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Despite its high stock price, it's not a given that the company will move forward with a stock split. You’re reading a free article with opinions that may differ from The Motley Fool’s Premium ...

[BRIEFING.COM] The stock market finished the week with solid losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average logged a 1.2% decline, the S&P 500 fell 1.5%, the Nasdaq Composite slid 1.6%, and the Russell 2000 ...

NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 20: Donald Trump (L) speaks with Frank Zarb, former CEO of the Nasdaq Stock ... [+] Market, before opening the Nasdaq Market September 20, 2005 in New York City. Trump listed ...

Robert Shiller, the Nobel laureate, says valuations adjusted for high inflation suggest stock returns for the next decade are likely to be modest. By Jeff Sommer Jeff Sommer writes Strategies ...

Someone finally found a good use for one of Wall Street’s most pointless rituals. In a stock split, a company increases its number of shares outstanding. This should result in a proportional ...

Methods include price-weighted, market-cap-weighted, and equal-weighted. A stock market index shows how investors feel an economy is faring. An index collects data from a variety of companies ...

As the Magnificent Seven are downgraded to the Fab Four, perhaps the list of leading tech stocks should include an old-school name: Exxon Mobil.

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