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The year 2020 has been a big one for telemedicine. The ability to visit with a healthcare provider via the phone or online video conferencing has been around for awhile, but usage of such services

Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) CEO Warren Buffett is one of the greatest investors of our time. He's built up a net worth of more than $83 billion, and has created over $400 billion

When investors ponder the purchase of bonds, the prevailing thought that comes to mind is "conservative." While stocks can be volatile, bonds are much less so.

Less volatility generally means "less

The COVID-19 crisis has been downright awful for the entire financial sector. Banks have been sold based on fears of rising consumer and corporate delinquencies. The big provisions for loan losses

As of Sept. 21, the major indices have been on their third consecutive week of losses, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 down nearly 13% from its peak. There are many reasons for this sudden

In this episode of Industry Focus: Tech, Dylan Lewis chats with Motley Fool analyst Brian Feroldi about one of the most recent SaaS companies to go public. JFrog (NASDAQ: FROG) is a pioneer and

The stock market has been on a rocky ride this year, experiencing both record lows and all-time highs in just a matter of months.

After an impressive comeback over the summer, the market has been on

After all of these months of tracking coronavirus vaccine developers' progress, we're nearing the final stages of the race. As of today, nine programs are in phase 3 studies. And a vaccine may come

Palantir Technologies, the data-mining firm that serves the U.S. government and large enterprise clients, plans to go public in late September. The 17-year-old company was valued at $20 billion

Many medical real estate investment trusts (REITs) have bounced back from their COVID-19 pandemic lows, but not at the rate of the general market and some other lucky REITs.

There was a lot of

Nobody has a crystal ball that can tell you which stocks will be tomorrow's big winners, and I'm certainly not an exception. After all, if we knew what stocks were going to be the next Amazon.com

The stock market has historically been volatile, but in the course of 2020, it's already taken several wild rides. In March, stocks plunged into bear market territory for the first time in many

As of Sept. 22, there are now nine experimental coronavirus vaccines worldwide in phase 3 clinical trials, and five vaccines approved for early use despite the lack of scientific data. Although

The marijuana industry has been on a roller-coaster ride since 2019, and the volatility of those ups and downs came as no surprise to me. Any evolving industry is apt to experience growing pains --

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a huge amount of pain and suffering. Not all of the negative impacts have been health-related, though. The measures required to keep the coronavirus outbreak under

Initial public offerings from consumer-focused digital healthcare platforms have been terrific sources of gains for investors in 2020, and there's another big one on the way. Shares of GoodRx

September hasn't been brilliant for stocks so far. The S&P 500 has dropped 5.2% through last week, and a tech stock rout left the Nasdaq down 8.3%. With the coronavirus crisis still around and the

Biotech companies working on vaccines or treatments for COVID-19 have been grabbing much attention from pundits and analysts. But for investors, it's important to remember that there are companies

This year will be remembered for lots of things. The COVID-19 pandemic, of course. The wild stock market roller coaster ride. The most named tropical storms in history.

But 2020 will also be known

This has been a wild year to be an investor. We've witnessed some of the craziest up-and-down vacillations in the history of the stock market, and yet the S&P 500 sits pretty darn close to the flat

Shares of Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) recently debuted with a bang, closing its first day of trading 111% higher than its initial public offering price of $120 per share, and raising about $3.4 billion

Social Security benefits are vital for millions of older Americans, with 64% of current retirees saying their benefits are a major source of income, according to a report from the Society of

Some investors apparently thought that Aurora Cannabis (NYSE: ACB) would report some good news in its results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2020 ended June 30, 2020. Shares of the Canadian

Few companies have gone from almost complete anonymity among retail investors to huge buzz like Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) has over the past couple of months. With the incredible run cloud computing

Given how volatile the stock market has been in 2020, you might assume that investing is pretty complicated. After all, we witnessed the S&P 500 lose a third of its value in less than five weeks