Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, economics, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) and has ...

But every so often, more than one next-big-thing trend can exist at the same time. In addition to having AI lift Wall Street's major stock indexes to new heights, stock-split euphoria has played a key ...

Stock splits provide an opportunity to make a company's shares more accessible to smaller investors with limited capital. While they are less important in today's age of zero-cost trading and ...

A stock split divides each share of a company's stock into multiple shares. A stock split increases the total number of shares each investor owns by a specified multiple, but it does not change each ...

In addition to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), excitement surrounding stock splits has played a key role in lifting the broader market. Two members of the Magnificent Seven have significant ...