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The economic impact of COVID-19 has been extreme since cases started multiplying domestically in March. Not only has the pandemic shuttered over 100,000 small businesses and sent unemployment levels

Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS.B), one of the largest oil and natural gas companies on planet Earth, cut its dividend after decades of supporting it through good and bad markets. The move shocked

Let's face it, the cruise line business isn't going to be returning to anything near normal anytime soon. North American cruises have already been canceled through mid-September at the earliest, and

Investing in the cannabis industry has been quite the adventure over the past couple of years. Through March 2019, buying almost any brand-name pot stock would have yielded a triple-digit or

The New Year marked the beginning of recreational marijuana sales in Illinois. The state was already seeing a boom in medical marijuana, which it legalized in 2013, and now the recreational market

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Franklin D. Roosevelt made this famous statement during his inauguration in March 1933. The context, though different, applies aptly to financial

The run up on Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) stock has already turned a $10,000 investment at its initial public offering price in May 2015 into $357,000. It has a total market value of $109 billion at the

While the overall technology sector has been booming of late, there are still some individual names that haven't achieved the massive runs that many software and cloud stocks have seen. Though it's

Canadian cannabis company HEXO (NYSE: HEXO) hasn't been performing well this year. Its share price is down more than 50% year to date, worse than the broad holdings of the Horizons Marijuana Life

Investing isn't something that comes naturally to everyone, but it's also a good way for anyone to grow wealth. If you've yet to invest your money because you're stuck inside your own head, it's

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Domino's Pizza (NYSE: DPZ) is a success story many investors have seemingly overlooked. Focused on takeout since its founding in 1960, the company has been operating

The stock market has had a remarkable run after undergoing the fastest 30%-plus crash in history during the month of March. Since the March 23 low, the S&P 500 is now up a whopping 40%, bringing the

However, there are some retail real estate investment trusts, or REITs, that could end up being excellent investments in the long run, especially at the fire-sale prices we're seeing during the

Let's be honest. Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) isn't really an energy company; it's an auto manufacturer through and through. Sure, it makes batteries that are sometimes sold to utilities to store energy

In 2018, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act eliminated a number of tax deductions, including one allowing you to deduct unreimbursed employee expenses. This change came at a bad time, as more Americans than

In some ways, it's remarkable that we still predominantly use alphanumeric passwords in 2020, even after tech companies have been trying to kill off that paradigm for years. Many prominent companies

Over the last few months, the stock market has experienced extreme volatility. Both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed out one of their worst quarters in history earlier this

Now that we're officially in a recession, many Americans are grappling with financial insecurity -- and understandably so. But those with solid emergency savings may be less likely to worry at a

With so many companies struggling in the cannabis market, it's easy to predict doom and gloom for the whole industry, but that's far from the case. It's just an emerging market with a ridiculous

This has been a year that most Americans won't soon forget. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has completely upended social norms, ravaged the U.S. economy, and sent the stock market

With the stock market back near all-time highs, it may feel like it's too late to invest during the coronavirus pandemic.

But there's still plenty of uncertainty in the market, as new cases are

Famed hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman made a splashy announcement this week when he unveiled a $3 billion share offering for a new blank check company called Pershing Square Tontine Holdings. For

The economy has fallen into a recession for the first time in more than a decade amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Banks have been hit particularly hard, dealing with 0% benchmark interest rates and high

There's little question that 2020 is going to be a year that people will be talking about for a long time to come. It's been an especially volatile year for Wall Street and investors.

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