Biofrontera (NASDAQ:BFRI) is working to clear up skin lesions that can appear after a lifetime of Sun and fun. Since BFRI stock went public in late October at $5 a piece, shares are up more than 36%. Source: Pavel Kapysh / Shutterstock With revenue up 45%, anticipation surrounding third-quarter earnings helped fuel the rise. So
It was quite the Manic Monday, with not just the S&P 500 suffering its worst single-day performance in nearly two weeks, but retail favorites such as meme stocks GameStop and AMC Entertainment getting battered. Thomas Lee of Fundstrat made three points. No investor wants to go risk-on into the Federal Open Market Committee meeting, equities
In this article MS Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman walked back an edict that employees should be back at the office by now and issued a new forecast for how long companies would delay the return. “I was wrong on this,” he told CNBC’s Wilfred Frost Monday on “Closing Bell.” “I thought we would have
In this article HOG PFE SIVB XOM KO CCL GME Customers view Harley-Davidson Inc. motorcycles at the company’s dealership in South San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, June 26, 2018. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Harley-Davidson — Shares of the motorcycle maker jumped
Nokia (NYSE:NOK) has been a sleeping tech giant for the past five years, but suddenly it woke up in 2021. Now, the company has a major business transformation underway. But more importantly for NOK stock investors, it has achieved remarkable financial performance this year. Shares are up by approximately 52% year-to-date (YTD), outperforming the S&P
I’ve been trying to convey to investors for a while now that a good company doesn’t necessarily make for a good stock buying opportunity. Network security technology provider CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) is a great example of this concept. CRWD stock was a hot commodity in 2020 and the better part of 2021 as retail money flooded
General Electric Co. (GE), known to investors as GE, is a global industrial company operating in the power, renewable energy, aviation, healthcare, and financial services industries. It serves customers in 170 countries. In recent years the company has gone through a series of major restructurings. That includes a long list of spinoffs such as the
As much as I’d like to pitch three bullish ideas, Monday’s market meltdown doesn’t allow it. My watch list is a sea of red, and the usual suspects are tumbling. Reopening plays, small caps, once-loved-now-loathed growth stocks — down, all down. I’ve scanned the top losers on the session and found plenty of fodder for
Tornadoes in December are unusual, but not unheard of. Yet the distance of the destructive path for a single twister during this weekend’s deadly weather broke a century-old record. Are tornados linked to climate change, similar to how devastating heat, wildfires, droughts and floods have intensified with a warming Earth? Should we get used to
When Cloudflare (NYSE:NET) posted strong growth in the third quarter and issued its fourth-quarter outlook, NET stock struggled to break out above the $205 – $220 level. Source: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock.com The Nasdaq’s slump in November held CloudFlare back. Now that negative market sentiment potentially accelerating, technology stocks at unfavorable valuations will fall. This
Cloudflare (NYSE:NET) stock was one of scores of growth plays hammered lower by the recent market sell-off. Source: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock.com Falling from around $200 per share, to around $140 per share, NET stock seems to have found a floor. Or has it? News of Covid-19’s Omicron variant may have sparked this recent bit of
Apple Inc. (AAPL) is among one of the largest tech companies in the world, as measured by market cap, and continues to dominate in the categories that it invented or popularized, such as the smartphone and the tablet. While it seems that Apple is at the top of its game, several weaknesses have emerged that
Virgin Galactic (NYSE:SPCE) stock went “to the moon” twice earlier this year. Source: Christopher Penler / Shutterstock.com It was an already popular play before the meme stock craze, but you can chalk up this investing phenomenon as the main reason for 2021 price spikes. The high concept nature of its business (space exploration) coupled with high
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has finally jettisoned the use of the word “transitory” to describe the rise in inflation. But to the Fed’s critics, it’s still not enough. Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser for Allianz, went on the CBS program “Face the Nation” on Sunday and stuck the proverbial dagger in. “The characterization of
In this article PFE BNTX CPB THO WEBR SFIX Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Pfizer (PFE), BioNTech (BNTX) – The companies said studies showed that three doses of their Covid-19 vaccine neutralized the omicron variant, while two doses still offered protection. Pfizer and BioNTech also said they’re continuing to work on
The holiday season has arrived. Bullish investors are hoping for a potential Santa Claus rally after what’s been a bumpy start to the last month of the year. As more information on the omicron variant continues to crop up, Wall Street’s worst fears of a large-scale lockdown seem to be fading away. Against this backdrop,
Throughout the year, there has been a lot of interest around SmileDirectClub (NASDAQ:SDC). Not so much for the tele-dentistry company’s underlying business. Instead, much of the appeal with SDC stock has been with its potential as a short-squeeze play. Source: Helen89 / Shutterstock.com Even after falling by more than 74% over the past 12 months, and
There are some understandable questions you might encounter as you plan for retirement: Is it sensible to be squirreling away money in an employer-sponsored retirement plan such as a 401(k) while simultaneously making a hefty monthly mortgage payment? Could it be better, in the long run, to use existing retirement savings to pay down the
After running hot for a few weeks, excitement has cooled for Progenity (NASDAQ:PROG). Less than a month ago, it was trading for as much as $6.20 per share. But since then, PROG stock has fallen by around more than 50%, and trades for around $2.50 per share today. Source: motorolka / Shutterstock.com Is this a
From Powell and Dole and Rumsfeld to Aaron and Lasorda and Spinks — a roll call of the most noteworthy deaths of 2021 Other notable departures of the year ranged from Walter Mondale to Rush Limbaugh, Eli Broad to Bernie Madoff, along with such entertainment giants as Cicely Tyson, Olympia Dukakis, Cloris Leachman, Charles Grodin,