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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

Former senator and Secretary of State John Kerry has launched a new climate coalition complete with bipartisan support, Hollywood celebrities, and military leaders, according to reporting by The New

If you're in or approaching retirement, you're likely looking to purchase dividend stocks that not only have the capacity to grow, but also throw off cash on a regular basis. Even if you're a young

Biotech investors know that simply generating some positive clinical trial data for a candidate treatment is no guarantee that the drug will make it to market. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration

There are a lot of very expensive tech stocks. By buying them, you're paying a high price for future growth that may or may not materialize. Some of them -- perhaps even many of them -- will be

There are few, if any, cannabis stocks that garner more attention from investors than Aurora Cannabis (NYSE: ACB) and Canopy Growth (NYSE: CGC). Aurora and Canopy are respectively No. 1 and No. 2 in

If you're a parent, you know raising kids is very expensive. And for millions of parents throughout America, the costs don't end when children reach adulthood. In fact, parents are spending a small

There's been some uncertainty about how the launch of new premium streaming services like Disney's (NYSE: DIS) Disney+ or Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) Apple TV+ would impact Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU). Many saw

Shares of America's largest healthcare providers UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), Humana (NYSE: HUM), and Cigna (NYSE: CI) rose at least 10% in November, according to data from S&P Global Market

Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) was once considered a conservative play on China's growing tech industry since it owned the country's top search engine and a wide moat of popular portals and apps. However

Slack's (NYSE: WORK) third-quarter results didn't disappoint. The company's revenue growth accelerated to a growth rate of 60% (up from 58% in Q1). The collaborative communication-software

Altus Midstream (NASDAQ: ALTM) has spent the past year quietly building a large-scale midstream business to support the flow of oil and gas out of the Permian Basin. The energy company has been

Social Security helps millions of seniors today keep up with their expenses and maintain a decent standard of living. And even though those benefits have been losing buying power for the past couple

December is here, and taxpayers are running out of time to make last-minute planning moves for the 2019 tax year. In order to make sure that your 2019 tax return has as small a tax bill as possible

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) is always looking for ways to innovate and achieve incremental growth, and the company has shown it isn't afraid to disrupt other industries to do so.

Focusing on sectors

With the market at an all-time high, an investor would be hard-pressed to find a stock trading at an earnings multiple that's less than its growth rate while sporting a dividend yield close to 3%

When you sell an asset for more than you paid for it, or specifically for more than your cost basis, the net profit is considered to be a capital gain. For a simplified example, if you spend $5,000

Anyone following marijuana stocks hears about the big Canadian players a lot. But don't overlook the U.S.-based companies. And some of them are pulling in a lot more revenue than their counterparts

2019 was not a great year for Nucor (NYSE: NUE) investors.

On the one hand, yes, Nucor stock is up 8.5% for the year as we enter the home stretch of 2019. On the other hand, the S&P 500 as a whole

Oil companies like Chevron (NYSE: CVX) are taking a double hit lately. First, oil prices have been relatively weak for several years. Second, carbon-based fuels are under increasing scrutiny due to

Gender inequality gets a lot of press these days, for good reason. American women, on average, are still only earning about $0.80 for every dollar that men make, and that statistic is even worse for

Finding good buy-and-hold stocks to invest in for the long term can be a bit of a challenge. This is especially true in the tech industry, where what's popular today may become tomorrow's fad

Before we ring in 2020, December will be ripe for swings in biotech stock prices. 2019 started strong, waned, and then regained momentum amid a slew of successful clinical trial results, several

OPEC members, along with several non-member allies, agreed this week to reduce their oil supplies by an additional 500,000 barrels per day (BPD) starting in January. This cut is on top of an output