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With a stock price that has soared roughly five-fold over the past five years, Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) has been a major winner for investors. As a direct result of the booming streaming market, the

Some of today's best-known biotech players may add to your stock market winnings in the coming year. No need to turn your back on shares of companies like coronavirus vaccine giant Moderna, for

Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) is on track to deliver a gain of more than 70,000,000% in 2021. But can the digital token move even higher? Here are two starkly different views about the prospects for

Retirement accounts serve as a crucial income source for seniors. Social Security alone provides enough money to replace just 40% of pre-retirement income -- which won't cover the necessities. But

Despite an uptick in volatility over the past couple of weeks, it's been another slam-dunk year for the stock market. Through Tuesday, Dec. 7, the benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) had gained

Shares of Lovesac (NASDAQ: LOVE) shot up recently in response to an impressive performance in the company's fiscal third quarter. As is usually the case when a relatively small company makes a big

In November 1789, Benjamin Franklin lamented in a letter to a friend that there were only two certainties in life: death and taxes. Sure enough, Franklin died less than six months later, after

If you think the stock market has been unstoppable since equity markets bottomed out during the initial wave of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, check out the cryptocurrency space. Whereas

Social Security has been around for a long time. In spite of that, the program is constantly undergoing changes, some of which may not hit your radar. But it's important to understand how the

Your insurance premiums will likely go up in 2022 -- if they haven't already. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many insurance companies have seen elevated claims activity. Extreme weather events

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) chairman and chief technology officer Larry Ellison believes the software giant can gain share in the booming cloud market. Judging by the 15% jump in Oracle's stock price today

The stock market finished the week on a record note, bouncing back from big losses the previous week. The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) closed at an all-time high, and similarly sized gains of 0.5% to

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Shares of Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) climbed 6.6% on Friday after the warehouse retailer delivered better-than-expected revenue and profit growth in its fiscal 2022 first quarter. 

Costco's net

It's been another week of sell-offs for the broader cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE), and Chainlink's (CRYPTO: LINK) tokens fell roughly 10%, 17%, and 18%

Shares of the Brazilian fintech company Nu Holdings (NYSE: NU) shot up nearly 15% today after going public yesterday. With the initial public offering price at $9, Nu raised roughly $2.6 billion in

Friday's market session was a bumpy one for Chinese electric-vehicle (EV) maker Nio (NYSE: NIO). At various points, Nio shares were down over 2% and up 1.5% today before closing the final session of

Real-time data analysis platform Confluent (NASDAQ: CFLT) went public this past summer, and shares have skyrocketed nearly 60% since that time. In this segment of Backstage Pass, recorded on Nov

While some newly public companies turn out to be golden eggs for investors' portfolios, others provide a valuable lesson on why it pays to tread carefully when investing in IPO stocks. This segment

How a company is portrayed in popular media can at times impact its stock price. That seemed to be the dynamic in play on Friday with Peloton Interactive (NASDAQ: PTON), as one of the exercise

Shares of software company Sprinklr (NYSE: CXM) closed Friday's trading session 11.3% higher. Earlier in the day, the stock peaked with a gain of 21%. The day's upward surge was powered by the

After posting big sell-offs in November, Digital World Acquisition Company (NASDAQ: DWAC) has been regaining ground early in December's trading. The Trump-backed special purpose acquisition company

An advisory committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently met to review the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) submission for Merck's (NYSE: MRK) oral COVID-19 therapy

Novavax (NASDAQ: NVAX), one of the more up-and-down coronavirus stocks, headed south at the end of the week. On Friday, the company's shares fell by more than 6%, a shift that came after several

Shares of Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) climbed 8.3% on Friday after the chipmaker said it would return more cash to shareholders in the year ahead. 

Broadcom's revenue rose 15% year over year to $7.4