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Main Street Capital (NYSE: MAIN) will make its latest monthly dividend payment this week. That payment will be 1.9% above last month's level (and 3.9% higher than the year-ago payment). It's the

Although the artificial intelligence (AI) investment theme has displayed some weakness during the past few weeks, it's still a major long-term trend that will dominate the market for the next few

Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY) and Novo Nordisk (NYSE: NVO) today participate in one of the most exciting growth markets in healthcare: the weight loss drug market, one that's on track to reach nearly $100

It will take roughly 6,090 shares to earn $10,000 a year in dividends from Nike (NYSE: NKE). This is based on its current quarterly payment of $0.41, or a forward-12-month dividend of $1.64 per

After a brutal stretch that battered its stock and its reputation, UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) is leaning hard into artificial intelligence to steady the ship. The company is investing about $1.5

There aren't many businesses quite like Visa (NYSE: V) and Mastercard (NYSE: MA). Both operate open-loop payment networks -- the rails that shuttle money between a shopper's bank and a merchant's --

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) has become one of the world's top suppliers of graphics processing units (GPUs) for data centers, which are the primary chips used in artificial intelligence

In the space business, the companies pulling ahead share a common trait: They don't just do one thing. They build the rocket, launch it, make the satellites it carries, and increasingly sell the

It would be better for the world if there weren't a geopolitical conflict raging in the Middle East. But that doesn't change the fact that there is, and that tensions are again on the rise. One

Since Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) first purchased Bitcoin in August 2020, when it effectively became a digital asset treasury business, its shares have surged 601% (as of July 10). However, this

Walmart (NASDAQ: WMT) has quietly become one of the market's strongest large-cap performers over the past few years, rewarding investors who had long underestimated it. Lately, though, the run has

After MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI) delivered another year of more than 30% revenue growth in 2025, you might have expected the stock to surge. Instead, the stock went the other way.

Why? Because the

The stock market has been on fire since the bear market ended in October 2022, with the "Magnificent Seven" leading the charge. Although Nvidia is Wall Street's largest publicly traded company, it's

Investors are always looking for the next game-changing technology, and in recent years, one emerged: artificial intelligence (AI). This exciting technology is already bearing fruit for many, from

Drug pricing has been hanging over the pharmaceutical industry for years, and the Trump administration didn't eliminate that pressure. It did, however, pursue voluntary pricing agreements with many

In Cathie Wood's Ark Genomic Revolution ETF (NYSEMKT: ARKG), as of July 10, the three top holdings are Tempus AI, 10x Genomics, and Twist Bioscience. But digging past the top 10 holdings, there's a

Year to date, the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) and Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) have added 11% and 13%, respectively. The driving force behind that upside has been strong corporate financial

Oil and natural gas are vital to the world's normal functioning. The geopolitical conflict in the Middle East has disrupted supply, but it is also affecting demand. The end result is OPEC again

Warren Buffett is no longer the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, the company he spent six decades building into one of the world's largest conglomerates. But the lessons he taught investors and people

President Trump's investment accounts have made more than 6,100 stock trades year to date, according to disclosures from the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. Those accounts are controlled by

When Warren Buffett handed the chief executive job at Berkshire Hathaway to Greg Abel at the start of this year, he stepped back to the role of chairman and left behind a stock portfolio built

Forget earnings season! Arguably, the most important economic release of the month, the June inflation report, is just hours from being published (July 14, 08:30 a.m. ET), and it can have

For the past few years, artificial intelligence (AI)-related stocks have been the most lucrative stocks on the market. It began with major hyperscalers like the "Magnificent Seven" stocks, but

Trump Accounts officially launched on July 4, 2026. Created as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill, they function like an individual retirement account (IRA) for eligible American children under 18

If your goal is to collect the largest possible Social Security check in retirement, you probably know the basics: Work for at least 35 years and wait until age 70 to claim benefits. But there's one