Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Lululemon – Lululemon reported quarterly profit of 96 cents per share, 7 cents a share above estimates. Revenue also beat forecasts. The apparel maker’s comparable-store sales jumped 15%. Lululemon also raised its full-year guidance. Results were boosted by strength in online sales and in the menswear
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[Editor’s note: This story was previously published in August 2019. It has since been updated and republished.] Investing to “buy and hold” is trickier than it looks. The increasing pace of technological change means even the most successful, dominant companies have to continually adapt to keep up. Industries like energy, real estate and even consumer products are facing
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Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL, NASDAQ:GOOG) has become range-bound. Google stock has failed to gain traction over the last year. Despite double-digit profit growth, lawsuits and privacy concerns have left Alphabet stock unable to gain traction. Source: Valeriya Zankovych / Shutterstock.com To be sure, the company continues to innovate. Although it still derives the majority of its revenue
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Seems traders paid attention to all those articles about the gold-silver ratio after all.  heh heh. There’s another interesting development no one seems to be talking about yet, so to continue the tradition of being first to point these things out, your friendly Gold Enthusiast will now give you something new to consider. Leveraged silver. There’s been
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Shutterstock Wall Street is working on a new platform which will ease the trading, storing and spending digital assets. That’s bullish for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It will help them gain acceptance among investors, merchants and consumers. Last week, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) announced plans to form a new company, Bakkt, with the purpose to create
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In this photo illustration, a visual representation of a cryptocurrency sits on display in front of a Facebook logo. Chesnot | Getty Images When it comes to the development and regulation of cryptocurrencies, many in Washington have been producing more heat than light. By all accounts, the crypto industry and its dozens of digital asset
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DocuSign CEO Daniel Springer. Source: DocuSign Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of DocuSign surged as much as 22% after the company reported better-than-expected second-quarter revenue and issued strong third-quarter and full-year revenue guidance. That news outweighed DocuSign’s second quarter earnings per share, which fell 3 cents short of Refinitiv consensus
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[Editor’s note: “6 Safe Dividend Stocks to Buy Now” was previously published in June 2019. It has since been updated to include the most relevant information available.] From continuing concerns about the China-U.S. trade war to worries about the yield curve inversion, the stock market still faces many steep risks. America’s political situation hasn’t been
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It was not a good August for General Electric (NYSE:GE) stock. Accountant Harry Markopolos, famous for blowing the whistle on Bernie Madoff,  published a 175-page report, which alleged that GE had widespread fraud, including concealing $38 billion of losses. On the news, General Electric stock plunged 11%. Source: testing / Shutterstock.com But GE’s management swiftly
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Silver can be a highly volatile member of the precious metals sector, at times. Both gold and silver have a long history as a means of exchange, hard currency, or real money. If gold is analogous to banknotes, silver is the change in our pockets or change purses. For many years, coins had high levels
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