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Like many food companies able to switch away from supplying restaurants to addressing skyrocketing consumer demand for staples during the coronavirus pandemic, Conagra Brands (NYSE: CAG) posted

Retirement is becoming more expensive than ever, with the average American expecting to need nearly $2 million to enjoy their senior years comfortably, according to a survey from Charles Schwab.

The COVID-19 pandemic has decimated air travel demand this year, causing airlines to dramatically slash their schedules. Despite these service cuts, small cities were able to retain vital air

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Social Security isn't going to fund a glamorous retirement on its own, but that's no reason to be casual about maximizing your benefits. Every extra dollar you glean from Social Security is a dollar

Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) has been flying high in 2020 as COVID-19 led consumers to empty stores of the company's cleaning products and household essentials.

However, investors should recognize

Stocks were rallying last week, and nearly 700 stocks trading on the major U.S. exchanges hit fresh 52-week highs. Freshpet (NASDAQ: FRPT), Trex (NYSE: TREX), and Costco (NASDAQ: COST) are among the

GameStop (NYSE: GME) has come back strong after its dismal fourth-quarter earnings report in late March led the stock all the way to a low of $2.57 per share. The pandemic, it turns out, was a

Everybody's doing more online shopping these days, and that hasn't gone unnoticed by tech leaders. Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) have expanded their shopping

Pop quiz: How much are you paying each month for the streaming services you use? Most of you probably know what you're paying or have a pretty good guess. Question No. 2: How much are you paying in

Investors have experienced years' worth of volatility in the past nine months. First, we witnessed the fastest descent into bear-market territory in history as the coronavirus pandemic took hold in

The past few years have been difficult for value investors. Technological disruption, combined with low interest rates, have seen high-growth stocks bid up to very high -- some would say bubble-like

It's been two years since I took the original FANG stocks -- Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), and Google parent Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) --

Medicare Open Enrollment starts Oct. 15 and will run through Dec. 7. This period of time is usually the one chance seniors have to change their health insurance coverage options, including their

Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) and Etsy (NASDAQ: ETSY) just posted their biggest quarters ever with the coronavirus pushing shoppers online. Stellar results have driven Etsy stock to all-time highs, and

Pinterest (NYSE: PINS) is commonly viewed as just another social media platform. From an investing perspective, however, focusing on the basic social media premise misses the big picture. Investors

Should you file for Social Security at 62? Maybe. But if you're to file at the earliest possible age and slash your benefits for life, you'd better have a darn good reason for doing so.

The average

In just 22 days, Americans across the country will head to their local voting booths or mail in their ballots to determine the course the U.S. will take over the coming four years. Numerous issues

Clinical-stage biotech company Novavax (NASDAQ: NVAX) has been one of the hottest stocks on the markets this year, going from just $4 per share at the start of 2020 to $110 today -- and that's after

If you had invested $5,000 in Canopy Growth (NYSE: CGC) on the day of its trading debut in May 2018, that investment would be worth just $2,762 as of Oct. 8 -- a devastating 45% loss. At one point

I took a look at three stocks to avoid last week, predicting that DraftKings (NASDAQ: DKNG), Nano-X Imaging (NASDAQ: NNOX), and GoPro (NASDAQ: GPRO) were cruising for a bruising. I generally fared

As the calendar turns to October, our thoughts are very different than in past years. The excitement of candy, turkey, gifts, and family gatherings on the horizon have been replaced by the

When the market crashed in March, many investors were left flatfooted, unsure of what to do. Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman Charlie Munger used the word "frozen" in an interview with The Wall

Since reaching an all-time high of $33 per share on June 29, Inovio Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: INO) is down nearly 61%, turning an investment of $10,000 at its peak to just $3,933 as of Oct. 8. Many

Many investors believe the real estate sector is a "boring" place to invest and that its returns couldn't possibly match that of the S&P 500 over time.

Nothing could be further from the truth. In