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Streaming services accounted for just under 80% of all recorded music revenue in the U.S. in 2019, and that proportion has now grown even larger in the first half of 2020, according to new figures

It's been three months since CNBC's Mad Money host Jim Cramer mentioned that Spotify (NYSE: SPOT) was starting to mirror the Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) success story. Spotify's push to beef up its

Mall landlords like industry giant Simon Property Group (NYSE: SPG) have been hit hard by the impact of COVID-19. In fact, the story behind mall real estate investment trusts (REITs) has changed

Shopping mall operators Simon Property Group (NYSE: SPG) and Brookfield Property Partners (NASDAQ: BPY) just bought J.C. Penney in bankruptcy for $1.7 billion, and have acquired -- either together

Joe Biden doesn't foresee major Pentagon budget cuts if he is elected president, and in fact believes some areas of defense spending need to be increased.

In an interview with the newspaper Stars &amp

Most Americans have a difficult time saving for retirement. And there are some big structural reasons for that, including income inequality and the fact that far too many people don't earn a living

ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, probably won't be able to sell the popular video sharing app by Sept. 20, the date President Trump's administration has mandated for its divestment.

That's according

Despite reporting better-than-expected fiscal second-quarter results and raising its full-year guidance in early September, Slack Technologies (NYSE: WORK) stock plunged by 14% the following day

Although there are bargains around after last week's market sell-off, I'm looking now at two stocks that actually resisted the movement, ending the week little changed. Why? Because that, along with

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) have been cutting dividends left and right because of COVID-19. But a few landlords, including Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE: FRT), have bucked that

After growing to become the largest and most powerful social networking conglomerate on the planet, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) is now looking to return to its humble beginnings. When CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been rumored to have been working on a services bundle for over two years, and the offering may finally be ready to launch. This week, the Mac maker formally announced that

With a whopping price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 219 as of Thursday's close, Square (NYSE: SQ) looks like one expensive investment. The stock hadn't moved much since late 2018, but effects from the

Real estate investment trust (REIT) Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM) has an 8%-plus dividend yield, which is pretty eye-catching at a time when the broader market's yield is below 2%. But how safe is the

While Dividend Aristocrats are members of the S&P 500 that have raised their dividends annually for at least 25 straight years, Dividend Kings are an even more impressive group of companies: the

Following the Great Recession, the Federal Reserve dropped rates close to zero in 2010 to jump-start the economy. Rates stayed around this level for another roughly seven years, and in that time

A decade from now, when we look back at what COVID-19 did to the business world, we may well remember it as a "cloud catalyst" more than anything. By that, I mean 10 years' worth of migration to the

Despite its share-price slide earlier this week, Tesla's (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock has been on a tear this year. The electric-vehicle maker has seen its share price climb an impressive 340% year to date,

By 2030, all baby boomers will be at least 65 years old, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. As members of this influential generation enter retirement (if they haven't already), they'll be making

Consumer discretionary stocks are found wherever ordinary people spend money on items that aren't basic necessities of life. These companies don't make paper towels, soap, and frozen vegetables, but

With the market indexes having erased virtually all of their losses for the year, finding bargains may not seem an easy task. Yet we're really back to where we started, so we can give stocks a

Five Below (NASDAQ: FIVE) surprised investors last week by posting a quick return to sales growth following plummeting results during the various statewide COVID-19 shutdowns. The retailer enjoyed

Home Depot (NYSE: HD) has become a huge success story for its long-term investors. Founders Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank pioneered the hardware superstore concept that offers a vast selection

Fidelity is the brokerage home to 32 million individual investors, holds $8.3 trillion in customer assets, and performs 2.3 million trades each day. Not only does it serve U.S. investors, but it

ExxonMobil's (NYSE: XOM) troubles don't seem to be ending. Rising debt levels and mega capital spending plans in an unfavorable oil price environment led to a steep fall in the stock's price over