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The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) soared on the first trading day of 2020, up 0.6% at 11:30 a.m. EST. The Dow was up around 22% in 2019.

Helping to drive Thursday's gains were two

Shares of Innate Pharma (NASDAQ:IPHA) were soaring 19.5% higher as of 11:10 a.m. EST on Thursday. The big gain came after the company announced earlier in the day that the European Medicines Agency

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL), the parent company of Google, both outperformed the S&P 500 over the past decade. Microsoft's stock rallied over 400%, as a new

Pot stocks took a tremendous beating in 2019, and most kicked off 2020 trading on Thursday at prices near their 52-week lows. HEXO (NYSE: HEXO), a top Quebec-based cannabis grower and distributor

Investors punished Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) stock when it reported a decline in profit for its third quarter, the first time in more than two years. The e-commerce giant blamed investments in

Visa (NYSE: V) leads the global digital payment market with a secure payment network that is capable of processing over 65,000 payments per second. The company does not extend loans or credit but

Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) operates the largest chain of coffee shops in the world with 31,000 locations, most of which are company-owned. The restaurant stock produced a stellar twelve months for

Wall Street was in a good mood to celebrate the start of what many hope to be able to call the Roaring '20s, as stock market indexes continued to move higher Thursday morning and added to their

A little over a year ago, I selected TerraForm Power (NASDAQ: TERP) as my top renewable energy stock for 2019. It turned out to be a solid pick. While the wind and solar energy producer's shares

In late 2017, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (NYSE: BIP) identified the data infrastructure sector as one that it planned to focus on in the coming years. At the time, CEO Sam Pollock stated

Jumia Technologies (NYSE: JMIA), the self-styled 'Amazon of Africa,' has had a rough time since its IPO in April 2019. The Africa-focused e-commerce platform currently trades at a fraction of its

Retirement is a pleasant prospect to look forward to, but if you go into it carelessly, you may wind up miserable and cash-strapped rather than laid-back and content. To give yourself a better

New Year, new you, new sources of potential income to pore over! The changing of the calendar offers an opportunity for income-seeking investors to find attractive or overlooked dividend stocks to

In today's competitive job market, attracting talent is no easy feat. This especially holds true if you're not offering the most attractive salaries within your industry. It pays to approach the

Mirum Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: MIRM) may not sound familiar, even to biotech investors; this company only went public in July. The stock spent much of the last few months trading in the $7 to $8

There's no doubt that the marijuana industry has a bright future. We know this because tens of billions of dollars in annual sales are being conducted in the black market each year. As

After a year of strong market returns, it's difficult to find a quality dividend stock trading at a compelling valuation. Case in point, the average dividend yield of stocks in the S&P 500 is now

Millions of seniors collect Social Security in retirement, and the more you know about the program, the more money you stand to receive from it. Here are a few important rules you must understand.

Visa (NYSE: V) and Square (NYSE: SQ) are two of the best-known financial services companies in the world right now, but they're very different from an investment perspective.

Visa is the financial

Because 2019 was the first tax year affected by the massive 2018 overhaul, many filers found themselves overwhelmed and stressed during this past tax season. If you'd rather the upcoming tax season

Our demand for data is insatiable. Driven by smartphones and the rise of streaming video, the amount of information being transported via the internet has boomed in recent years, and network

If investing feels rather intimidating, don't let that stop you from starting, or at least beginning to learn how. That's because over the long term, equities, on average, are almost certain to

It didn't take Mark Tritton, the new CEO at Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ: BBBY), very long to get everyone's attention. Just two months into his new job, the massive purge of a half-dozen executives

Investors looking for large-cap, dividend-paying healthcare stocks have plenty of options. Whether it's large-scale drug manufacturers or medical technology providers, there's enough choice to suit

Solar energy stocks as a group have been through a number of ups and downs over the past decade, and few of them individually have been winners for investors. Yet since 2009, annual solar