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The holiday shopping season kicked off with consumers spending more money online than ever before on each of the five days from Thanksgiving Day to Cyber Monday. That bodes well for Amazon.com

It's been another tough year for the world's largest country (by population) and second-largest economy. China's growth has hit the skids, and the ongoing trade war with the U.S. hasn't helped

Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ: WBA) hasn't had a great year in 2019, and over the past five years, the stock has plummeted by more than 20%. However, the good news is that the company has been

Investors eagerly awaited Biogen's (NASDAQ: BIIB) presentation on its investigative Alzheimer's drug at Thursday's Clinical Trials on Alzheimer's Disease conference. They were hoping for clues about

Investors don't need to look much further than the stock's 80%-plus rise this year to know that lululemon athletica (NASDAQ: LULU) is in Wall Street's good graces today. The athleisure retail

The stars are aligning just right for Disney (NYSE: DIS) this week. Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance opened at Disney World on Thursday, and the next-gen attraction is living up to the hype. There

Investors have had good reasons to feel optimistic about Five Below's (NASDAQ: FIVE) operating trends this year. The youth-focused retailer has been expanding sales at an over 20% clip and booking

When you've left the workforce and are living on a fixed income as a retiree, you need to be careful about what you do with your dollars.

Unfortunately, far too many seniors make money mistakes that

Retirement is, for many people, the ideal time to travel. After all, if you have the savings available to support all that globetrotting, you can explore different corners of the world without

With few exceptions, GameStop's (NYSE: GME) earnings reports have been packed with bad news for over a year. The company took shareholders along for a protracted flirtation with taking itself

The stock market has returned a respectable 2,700% since 1965, the year that McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) filed its initial public offering, or IPO. Shareholders lucky enough to get in early on that

On Nov. 19, financial technology company WEX (NYSE: WEX) announced it had been granted a license to process electronic payments in the Netherlands, the seventh largest European economy by GDP and a

For millions of Americans, Social Security provides a key source of income. But you don't automatically qualify to receive Social Security benefits. To make a claim for these benefits on your own

Enterprise identity management company Okta (NASDAQ: OKTA) reported strong fiscal third-quarter results this week, and also boosted its outlook for the full fiscal year. That's typically a recipe

This past summer, the chorus of voices anticipating a recession -- a decline in economic activity -- reached the loudest levels since at least the financial crisis of 2008-2009. The yield curve was

Former senator and Secretary of State John Kerry has launched a new climate coalition complete with bipartisan support, Hollywood celebrities, and military leaders, according to reporting by The New

If you're in or approaching retirement, you're likely looking to purchase dividend stocks that not only have the capacity to grow, but also throw off cash on a regular basis. Even if you're a young

Biotech investors know that simply generating some positive clinical trial data for a candidate treatment is no guarantee that the drug will make it to market. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration

There are a lot of very expensive tech stocks. By buying them, you're paying a high price for future growth that may or may not materialize. Some of them -- perhaps even many of them -- will be

There are few, if any, cannabis stocks that garner more attention from investors than Aurora Cannabis (NYSE: ACB) and Canopy Growth (NYSE: CGC). Aurora and Canopy are respectively No. 1 and No. 2 in

If you're a parent, you know raising kids is very expensive. And for millions of parents throughout America, the costs don't end when children reach adulthood. In fact, parents are spending a small

There's been some uncertainty about how the launch of new premium streaming services like Disney's (NYSE: DIS) Disney+ or Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) Apple TV+ would impact Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU). Many saw

Shares of America's largest healthcare providers UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), Humana (NYSE: HUM), and Cigna (NYSE: CI) rose at least 10% in November, according to data from S&P Global Market

Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) was once considered a conservative play on China's growing tech industry since it owned the country's top search engine and a wide moat of popular portals and apps. However

Slack's (NYSE: WORK) third-quarter results didn't disappoint. The company's revenue growth accelerated to a growth rate of 60% (up from 58% in Q1). The collaborative communication-software