The S&P 500 stands just a touch below its closing all-time high of 5,433.74, a record it reached just last Thursday. For the year-to-date, the index is up almost 14%, a solid gain that provides support for positive investor sentiment.Looking...
North SeaA 48-year-old former North Sea oil platform has been demolished as a looming Labour tax raid on the sector drives a slump in fossil fuel activity in British waters.The Northern Producer platform was demolished with multiple blasts of high...
People invest in dividend stocks for various reasons. Some want the passive income; others reinvest the cash to boost long-term returns; still others find that corporations that can dish out regular (and growing) payouts are worth investing in. But few...
Many investors may have missed the rise of Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO). As a business-to-business chip and software designer, it may have escaped the notice of many consumer-oriented investors.Nonetheless, amid a nominal stock price of approximately $1,700 per share, Broadcom has...
Stocks concluded last week on a hot streak as softer-than-expected inflation data fueled investor optimism around interest rate cuts.The Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) rose more than 3% while the S&P 500 (^GSPC) popped nearly 1.5%. The S&P 500 ended the week...
So far this year, Boeing (NYSE: BA) has been the second worst-performing stock in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (behind only Intel). But just because a stock is down doesn't automatically make it a good value.Here's why 3M (NYSE: MMM),...
Take a look at a list of the largest companies in the world based on market cap, and you might notice a common thread for most of them: The biggest members of the group have bet heavily on artificial intelligence...
Technology stocks have been powering the market higher in recent years, led by powerful trends such as artificial intelligence (AI). Let's look at three of these tech stocks and discuss the reasons why they might be good options to buy...
TOKYO (AP) — Toyota’s chairman Akio Toyoda will be facing some disgruntled shareholders this week, as two major proxy groups demand a vote against keeping the grandson of the founder on its board.The vote expected at the June 18 annual...
"We've seen a lot of exciting waves of technology in our industry -- the cloud, social, mobile -- but this AI wave is going be the biggest that anyone has ever seen." -- Salesforce CEO Marc BenioffThe artificial intelligence (AI)...
