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The S&P 500 currently trades at 17.7 times forward earnings. That's below the five-year average of 18.7 times forward earnings and roughly in line with the 10-year average. That metric suggests

It's hard to find a silver lining in the housing market these days.

Mortgage rates have soared to 23-year highs, topping 8% for 30-year fixed across much of the country. That's led monthly payments

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) has been one of the best-performing stocks this year. Shares are up 167% in 2023 (as of Oct. 1), a huge reversal from the monumental drop from late 2021 to late 2022.

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) has been cutting prices all year and added another cut in just the last few weeks. But the impact on the business may not be what investors think. Margins are dropping and

The Supreme Court struck down President Biden's plan to wipe away student loans, and it left more than 40 million borrowers on the hook to resume payments this month. If you're one of them, don't

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) offers some of the most popular products and services on the market, with a customer base ranging from individual consumers and small merchants to large enterprise clients and

What's better than a stock that pays dividends? A stock with growing dividends and a business that's built for long-term success. 

Three Motley Fool contributors identified stocks they think fit the

All three major indexes dipped into bear territory last year, and many top companies saw their share prices sink. Your portfolio may have felt the pain, too. But there is a way to cushion the impact

Rivian (NASDAQ: RIVN) has been a promising electric vehicle company since coming to public markets, but it's run into a consistent problem. Operations are burning through money, and to get to

Collaboration and productivity software juggernaut Atlassian (NASDAQ: TEAM) has agreed to acquire Loom, an asynchronous video-messaging platform, for $975 million.

Loom is very different from

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has long used debt to finance growth, but in the last year, it's become apparent that the cost of its debt is going up significantly. In this video, Travis Hoium covers how much

There are plenty of good reasons to hold down a job in retirement. First of all, if you're struggling to get by, based on your savings and Social Security benefits alone, working is a great way to

Student loan interest and repayment has restarted for the first time in three and a half years for millions of Americans with federal student loans. Most borrowers had (or have) their first payment

Rarely, if ever, should you make financial decisions blindly. This is especially true in stock investing where there's always a chance you could lose money with ill-advised choices. And while it's

Retirement can feel like a whole new life, and it is in a sense. But you must prepare for it if you're going to make the most of your golden years. You can have enough money to fund your needs (and

Income-generating investments can be a great way to increase your income if you have extra cash savings but no time to take on a side gig. While bonds and bank CDs are the safest way to put that

Thanks to a forty-five-day funding bill, the federal government now has until Nov. 17 to come up with a more permanent funding solution. If this doesn't happen and the government is forced to shut

One of the best things anyone can do to prepare financially for retirement is to use retirement accounts because they provide a two-for-one benefit. In addition to letting you actively save and

Income investors won't get mouthwatering dividend yields from buying most exchange-traded funds (ETFs). For example, the highly followed SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust currently yields a little over 1.5%

Warren Buffett is winning so far in 2023. Shares of his Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) are up by a double-digit percentage. Analysts are optimistic about the stock's prospects, too

The market has soured on growth stocks that aren't generating profits yet and for good reason. Interest rates have gone from nearly zero to a target range above 5% in the span of less than two

As equity markets benefit from a bounce-back year in 2023, so too has the crypto market. 

Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) has climbed almost 30% this year, after it dropped 68% in 2022. But with it still

Earlier this year, student loan borrowers were dealt a major blow when they learned that their outstanding educational debt would not be forgiven under President Biden's proposed plan. After a

Southern Company (NYSE: SO) is one of the largest regulated utilities in the United States. It is offering investors a dividend yield of roughly 4.2% today, which is notably higher than the roughly

Since this decade began, investors have had their resolve repeatedly tested. Wall Street has vacillated wildly following the 2020 COVID-19 crash, the stimulus-fueled period of investment euphoria in