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Much ado has been made of Luckin Coffee's(NASDAQ: LK) incursion into China.

The Middle Kingdom has long been Starbucks' (NASDAQ: SBUX) turf as the java giant essentially introduced the cafe culture

Millions of seniors look to Social Security as their primary income source, and the program is instrumental in keeping a large number of retirees afloat. But make no mistake about it: Social

Online grocery went mainstream in 2019, as Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Walmart (NYSE: WMT), and others offered consumers more ways to stock their fridges and pantries with just a few clicks or taps.

To say that marijuana stock investors have had a rough ride in recent months would be a brutal understatement. Following a first quarter that saw most pot stocks run significantly higher, cannabis

Through Google, the company now known as Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) is the de facto search engine in the digital lives of 73% of the planet. Residents of China are among the notable

Low prices have been hitting companies across the energy sector as they report their fourth-quarter 2019 earnings. Even the industry bigwigs aren't immune: Top U.S. oil major ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM)

Virus outbreak fears helped push stocks lower even as earnings season ramped up last week. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) and the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) lost more than 2%

Signing up for a 401(k) plan is one of the savviest moves you can make in the course of your retirement planning. That's because you'll need a healthy level of savings to keep up with your living

The marijuana industry was supposed to have investors seeing green in 2019, but it's red that's dominated the landscape. Following a blazing first quarter which saw more than a dozen pot stocks rise

Oilfield services stocks surely have the distinction of the most hated of the hated energy stocks in recent years. Strict capital discipline by exploration and production (E&P) companies in

By now, it really shouldn't be a secret that seniors can't live on Social Security alone. Those benefits, in a best-case scenario, will replace about 40% of the average earner's pre-retirement

It may be a new year, but the stock market continues to do much of what it did last year – namely, head higher. Through this past Wednesday, Jan. 29, the benchmark S&P 500 was up 1.3% on a

Social Security has a lot of people worried right now. With tens of millions of Americans collecting benefits right now and many more expecting to do so in the future, the financial strain on the

Shares of the country's most valuable publicly traded company continue to appreciate. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) saw its stock hit another all-time high last week, propelled by a blowout financial report

Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) passed a big test with its fourth-quarter earnings report last week. The company is confronting more intense competition, most notably from Walt Disney and Apple. In the

We've all heard that it's a bad idea to put all your eggs in one basket, and the saying holds true for nest eggs as well. However, not everyone understands how the concept works when it comes to

The headline figures for Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) fiscal first quarter were impressive. iPhone revenue rose 8% year over year to $56 billion, helping drive the company's total top line to a record

Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) is a complete e-commerce platform that allows an individual to set up, grow, and manage their online business. The platform provides an end-to-end experience for business owners

Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ: TTWO) has hit the jackpot with its latest casino-focused expansion for Grand Theft Auto V's (GTA V) online mode. The game's multiplayer mode had its best-ever monthly

Taxes can be confusing, even for those of us who have done them a few dozen times. They can seem especially complicated to those who are new to doing their own taxes, but they don't have to be

It is hard to find good high-yield dividend stocks when the S&P 500 Index is trading near all-time highs and offers up a miserly 1.75% yield. But Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS.B) and Enterprise

Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) CEO Warren Buffett has long been a fan of newspapers, but now it seems that even the Oracle of Omaha has seen the writing on the wall.

Buffett is

For Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM), there's more than meets the eye when it comes to its financials. Though the company in October reported a nine-month decline in total revenue of 5%, adjusted operating

Millions of us are looking forward to retirement, when we will be more able to do things we really want to do, like spend all day reading, golfing, hiking, traveling, or doing a jigsaw puzzle

Video game studio Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) reported earnings last Thursday. The report, which covered the third quarter of EA's fiscal year 2020, exceeded expectations on both the top and bottom