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Whether you've been investing for decades or just getting started, 2022 has been an extremely difficult year to pick winning stocks. The benchmark S&P 500 index has lost more than 20% of its value

If you don't fancy yourself a stock picker, ETFs offer an accessible investing alternative. But you may wonder about the downside. Does an ETF strategy have the same long-term wealth potential as

Long-term investors need to think about both the good times and the bad times when selecting investments. That's particularly true when it comes to highly volatile areas like energy. The pandemic's

Over the last decade, the cryptocurrency market has become increasingly diversified and gained more legitimacy, as some of the world's most renowned billionaires view them as valuable assets to hold

Millions of seniors rely on Medicare to cover their health-related needs. But Medicare offers different types of coverage, and choosing the right plan could spell the difference between reasonably

By now, almost everyone has heard of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), but unless you are deep in the weeds in the world of crypto, or perhaps a fan of some of Europe's top soccer

Investors in 2022 have suffered through one of the worst starts to the year in the market's history. The S&P 500 index is currently down 18% year to date. While it's very difficult to predict

Many people recommend delaying Social Security retirement benefits until age 70, because you earn delayed retirement credits for every month you delay past your full retirement age. Someone claiming

It's been an ugly year for Wall Street. Since hitting an all-time closing high during the first week of January, the widely followed S&P 500 has tumbled as much as 24%. In fact, it produced its

In August, more than 48.1 million aged Americans collected a Social Security check.  For the vast majority of these recipients -- 89%, according to an April survey from national pollster Gallup --

Considering that Friday was a bad day for the stock market overall, particularly for tech titles, it probably wasn't the ideal time for a major executive transition. That was the case with DocuSign

Rising interest rates and corporate retrenchment were the twins bedeviling Compass (NYSE: COMP) stock these past few trading days. They helped push the big real estate company's share price down by

Consumer discretionary stocks have been getting the side-eye from investors lately, as rising interest rates and concerns about the macroeconomy heighten worries about consumer spending. There are

Shares of Carnival (NYSE: CCL), the world's biggest cruise line operator, were sliding today, in line with a broad market sell-off on fears of rising interest rates and a recession.

Though there was

Bearish sentiment has overtaken Wall Street, and just about the only good news that came from Friday's trading session was that the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:

Shares of Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) tumbled on Friday, falling as much as 2.4%. By the time the market closed, the stock was still down 0.4%.

The tailwinds from the semiconductor specialist's recent

The value of cryptocurrency XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) jumped 20.4% from its low late on Thursday to a peak early Friday. The token's value is flat on the day as of 3 p.m. ET, but it still up about 30% in

Coinbase's (NASDAQ: COIN) NFT marketplace has been a total flop, but the company is shifting strategies. In the video below, Travis Hoium explains why an aggregation model for Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH)

Now this was a superb way for a stock to kick off its trading week. KnowBe4 (NASDAQ: KNBE) announced Monday morning that it had received a buyout offer at a rich premium to its share price

Affirm Holdings (NASDAQ: AFRM) finished the day down 3.8% on Friday, closing at $19.28 per share. The stock price had dropped as much as 6.3% at around 2:54 p.m. ET

The market was down big on

Dominion Energy (NYSE: D) is one of the largest regulated electric utilities in the United States. As a regulated entity, it has to get its spending plans approved by the government. That can

Oil and natural gas prices plunged during the early days of the pandemic in 2020, causing investors to run from just about all energy-related companies. Since that nadir, energy prices have rallied

Shares in copper miner Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE: FCX) dropped 5.9% today. The move was caused by a general sell-off in businesses tied to cyclically aligned commodities such as oil, aluminum, nickel

Pagaya Technologies (NASDAQ: PGY), one of the more intriguing and unusual operators in the fintech space, lost its appeal to many investors this week. This was due largely to the toxic combination

Shares of ChargePoint Holdings (NYSE: CHPT) joined the large list of higher-risk equities that tumbled today. Like the overall market, ChargePoint shares were near the day's lows as of 3:05 p.m. ET