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Are you looking for dividends? That's a tough one today, given the market's shockingly low 1.3% or so yield. But if you are willing to look, and perhaps make some reasonable risk/reward trade-offs

It wasn't all that long ago that investors wondered which stock would be the first to reach a market cap of $1 trillion. Today, seven stocks have market caps of at least $1 trillion, with a couple

As the U.S. economy goes, so goes the stock market. At least, that's generally the case. When the economy is strong, corporate earnings tend to rise. And when earnings rise, stocks usually move

PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) has taken investors on a bit of a roller coaster ride since it was spun off from eBay and went public in 2015. The stock was a big winner as consumer preferences shifted to

For more than 128 years, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) has served as Wall Street's most prominent barometer of the stock market's health.

When it debuted on May 26, 1896, it was

Disney (NYSE: DIS) has spent years building a streaming business, but there has been very little focus on sports so far. That could change in 2025 when ESPN goes over the top. And if Disney can get

One of the easiest and smartest moves you can make as an investor is buying exchange-traded funds (ETFs). ETFs do much of the hard work of investing for you, keeping your portfolio diversified and

Consistently buying shares of growing companies is a proven way to build lasting wealth in the stock market. The following companies would make great stocks to hold over the next few decades to

Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) stock is still 86% off of its highs, but it got a little push last week when an analyst upgraded it. Are things finally starting to look up? It's already rebounding from its

Retiring a millionaire is something many people aspire to do. But recent data from Vanguard indicates that it's not a particularly common achievement.

In its most current How America Saves report

Owning shares in The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) has been a bitter taste in recent months. Rising cocoa prices and less appetite for chocolate left the stock rangebound, and the stock's price is

Shares of Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) sank after the cybersecurity company issued disappointing guidance in conjunction with its fiscal 2024 fourth-quarter results this week. The stock now trades down

There's a "strange" thing going on in the broader market today, with a small number of large stocks (particularly Nvidia) largely driving market returns. That's left the Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is known as a cryptocurrency exchange, but its future could be defined by innovations on the blockchain. In this video, Travis Hoium shows how even Visa (NYSE: V) is taking

The stock market has been on a bull run for over a year and a half. The benchmark S&P 500 index has risen about 48% since the end of 2022.

Economic recoveries tend to last much longer than

Always use the rules to your advantage. This makes sense when playing sports and running a business. And it definitely makes sense for retirees in managing their finances.

The Internal Revenue

A wave of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity has washed over the oil patch in the last year. Big oil behemoth ExxonMobil kicked things off with its $60 billion deal for Pioneer Natural

Shares of Celsius (NASDAQ: CELH) have fallen 67% from their high a few months ago. Is the business in trouble, or is this a speed bump? Travis Hoium digs into that question in this video and shows

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been one of the best-performing stocks over the past five years, up an astonishing 2,430%. Given those gains, the question many investors ask now is whether it is too late

Over the past decade, IBM's (NYSE: IBM) stock price rose 10% while Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) stock surged 810%. IBM underperformed Microsoft by such a wide margin because it missed the seismic

August had one of the worst beginnings of a month for the stock market in recent memory.

Shares plunged on a combination of disappointing economic data and a surprise rate hike in Japan that ended

Wall Street investment banks keep pounding the table on Viking Therapeutics (NASDAQ: VKTX) and its weight loss drug candidate. Predictions vary, but the average analyst who follows the stock thinks

The utility sector tends to be sensitive to interest rates because utilities generally make heavy use of leverage. With Wall Street expecting rates to fall, utility stocks have started to rise. That

Artificial intelligence (AI) stocks have been among the best investments you could have owned in your portfolio over the past few years. Nvidia has generated an incredible 675% gain in just two

The Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (NYSEMKT: VYM) is a popular exchange-traded fund (ETF) with roughly $70 billion in assets. The fund's approach is easy to understand and ensures that it is