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With the market recently surging to all-time highs, investors may wish to look for more defensive names in the new year. One such name is Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), America's largest broadband and

Raising children can be expensive, as every parent reading this already knows. Thankfully, some pretty valuable tax breaks are designed to help ease the financial burden on parents in the U.S., and

If you believe in the so-called "clean energy transition," then you almost certainly believe that demand for copper is going to rise significantly in the decades to come. That's what major copper

2020 has been, to put it lightly, a terrible year for travel stocks. McKinsey projected in October that global tourism revenue may fall to $2.1 trillion in 2020, a 50% haircut from 2019. It also

CRISPR -- which stands for "clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats" -- has been a hot area of research and investment since scientists discovered that this naturally occurring

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Coronavirus vaccine makers have garnered much attention this year. That's because the investors and medical professionals alike believe that vaccination is a good way to halt the spread of the

You probably wouldn't want to buy stock in an unprofitable company that's posting declining trailing revenue while also crashing in value by more than 62% over the course of the year -- especially

Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) recently agreed to purchase workplace collaboration platform Slack (NYSE: WORK) in a $27.7 billion deal, making it the company's largest acquisition yet. While there are

The stock market is back with a vengeance from the sharp COVID-19 plunge of the spring. The S&P 500 market index stands near its all-time highs after gaining 14% in 2020. The tech-heavy NASDAQ

Many of the best stocks in 2020 were healthcare companies focused on two disease areas: trying to stop the spread of COVID-19 and improving survival rates from cancer. To find out which stocks

If you thought the market was crazy about vaccine stocks this year, just wait until 2021. As coronavirus vaccines are distributed to the public and a slew of companies prepare to report new revenue

Some of the best inventions were just a combination of other great inventions. For instance, although they aren't as popular as they once were, modern fax machines simply combined the photocopier

The banking sector got hit hard in 2020 mainly due to the coronavirus pandemic, which sent credit costs soaring and ultimately resulted in an ultra-low-rate environment that lowers the revenue

E-commerce has come into its own in 2020. Not only have those who've been using online retail for years increased their use of e-commerce during the coronavirus pandemic, but millions of others have

A year ago, you might not have heard of Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA). The clinical-stage biotech company's messenger RNA (mRNA) drug candidates were in preclinical or early human trials for indications

If you owned shares of Novavax (NASDAQ: NVAX) at the beginning of 2020, you're probably a happy camper right now. Its shares have skyrocketed more than 3,000%. An initial investment of $10,000 would

Whatever you think about Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA), there's no question that the electric vehicle (EV) pioneer has enjoyed a remarkable year. Its shares have skyrocketed more than 660%. The company

Christmas hasn't arrived yet, even though the Hallmark Channel has been airing Christmas movies since October. You still have a little over a week to finish your shopping.

Some investors have

Few investors on Wall Street are more influential than Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) CEO Warren Buffett. That's because almost no one can hold a candle to the Oracle of Omaha's

Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech (NASDAQ: BNTX) recently won U.S. emergency use authorization (EUA) for their COVID-19 vaccine. An EUA for Moderna's (NASDAQ: MRNA) vaccine could be only days away. In

Are you ready to bid adieu to 2020? Many of us are. But the truth is, you may have some unfinished Social Security business. Here are a few important moves to make before the new year.

Your monthly

It's been an exceptionally volatile year on Wall Street, and millennial investors have loved every minute of it.

Online investing app Robinhood, which is best known for offering commission-free

2020 has been a crazy year for the stock market. After getting absolutely crushed in the first quarter, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) has spent the rest of the year climbing out

Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) will soon have an open seat on its Board of Directors. Former United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice will exit the video-streaming veteran's governing group in order to direct