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

AGNC Investment (NASDAQ: AGNC) is a very complex business, but its 15% dividend yield is like a siren’s song to dividend investors traveling along Wall Street. There are a lot of good reasons why income-focused investors should avoid AGNC, and the mortgage real estate investment trust (REIT) added a new one when it reported third-quarter

A staple of Disney’s theme park’s celebrations, the giant Mickey pumpkin statue towers over guests on Main Street. Disney It’s time for Disney parks to swap pumpkins for poinsettias. In the thick of its busiest season, Disney’s domestic theme parks have already begun to transition from Halloween decorations to Christmas colors. The transformation starts to

One of the obstacles to the mainstream adoption of digital currency has been hacking. Some high-profile thefts have occurred on various cryptocurrency exchanges and platforms, deterring investors from using them. It has been argued that blockchain projects are secure, but attacks over the years have demonstrated that this is only partially true. Over $1.7 billion in cryptocurrency