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With the market hovering near historic highs, it might seem risky to start positions in new stocks. However, investors should still accumulate shares of income-generating stocks with high yields and

Align Technologies (NASDAQ: ALGN) makes dental equipment, notably the Invisalign products, which are clear, wearable aligners for teeth straightening. The company shipped nearly 400,000 Invisalign

What does your ideal retirement look like? Living in a tiny place and eating the senior special at 4:30 p.m. every day, or having a comfortable home and eating dinner whenever you want? You can

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) and General Electric (NYSE: GE) have often been considered stable investments for conservative investors. Cisco is the world's largest manufacturer of networking routers

Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) push to get items to customers' doorsteps faster hasn't come cheap. But the increased spending on shipping and fulfillment on top of capital expenditures and leases on air

Tobacco stocks have defied naysayers for a long time. Even though rising awareness of potential health risks have created a secular decline in smoking, major producers of cigarettes have remained

Online betting outfit DraftKings is going public in a three-way deal that will value the company at $3.3 billion. Because it is one of the primary vehicles driving online and sports betting growth

Investors have many good reasons to love high-growth stocks. A company that's expanding quickly is likely winning market share, for example, which implies potentially enduring competitive advantage

Proclaiming itself as the "leading provider of real estate capital for the medical-use cannabis industry," Innovative Industrial Properties (NYSE: IIPR) is in a league of its own. To be fair, it is

Rebounding from a 1% decline in 2018, the price of gold skyrocketed in 2019 and is poised to end the year up 16% higher than where it began. Is this rise a reason to believe all gold mining stocks

With marijuana edibles and beverages becoming legal to sell in Canada this week, major pot producers and their beer-brewing backers are readying their lineup of CBD-infused drinks to hit store

With just days left in 2019, investors are looking ahead to see what companies have in store for the New Year. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) enjoyed a strong 2019 with year-to-date gains of 83% -- making it

Over the past decade, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) both struggled to grow their cloud segments to offset the slower growth of their legacy businesses. IBM dialed back its buybacks and

There's a huge early retirement movement these days, and it's filled with stories of successful 40-somethings and 50-somethings who leave the workforce well ahead of their peers and enjoy a lifetime

There's no denying that marijuana has the potential to be a big-money business. Every year, tens of billions of dollars in sales are being conducted in the black market, which provides plenty of

Gladstone Commercial Corporation (NASDAQ: GOOD) is a rare dividend stock. While many companies deliver dividends quarterly, Gladstone Commercial is one of the few that do so each month.

That alone

Dunkin' Brands (NASDAQ: DNKN) has struggled with its identity. The company dropped the word "Donuts" from its name even though it still sells the tasty pastries.

The coffee and pastry brand has

Restaurant-equipment maker Middleby (NASDAQ: MIDD) had a rough year in 2019. The stock fell 16% over the last six months while the S&P 500 gained 11%. The company missed analyst revenue targets in

Investing in small-cap stocks isn't for everyone. By their very nature, these companies have the deck stacked against them. In the real world, the Davids (small caps) usually lose to the Goliaths

After a decade of virtually no returns -- thanks in large part to the bursting tech bubble in 2000-2001 and the Great Recession of 2008-2009 -- technology stocks roared higher in the 2010s. As

When first learning of a proposed acquisition, it can be easy to subconsciously slip over the word "proposed" as linguistic fodder. But although many acquisitions earn regulatory approval relatively

Once you retire, you have different needs from your portfolio than you do when you're working. Unless you have a strong, well-funded and inflation-adjusted pension that adequately meets your

Harvard graduate, Columbia Ph.D.-holder, prolific author, and host of National Geographic's "StarTalk," Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson also serves as the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York

As a senior, you get a lot of power over your Social Security income. Once you turn 62, you'll have the option to claim benefits, and you can do so at any age past that point. But if you're not

Growth has been the buzzword for investors for the last couple of years, as the stock market has defied expectations to continue to head higher. However, investors cannot take it for granted that