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Saving money is harder than it seems. While most people know they need to put aside cash for the future, actually coming up with money to put into retirement accounts and other savings accounts

Levi Strauss (NYSE: LEVI), after remaining a private company for more than three decades, became public once again with an initial public offering (IPO) in March 2019. The company has been around

If you're not thinking too much about retirement, you might want to start doing so, even if you're still in your 30s or 40s. After all, many of us will be spending 30 or more years of our life

The bear market brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic seems -- at least for now -- to be in hibernation, as the major stock market indices have gained between 19% and 29% since bottoming out on March

McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) reported that global sales fell by 22% in March, and that actually seems like a victory. Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) has warned that the impact of the coronavirus pandemic will

Your Social Security benefits are calculated by taking your wages during your 35 highest-paid years in the workforce, adjusting them for inflation, and applying a special formula to determine what

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) are mature tech companies looking to the cloud to help them orchestrate a comeback. Just this month, the head of IBM's cloud division, Arvind Krishna, took

The market -- in fact, the economy in general -- has fallen quicker than at any point in modern history. In time, we will see official unemployment numbers sky-rocket, and official productivity

The coronavirus crisis has caused millions of Americans to lose their jobs, and the resulting economic fallout has caused turmoil in the stock market.

If you're suddenly unemployed and are near

Square (NYSE: SQ) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) have more in common that one might think. To be sure, Amazon has grown into one of the largest companies in the world. Square, on the other hand, is only

Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU), the owner of China's top search engine, recently suspended some newsfeed channels within its mobile app to "comply with government directives." It warned that the suspension

Groupon's (NASDAQ: GRPN) investors were recently hit by a flurry of troubling news. On March 25, the company announced the abrupt resignations of CEO Rich Williams and COO Steve Krenzer, though they

If you think oil and gas stocks have had a rough go of things in recent weeks, take a gander at marijuana stocks since March 31, 2019. Over the past year and change, most cannabis stocks have lost

It's no secret the COVID-19 pandemic created chaos on Wall Street, as investors grapple with the economic fallout. Among the hardest-hit sectors is the restaurant industry. Around the world

Spirit AeroSystems (NYSE: SPR) has halted work on Boeing (NYSE: BA) commercial aircraft fuselages and furloughed more than 3,000 workers for 21 days following Boeing's decision to suspend final

Believe it or not, there will come a time when the coronavirus contagion is in the rearview mirror. For a few people, life will have changed dramatically. For most people, life will have changed at

As bizarre as it is to say, grocery chain Kroger (NYSE: KR) is one of 2020's hottest stocks. 

Kroger attracted serious investor attention in February after Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway

Disney (NYSE: DIS) surprised investors when it announced Disney+ now has 50 million global subscribers. It's been only five months since the service's official launch in the U.S., and it's been mere

College is an expensive endeavor these days, and many students have no choice but to take out loans to cover their tuition, fees, and room and board. That doesn't sit well with a lot of parents

As stay-at-home orders and other social distancing measures became pervasive across the U.S. over the past month, demand for the products and services that enable working from home soared

Social Security is a big deal for most retirees, and it plays a significant role for all workers, as we're taxed for it throughout our working lives. Indeed, the program shells out about a trillion

At its investor day a little more than a month ago, General Electric (NYSE: GE) reaffirmed its guidance for another year of modest margin expansion and a return to free cash flow growth in 2020

Retail has faced some unique pressures over the past few years. The rise of digital and push toward omnichannel selling has essentially separated retailers into three classes.

There's a group of

I sure hope investors have their antacids handy, because it's been a bumpy ride for seven weeks and counting. The physical and financial toll being exacted by the spread of COVID-19 has created a

Food safety, clean water, and hygiene company Ecolab (NYSE: ECL) is what Wall Street analysts might describe as a battleground stock. In other words, it's the kind of stock that's going to generate