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Trade-offs: Every investor must make them. You trade off higher levels of risk for the potential to hopefully get higher returns. Every stock you buy involves a trade-off as well. You're using money

This year has started out great for growth stock investors. Many companies that were down 50% or more in 2022 have soared since the calendars turned over on Jan. 1. Online used card marketplace

The week that ended Jan. 13 was a relatively good one for the stock market overall. But AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) shares weren't invited to the party. The dividend-paying pharmaceutical stock ended the

Crypto prices crashed hard in 2022 as the previously up-and-coming sector ran into new headwinds like rising interest rates and the implosion of some large players, such as FTX. 

Beneath the

Seniors on Medicare are often encouraged to review their healthcare coverage options during the program's fall open enrollment period, which runs from mid-October through early December every year

Lucid (NASDAQ: LCID) and Faraday Future (NASDAQ: FFIE) are both electric vehicle (EV) makers that went public by merging with special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) in 2021. Both companies

Investors understandably view Amazon as an e-commerce company, but they often ignore its disruptive effect on the real estate industry. As e-commerce has become more prominent, an activity that once

Despite all of the turmoil caused by the pandemic and its lingering aftermath, the U.S. consumer is in pretty good shape. Incomes are rising, and lenders are reporting that loan delinquencies remain

Whether you're a new investor or you've been at it for decades, 2022 was a very bad year. The benchmark S&P 500 index collapsed by 19.4% and the Nasdaq Composite index fell a stunning 33.1%.

While

Let's talk about the 800-pound bear in the room. Nearly 14 months after the decline began, the Nasdaq Composite remains caught in bear market territory, down 31% from its peak reached in late 2021

For nearly six decades as Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) CEO, Warren Buffett has run circles around Wall Street. Through this past weekend, the Oracle of Omaha has led his company's

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, residential real estate has been one of the best-performing asset classes. Landlords were earning rental income and seeing their assets appreciate at levels in the

One of the hottest crypto performers thus far in 2023 is BitDAO (CRYPTO: BIT), up more than 39% year to date. What makes BitDAO so interesting, though, is not its recent performance. Instead, it's

If your entire investing strategy is just plugging your money into a Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) fund, that's fine. In fact, it's good. Most investors achieve better results by

Investing is best approached as a long-term game. However, finding a stock that you can hold indefinitely is tough. Forever is a long time, and a lot can go wrong from year to year, let alone over

The NFL regular season is now in the books, which means we not only know who's going to the playoffs but also how many people tuned in.

In the media, the biggest move this season was Amazon's

Although you probably don't need the reminder, last year was Wall Street's worst since 2008. Throughout 2022, all three major U.S. stock indexes were hurtled into a bear market.

But things weren't

There are some sectors of the stock market investors prefer to stay away from. Usually, alcohol, gambling, tobacco, and other "sin" stocks make up this list. You should never compromise personal

Did you know that, circumstances permitting, when the time comes to start receiving Social Security, you have a choice between collecting your full benefits, less than your full benefits, or 124% of

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The latest rally in cryptocurrencies spilled into Monday, but not all coins and tokens were enjoying the upswing. One left on the playground was gaming platform token The Sandbox (CRYPTO: SAND)

The five FAANG stocks took a beating in 2022. Last year, each and every one of these tech titans underperformed the S&P 500 index, which wasn't having a great year in the first place:

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One of the hardest-hit large-cap cryptocurrencies in 2022, Cronos (CRYPTO: CRO), has been making some very positive moves to kick off this new year. Today's 24-hour surge of 8.7% as of 12 p.m. ET