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Most Americans have already received their first COVID-19 stimulus check and are watching negotiations in Washington closely to see when or if a second one will be on the way. While it's far from

On June 9, the Nasdaq Composite briefly crossed the 10,000 mark for the first time in its history, an achievement few would have predicted just a few weeks ago, when the market was imploding amid

Dividend investors are a rare breed who are able to delay gratification and invest for the long-term. One of the ways many investors automate some of their dividend investing plans is to enroll in a

On Wall Street, few, if any, investors are revered as much as Warren Buffett. The CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) has been an absolute stock-picking dynamo since the mid-1960s

Social Security currently serves as a major income source for millions of older Americans. But younger folks refuse to let themselves fall back on it.

In fact, only 17% of millennials expect Social

Growth investing can make you rich. Well-chosen growth stocks can increase in value many times as they scale their revenue and profits, creating fortunes for their investors along the way.

The key

What a whirlwind of a year it's been for investors. The coronavirus pandemic pushed the broad-based S&P 500 to its fastest bear market decline in history, as well as the quickest 30%-plus drop on

Like many entertainment companies, The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) has been hit hard by the global pandemic. The good news is that the global company's diverse revenue dreams are showing signs

Shares of Livongo Health (NASDAQ: LVGO) jumped 6.4% higher on Monday, after KeyBanc analyst Donald Hooker raised his price target on the stock to $85 from $52. Hooker wrote to clients that KeyBanc

Peter Faricy, CEO of the streaming unit for cable television brand Discovery (NASDAQ: DISCA) (NASDAQ: DISCB), will step down on July 15 after less than two years in the role. Faricy informed the

Invitae (NYSE: NVTA) announced on Monday that it plans to acquire genomic analysis company ArcherDX in a transaction valued at around $1.4 billion. Under the terms of the deal, Invitae will provide

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced on Monday that it will shut down its Mixer platform for gaming content streaming on July 22. The company paired the announcement with news of an expanded

Back in the olden days of flip phones and paper newsletters, every issue of Stock Advisor and Rule Breakers started with a short essay conveying timeless investing lessons. Well, as long as they're

Shares of Square (NYSE: SQ) climbed more than 6% on Monday, following the release of a bullish analyst note from investment bank Barclays. 

Barclays analyst Ramsey El-Assal reiterated his

The stock market has done extremely well in recovering from the coronavirus bear market, posting an amazing advance since mid-March. Even with signs that COVID-19 might be spreading more quickly

Shares of Virgin Galactic Holdings (NYSE: SPCE) jumped more than 15% on Monday after the aerospace company said it would train people to become astronauts and travel to the International Space

Shares of "clean health" biotech Amyris (NASDAQ: AMRS) made a clean sweep of the stock market Monday as its shares raced 12.5% higher after announcing a "transformative" deal with bakery ingredients

The Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) has been outperforming the overall stock market for quite a while now, and Monday was no different. The index of Nasdaq stocks climbed more than 1%, going

Results from a study by Guardant Health (NASDAQ: GH), presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Virtual Annual Meeting II, showed the company's Lunar-2 blood test can detect

The stock market started out the week on a positive note Monday, with the S&P 500 inching up a modest 0.65%, and tech stocks doing quite a bit better.

By the time trading closed for the day, shares

In this episode of MarketFoolery, host Chris Hill chats with Motley Fool Asset Management's Bill Barker about the latest earning reports and headlines from the around the market. A retail giant

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) kicked off the online version of its Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC) on Monday with the widely anticipated shift away from the Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) chips used by the Mac

The rapid descent continues for hydroxychloroquine as hope for a cure for COVID-19. On Monday, pharmaceutical giant Novartis (NYSE: NVS) announced that it is stopping the sponsored clinical trial it

Shares of Agenus (NASDAQ: AGEN) rose as much as 10.8% today after the company reported a licensing deal in China and highlighted results from an early-stage study. The development-stage biopharma

Shares of Workhorse Group (NASDAQ: WKHS), a maker of electric commercial vans and other vehicles, was trading sharply higher on Monday on growing investor interest after two analysts released