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3 Growth Stocks to Buy and Hold for 25 Years
When we talk about buying stocks at The Motley Fool, we generally do so with at least a five-year time frame in mind. After all, buying and holding strong businesses for the long term and letting....
2 Horrible Stocks for Retirees
Some investors are more comfortable than others when it comes to risk. However, many retirees prefer stocks less likely to suffer from the wild price swings that commonly plague companies with....
Can Kroger Stock Keep Climbing After Last Month's 25% Spike?
While they're increasingly shopping online for electronics and other home supplies, people aren't skipping their supermarket shopping trips. Kroger (NYSE: KR), one of the biggest industry players,....
Why Shares of Seabridge Gold Plummeted 20% in November
Reversing course from its 67% climb through the first 10 months of 2017, shares of Seabridge Gold (NYSE: SA) plunged 20% last month according to S&P Global Market Intelligence following the....
A Big Corporate Overhaul at CNX Resources Corp Leads to a 13% Drop in November
The shares CNX Resources Corp. (NYSE: CNX) fell a massive 13% in November. And the vast majority of the drop occurred all at once on Nov. 29, when the stock fell from around $16 a share to $13.75....
Move Over, Bitcoin: This 2,700-Year-Old Currency Is Going Digital
Despite the broad-based S&P 500 having nearly quadrupled since hitting its trough in March 2009, this year belongs to cryptocurrencies. Since beginning the year with an aggregate market cap of....
Here's What Caused Sarepta Therapeutics to Shoot 13% Higher In November
A month full of news related to the progress it's making toward helping patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) sparked a 12.9% rally in Sarepta Therapeutics (NASDAQ: SRPT) shares last....
Can't Afford to Retire? Here's What to Do
You've finally reached the age at which you planned to retire... but there's just one problem: you can't afford it. Is it too late to retrieve your financial situation and rescue your retirement,....
Kinder Morgan Is Set to Ride This Massive Wave
Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI) is ideally positioned for one of today's most significant secular trends -- rising natural gas consumption.It's not often that investors can ride a huge economic wave.....
Better Buy: AT&T Inc. vs. Frontier Communications Corp
Dividends. They are the backbone of any well-constructed retirement portfolio. For many, these quarterly payouts come from strong, stable businesses with wide moats -- and for the last fifty....
Why 2017 Was a Year to Remember for McDonald's Corp.
The first step in McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) business turnaround was admitting that it had a problem. Following three straight years of shrinking sales, executives began fiscal 2017 fully aware that....
What to Expect From Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. in 2018
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD), one of the hottest chip stocks of 2016, slumped more than 10% this year as rivals Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) struck back with new chips. On the surface,....
Is Bank of the Internet a Buy?
After a considerable run-up in its stock price following the Great Recession, the popularity of Bank of Internet's corporate parent BofI Holding (NASDAQ: BOFI) has dimmed. So far this year, BofI....
3 Top Defense Stocks to Consider Buying Now
It has been a fantastic year for defense stocks, as the promise of a post-election pickup in Pentagon spending coupled with increasing threats from North Korea and elsewhere has caused investors....
Here's What Caused This Marijuana Stock to Skyrocket 15% in November
Medical marijuana has been used to treat epilepsy in patients for years, but so far, it's efficacy and safety hasn't been supported by a regulatory green light from the Food and Drug....
3 Top Stocks Billionaires Love
It makes sense that lots of investors watch the stock investments billionaires make. Many of these people made fortunes based on their stock-picking ability, so it seems like a good place to get....
These 3 Healthcare Stock Dividends Could Soar If Trump Signs a Tax Reform Bill
Now that tax reform bills featuring 20% tax rates have passed the House and Senate, it looks like companies across the country will get to distribute a lot more of the profits they generate. Of....
Had a Baby? 3 Things to Consider When Deciding Whether to Go Back to Work
Back in the day, it used to be that you'd have a baby and leave whatever job you formerly held to raise that child -- at least for the most part. But these days, a growing number of mothers are....
3 Top Renewable Energy Stocks to Buy Now -- and 1 to Avoid
Renewable energy stocks can be some of the most rewarding and simultaneously frustrating to own on the stock market. The industry is growing like a weed and new opportunities and markets are....
REITs: What to Watch in 2018
The stock market seemed to be firing on all cylinders throughout much of 2017, but the real estate sector, especially equity real estate investment trusts (equity REITs), was a major laggard.....
SpaceX Set to Launch Mysterious Zuma Satellite Next Month
Zuma really isn't living up to its name, is it?Expected to launch into orbit from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 15, Zuma has kept space watchers waiting for nearly....
Here's Why bluebird bio's Shares Soared 24% in November
After bluebird bio (NASDAQ: BLUE) updated investors on the presentations it will be making at a key industry conference soon, its shares jumped 24.2% in November, according to S&P Global....
Is Netflix a Streaming Provider or a Major Movie Studio?
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) pioneered the concept of binge-viewing by releasing entire seasons of television programs at once. Watching multiple episodes at a sitting, or an entire season has....
Twitter Is Still Struggling to Attract Advertisers
At a recent investor conference, Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) CFO Ned Segal twice noted the company's ad business is "demand constrained." In other words, Twitter's struggling to grow ad revenue because....
3 Dividend Stocks to Fund Your Nest Egg
When looking for stocks to fund your retirement nest egg, it's not enough to just pick stocks with strong dividend yields. Sure, a high dividend yield is nice, but a stable, growing dividend....