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Even if it's been decades since the ink dried on your divorce decree, those marital vows you took can pay off in the form of higher Social Security benefits. As long as you haven't remarried, your

Podcasts exploded in 2020. People created nearly 900,000 new podcasts last year, according to Chartable, and hungry listeners couldn't get enough. Listenership in the U.S. grew 90%, and it grew even

When it comes to choosing a retirement plan, you have options. You can sign up for your employer's 401(k) and have funds deducted automatically from your earnings each pay period. Or, you can open

Align Technology (NASDAQ: ALGN) has had to deal with orthodontist office closures, competition from lower-priced competitors, and a difficult economic environment, but it turned in a stellar quarter

Whoever said that dogs are man's best friend probably wasn't retired. Sure, it's great to have Fido around for company, but he can't pay the bills as well as a dividend ETF can. In this era of low

Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) has had some stellar performances despite numerous headwinds with the coronavirus and the recession. On a Fool Live episode recorded on Feb 4, Motley Fool

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) is just a few days away from reporting some potentially blowout sales results. The world's biggest retailer entered the holiday quarter with strong momentum thanks to high demand

Those in retirement have likely struggled to find promising risk-rewards in the market today. A decade of ultra-low interest rates, plus a lot of technological disruption, have enabled growth stocks

If you want to find stocks that can produce huge gains in short time spans, the biopharmaceutical space has lots of what you're looking for. Shares of drugmaker called Ocugen (NASDAQ: OCGN) more

The ultimate dream for investors is to make a ton of money in the stock market. If you're lucky enough to have a stock turn into a 10-bagger -- an investment that will grow by 10 times your initial

For some small biotechs, the race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine represented an opportunity to secure funding and establish partnerships that could serve as lifelines long after the pandemic. Two

The healthcare sector hasn't exactly ignited investor enthusiasm lately. Stocks in the sector returned 13.3% on average in 2020, which isn't a bad result. But they underperformed the overall market

You'll probably rely on Social Security to pay your retirement expenses to some degree. It may be a minor degree if you have a lot of money in savings and investments, or it may be a significant

Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA), Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA), and Tilray (NASDAQ: TLRY) are three high-flying growth stocks that have rallied by 64%, 658%, and 299%, respectively, in the past year alone. Returns

You may not like what I'm about to say, but it's an undisputed truth backed up by data: Stock market crashes and corrections happen all the time.

Since the beginning of 1950, the benchmark S&P 500

For many people, retirement income will consist of Social Security checks (which only deliver, on average, about $18,500 annually) and income from stocks. Stocks can generate income for you when you

Short squeezes seem to have become something of a national pastime. Multiple heavily shorted stocks have skyrocketed this year, in large part because they were targeted by Reddit users looking for

If you invest in the stock market long enough, you're bound to see something unprecedented.

Last year, it was the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crash, which wiped 34% off of the benchmark S&P

Employee stock options are a great incentive that can be embedded within many compensation packages. Often, employees are able to buy the company stock at a discount, providing a great opportunity

Few investors have been around as long as 90-year-old investing legend Warren Buffett. The person many call the Oracle of Omaha remains as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B), a

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Exchange-traded funds were initially designed to offer a low-cost way to invest in the whole stock market. But there's an ETF revolution going on, and investing star Cathie Wood's ARK Invest

You could spend 30 years or more saving for retirement. Getting it right could mean the difference between struggling or living comfortably after you stop working.

As your life changes and your

In this episode of Industry Focus: Tech, Twilio (NYSE: TWLO) CEO Jeff Lawson joins David Gardner and Tim Beyers to talk through building good organizations, what a developer-first culture looks

Here's some good news and some bad news: The good news is that when it comes time to retire and enjoy a life filled with more leisure, most of us have Social Security income to look forward to. The