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There's little doubt that Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) has a lot working in its favor. Cord-cutting is gaining momentum, streaming adoption is growing, and international growth is just getting started

Should cannabis investors be buying stocks in the tobacco sector? Is now a good time to invest in pot stocks? How long should investors hold their pot stocks? These are just a few of the questions

The end of the year is almost here! You probably can't wait until 2020 is over, but there is one final investment action you must take before you change the calendar.

Performing a year-end portfolio

Among apparel-focused retailers, Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) has been especially proactive about pivoting to e-commerce. Nevertheless, the COVID-19 pandemic crushed Nordstrom's results earlier this year

Israeli-Japanese start-up Nano-X Imaging (NASDAQ: NNOX) offers a new X-ray machine at a fraction of the cost of existing models. Hospitals now pay $1 million or more for MRI machines and CAT

Lots of tech stocks come with hype. The hard part for investors is figuring out which ones can live up to it.

Appearing on Motley Fool Live to record the Industry Focus podcast, Motley Fool analyst

Social Security benefits are probably going to be one of your key sources of retirement income, so it can be helpful to understand a little bit about how your benefit amount is determined, and to

Cancer is a tricky disease, and one of its ploys is producing tumors that cloak themselves with an increased level of CD47 -- a protein normally associated with healthy cells. This tells the immune

Their businesses both took hits during the early days of the pandemic, but sports apparel and shoe retailer Nike (NYSE: NKE) and GPS technology specialist Garmin (NASDAQ: GRMN) each quickly returned

Shares of engineering software expert Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) reached new all-time highs on Wednesday after a strong third-quarter earnings report. The company crushed Wall Street's expectations

The energy sector has rebounded since Nov. 9, the day when positive vaccine news from Pfizer and BioNTech sent oil prices higher. However, even with that improvement, shares of Kinder Morgan (NYSE:

Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on life's many blessings -- family, friends, shelter, and, if you're lucky, a glorious feast that'll produce leftovers that last for days. But while you're basking

Biotech investing is not for the weak-hearted. While the clinical and regulatory success of a drug can mean huge gains, any failure in the development and commercialization process can literally

Black Friday is almost here, and it's shaping up to be a huge season for e-commerce. Verizon's Business Retail Trends Report found that online shopping traffic through the first week of November was

Our experts issued a rare "Double Down" Buy alert on this one stock... Learn more.

One of the best times to invest in a company is as it makes its transition from all-out growth (a young business

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the landscape for stocks, accelerating trends that benefited some companies while pushing others to the brink of bankruptcy -- or over the edge and into it. Now that

Twilio (NYSE: TWLO) aims to fuel the future of communications by helping companies reinvent the way they engage with customers. In 2018, Twilio took a step toward realizing this mission with the

On Saturday, Oct. 24, SpaceX crossed the finish line, achieving the 800 Starlink broadband internet satellites in orbit it needed to offer "moderate" internet coverage to large portions of Earth's

Whether you're a 20-something who's just starting to invest or approaching your retirement years, investing your IRA in index funds is a sound strategy. You get automatic diversification, low fees

Over the past few weeks, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and Moderna have given us a little bit of hope, reporting that their coronavirus vaccine candidates showed to be effective (although to different

Technology has reached a point where it is leaving no stone in the global economy unturned, and this has become increasingly apparent in healthcare. More specifically, a confluence of mobility and

It's been a wild year for Wall Street and the investment community. The unprecedented coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic wiped away over a third of the S&P 500's value in about a month

The restaurant industry found itself challenged like never before in 2020. It had to rely upon entirely new ways to do business to survive, but unfortunately not even that was enough to overcome

Peloton (NASDAQ: PTON) is the world's largest interactive fitness platform. By bringing cardio into customers' homes, Peloton was well positioned for a socially distanced world. However, while the