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Two years ago, Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico, killing nearly 3,000 people, destroying the island's power grid, and causing massive amounts of damage. The storm also triggered a mass

Shares of medical device maker ShockWave Medical (NASDAQ: SWAV) plummeted 28.5% in September, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. By contrast, the S&P 500 returned 1.9% last

Dividend stocks offer investors a little something extra. You not only get an ownership interest in the company, but you also receive a payment each quarter to further incentivize you to buy shares.

Investors have lost their appetite for Domino's (NYSE: DPZ) stock in 2019. The fast-food giant had been winning market share for over a decade and riding a wave of consumer demand for digital

When you look at the numbers, Chewy (NYSE: CHWY) has a lot of bite to back up its bark. Several key figures from the online pet product retailer's recent quarterly report give me confidence in the

America is just about the only place on earth that allows drugmakers to set and raise the price of successful drugs to whatever the market will bear, and it shows. Between the fourth quarter of 2016

 The year started off strong for technology-based initial public offerings, some of which got big first-day pops. Pinterest was offered at $19 a share and closed that day at $24.40 a share, a nice

Clorox (NYSE: CLX) stock had a small sell-off recently after the company hosted its Analyst Day on Oct. 2. And the stock is down about 10% from near-record highs in late July. Yet this consumer

It's no secret that cannabis is expected to be one of the hottest growth trends over the next decade. Following the legalization of adult-use marijuana last October in Canada, and the steady push

Thus far, wearables specialist Fitbit (NYSE: FIT) has been able to avoid damage from the Trump administration's ongoing trade war with China. The company, which has historically manufactured its

Shares of Chipotle Mexcican Grill (NYSE: CMG) have been on an absolute tear recently. The stock is up 90% year to date as the company's financial results indicate that everything is going right for

Having children has always been an expensive prospect, but a new analysis from real estate service Clever reveals that the average cost of raising a child has increased $31,000 since 1960. In fact

Of all the big technology stocks, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been viewed as the value stock of the bunch. While most of the high-flying big tech companies have seen their stocks awarded with high

Some marijuana investors may have quietly suspected the outbreak of hundreds of respiratory illnesses and at least 14 deaths among the "vaping" crowd was closely linked to the usage of

As you're saving for the future, you're bound to make at least a few mistakes. There's no perfect way to prepare for retirement, and nobody has all the right answers.

However, some mishaps could

At its inception, streaming video receiver company Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) was nothing more than a hardware outfit. And to its credit, it was a good one, leapfrogging Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) before the

Many investors in the cannabis industry have faced significant losses in the past year as the industry highs of fall 2018 seem a long time ago now. While industry followers were optimistic about the

It hasn't taken too long for the legal marijuana industry to transform itself into a big-money business. There's no doubt that tens of billions of dollars' worth of illicit pot sales are ongoing

British chip technology company Arm Holdings said that it has joined NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), General Motors (NYSE: GM), Toyota (NYSE: TM), and other tech and auto heavyweights to form a new group

One of the biggest impediments for cannabis companies has been the success of the black market. While legalization may offer users safer choices, it hasn't often been the most competitively priced

Every Canadian cannabis producer under the sun has frantically scrambled to increase production capacity over the last couple of years. That scramble typically involved investing in greenhouses or

Leading pizza chain Domino's (NYSE: DPZ) has been on a decade-long growth tear, but its third-quarter report didn't bring the usual extra cheese: It missed on revenue and profits, and cut guidance

Clothes are a hard business to be in. J.Crew and Gap (NYSE: GPS) are both spinning out some of their more popular brands in an effort to get back on track, and investors should be able to buy into

In this episode of MarketFoolery, host Chris Hill talks with Motley Fool analyst Seth Jayson about some of today's business news. Consumer-goods giant Unilever (NYSE: UN) has pledged to cut new

In this episode of MarketFoolery, host Chris Hill talks with Motley Fool analyst Seth Jayson about some of today's business news. Consumer-goods giant Unilever (NYSE: UN) has pledged to cut new