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It looked like HEXO (NYSE: HEXO) might be one of the top pot stocks of 2020 when the company reaffirmed in June that it was projecting sales for fiscal 2020 to hit $400 million Canadian dollars

A number of biotech companies are awaiting responses from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this month. If granted approval from the agency, it wouldn't be surprising if many of these

Restaurant stocks seem easy to invest in because of their relatively simple business model. But they present challenges because of the ever-changing tastes of diners and macroeconomic factors.

While

PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL) and Square (NYSE: SQ) are poised to profit from the secular growth of digital payments over the next several years. Both companies grew their payment volume by 25%

The price of oil has jumped around quite a bit this year. After plunging at the end of last year, the U.S. oil benchmark price, West Texas Intermediate, rallied above $65 a barrel at one point

Social Security benefits are an important source of income for most retirees. But if you plan on these benefits providing you with enough to live on as a senior, you're likely to face some really

Humanity has long dreamed of flying, but one must imagine even Orville and Wilbur Wright would be in awe of the industry that has sprung up around the invention they first got airborne in December

Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ: ULTA) investors shifted their outlook on the business dramatically in late August, when the company lowered its growth forecast. Management said at the time that the makeup

The distinction between online and in-store purchases doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing choice. That's what Walmart (NYSE: WMT) has learned, and it's offering customers a host of purchase

The United States has high obesity rates, which are in part caused by access to fast food, eating highly processed meals, and sedentary lifestyles. However, some trendsetting companies are combating

The holiday shopping season kicked off with consumers spending more money online than ever before on each of the five days from Thanksgiving Day to Cyber Monday. That bodes well for Amazon.com

It's been another tough year for the world's largest country (by population) and second-largest economy. China's growth has hit the skids, and the ongoing trade war with the U.S. hasn't helped

Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ: WBA) hasn't had a great year in 2019, and over the past five years, the stock has plummeted by more than 20%. However, the good news is that the company has been

Investors eagerly awaited Biogen's (NASDAQ: BIIB) presentation on its investigative Alzheimer's drug at Thursday's Clinical Trials on Alzheimer's Disease conference. They were hoping for clues about

Investors don't need to look much further than the stock's 80%-plus rise this year to know that lululemon athletica (NASDAQ: LULU) is in Wall Street's good graces today. The athleisure retail

The stars are aligning just right for Disney (NYSE: DIS) this week. Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance opened at Disney World on Thursday, and the next-gen attraction is living up to the hype. There

Investors have had good reasons to feel optimistic about Five Below's (NASDAQ: FIVE) operating trends this year. The youth-focused retailer has been expanding sales at an over 20% clip and booking

When you've left the workforce and are living on a fixed income as a retiree, you need to be careful about what you do with your dollars.

Unfortunately, far too many seniors make money mistakes that

Retirement is, for many people, the ideal time to travel. After all, if you have the savings available to support all that globetrotting, you can explore different corners of the world without

With few exceptions, GameStop's (NYSE: GME) earnings reports have been packed with bad news for over a year. The company took shareholders along for a protracted flirtation with taking itself

The stock market has returned a respectable 2,700% since 1965, the year that McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) filed its initial public offering, or IPO. Shareholders lucky enough to get in early on that

On Nov. 19, financial technology company WEX (NYSE: WEX) announced it had been granted a license to process electronic payments in the Netherlands, the seventh largest European economy by GDP and a

For millions of Americans, Social Security provides a key source of income. But you don't automatically qualify to receive Social Security benefits. To make a claim for these benefits on your own

Enterprise identity management company Okta (NASDAQ: OKTA) reported strong fiscal third-quarter results this week, and also boosted its outlook for the full fiscal year. That's typically a recipe

This past summer, the chorus of voices anticipating a recession -- a decline in economic activity -- reached the loudest levels since at least the financial crisis of 2008-2009. The yield curve was