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Artificial-intelligence (AI) has dominated headlines in 2023. The excitement is understandable -- almost every third-party research report I've looked at pegs the AI market at over $1 trillion by

Over the past few years, it's become clear that Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) has experienced significant growth. But as a result of becoming one of the most popular blockchains in the world, its network

Shares of electric vehicle ecosystem participants Albemarle (NYSE: ALB), ChargePoint Holdings (NYSE: CHPT), and QuantumScape (NYSE: QS) fell hard this week, declining 11.9%, 12.2%, and 10.9%

Dividend Kings are companies that have paid and raised their dividends for at least 50 consecutive years. Raising a dividend year after year regardless of the economic cycle is a tall order.

In

Dating apps -- love them or hate them -- are the modern matchmakers for single people. Young people around the globe are increasingly using them, riding the tailwind of smartphone usage over the

Even though the S&P 500 is down about 11% over the past 12 months, bargains are still few and far between. For instance, the average price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of stocks in the S&P 500 is 18

You'll often hear that saving for retirement is essential if you want to end up living comfortably during your senior years. Social Security will only replace about 40% of your pre-retirement wages

Cryptocurrencies have taken the world by storm, and the market continues attracting novice and experienced investors. With the crypto market constantly changing and evolving, navigating and

The surge in interest rates has had ripple effects across capital markets and the economy. Investors saw this last month when regulators shut down SVB Financial's Silicon Valley Bank, which faced

It's been a rough 16 months or so for many growth stocks. Many COVID-19 pandemic darlings saw high inflation, rising interest rates, and economic anxiety come in and turn on the lights in the party

It seems like a decade has passed since Facebook rebranded its corporate entity to Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) (it was only in late 2021). Remember that? Meta was heralding a 3D digital future

After shedding roughly two-thirds of its value in 2022, the cryptocurrency market is experiencing renewed interest from the investment community this year. Maybe the so-called "crypto winter" is

Elon Musk is the CEO of global electric vehicle powerhouse Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA). Over the years, the company has received an incredible amount of support from investors, who have routinely paid a

For nearly 20 years, Public Storage has held the title of being the largest publicly traded self-storage real estate investment trust (REIT). But that's about to change.

On April 3, Extra Space

When it comes to the business world, being bigger is very often better. A clear example of this today is real estate investment trust (REIT) Realty Income (NYSE: O), which stands head and shoulders

If you're not paying attention to the yield curve, then you're probably missing important indicators for your retirement account's performance. Last month, the yield curve sent out an ominous signal

The bulls are back... almost. After a horrible performance in 2022, all of the major indexes are up solidly so far this year. The Nasdaq Composite Index is only a little over 1% away from entering a

Investors looking at real estate investment trusts (REITs) need to consider the portfolio of properties that underpin the business. Diversification is important. And yet, sometimes, picking the

Confluent (NASDAQ: CFLT) and Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) both help companies break down silos and organize large amounts of data. Confluent's cloud-based platform processes and analyzes "data in motion"

The market has taken investors for a wild ride of high highs and low lows over the past year. Regardless of what happens with the market in the next few weeks or even the next few months, history

Investors initially put Chewy (NYSE: CHWY) stock in the doghouse after the company's late-March earnings report. While sales expanded at a decent pace for most of 2022, and earnings trends were

Energy infrastructure companies Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD) and Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI) pay whopping yields. With respective dividend yields of 7.5% and 6.3%, all you would have to do

Investors who keep an eye on the technology sector have probably noticed that companies operating in the artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductor sectors tend to dominate the news. And for

Predictions are difficult. But that is what you are doing when buying stocks, making a prediction about the future prospects of a publicly traded company. From my seat, this means you should either

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock investors will not want to miss this video about the implications of Tesla's latest production numbers.

*Stock prices used were the afternoon prices of April 4, 2023. The