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It is easy to dismiss Shake Shack's (NYSE: SHAK) poor quarterly results, which saw same-store sales (comps) drop 12.8%. Certainly, the coronavirus pandemic played a part with March's comps down 29%

The COVID-19 crisis has been tough on financial stocks, especially banks and real estate investment trusts (REITs). The banks have been clobbered on market fears that nonperforming loans are about

With volatility through the roof over the last few months, finding a good dividend stock isn't as easy as it once was. A number of stocks, especially in the consumer discretionary sector, have

Costco (NASDAQ: COST) and Lowe's (NYSE: LOW) are both large, national retail chains that were deemed essential services and have stayed open throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite this

After a lifetime of effort, you may be more than ready to stop working once you reach a certain age. A lot of people don't work in retirement, but there are benefits to holding down a job in some

In this corner...the largest oil company in the world! 

In the opposite corner...also the largest oil company in the world!

Today, it's a clash of the titans of the oil industry. I'm pitting

Green Thumb Industries (OTC: GTBIF) is making a strong bid to become one of the survivors in the fast-growing but unstable marijuana industry.

On Thursday, the 6-year-old company announced

What a difference an earnings report makes if you're a shareholder of the most popular pot stock on the planet, Aurora Cannabis (NYSE: ACB).

Following a precipitous 14-month downtrend that saw

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many older workers to rethink their retirement strategies. The unemployment rate among Americans age 55 and older surged from 3.3% in March to 13.6% in April

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) launched the Oculus Quest, its second stand-alone VR headset after the Oculus Go, last May. It sold 705,000 Quest headsets last year, according to SuperData, which missed the

Cannabis investors sometimes have to take earnings results with a grain of salt. Relying just on sales and net income figures can lead to incorrect conclusions. And in an industry as dangerous and

While the coronavirus pandemic has been a terrible and stressful situation, it has produced some compelling opportunities for investors to put their money to work for the long term. I've been doing

Cancer remains one of the leading causes of death in the world. Thankfully, cancer rates have been declining for the better part of two decades. For instance, between 2001 and 2017, the cancer death

Many drugmakers are rushing to develop potential therapies and vaccines for novel coronavirus disease COVID-19. But two of them have been in the spotlight in recent days. Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA)

The art of biotech investing requires a great deal of scientific knowledge, awareness of financials, and patience in waiting for clinical trials to come to fruition. For investors who can master the

Today, our digital communications are more important than ever amid the coronavirus pandemic. While that should theoretically benefit switch-makers Cisco and Arista Networks, companies large and

Many stocks have rebounded nicely since the stock market reached its March lows, but there are some that are still down 50% or more from pre-pandemic levels. Some businesses simply have too many

Beyond the masks and protective gear used to prevent a disease's spread, vaccines to prevent those who are exposed from becoming ill, and therapies to treat those who do become sick, one key

If you can buy great businesses and hold them for the long term, you can create enormous wealth in the stock market. The key, of course, is knowing which stocks to buy -- and when.

To help you in

Marijuana stocks have been far from the safest investments to hold over the past year. The Horizons Marijuana Life Sciences Index ETF (OTC: HMLSF) has tanked by more than 70% over the past 12

For decades, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) CEO Warren Buffett has steered his company to incredible gains. Whereas the benchmark S&P 500 has returned an extremely respectable 10% per

For years, experts have been warning that Social Security's long-term financial outlook is bleak, and the program's most recent Trustees Report, released in April 2020, confirms that. Specifically

T. Rowe Price Group (NASDAQ: TROW) got a significant boost on May 12 when it reported an increase in assets under management for the month of April. The stock jumped on the news, and as of Tuesday's

Don't expect to see most employees of American Express (NYSE: AXP) back at the office anytime soon. Steve Squeri, CEO of the payment card giant, has announced in a video message to employees that

Being an investor over the past three months has been challenging. The panic created by the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) wound up pushing the benchmark S&P 500 to its fastest