Over the past few years, the biggest winners in the stock market have been the cloud-based software stocks. These relatively young companies have come to market with sophisticated offerings drawn from a “blank sheet of paper,” allowing them to design modern software for cloud environments without having the burden of legacy code and systems. This […]

Investors in high-octane but equally high-valuation cloud computing stocks were welcomed on Monday with a mini-meltdown, well documented here by fellow Fool.com contributor Anders Bylund. Maybe a bunch of money managers all got into the office on Monday with to-do lists that included some selling and subsequent buying in bargain areas of the market (oil and retail, […]

Wall Street analysts were pleasantly surprised after Apple unveiled some very aggressive pricing alongside updates of the company’s signature products on Tuesday. The tech giant announced that the iPhone 11 would be priced at $699 while the company’s new streaming service, Apple TV+ would be $4.99 a month. Shares of Apple are up 0.51% to $217.81 in early market trading. […]

Solar energy stocks have been an up-and-down segment of the market for more than a decade. The industry is growing installations rapidly, but there’s so much competition and pressure to lower costs that few companies have been able to make money. As the industry becomes more mature, I think a handful of companies are emerging […]

The dreaded “R” word held sway in August 2019 unlike any other time since at least the Great Recession days of a decade ago. Here’s the thing, though: Recessions are difficult to predict, both in occurrence (will it happen at all?) and in timing (if so, when?). Plus, every recession looks a little different. In […]