Election Day is almost here. The looming question remains how a Donald Trump or Kamala Harris victory will shape the market narrative for the rest of the year and beyond. Investors should soon learn the answer, with Americans heading to the polls next Tuesday. In the week before the election, the S&P 500 (^GSPC) fell […]

The Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, has outlined her “opportunity economy” throughout her campaign. The economy has consistently ranked as the top concern for voters in the upcoming election. A recent Gallup poll showed that 43% of people cited economic issues as their top concern, up from 36% when asked in April. Inflation and

The adoption of AI within the digital advertising industry allowed this company to step on the gas. Artificial intelligence (AI) positively affected multiple businesses, including semiconductors, workplace collaboration software, and cloud computing. Consumers, companies, and governments are looking to make the most of this emerging technology to improve productivity. The digital advertising industry also adopted

ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) is firing on all cylinders these days. The oil giant’s legacy business is performing extremely well. Meanwhile, the company is about to get a big boost from closing its needle-moving acquisition of Marathon Oil (NYSE: MRO). Those factors are giving the oil stock the confidence to return a lot more cash to

Tech giants’ earnings results, as well as those of other large names, are influencing the stock market. However, a hit or a miss in a single quarter shouldn’t form the basis for a long-term investment thesis. Top Wall Street analysts closely follow the key details of a company’s quarterly results. However, they establish their recommendations

On Oct. 12, Wall Street celebrated the two-year anniversary of the current bull market. Optimism among investors has been readily apparent, with the ageless Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), and growth-powered Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) reaching multiple all-time highs. But if history has taught us anything, it’s that stock

It was a little over six years ago that Apple became the world’s first trillion-dollar company. Now, there are several others with market caps over $1 trillion and a handful of companies valued at over $3 trillion. The stock market can do just about anything in the short term, so it’s impossible to know how

China has just shy of 10 times the steelmaking capacity of the United States. It has been accused of dumping cheap steel on the global market to beat out competitors. During his administration President Trump pushed China to cut production, and more recently, in 2024, President Biden raised tariffs on Chinese style and aluminum too. During 2024,

A close-up of a logo for Lamb Weston printed on a Stealth Fries pack in Lafayette, California, on Jan. 22, 2021. Smith Collection | Gado | Getty Images Company: Lamb Weston Holdings (LW) Business: Lamb Weston is a global producer, distributor and marketer of value-added frozen potato products. The company is a supplier of frozen

You might think trying to grow your portfolio to $1 million or more is unattainable, and that it’s too difficult to do so. But if you aim for small wins and savings, it becomes a much more plausible scenario to envision. Eating out less, switching utility or cellphone providers, or buying private label products rather