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Amazon Earnings Are Tonight, Along With Apple and Facebook

Amazon Earnings Are Tonight, Along With Apple and Facebook

It's a huge day for the Nasdaq-100, with some of the biggest and most important stocks issuing results. Amazon.com (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Alphabet (GOOGL), three of the market's four companies worth at least $1 trillion, report earnings this afternoon. Facebook...

Tesla Could Run out of Money, But Snap’s Breaking Out: Earnings This Week

Tesla Could Run out of Money, But Snap’s Breaking Out: Earnings This Week

Tesla just reported its "best quarter ever," but investors are afraid it might still run out of money. The electric-car maker earned $0.76 a share on a record $8.77 billion of revenue. Both numbers beat estimates and marked a fifth straight quarter of profitability....

Why Are Stocks Called Equities?

Why Are Stocks Called Equities?

If you've been investing for a while, you've probably heard the term "equities." Let's explore what it means and why people call stocks "equities." Start with the equity in a house. If your home is worth $400,000 and you owe $320,000 on the mortgage, it has $80,000 of...

Tesla Is Accelerating Higher as Elon Musk Prepares Earnings

Tesla Is Accelerating Higher as Elon Musk Prepares Earnings

After weeks of going nowhere, Tesla is starting to move before its quarterly results. The electric-car maker rallied more than 70 percent in August, followed by a sideway triangle pattern in September. Yesterday, it pushed near the top of its range. Are investors...

Earnings Season Has Begun. Here’s How to Make the Most of It

Earnings Season Has Begun. Here’s How to Make the Most of It

Earnings season began yesterday and will grow increasingly busy through early November. Here's what to expect. First, it's useful to know the general sequence of events. Next, how's the sentiment going into the events? Third, how can you follow the news? Finally, what...

E-Commerce Breakouts! Target and JD.com Explode Higher: Earnings This Week

E-Commerce Breakouts! Target and JD.com Explode Higher: Earnings This Week

If you want to know the week that e-commerce officially took over the world, this might have been it. Companies including Minneapolis-based Target (TGT), Beijing-based JD.com (JD) and Singapore-based Sea (SE) rode strong digital trends to new record highs. Meanwhile,...

Travel Stocks Gain as Executives See Demand Rebound: Earnings This Week

Travel Stocks Gain as Executives See Demand Rebound: Earnings This Week

The last week of earnings featured mixed results from technology companies and optimism from two prominent travel companies. Cruise-ship operator Royal Caribbean (RCL) and hotel giant Marriott (MAR) predicted demand will continue to recover as the U.S. economy reopens...