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It's been a little more than a year since Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) announced its plans to increase its subscription rates by as much as 18%. Jacking up the monthly rate of its most popular streaming

Target's (NYSE: TGT) successful private label brands have been a key driver of its growth over the last several years. The company's proprietary brands like GoodFellow, Pillowfort, and Cat and Jack

Your productivity at work is tied to your performance, which means that if you're not all that great at getting things done, your chances of snagging a raise or landing a promotion may be somewhat

In what's hardly a surprise these days, the stock market set yet another series of records on Thursday. This is becoming routine.

For instance, the S&P 500 rose above the 3,300 mark for the first

While buying stocks simply because a certain guru investor owns them is hardly a sound investment thesis, it can be a great way to discover interesting stock ideas.

The bull market continues to rage

You can't stroll down to your local car dealership and buy a self-driving car with fully autonomous capabilities (often referred to as Level 4 or Level 5 autonomy). But you can get vehicles with

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) employs 45,000 workers to pick orders for its grocery pickup business, according to comments made by a company executive at the 2019 Groceryshop convention. That's a sizable

In theory, it shouldn't matter. In the same sense that two $10 bills are the same as one $20 bill, two shares of a $10 stock is the equivalent to one share of a $20 stock. In fact, companies can

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) already announced it had a record holiday season. But in true Amazon form, the company said a whole lot without giving any details at all.

As quarterly reports from competing

After closing out 2019 with its stock price soaring over 50%, Hilton Worldwide Holdings (NYSE: HLT) is looking to build upon its strong year and continue its financial success into 2020. The hotel

Last year, Social Security paid more than $1 trillion to 64 million Americans. Social Security benefits are a vital source of funds for seniors, accounting for about half of all income for 50% of

Social Security provides a guaranteed source of income in retirement, but what many don't realize is that you're not guaranteed to keep it all. Some retirees owe taxes on their Social Security

In a time of brick-and-mortar retail declines and failures, Boot Barn (NYSE: BOOT) stock is shooting the lights out, increasing 162% in 2019. 

The company sells Western apparel, boots, and

Energy has been a tough place for investors in recent years, as the prices of crude oil and natural gas have remained extremely low for a long time. Despite some potentially bullish signs, including

It's been about a month since the last Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) acquisition that investors have caught wind of (Spectral Edge, to bolster the company's computational photography). CEO Tim Cook confirmed

Retailers that limit themselves to selling online are not only limiting their opportunities for growth, but may be spending more than they can afford to acquire new customers.

That was the theme

Costco (NASDAQ: COST) has been a steady growth story. Even as the retail market has driven other chains out of business and forced major players to make huge investments in omnichannel, the

Ready or not, earnings season has kicked off for the cannabis industry, with OrganiGram Holdings (NASDAQ: OGI) among the first to dish on its latest results.

In the company's fiscal first quarter

Some cheap stocks deserve to be cheap. When your business is bad, your stock price should be down. But every once in awhile, you can find high-growth stocks in the cheap seats: amazing companies

The holidays are over, and everyone's least-favorite time of the year is almost here: tax season. You might feel tempted to hurry through your taxes so that you can move on to other things, but

Most companies that choose to redistribute a portion of profits to shareholders are mature, relatively slow-growing businesses. But not all dividend stocks are boring.

There are companies with

No matter how you do it, retirement will bring major changes to your life, so it's understandable that many seniors would opt to keep some things the same by staying in the place they were living

To say that 2019 didn't go as planned for marijuana stocks would be a serious understatement.

Everything looked perfect heading into 2019, with Canada having recently legalized adult-use sales and

Augmented reality (AR) has been under development at tech giants like Microsoft (HoloLens) and Alphabet (Google Glass) for several years. 

But the technology just started to break through to the

Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ: BBBY) reported another dismal quarter. There was everything to dislike about the latest results -- a 9.0% year-over-year fall in revenue and bottom line losses for the