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4 days ago | 
fool.com | Jake Lerch |Justin Pope |Will Healy
Obviously, it's been a tough start to the year for the stock market. As of this writing, the S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite, and Dow Jones Industrial Average are down 10%, 16%, and 7%, respectively, year to date. Nevertheless, there are stocks that have bucked this trend. So, let's examine three stocks with positive year-to-date returns, as selected by a panel of Motley Fool contributors: Palantir Technologies (PLTR 1.06%), T-Mobile US (TMUS 0.81%), and CrowdStrike Holdings (CRWD -1.22%).
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1 week ago | 
fool.com | Justin Pope
Are you over the market's roller-coaster-like volatility? If so, utility stocks might be a great sector to consider. People must keep the gas and electricity on, so utilities are typically timeless businesses that thrive through good and bad times. Their stocks also tend to pay generous dividends, giving investors concrete returns, regardless of what the broader market does. I wanted to highlight three top-notch utility stocks.
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1 week ago | 
fool.com | Justin Pope |Will Healy |Jake Lerch
The stock market has become highly volatile following President Donald Trump's tariff announcements and heightened trade tensions with China. Stocks had some of their worst sessions since the COVID-19 pandemic five years ago. Yet, as the recent rally -- one of the market's best days ever -- showed, these moments can be great opportunities to buy high-quality stocks at lower prices. Investors are not out of the woods yet.
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1 week ago | 
fool.com | Justin Pope
Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA 0.75%) is in a pending acquisition with Sycamore Partners, a private equity firm, to take the struggling pharmacy chain private. It could end a years-long struggle for the company, which has tried to adapt to modern times and shrinking foot traffic in its stores. It would be an understatement to say Walgreens has dipped; the stock is down 89% from its high. Most people who have bought and held these shares over the past decade haven't done well.
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1 week ago | 
fool.com | Justin Pope
It's been years since Google, the world's dominant search engine, has felt genuine competition. As a result, its parent company, Alphabet (GOOGL 2.79%) (GOOG 2.56%), has been a market-beating investment for the past two decades. However, a formidable foe has possibly arrived. The surging popularity of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots like ChatGPT could threaten Alphabet's gold mine.
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2 weeks ago | 
fool.com | Justin Pope
The market's enthusiasm for artificial intelligence (AI) and its growth potential has been thrown into doubt, at least for now, by tariff drama stemming from the Trump administration's recent policy announcements. The market initially plunged, flirting with a technical bear market after touching all-time highs just months ago, then recovered some of the losses after President Donald Trump said most of his tariff plan was on hold for three months. Could stocks continue going lower?
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2 weeks ago | 
fool.com | Justin Pope
President Donald Trump had been touting the announcement of tariffs, which he said will restore America's manufacturing base and improve the country's economic security and standing over time. However, the stock market was still caught flat-footed by just how aggressive and expansive the tariffs Trump proposed on April 2 were. Since then, stocks have suffered their sharpest sell-off since early in the COVID-19 pandemic, five years ago.
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2 weeks ago | 
fool.com | Justin Pope
U.S. President Donald Trump's shocking tariff announcements on April 2 have ignited chaos in the stock market. Major U.S. market indexes have rapidly plunged to near bear market territory, now down between 15% and 22% from their former highs. There are concerns that prolonged tariffs may push the economy into recession. It's crucial to remain calm and avoid overreacting to a highly fluid situation. America is remarkably resilient.
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2 weeks ago | 
fool.com | Justin Pope
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer (PFE -1.42%) was a big winner during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its vaccine and antiviral pill generated billions of dollars in sales. However, that revenue source has largely dried up, and investors have shunned the stock since. Pfizer stock has drifted lower since peaking in 2022 and sits over 63% off its former high following the market's recent sell-off. I'll admit, Pfizer is dealing with a lousy narrative.
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2 weeks ago | 
fool.com | Justin Pope
The sudden and sharp stock market sell-off following the Trump administration's tariff announcements on April 2 is hitting the world's largest technology companies. Apple (AAPL -5.35%), Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet (Google), Meta Platforms (Facebook), Nvidia, and Tesla -- a group known as the "Magnificent Seven" stocks -- have plunged from their highs. Of these seven tech giants, Apple has suffered the sharpest decline thus far in response to the Trump tariffs. Is the stock's decline warranted?
