The purchase price is what an investor pays for a security. It is the main component in calculating the returns achieved by the investor.

The stock market is not a 'voting machine' as Graham suggested; it operates as an auction, with prices set by the most optimistic buyers. Market prices reflect only the valuations of the optimistic ...

Here’s a breakdown of the global cloud market-share numbers for AWS, Alibaba, Google Cloud, Oracle and Microsoft for the second quarter of 2025, according to new market data. Microsoft’s global cloud ...