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By now, the saga of the cruise industry is a familiar one. Cruise ships were stuck in port for much of the pandemic, leading to companies like Carnival (NYSE: CCL) taking on billions in debt and

Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) had a bit of a change of heart when it comes to making equity investments in hot start-ups.

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) invested $10 billion in OpenAI last year and partnered

SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN), an audio- and speech-recognition company founded 18 years ago, went public last April by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). It started trading

Warren Buffett tells investors what he looks for in stocks and companies to buy all the time, so it's no secret. Throughout his letters to shareholders and at Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE:

It's easy to make the argument that the HSA is the best savings plan out there. The reason? It offers more tax breaks than any other account.

HSA contributions get to go in tax-free, and money you

On Sept. 21, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) announced its intentions to buy Splunk (NASDAQ: SPLK). The deal is for $157 per share in cash, but Splunk's stock only trades for $145 per share now.

That

This September, Cathie Wood bought shares of Beam Therapeutics (NASDAQ: BEAM) more than a dozen times for two of Ark Invest's exchange-traded funds (ETFs). At the beginning of October, the biotech

Investors love Warren Buffett quotes and learning from his vast experience and wisdom. His advice hasn't changed much over time, and he still touts the same important things to look for in a

Shares of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) have climbed about 33% year to date, rallying investors with a growing position in artificial intelligence (AI) and a business that appears to be far less

Philip Morris International (NYSE: PM) is a famous dividend stock because of its consistently high yield, currently at 5.6%. The company recently held an investor event where it laid out the plans

Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) sells a wide variety of medicines across treatment areas such as autoimmune diseases and oncology. But it probably is most known for its leading coronavirus vaccine, which helped

It's becoming more and more common for older adults to continue working past the traditional retirement age. In fact, around 49% of baby boomers say they expect to keep working past age 70 or never

June 2022 marked the official beginning of a bear market as the S&P 500 index closed 20% below its all-time high, which met the technical criteria. Wall Street was in agreement, and the index

Wall Street has slightly cooled on tech stocks in recent months, with the Nasdaq-100 Technology Sector down about 8% since Aug. 1. Excitement over expanding markets like artificial intelligence

Many first-time investors get attracted to the shiny, exciting-sounding stock stories. From 3D printing in 2013 to electric-vehicle (EV) stocks in 2021, the market never tires of selling exciting

There's no question which stock is most likely at this point to be the S&P 500's best performer of 2023. Nvidia's (NASDAQ: NVDA) share price has close to tripled year to date. The No. 2 S&P 500

Share prices of direct-to-consumer healthcare company Hims & Hers Health (NYSE: HIMS) started hot in 2023, doubling from $6 per share to $12. But the stock has lost momentum, drifting backward since

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a prime stock-hunting ground for income investors. The 30 companies that populate this index are among the most profitable, most well-established businesses on

Biotech stocks offer us a wide range of investing opportunities. You could buy shares of a research stage company and bet on a potential game-changing product that may launch several years from now

Shares of Carnival Cruise Lines (NYSE: CCL) sold off hard following its recent third-quarter earnings report last week.

Yet for some perspective, Carnival's stock is actually still up a whopping 70%

The legendary investor Peter Lynch once famously said: "Everybody in the world is a long-term investor until the market goes down." That's why investors often claim they'll hold a stock forever and

Some degree of volatility and uncertainty is a given on Wall Street. However, with a number of predictive indicators and economic data points suggesting trouble may be brewing for the U.S. economy

Micron (NASDAQ: MU) and Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) represent two ways to invest in the expansion of the semiconductor market. Micron is a major producer of DRAM and NAND memory chips

Within the ever-evolving realm of travel and technology, Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) continues to harness artificial intelligence (AI) in an attempt to redefine travel booking.

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The speed at which the tech industry moves makes it hard for almost any business to create an enduring competitive position. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is a major exception, as evidenced by its