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Investors who have owned Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) stock over the past decade have been amply rewarded, as its shares are up about 1,000% over that time frame. The iconic smartphone company has been at

Most investors who aren't retiring soon should buy a few small-cap stocks with market values of less than $2 billion. Small-cap stocks are generally riskier and more volatile than mid- and large-cap

Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) shares are off to a sluggish start this year, down 4.8% so far after climbing 28% in 2019. And the medical device maker's outlook for the current quarter may mean

Shares of Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) are showing signs of life in 2020. China's leading search engine is trading 6% higher this young year, outpacing the market's 4% year-to-date gain. Baidu's move may

When we think about retirement planning, the same universal advice tends to apply -- pad your IRA or 401(k), figure out your expenses, and adjust your investments to reflect the level of risk you're

Establishing an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) and contributing the annual maximum from a young age offers one of the surest ways to ensure a comfortable retirement.

For example, a 22-year-old

Not so long ago, video games seemed to be on the verge of a revolution. With the games-as-a-service model already threatening the individual sales model, consoles and local copies of games seemed

Aurora Cannabis (NYSE: ACB) is a train wreck waiting to happen. That's the opinion of many investors. It's even the opinion of some analysts. But not all of them.

Cantor Fitzgerald's Pablo Zuanic

Diversification is key for any type of investor when building a portfolio. If the investments are too concentrated in one area, the losses could be greater than if the exposure was spread out. 

For

Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT) did it again. The #2 ridesharing opeartor just blew past its own guidance and analyst estimates in its fourth-quarter earnings report.

Lyft has made a habit of beating guidance

When looking for stocks to buy and hold for the long haul, investors will want to focus on either mature companies with stable cash flows or emerging companies with solid growth potential. A cash

Shares of J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) declined 33.5% in January, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence, after the department-store chain announced disappointing holiday-season results.

Toy maker Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS) reported its fourth-quarter and full-year 2019 results before the market opened on Tuesday, Feb 11. 

Shares opened up 6.9% and soon rose 8.5% before giving back their

Nearly two years after announcing their proposed merger, T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) and Sprint (NYSE: S) are just inches away from closing the deal. The two companies have successfully navigated

Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: GILD) and AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) are two of the world's largest pharmaceutical stocks by market capitalization. AbbVie is the bigger of the two, at $139 billion to Gilead's $86

In the grand scheme of filing taxes, nothing invokes instant fear like an IRS audit notice. Now the reality is that getting audited isn't usually the harrowing experience the media might portray it

Is there anything Gap (NYSE: GPS) can do?

The company is at a crossroads, having generated a still impressive $4 billion in sales during its fiscal third quarter, though that figure was down 2% from

Preliminary fourth-quarter 2019 results for Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (NASDAQ: RRGB) are in, and they aren't great. Restaurant traffic was down 3.4%, and quarterly revenue fell 1.2% because of

A number of factors are fueling the need for new solar projects, including corporate buyers, state requirements, coal plant retirements, and lower costs for equipment and construction. The rise of

Last year was more than impressive for equity investors. Tech stocks drove the S&P 500 higher by 30% in 2019, and the bull run has now extended to 2020. But even as markets trade marginally below

Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL)(NASDAQ: GOOG) is about to get much more profitable. The company's management team has given some not-so-subtle clues about this major change in its approach to the "other

Despite its recent hiccups, marijuana is expected to be one of the fastest-growing industries on the planet over the next decade. Although estimates rightly vary on Wall Street, which is to be

When politicians talk about healthcare, there's a lot of focus on reducing the uninsured population or making health insurance more affordable to people whose jobs don't provide it. And these are

Many stocks in the telecom infrastructure sector jumped on Tuesday, following the news that a federal judge has cleared the $26 billion merger between Sprint (NYSE: S) and T-Mobile US (NASDAQ: TMUS)

5G stands for the 5th generation of mobile networking and communication technologies. We use 4G today but 5G is touted to be up to 100 times faster than 4G.

This new technology is important because