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Investing in stocks should be part of every retirement plan; it's one of the best ways to build wealth for your golden years. If you're approaching retirement and short of your savings goals, you need to put your money to work so you can live a comfortable retired life. Stocks c

The financial decisions we make can be tough, and even more so sometimes because they're so important: Our current and future comfort and security depends on how well we manage our finances.

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It's not always easy to decide on a company to invest in. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in many attractive investing opportunities surfacing as lockdowns and movement-control restrictions curtail spending and send many businesses into a tailspin. However, cheap stocks may n

The stock market has been in a bit of a slump recently but is still miles above where it was at the March lows. In fact, even after the recent declines, the S&P 500 index is still in positive territory for 2020.

The U.S. stock market has sustained a scorching recovery run since April, pushing numerous major indexes to record highs. This has many investors considering alternative opportunities in other countries. Following a decade of steady gains and with economic uncertainty looming ov

Losing patent protection for a top-selling blockbuster drug is a big setback for any pharmaceutical company. For the past few months, investors and analysts have been concerned about pharmaceutical giant AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV). The company's major revenue driver, Humira -- which is

This has been a year of many stock market firsts. We've witnessed the quickest plunge into bear market territory in history, as well as the fastest rebound from a bear market bottom to new all-time highs. Sprinkle in a brief period of negative West Texas Intermediate crude futur

The great thing about living in the United States is that we have virtually unlimited choices. (Proof: Have you ever checked out the potato chip aisle?) The same holds true for the cornucopia of stocks you can invest in. You can purchase more than 3,300 stocks on The Nasdaq exch

If there's one lesson that 2020's market volatility has taught investors, it's this: No stock is 100% safe. That, however, doesn't mean that risk-averse people should stay away from equities. Investing in stocks remains one of the best paths to financial independence -- provided

Nobody likes to pay taxes. Yet many taxpayers don't understand just how favorable current federal income tax rates are compared to where they've been in the past. The current top marginal tax rate of 37% is far below historical 90%+ brackets, and rates for those with fairly larg

I was a little late to the party in buying Guardant Health (NASDAQ: GH). After watching the stock soar during the latter part of 2018 and the first half of 2019, I finally jumped in to scoop up shares in July of last year. I'm glad I did.

Neither BioNTech (NASDAQ: BNTX) nor Vir Biotechnology (NASDAQ: VIR) has become a household name in the U.S. They might never reach that status, but both could be very important for many American households in the not-too-distant future.

You may not realize it now, but there's a very good chance that, when you retire, you're going to be reliant on Social Security income to make ends meet. In the latest national Gallup poll of nonretirees, a record 88% of respondents expected their Social Security payout to be a

It wasn't all that long ago that billion-dollar U.S. cannabis companies were rarer than four-leaf clovers stuck on the horns of unicorns. That's changed. Cresco Labs (OTC: CRLBF) and Trulieve Cannabis (OTC: TCNNF) are now among several U.S. cannabis companies that sport market

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The coronavirus pandemic continues to weigh on the global economy, and maybe no industry has been hit harder than commercial transportation. Airlines in particular face a tough path forward; even as the economy has recovered somewhat, and air travel has improved from the lows in

It's been a wild year on Wall Street, and Robinhood investors simply can't get enough of it.

NASA announced Friday that it has awarded SpaceX a $109.4 million contract to launch its Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), along with four secondary payloads, on a mission to investigate the magnetic barrier surrounding our solar system in October 2024.

Investors apparently aren't interested in seeing another stock market correction -- at least not this week. The S&P 500 Index (SNPINDEX:^%GSPC) gained 51.9 points, or 1.6%, on Sept. 25. Today's move higher gets the index, which is broadly representative of the U.S. stock ma