europe 600 SXXP, +0.77% rose 0.5%, with travel and leisure stocks including cruise operator Carnival CCL,
To make a comparison to football, IBM (NYSE:IBM) is the Dallas Cowboys of technology. How do I mean? Well, both IBM and the Cowboys are overrated. They haven’t won a title in a quarter century and they’re not going to do it this year. Their system is stale, yet somehow they still have fans. All
To market veterans, talk of a stock-market “bottom” after a mere 3% pullback might sound odd, but that’s the sort of world investors live in right now, says one chart watcher. While stocks have climbed in 2021, hitting new highs as recently as last week, fewer and fewer individual stocks have participated in the move,
The last few months have been quite eventful for Chinese ride-sharing service Didi Global (NYSE:DIDI). In June, DIDI stock was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. At the height of its first day of trading, it boasted a market capitalization of over $80 billion. Source: zhu difeng / Shutterstock.com However, DIDI stock plunged after
People want SUVs, and as the economy thrives, so do the prospects of Americans. That’s why there are so many midsize luxury SUVs to choose from, despite prices that start in the mid-$40,000 range and rise from there. Market demand supports a wide range of choices in the segment. If you’re planning to buy one
Zomedica (NYSEAMERICAN:ZOM) is the “meme stock” that just can’t take off. Despite constant prodding from Reddit and even some positive opinions from InvestorPlace, this pet health company remains in the penny stock dungeon. In fact, ZOM stock shares haven’t traded above $1 since April. Source: didesign021 / Shutterstock.com Fortunately, though, help is on the way
“ ‘And for most people who get this delta variant, it’s going to be the most serious virus that they get in their lifetime in terms of the risk of putting them in the hospital.’ ” That’s Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who was head of the Food and Drug Administration between 2017 and 2019, on the