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Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) suffer from changing consumer behavior leading to fewer sales. This video will determine which semiconductor stock is the best to buy.

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It took more than a year longer than Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) had originally planned, but the company's innovative Sapphire Rapids server CPUs have finally launched. The Sapphire Rapids family is

Start-up financial technology investors, beaten down especially hard by the bear market, are getting some reprieve -- but perhaps not in the way they hoped for. In the latest indication that stocks

Are you looking for more investment income in 2023? It wouldn't be a bad strategic shift. Higher interest rates disproportionally work against growth stocks, putting a premium on value stocks and

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE: DLR) is one of the world's leading providers of data-center services and it has seen its share price battered by a confluence of factors. One is the market flight from

Mortgage origination is one of the most cyclical businesses out there. When times are good, the companies do great. When times are bad, they tend to be really bad. This was the case even with the

The start of a new year may not matter much from a resolution standpoint, but it does matter from an accounting and financial planning perspective. A new year presents new opportunity to maximize

If you're like many people, you set New Year's resolutions and goals. A great financial target to set is to grow your income from passive sources. There are many ways to do that. 

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Seniors get a range of choices for claiming Social Security. You can sign up for benefits as early as age 62, but you won't be entitled to your complete monthly benefit based on your wage history

The real estate sector has underperformed the stock market in the recent downturn, but not all real estate stocks are getting hammered. In this video, Fool.com contributors Matt Frankel, CFP, and

Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT) has done an excellent job expanding its business over the last decade. In this video, I look at whether Applied Materials stock is a buy.

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Every investor wants to own stocks that will go up five times, 10 times, or even more from their purchase price.

There's no easy way to find these breakout stocks. Often they are disruptors, but not

This video will evaluate Qualcomm's (NASDAQ: QCOM) stock across several critical metrics to determine whether the stock is a buy.

*Stock prices used were the afternoon prices of Jan. 12, 2023. The

Virtu Financial (NASDAQ: VIRT) is a stock that flies under the radar for many investors. But income investors in particular might want to take notice of its high dividend yield. The company pays out

Investors treated Digital Realty Trust (NYSE: DLR) like a favored growth stock in recent years before it tumbled back to earth with other erstwhile tech darlings. In the midst of its biggest

For many investors, the end of 2022 couldn't come soon enough. Each of the major market indexes suffered the most agonizing sell-off in more than a decade, but the Nasdaq Composite was by far the

Growth stocks aren't getting the positive attention from investors that they were even a year ago, but that could offer a moment of opportunity. For investors with a healthy risk tolerance level

The 2022 tax year is now over and you'll soon have to submit your tax return, outlining how much you earned and which deductions and credits you qualify for. There are many ways to shave a little

Unforced errors. They're something that coaches hate to see in sports. The idea also carries over into investing. Sometimes, investors' mistakes can be their undoing.

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In 1926, the Composite Stock Index was created to measure market trends. Initially, it tracked the performance of 90 companies, but it was updated to include 500 companies in 1957, and thus the S&P

Country music singer Garth Brooks once said that he had more money than his great-grandchildren would be able to spend. Most people won't amass that kind of fortune during their lives.

But it's not

Just because a stock has done well doesn't mean it will do so in the future, but in the case of STAG Industrial (NYSE: STAG), there's reason to be confident that shares of this owner of logistics

Right now could be the best time to buy growth stocks in years.

The sector plunged last year as rising interest rates led investors to rotate away from growth stocks in favor of more defensive

While the whole market was down in 2022, few stocks had a worse year than Generac (NYSE: GNRC). In fact, with a decline of 71%, it was the worst performer of the year in the S&P 500.

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Investors follow Cathie Wood because her favorite buys have led to big gains. Wood's flagship Ark Innovation ETF soared more than 500% from its 2014 debut through 2020. The famous investor's