The tech-heavy Nasdaq is on pace for its steepest monthly decline since January 2016, but veteran investor Paul Meeks isn’t ready to jump into the wreck for bargains just yet. Meeks, who ran the world’s biggest tech fund for Merrill Lynch during the dot-com boom and subsequent collapse, is predicting more trouble due to a powerful shift […]

There’s been a lot of speculation about how Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) would eventually enter the streaming market in a challenge to market leaders Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) and Amazon(NASDAQ:AMZN). Until now, Apple’s programming efforts have been modest, but reports suggest that the company plans to spend $1 billion this year developing original content, though how it would eventually offer that programming to consumers has been unclear. The […]

Earnings season is just about ready to ramp up. As usual, Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) and PayPal(NASDAQ:PYPL) are some of the first hot stocks for investors to watch. The two companies are scheduled to report their third-quarter results next week. Though both stocks pulled back over the past three months (Netflix declined about 13% and PayPal fell 7%), investors shouldn’t underestimate the […]

Savvy investors are always keen on finding the next big growth stocks. That’s because growth stocks have been the biggest driver behind the stock market’s massive gains over the last decade. While the S&P 500 is up about 326% since the market bottom during the financial crisis, growth stocks have done even better, as the iShares Russell 2000 […]