On the last trading day of the week, investors traded on rumor rather than hard news about software tools specialist JFrog (NASDAQ: FROG). After a media report stated that several potential acquirers are circling around the company, market players bid the shares up by just under 5% on the day. That performance trounced the 0.8% increase of the benchmark...

One trading session after Domino's Pizza (NYSE: DPZ) delivered its latest set of quarterly earnings figures, the company's shares zoomed more than 5% higher on Friday. A clutch of pundits tracking the stock weighed in on those results, and investors chose to accept the more positive takes. That 5%-plus share price rise was far higher than the 0.8% advance...

As the stock trading week came to a close on Friday, Symbotic (NASDAQ: SYM) was an outlier in the best way possible. Shares of the artificial intelligence (AI) industrial solutions provider soared nearly 9% higher during the session, thanks to several positive analyst reactions to its recent news about a project with a top retailer. That 9% was well...

Investors were clearly in a mood to buy now and pay immediately for shares of specialty financial company Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM) on Friday. The buy now, pay later (BNPL) commerce facilitator didn't have any proprietary news to deliver; rather, it benefited from the latest in a recent series of analyst recommendation upgrades. With this wind at its back,...

Shipments of artificial intelligence (AI) servers have shot up remarkably in the past couple of years as cloud service providers have been investing huge amounts of money in infrastructure that's capable of training AI models, as well as for AI inferencing purposes to deploy those models in real-world applications.Market research firm TrendForce estimates...

It's been quite a year for the S&P 500. The index has gained 21% since January.While the strong gain gets a lot of attention, not every stock has performed well. PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP) has been flat and Alexandria Real Estate Equities' (NYSE: ARE) shares have dropped 10%. While that may give some investors pause, the declines give long-term investors,...