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Investors who rely on income from their portfolios have had to deal with a conundrum. For years, interest rates on bonds and other traditional fixed-income securities fell to historically low

Social Security can provide great supplemental income in retirement for some, but it's the primary source for many others. Among its beneficiaries, 12% of men and 15% of women rely on it for more

Claiming Social Security benefits is a major life milestone. You'll start getting income from the government to support you in retirement. But the choice you make about when to file for benefits

FAANG is the acronym given to Meta (formerly Facebook) (NASDAQ: META), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), and Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL), the parent of

Is the American economy in a recession right now? Some economists say yes, since there have been two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth, a long-standing benchmark of a recession. Other

Fears about the health of the U.S. economy have led the S&P 500 index 13% lower so far in 2022. 

However, some stocks have tremendously outperformed the index. Up 24% year to date, health insurer

Warren Buffett is worth about $100 billion, and he built that wealth through investing. Understandably, many investors watch his every move and mimic his strategies.

Tracking Buffett's trades can be

Even with the stock market rally in recent weeks, the S&P 500 index has still dipped 13% so far this year. Yet the index offers investors a mere 1.5% dividend yield. Most investors will have a

One of the more unlikely entertainment industry stories to bubble up late in the summer season is the rebirth of MoviePass. The disruptive multiplex buffet subscription peaked with 3.2 million

Figs (NYSE: FIGS), the maker of high-end healthcare apparel, was one of last year's hottest IPOs. However, like many high-flying growth stocks that surged in 2021, Figs flew too close to the Sun and

The cryptocurrency market has been crashing after its massive run-up last year. Similar to the stock market, investor sentiment changed, and investors started to prefer stable, reliable companies

In July, analysts at Bank of America came out with a pretty somber forecast for the S&P 500 through the end of 2022. They revised their year-end target for the benchmark from 4,500 to 3,600 at the

This year has been challenging for investors, as persistent inflation has been the big story. With this uncertainty, the S&P 500 index got off to its worst start in 52 years.

The Federal Reserve is

It's not often that Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL)(NASDAQ: GOOG) and Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) are compared in the same industries, but both companies' recent pursuits in gaming could see them directly

It has been a tough year for Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), to say the least. The company shed 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022 and followed that performance by losing another 1 million

History shows that stocks perform better than any other asset class over time. While gold, oil, and housing may beat the market for short periods, over the past century equities handily trump all

The streaming industry has gone through a drastic evolution over the last couple of years, with the introduction of multiple platforms crowding a market that Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) had dominated for

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) is one of the most impactful semiconductor companies in the world. But the maker of advanced computer chips is rapidly expanding beyond its hardware business and into platform

Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) recently confirmed that it's laying off 3,000 workers as the legacy automaker transitions from building traditional combustion engine vehicles to electric ones. The job

Looking for stocks that are beating the market in 2022? Our roundtable has three healthcare names that are killing it right now: Shockwave Medical (NASDAQ: SWAV), Axsome Therapeutics (NASDAQ: AXSM)

Retirement savers have taken full advantage of IRAs to allow their nest eggs to grow on a tax-deferred basis. However, because traditional IRAs require the accountholder to pay tax when making

Dividends are payouts to shareholders from a company's profits. Growth stocks and younger companies typically don't pay out dividends because they need to reinvest profits to continue growing at a

Shopify's (NYSE: SHOP) stock has pulled back about 80% from its all-time high last November. The Canadian e-commerce services provider was once a red-hot stock, but the bulls retreated as its growth

The Chinese electric vehicle maker XPeng (NYSE: XPEV) recently reported its second-quarter results, and investors were unenthused. Following the earnings release, XPeng investors pushed the

The first eight months of 2022 have been absolutely brutal for growth stocks. A toxic combination of rising interest rates, reopening headwinds for pandemic beneficiaries, and tepid consumer