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The U.S. economy has been spared a post-pandemic recession so far, but that may not remain true forever. Inflation remains peskily high, and all signs point to higher interest rates for a longer

Student loan borrowers got a reprieve from making payments on their debt during the pandemic, when the country found itself deep in the throes of a financial crisis. That reprieve began in early

The FAANG acronym was coined by CNBC personality Jim Cramer in 2017, and it references a group of five technology stocks that tend to consistently outperform the broader market:

While all of those

Coca-Cola's (NYSE: KO) strengths as an investment are the stuff of legend. It dominates the global market for on-the-go drinks with several billion servings of its products sold each day.

That

XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) appears to be on the verge of a major breakout. A big legal victory this summer in the crypto token's long-running court case against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

There is a bifurcation taking place in the energy sector. One side is the old and dirty carbon economy, where Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD) operates. The other is the renewable power

The three major stock market indexes have progressively declined over the past month, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average even slipped into negative territory for the year. This may be just a

Shares of NextEra Energy (NYSE: NEE) and subsidiary NextEra Energy Partners (NYSE: NEP) have fallen sharply, dragging down shares of Brookfield Renewable (NYSE: BEP)(NYSE: BEPC), Clearway Energy 

Investors are discovering new ways to put their Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) holdings to use as the cryptocurrency becomes more widely accepted in the financial world. One such option is to use Bitcoin as

Will the current decade someday be known as "the second Roaring 20s," similar to the nickname given to the period 100 years ago? Maybe. The overall stock market has performed well since 2020

Only five stocks that trade on U.S. exchanges boast market caps of $1 trillion or more. These giants share several common denominators, including dominating their core markets and delivering huge

Arm Holdings (NASDAQ: ARM) went public again on Sept. 14, 2023, seven years after it was acquired by the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. The British chip designer listed its shares at $51, which

Investors looking for stocks that could put up huge gains in relatively small amounts of time ought to turn their attention to the healthcare sector. Analysts on Wall Street are pointing to a few

If you are a dividend investor looking for an energy stock, you should make sure to pull back and see the broader industry. Electricity is just as important an energy source as oil and natural gas

Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA) and ambition seem to go hand and hand. The company doesn't fear taking on challenges, as it demonstrated during the earliest days of the pandemic when it brought its

UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) is one of the largest healthcare companies in the world. It's already a top health insurer in the U.S., but that doesn't mean the company isn't working to be even

Last November, OpenAI launched ChatGPT. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform reached 100 million monthly users, making it the fastest-growing application in

For the past 127 years, the iconic Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) has been a widely followed barometer of Wall Street's health. What began in 1896 as a 12-stock index dominated by

Tractor Supply (NASDAQ: TSCO) is an interesting retailer. While it is geared toward farming, even selling baby chickens, it isn't exactly focused on full-time farmers. That's partly why it has been

Wall Street can be brutal when sentiment turns negative on a formerly high-flying stock. That's especially true when interest rates are rising, or when fears increase about a recession on the way

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been witnessing such strong demand for its graphics processing units (GPUs) to support artificial intelligence (AI) applications that its revenue and earnings growth have

Growth stocks took a big hit in the market sell-off last year, and within this group, the sector that took one of the hardest hits was online retail (e-commerce) stocks. As the market inches toward

Though there are a lot of ways to put your money to work on Wall Street, buying and holding dividend stocks over the long run is certainly one of the more effective ways to build wealth.

There's no question that the world is pushing hard to increase the amount of clean energy produced. It is likely to be a multi-decade trend. But no trend on Wall Street goes in a straight line. This

The age at which you file for Social Security is very important. That's because that age, coupled with your wage history, will determine the amount of the monthly benefit you'll collect throughout