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While it might be tempting to make one large $10,000 investment on your favorite stock, a smarter approach is to invest like a venture capitalist. Don't be afraid of volatile, high-growth stocks

Though Social Security will help you pay the bills once you retire and give up your paycheck, those benefits alone can't sustain you. That's why you need savings of your own, and if you don't have

Every investment comes with risk. After all, if you don't risk anything, then you don't stand to earn a return. But individual investors don't need to bet on unproven, small-cap businesses just to

Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT) stock underperformed a booming market last month, shedding 11% compared to a 3% spike in the S&P 500, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence.

The decline

Famous parent-child pairs have existed throughout history: classical composer Johann Sebastian Bach and his still-famous-but-not-quite-as-famous son Johann Christian Bach, American painters N.C. and

In Austin, Texas, robots zip zippers thousands of times. Hydraulic presses crush cups under tens of thousands of pounds of pressure. It's a chamber of horrors for consumer products, and their

The recent quarterly report from struggling drugstore chain Rite Aid (NYSE: RAD) was encouraging enough...initially. Most top-line measures came in better than expected for the quarter ending in

A new year has begun, and investors have high hopes for 2020. After a stellar 2019, it'll be hard for the stock market to match its performance from last year. But for those who use mutual funds for

No, it's not the same as Ford vs. Ferrari, but the choice of investments between Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) or Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) comes down to blue-chip value that under-performs versus big

Schlumberger (NYSE: SLB) stock outperformed a booming market last month by rising 11% compared to a 3% spike in the S&P 500, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence.

The

Carnival (NYSE: CCL) stock beat a booming market last month by gaining 13% compared to a 3% spike in the S&P 500, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence.

The increase was

Imagine being forced to make a bet on either the Pittsburgh Pirates or Florida Marlins to win the World Series. Both teams technically have a chance, in that they play in Major League Baseball, but

Retirement is an exciting milestone for many Americans, but a scary one for others. After all, it's hard to go from earning a steady paycheck to suddenly throwing caution to the wind and hoping your

In the words of most marijuana stock investors, "goodbye and good riddance to 2019!" While 2019 was supposed to be the year that cannabis stocks put everything together and delivered profits, this

Now that the 2010s are over, we're going to look at the decade's 10 best performing stocks.

Why? Such a review could help investors with their stock picking. Lists of past huge winners are often

When Congress passed the latest budget deal to fund the federal government, it agreed to extend a slew of tax credits for renewable energy technologies. The single biggest winner may have been

You'll often hear that if you were to give up store-bought coffee, you'd bank enough money for your dream retirement. Well, that's just not true.

Cutting back on store-bought coffee might save you

Last year was expected to be when marijuana stocks finally proved to Wall Street that they deserved their lofty valuations. Unfortunately for investors, this wasn't the case.

Instead of pushing

Himax Technologies (NASDAQ: HIMX) is a fabless semiconductor solutions provider. The company is a worldwide market leader in display driver ICs (integrated circuits) and timing controllers used in a

Preparing tax returns is a hassle at best for most people, and for many, the burden of getting their returns done imposes a real cost. Getting help from a tax preparer or from a tax software package

Wind power and solar energy are often discussed as a set in the conversation about renewable energy sources, but they are very different industries. The way they fit into the electrical grid is

Investors sent Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ: BBBY) shares on a roller coaster ride in 2019 due to pessimism around a sharp sales decline coupled with rising confidence in management's turnaround plan

Social Security plays an instrumental role in helping seniors keep up with their living expenses. But a frightening number of workers neglect their personal savings thinking they'll fall back on

New year, new decade, new chances to profit! While it's certain that the stock market can't continue to go up in a straight line, history also shows us that buying great stocks and holding them over

Stocks barely budged last week, with both the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) and the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) holding flat for year's last trading days. That steady finish capped an