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Major benchmarks moved lower on Thursday morning, but still stayed relatively close to their recent record levels. Until investors get definitive news on much-watched areas like the health of the

Wall Street is well-known for its focus on the short term -- when the market values a stock, it's often only looking only as far ahead as the next quarter. Such myopia means that companies facing

Consolidated Edison (NYSE: ED) pays its investors well. The utility's current dividend yields 3.4%, well above the roughly 2% average of stocks in the S&P 500.

However, having an above-average yield

Canadian oil driller Vermillion Energy (NYSE: VET) has a massive 14% dividend yield. That's around seven times the yield on offer from an S&P 500 Index fund. That certainly sounds great, but there's

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Few segments of the alcohol industry are growing as fast as hard seltzer. Sales surged 169% in 2018, hitting $488 million, and have more than doubled again so far this year, reaching $1 billion in

Like all Canadian pot stocks, Cronos Group (NASDAQ: CRON) has had a forgettable 2019. Despite starting the year off on a high note, Cronos' stock has now lost a third of its value this year. The

Getting a raise can come with big benefits beyond just increasing your paycheck, including boosting your Social Security benefits and increasing your company match in your 401(k). But to get all of

In the summer of 2018, Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) management said it was sharpening its focus on returning capital to shareholders. The coffee giant committed to buying back more shares and paying

TJX Companies (NYSE: TJX) reported 6% year-over-year sales growth in its fiscal third-quarter 2020 earnings report released Tuesday, and provided investors with a solid fourth-quarter earnings per

A weak earnings report by its chief rival earlier in the week put investors in a cautious mode heading into Lowe's (NYSE: LOW) third-quarter announcement. The softer sales environment that Home

World Wrestling Entertainment (NYSE: WWE) recently reported lower third-quarter revenue and earnings compared to a year ago. If this was just one disappointing quarter, it would be easier to dismiss

Stock investors attempting to play a J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) comeback would really be betting against the odds. There is some enthusiasm on the street right now after the retailer pulled together

Roger Lynch has only been CEO of major magazine publisher Conde Nast for a little over six months, following Lynch's exit as CEO of Pandora Media in the wake of the music-streaming company's

It's no secret that the holiday season often leads to overspending. And new data from Discover reveals that one generation may be at risk of going overboard.  

A good 35% of millennial consumers

Motion and control technologies company Parker-Hannifin (NYSE: PH) is somehow emblematic of investing in the industrial sector right now. The company recently gave its first-quarter earnings for

On Wednesday, Nov. 20, the House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee approved the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act. The move is a crucial step in making the bill a

Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY) and Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) have been two of the best-performing big pharma stocks over the past decade. Nonetheless, these two pharma titans have both run into serious trouble this

You don't have to look far to find someone singing the praises of big data -- and I'm one of them. In today's connected world, we have more of it than at any point in human history. Imagine the

The bulls have been largely driven out of Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT) and Uber (NYSE: UBER). The ride-hailing duopoly has been a one-two sucker punch, with Lyft and Uber falling precipitously since hitting

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has had a sluggish year in 2019. The stock has produced returns of just 17% thus far, which are uninspiring by its standards. By comparison, China-based Alibaba Group Holdings

Some dollar stores offer items that cost more than $1. That's necessary if those companies hope to meet the needs of their customers, who seem to accept higher prices on some products as long as the

Yesterday, Amarin (NASDAQ: AMRN) lost over 10% of its value in response to a rather harsh report by Oppenheimer analyst Leland Gershell. The key issue that triggered this double-digit sell-off

Energy companies Kinder Morgan and TerraForm Power both cater to dividend-focused investors. They each currently yield around 5% and expect to increase their payouts in the coming years. Because of

Target's (NYSE: TGT) stock recently rallied to an all-time high after the retailer's third-quarter numbers crushed analysts' estimates. Its revenue rose 4.7% annually to $18.67 billion, beating