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When you're shopping for a dividend stock for your retirement portfolio, it pays to choose wisely. If you search for companies that issue the largest dividends on the basis of yield alone, you'll likely end up with a handful of highly unstable stocks that might not maintain thos

The oil patch has been a tough place for dividend investors in recent years. Oil price crashes in 2014 and earlier this year took many payouts down with them. Because of that, many income investors have given up on the sector. 

There's no single universal savings goal to target when it comes to funding a retirement plan. Why? Your retirement expenses and goals may look different than someone else's. Your best bet is to consistently sock away a respectable portion of your income in hopes of amassing eno

This has been an unforgettable and truly wild year on Wall Street. During the first quarter, panic and uncertainty tied to the coronavirus pandemic pushed the broad-based S&P 500 lower by 34% in 33 calendar days. This was the quickest bear market decline in history. But it w

When the pandemic-inspired crash sent stock values plummeting in back in March, investors endured some of the rockiest weeks in stock market history. There's usually a lot more buildup to a stock market crash in which investment values drop 20% or more. Due to the unprecedented

Innovative Industrial Properties (NYSE: IIPR) offers all the positives of investing in marijuana with few of the negatives.

Stocks that are trading below $5 can be much more liquid than those that are higher-priced. That's just one reason why Apple and Tesla recently chose to initiate stock splits among a long list of perks, including that lowering share price increases investor demand for shares.

Disruption has been the norm for many businesses in 2020 thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. This disruption worked to the detriment of most companies. But for some, the changing dynamics brought by the coronavirus outbreak have been positive catalysts. You can put BioNTech (NASDAQ

For many Americans, this has been one of the most challenging years of their lives. The coronavirus pandemic has completely altered our social norms, cost more than 20 million people their jobs, and sent the U.S. economy into its steepest recession in history.

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The energy transition is well under way as renewable electricity capacity continues to grow around the world. Unbeknownst to many is the role that oil and gas companies are playing in this transition, a handful of which have recently upped the ante considerably.

For many Americans, 2020 has been one of the most challenging years of their lives. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has completely upended societal norms, sent the unemployment rate to more than eight-decade highs, and cost the lives of more than 173,000 America

Thanks largely to a decline in one coronavirus hotspot, the number of deaths from COVID-19 -- the disease it can trigger -- should begin to fall next week. That, at least, was the prediction of Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the government's Centers for Disease Control and Pre

(RTTNews) - Netherlands-based Qiagen N.V. (QGEN) said that Håkan Björklund has resigned as Chairman of the Supervisory Board with immediate effect and has left the Supervisory Board.

JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) is apparently going digital across the pond. Citing "technology industry sources," a report from the U.K.'s Sky News says that the big American lender intends to open an online-only bank in that country in the first quarter of 2021. They added that the

As the equity markets claw their way to new highs, a handful of the most successful stocks have been making huge gains – primarily in the Technology Sector.

On Friday, as both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq index set new record highs, Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) notched its own milestone in its 35-year life as a publicly traded company. The electronics retailer's stock hit its peak, on two instances reaching $114.25 per share during the tr

Lowe's (NYSE: LOW) capped the week by making its shareholders incrementally richer. On Friday, the retailer's board of directors declared that its next quarterly dividend is going to be $0.60, which is a 9% bump from the previous payout. The new distribution is to be paid on Nov

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The future of autonomous driving is in the core of the Chinese city of Cangzhou. Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) announced on Friday that it has launched a branch of its robotaxi service Apollo Go in that city, the first time it is operational in a downtown urban environment.