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There aren't a lot of guarantees in retirement, which makes the idea of a monthly Social Security check all the more comforting. As long as you've worked for at least 10 years, you will get some

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Sientra (NASDAQ: SIEN)Q4 2019 Earnings CallMar 11, 2020, 5:00 p.m. ET

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A few years ago, CEO Bobby Kotick compared Activision Blizzard's (NASDAQ: ATVI) esports opportunity to professional football in terms of scale. The esports industry is expected to grow 15% to reach

Shares of Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd. (NYSEMKT: APT), Co-Diagnostics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CODX), and Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: INO) are all poised for another monstrous day. In pre-market trading

Pepsi (NASDAQ: PEP) is a steady business that pays a 2.9% dividend yield, which isn't bad -- but income-seeking investors can do better. While there are many stocks generating high single-digit or

Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) wants to avoid having its employees come to work if they may be infected with coronavirus. To make that happen, the company has introduced a new "catastrophe pay" plan to

Right now the market looks like a boulder rolling downhill. The S&P 500 is down over 17% from 52-week highs, and as of this writing is down over 7% today alone. Fear is running rampant as the

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Pfenex (NYSEMKT: PFNX)Q4 2019 Earnings CallMar 11, 2020, 4:30 p.m. ET

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Both PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL) and Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS) have prospered in recent years amid a war on cash stocks. As society increasingly turns away from cash transactions

Stitch Fix (NASDAQ: SFIX) stock fell to new all-time lows on Tuesday after the company slashed its guidance for fiscal 2020. The stock plunged as much as 32.6% in the morning, falling as low as

While the volatility in the stock market has received a tremendous amount of attention in the press, the drop in interest rates is perhaps even more dramatic. The 10-year bond yield has fallen from

Marijuana stocks have gone through a massive roller-coaster ride over the past couple of years. Go back to 2018, and it seemed that even the tiniest companies with ties to cannabis were soaring

Fears of COVID-19 are driving a large number of employers to close down their offices for the next few weeks and instead have employees do their jobs from home. It's a smart move on companies'

Shake Shack (NYSE: SHAK), famous for becoming a successful restaurant chain after starting as a New York hot dog stand just 20 years ago, is pushing its growth plans aggressively with new "Shack"

Biopharma company Acadia Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ACAD) saw its stock price rise by more than 164% in 2019, outperforming both the Virtus LifeSci Biotech Clinical Trials ETF (up 64%) and the S&P 500

If you search online for the best states to retire to, you'll find many lists, with different states on them, in different orders. That makes sense, because different lists use different criteria --

Kroger (NYSE: KR) this past week had mostly positive news to give investors about its business. The supermarket chain's turnaround effort is gaining steam, and that success is finally showing up in

There's no two ways about it -- it's been a volatile, and occasionally brutal, past three weeks for investors.

Since Feb. 19, which is when the benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) hit its all-time

DoorDash surpassed Grubhub (NYSE: GRUB) as the top food delivery platform in the U.S. last year. It controlled 38% of the market in January, according to Second Measure, while Grubhub and Uber

Following through on promise/threat it made back in November, struggling photocopier company Xerox (NYSE: XRX) finally took its acquisition case directly to HP (NYSE: HPQ) shareholders last week

Each year, less than 1% of tax returns are chosen for an audit, but the idea of it happening to you may be frightening nonetheless. Now the reality is that the IRS doesn't have the resources to send

In a perfect world, we would follow a strict schedule: We'd reevaluate every stock we held twice per year. That way, when a panic like the current one hit, we could rest assured knowing our money

Shares of solar stocks took a hard hit Wednesday, as the markets plunged and investors fled from renewable energy stocks.

Vivint Solar (NYSE: VSLR) fell 14% at close, SolarEdge Technologies (NASDAQ:

Over the next decade, cannabis is expected to be one of the fastest-growing industries. After more than tripling worldwide sales to $10.9 billion between 2014 and 2018, Wall Street is looking for

These are volatile times for the markets. The wild swings we've seen in the last few weeks have left investors wondering where they should put their money. The economy -- which was forecast to slow