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Sony's (NYSE: SONY) stock recently tumbled to a three-month low after Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced its planned takeover of Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI) for $68.7 billion. Sony's stock

Silvergate Capital (NYSE: SI) and Signature Bank (NASDAQ: SBNY) are of far different scales in terms of the amount of assets they hold, and very different banks when you look at their balance

Retirees shouldn't plan to live on Social Security alone, but that doesn't mean it's not smart to try to get the largest possible monthly benefit.

A bigger Social Security check can come in handy if

2022 has already been a rocky year, and it hasn't even been a month yet. Many investors are looking to buy high-growth and high-quality stocks at a massive discount while bolstering their portfolio

Stocks have been down for three straight weeks so far in 2022, but Monday didn't make it look as though the fourth week would get off to any better of a start. Investors remain concerned about all

It's a tough time to be a Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) shareholder.

Share prices of the streaming stock plunged 24% on Friday, nearly wiping all of its gains from the pandemic era. That's in spite of the

While some investors are worried about the next market crash, others are taking advantage of this fact: if you have the cash on hand, it's a great time to add more high-conviction stocks to your

We all know about Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha, and the returns he has produced for shareholders in Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) over the last 50 years. That stock has returned more than

Look for Matterport (NASDAQ: MTTR) to be waist-deep in the metaverse come this time in 2025. This tech stock has staked out some prime real estate in this just-emerging concept, and assuming it

Retirees need to be especially mindful of where they invest their money as they have less time to recover any losses that might occur and because these funds tend to also be their main source of

Oil is enjoying its best year since prices topped out at more than $100 per barrel a decade ago. Oil and gas behemoth ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) has rallied with it, hitting pre-COVID share prices.

As a hotly followed gene-editing company, CRISPR Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CRSP) is on the bleeding edge of biotechnology. With its early-stage pipeline of groundbreaking therapies in immuno-oncology

Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) has been an investor favorite since the onset of the pandemic. Management did an excellent job adjusting quickly to restaurant restrictions and developing a robust

The U.S. equity market has been quite volatile for the past two years. Growth stocks, which have been the darling of the stock market for the past decade, are now seeing a dramatic decline in share

If there was ever a good time to be putting out a weekly column singling out three stocks to avoid, it was last week. The market tumbled, and the pain was felt even more by the battleground stocks I

Live sports are the cornerstone of the pay-TV bundle, but sports fans have an increasing number of options for watching their favorite teams without subscribing to traditional pay TV. Not only is

Over the past few months, the stock market has been experiencing sell-offs which has created great buying opportunities for wise investors. There's nothing like getting a high-quality long-term

McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) stock has risen right along with the stock market's rally over the last year. But that solid performance will be tested in its upcoming earnings announcement.

The fast-food

Even before it lost 25% of its value over the last two months, Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) was only worth about $300 billion or so. Now it would have to climb nearly fivefold to reach trillion-dollar

Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) is starting 2022 on a sour note. The stock is down 25% already in the new year. The e-commerce enabler has been a prime beneficiary of the coronavirus pandemic as millions of

SpaceX Starlink is slowing down -- and this time, I'm not just talking about connection speeds.

When Starlink opened up to "beta" subscribers in October 2020, Elon Musk's aggressive plan to bring

Over the past several weeks, investors have been fleeing premium-laden growth stocks in favor of high-quality defensive plays. This flight to safety is being driven by the dual headwinds of

The National Association of Realtors says the median price of an existing home nationwide rose 16.9% in 2021, reaching $346,900 and marking 118 consecutive months of year-over-year gains.

Demand by

The fall for electric vehicle charging stocks has been steep over the past year, and I don't think we're done with the sell-off yet. You can see below that ChargePoint Holdings (NYSE: CHPT), Blink

At times, the markets can be quite stressful. Stocks can sell off for no reason other than broad-based volatility and macroeconomic factors like interest rates and inflation. While both those