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If your gut tells you now is a good time to add some safe dividend payers to your investment portfolio, you'd be wise to listen. Between geopolitical turmoil, lingering inflation, unpredictable

Four-plus years passed without an interest-rate cut from the Federal Reserve. That changed Wednesday when the Fed lowered rates by an unexpectedly large 0.5%.

Investors' initial reactions were

Nvidia has been a tough act to follow in recent years. The artificial intelligence (AI) chip giant has delivered triple-digit increases in earnings quarter after quarter, and the share price has

Millions of older Americans rely on their monthly Social Security benefits to make ends meet. And thankfully, those benefits are eligible for an annual cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA.

The

Nvidia is a stock that's been synonymous with generating high-powered returns in recent years. The chipmaker is a big player in the artificial intelligence market, as its chips are the go-to option

Cathie Wood is the founder and chief investment officer of Ark Investment Management, which operates several exchange-traded and private funds. She is one of the most bullish voices on Wall Street

The Federal Reserve lowered its benchmark interest rate on Wednesday, Sept. 18 for the first time in four years. Inflation has been trending downward, and the labor market has been softening, so the

There's no denying that artificial intelligence (AI) has generated a lot of buzz since early last year. Recent technological advances have taken these algorithms to the next level, enabling them to

Shares of Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) and Axon Enterprise (NASDAQ: AXON) have moved in opposite directions this year. The former has fallen 4%, while the latter has gained 48%. Both stocks recently had

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been the stock everyone is talking about for quite some time -- and for good reason. The company dominates the artificial intelligence (AI) chip niche with a market share

Next month, the Social Security Administration (SSA) will be announcing the latest cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for 2025. Beneficiaries have been receiving COLAs for decades, with the first

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There is a clutch of stocks that convincingly beat the market on both Wednesday and Thursday, but not a great many. Among these high achievers was social media company Snap (NYSE: SNAP), which again

There are no prizes for guessing the root of Thursday's cryptocurrency rally. As much of the investing world is well aware, the big market-shaking news item was that the Federal Reserve (Fed) cut

Tandem Diabetes Care (NASDAQ: TNDM) had some encouraging news to report on the regulatory front Thursday, and after it hit the headlines investors piled into the stock. At the end of the day the

While the broad stock market was soaring on interest rate cuts today, Skechers (NYSE: SKX), the casual footwear specialist, was moving in the opposite direction, tumbling after it told investors

The stock of space exploration company Intuitive Machines (NASDAQ: LUNR) strongly defied gravity on Thursday. It closed the day more than 24% higher, thanks in no small part to news of a major

The end of the trading week likely can't come fast enough for Vanda Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: VNDA). The commercial-stage biotech's stock took an almost 6% hit on Thursday, following some dispiriting

The Federal Reserve slashed the federal funds rate (overnight interest rate) by 50 basis points on Wednesday, which was double the 25-basis-point adjustment it typically uses. Inflation has fallen

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock is jumping Thursday following the Federal Reserve's recent interest rate cut. The company's share price was up 4.9% as of 3 p.m. ET.

The Fed announced yesterday that it

Shares of ASML (NASDAQ: ASML) were among the winners in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector as the maker of lithography systems that are used to make semiconductors rose on the Federal Reserve's

The stock market is on fire on Thursday and that has extended to cryptocurrencies as well. Over the past 24 hours, the value of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) jumped 6.5% at 1 p.m. ET to $63,700, Ethereum

Shares of auto leaders Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) and Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM), as well as auto-centered semiconductor stock Indie Semiconductor (NASDAQ: INDI) were rallying on Thursday, up 7.3%, 4.3%, and

After several years of keeping interest rates elevated to tame inflation, the Federal Reserve finally flipped the lever the other way on Wednesday.

The central bank surprised some investors by

Chinese stocks moved higher today after the Federal Reserve's jumbo 50-basis-point interest rate cut prompted investors to bet that China's central bank may follow suit.

Shares of the Chinese tech