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Over the weekend, reports confirmed the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak into areas of South Korea and Italy. That sent stock market investors into a near panic, with pre-market futures contract

They say the bigger they are, the harder they fall -- but is the inverse true for low-priced stocks? The smaller they are the faster they rise? Things are never that easy. Stocks with single-digit

Online tax prep specialist Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU) is reportedly ready to shell out $7 billion for Credit Karma, a provider of credit history data and personal finance services.

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Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) CEO Warren Buffett is widely considered to be the greatest investor to ever walk the planet. His unparalleled investing acumen transformed early

Approximately half of married couples rely on their Social Security benefits for at least 50% of their income in retirement, according to the Social Security Administration, and close to one-quarter

Investors got another sign that Mattel's (NASDAQ: MAT) turnaround may actually be happening after the 2020 Toy Association's Toy of the Year Awards in New York last week. The Barbie maker led the

Unemployment is low and wages are rising, yet legions of people are finding it difficult to save money. It's not just low- and moderate-income workers: It's also happening to those making six

While much of the tech industry experienced a bit of a downturn in 2019 due to the U.S.-China trade war and overcapacity, that was mainly confined to hardware-related companies in the tech supply

Cannabis stocks haven't exactly shone over the last year. Capital constraints, weak internal controls, overaggressive management teams, regulatory bottlenecks, exceedingly high tax rates, a thriving

Retirement is an expensive prospect, and it'll take more than just Social Security to pay for it. Thankfully, tax-advantaged savings plans like IRAs and 401(k)s make it easy for workers to sock

Shares of the clinical-stage vaccine companies Inovio Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: INO) and Novavax (NASDAQ: NVAX) both jumped by as much as 18% in pre-market trading Monday morning. Inovio and Novavax

It's hard to know if plant-based meats are a fad or an entrenched trend in the restaurant industry. Despite that, market forces and consumer demands have forced many chains to at least consider

PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP) announced over the weekend that it has struck a deal to purchase a Chinese online snack retailer for $700 million . Be & Cheery sells nuts, dried fruits, meat snacks, and baked

There's always been a strong correlation between economic progress and the flow of materials, but the Industrial Revolution solidified the relationship. The 19th century was shaped by the vision of

We'd all love to get rich quick, right?

Unfortunately, it's not a very easy goal to attain -- though you'll occasionally run across come-ons from the penny stock world that would suggest otherwise

While the White House may not have climate change at the top of its to-do list, the issue continues to resound in various corners of public discourse from Democratic presidential hopefuls on the

Famed investor Warren Buffett is not only the world's most famous investor. The 89-year-old Oracle of Omaha also fancies himself a teacher to others. In his annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway

There's no sugarcoating it -- marijuana stocks had an awful 2019. A combination of persistent supply issues throughout much of Canada, high tax rates in a number of key U.S. markets, and a resilient

We all want to pay the IRS as little money as possible. But while there are a number of underhanded -- and illegal -- ways to go about that, like hiding some of your earned income, clearly, you

One key advantage that individual investors have on Wall Street is time. Institutional investors often have to prove their worth quarterly, or even more quickly. Individuals can put money into an

Dividend stocks are almost always in high demand. Companies that can afford to pay investors a quarterly cut of their profits tend to perform better than non-dividend-paying stocks overall, and are

Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG) enjoyed a virtual monopoly in the robotic surgical systems market for quite a while. But Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) has made several moves that could position it

Few industries have grown as rapidly in recent years as marijuana. Between 2014 and 2018, worldwide legal weed sales more than tripled to $10.9 billion. Meanwhile, Wall Street is forecasting that

What do you envision your retirement process looking like? Traditionally, people worked at a steady job for a long time, sometimes even earning a pension, and then left the workforce for retirement

If you've recently retired or you're thinking about leaving the workforce soon, you have a lot of big life decisions to make. Many of these involve handling your finances without a paycheck or