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America's reticence to tax wealth can be traced back to the gruesome days of slavery, when human beings were kidnapped then bought and sold as property.

U.S. government bonds strengthened, pushing the yield on the 10-year note down to around 1.80%, after a news report suggested that China was pessimistic about a trade deal with the U.S.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: VRTX) is an American biopharmaceutical company mainly focused on developing and commercializing therapies for the treatment of cystic fibrosis. Vertex has seen its stock price rise 15% ove...

By insisting on a high starting price for the Saudi oil giant, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman risks hitting local individual investors.

Good things rarely come in small packages anymore in the luxury goods industry. The new advantages of scale mean investors can expect more takeover approaches like LVMH's recent $14.5 billion bid for Tiffany.

Retail earnings are in the spotlight this week, and some analysts are confident that they will exceed expectations--adding to what's already been a strong year for the sector.

Mustang purists aren't very happy about their beloved pony car becoming an SUV, and an electric one at that. Investors don't seem all that impressed, either.

Big brand names can't rely on their past "glory days" forever.

American Express is offering bonuses ranging from less than $10,000 to about $450,000 to businesses that start taking its cards, an effort to catch up with rivals Visa and Mastercard.

Natural-gas futures tumbled 3.3% to $2.599 per million British thermal units amid predictions of moderating temperatures next week, after a frigid start to November drove prices up earlier this month.

Every time Kylie Jenner makes a splash in financial markets there's a predictable outpouring of cynicism and judgment by people who think her wealth was inherited or fortune undeserved.

Even companies that aren't obvious users of hydrocarbons--data center companies, for instance--benefit from the low price for natgas, which serves as a benchmark for electricity pricing in most of the country.

A Boeing executive's estimate of the viability of the Hyperloop may go down as famously incorrect.

Activision Blizzard's (NASDAQ: ATVI) revenue growth will likely see a decline in the low teens in 2019, as compared to an average growth in the mid-single-digits seen between 2016-2018. This can primarily be attributed t...

Expedia's (NASDAQ: EXPE) adjusted profits fell 7% year-over-year due to the following reasons: - incremental weakness in SEO volumes, due to headwinds from Google's search engine practices in favor of its own Google Flig...

These five stocks should benefit from the "January bounce" that often buoys up the previous year's losers.

Zebra Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ZBRA), a company that manufactures and sells AIDC (Automatic Identification and Data Capture) products, including: mobile computers, barcode scanners, RFID (radio frequency identif...

More and more companies are dumping not only retail stores but also Amazon to sell their products online. And there's an invisible tech giant driving this trend.

The markets are starting the week at record highs and there's more positive talk about trade negotiations. However, it looks like today might feature a dull kind of trading as many await retail earnings and Fed minutes d...

WellCare Health Plans, Inc. (NYSE: WCG) is a leading managed care company that provides government-sponsored managed care services to families, children, seniors and individuals with complex medical needs. Wellcare has s...

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Overstated earnings, combined with its expensive valuation, make this stock more likely to miss earnings expectations in the short-term and underperform the market in the long-term.