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Social Security has a big birthday coming up next year -- it's turning 90! It's kept many millions of people out of poverty for decades and was recently supporting more than 71 million people with

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in 2024 has reshaped our world in ways previously confined to science fiction. Virtual assistants now handle complex customer service queries with human-like

The demand for the chips required for training and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) models and applications in data centers increased at a remarkable pace in the past couple of years. Nvidia

Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT) is the #2 ride-sharing company in the U.S., but it has a chance to emerge as an industry leader in autonomous driving. Travis Hoium explains why the company's business model

On Dec. 4, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) crossed the $100,000 price level for the first time. That highlighted a post-election rally that saw Bitcoin soar by more than 40% within a remarkably short period

IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) laid out plans for the upcoming year and shared them with investors.

*Stock prices used were the afternoon prices of Dec. 22, 2024. The video was published on Dec. 24, 2024.

Many electric vehicle stocks hit their all-time highs during the apex of the meme stock rally in 2021. At the time, low interest rates, stimulus checks, social media buzz, and a contagious fear of

Cryptocurrency investors are having a great year in 2024. The total value of all coins and tokens across the industry currently stands at $3.5 trillion, more than doubling from where it ended in

Stock-split stocks statistically outperform the market in the next 12 months following a split. It is counterintuitive since it has nothing to do with the underlying business performance, but a

Another year, another huge gain for Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN). Shares of the e-commerce and cloud services giant skyrocketed 81% in 2023. The stock is on track to finish 2024 up close to 50%.

But should

Since Warren Buffett became the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) in 1965, its stock has delivered a compound annual return of 19.8%. That would have been enough to turn a $1,000

Does it feel like you've been here before? Semiconductor and software giant Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) executed a 10-for-1 stock split during the summer. Yet, here I am waving the flag for another

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) is evolving beyond electric vehicles (EV) to become a bonafide artificial intelligence (AI) company. Its plans for an autonomous Robotaxi fleet and its work in humanoid robotics

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) stock had a great run in 2024. The shares are up 48% year-to-date at the time of writing. Some might assume that Amazon's $2.37 trillion market cap will make it difficult for

In less than four weeks, President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president and become only the second U.S. leader to ever serve nonconsecutive terms. However, Wall Street decided

Complex data center workloads like training machine learning models and running artificial intelligence (AI) applications would take a very long time if powered only by central processing units

It's been a tough year for Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ: WBA) stock, which is trading down nearly 65% year to date, as of this writing. Things don't look any better when looking even further

Bitcoin's (CRYPTO: BTC) price hit an all-time high of $103,332 on Dec. 4. Four main catalysts drove it to that point: the approvals of its first spot price ETFs in January; its latest halving in

This chart features all eight American technology stocks with valuations of $1 trillion or more, and their respective returns in 2024 so far. Their average return for the year works out to around

The booming public equity market has been beneficial to investors this year. However, there have been some businesses that have absolutely crushed the broader indices.

Take Cava (NYSE: CAVA). The

When it comes to the semiconductor industry, no other company has become as well-known as Nvidia. The company specializes in designing graphics processing units (GPU), a unique piece of hardware

For nearly six decades, Warren Buffett has been running circles around Wall Street. Since taking over as Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) CEO in the mid-1960s, he's overseen an

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Given his fantastic track record of compounding capital as the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett is an investing legend. It makes sense that both professional and amateur investors follow

The Nasdaq Composite has repeatedly reached new heights in 2024, notching more than 110 new all-time highs. Its record run has been fueled by a string of encouraging developments. The accelerating