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Down 20.6% through June, the S&P 500 is off to its worst start in five decades and is officially in a bear market. It can be tough to endure bear markets, especially when your portfolio loses value

The stock market has tanked since the start of 2022, owing largely to the Fed's decision to raise interest rates to tamp down inflation and a string of detrimental impacts from the war in Ukraine

Because growing investments compound, the best time to start investing is always right now. But it's an especially good time to get started putting some money to work after a steep market pullback

The once red-hot seller's market that garnered multiple offers in the first few days of a listing is no longer the norm. While the housing market is still favoring home sellers, the real estate

Most people want to be wealthy so they don't have to worry about money. But what would it take to actually achieve that goal in America? 

According to the 2022 Schwab Modern Wealth survey, the magic

It's no secret that the cannabis industry in both the U.S. and Canada has faced tough challenges. But that doesn't mean that there still aren't some pot stocks with a lot of potential. Does Sundial

Is Pinterest (NYSE: PINS) finally going to embrace the e-commerce space? In this video clip from "The Future of Fintech" on Motley Fool Live, recorded on June 30, Fool.com contributors Matt Frankel

Stocks rose this past week but remain far lower so far in 2022. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) and the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) gained roughly 1% in the shortened trading

Shares of cryptocurrency stock Coinbase Global (NASDAQ: COIN) have dropped over 85% from their peak in late 2021 as the crypto market has imploded. Trading is down, prices are down, and there's

With inflation soaring, interest rates rising, and growing concern over a recession taking shape, it's no surprise to hear the real estate market is changing. Thanks to shifts in consumer

BritBox International (BBI), the streaming service co-owned by U.K.-based ITV (LSE: ITV) and BBC Studios, has restructured its business and says it wants to become the world leader in British

GameStop's (NYSE: GME) stock split announcement finally dropped. Investors have been waiting since March for the move after the video game retailer dramatically increased the number of shares

The next Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, that comes down the pike could be a big one. This year, seniors on Social Security saw their benefits increase 5.9% as a result of

The Federal Reserve's plans to aggressively hike interest rates this year in an effort to curb soaring inflation has slammed stocks, with the S&P 500 falling 18% this year. High-growth tech stocks

It can be a lot of fun buying stocks trading in the single digits. While there are a lot of bad companies down in the cheap seats, sometimes you can find some amazing bargains. Our roundtable has

Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), along with the general cryptocurrency market, probably isn't making investors think of an early retirement right now. The crypto giant has lost more than 60% this year. Amid

Personal savings rates in America rocketed higher at the start of the pandemic. The combination of government stimulus checks, the inability to go out or travel, and economic uncertainty led to

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) owns 400 million shares of Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), which gives it a 9.2% stake in the beverage company. Coca-Cola now accounts for 7.9%

Investors looking to add to their fintech holdings may want to look at Nelnet (NYSE: NNI) and Upstart (NASDAQ: UPST). In this clip from "The Future of Fintech" on Motley Fool Live, recorded on June

SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI) has gotten some attention in the marketplace in recent months. It is one of the few companies to wholeheartedly embrace fintech while operating a traditional bank

Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) is one of the most divisive cryptocurrencies on the market. On the one hand, it delivered a once-in-a-lifetime return of 43,800,000% in 2021, which would've turned the price

Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) said that the latest season of Stranger Things surpassed a significant milestone, attracting more than 1.1 billion hours of viewership. 

It's yet more evidence of Netflix's

Unfortunately, "set and forget" isn't a strategy you can use with many stocks. Too many things can change over the years that can make a once-attractive stock an albatross on your portfolio.

There

For more than a decade, NASA has been building a new mega-rocket, the Space Launch System or SLS, a $2 billion-plus, bright-orange rocket ship that can carry 70 tons of cargo to orbit. It's also the

Warren Buffett has lived through 26 periods where the S&P 500 was in a bear market. Eleven of them came after he first invested in Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) in 1965.

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