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Social Security plays an instrumental role in helping seniors keep up with their living expenses. But a frightening number of workers neglect their personal savings thinking they'll fall back on

New year, new decade, new chances to profit! While it's certain that the stock market can't continue to go up in a straight line, history also shows us that buying great stocks and holding them over

Stocks barely budged last week, with both the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) and the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) holding flat for year's last trading days. That steady finish capped an

Shares of Exact Sciences (NASDAQ: EXAS) jumped over 14% last month, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The cancer screening and diagnostic test leader announced new long-term

Shares of Deciphera Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: DCPH) lept over 31% last month, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The monthly run-up topped 45% at one point before shares cooled

It's been more than a decade since Spirit AeroSystems Holdings (NYSE: SPR) was spun out of Boeing (NYSE: BA), but the aerostructures manufacturer still has close ties to its former parent. Spirit

Shares of motion control motor and power transmission company Altra Industrial Motion (NASDAQ: AIMC) rose 10.2% in December, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. It's not so much

Shares of Iovance Biotherapeutics (NASDAQ: IOVA) gained over 21% last month, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. There wasn't any company-specific news to send the pharma stock

Shares of Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) gained nearly 13% last month, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The trek higher capped off a solid year for the industry leader, as

Shares of Sonos (NASDAQ: SONO) rose 12.8% in December, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The home-speaker company's stock advanced thanks to encouraging consumer-spending data

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Web Services (AWS) is the largest public cloud platform in the world. It controlled 48% of the public cloud market in 2018, according to Gartner, and it offers its services in

Instagram has quickly become a significant source of ad revenue for Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), generating an estimated 20% of the company's total last year. That number should climb even higher in 2020

There wasn't much of anything left of value at Sears even before its bankruptcy, but of the assets it did still possess that retained monetary worth, the DieHard battery brand was arguably the most

Shares of The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) rose 13.6% in December, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence . The stock gained ground in the middle of the month following encouraging news

One of the biggest questions on the minds of Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) investors is whether the company can maintain its growth trajectory now that Disney (NYSE: DIS) has so successfully launched its

Investing in stocks is one of the greatest ways to build long-term wealth available to ordinary Americans. Despite the long-term benefits, stock investing carries with it several risks that make it

Shares of CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) shed 14% of their value in December, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence . The cybersecurity stock dipped after the company reported its

Shares of Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR) rose 17.7% in December, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The cloud-services stock gained ground after the company reported better-than-expected

Shares of Lear (NYSE: LEA) rose 14% in December, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence . The automobile-parts company's stock gained ground after new U.S. tariffs on goods

Shares of Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) climbed 26.8% in December, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence, on growing enthusiasm about the company's China operation and some bullish comments

Shares of Mirum Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: MIRM), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, soared 240.1% in December, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. Investors were

New year, new market. For the North American cannabis industry, 2020 started out with a bang, as a big and populous state kicked off recreational marijuana sales. It's legalized this form of

I recently pointed out three things that can go wrong for Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) in 2020, but that's just one side of the story. As challenging as the past year was, between guidance shortfalls and

Marques Brownlee might not be a household name at this point, but his tech-focused YouTube channel boasts an impressive 10 million subscribers. In total, his videos have amassed over 1.6 billion

Building a diversified stock portfolio introduces an individual investor to an array of different businesses big and small in a variety of industries. Looking at Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and