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A 401(k) may be the most popular retirement account, but it's not your only option. There are several other retirement accounts that you can (and should) take advantage of throughout your career

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 20% and 19%, respectively, through the first eight months of the year. With these two major indexes in record territory, investors might be worried

Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) rose to the top as one of the premier artificial intelligence (AI) stocks. Its prowess in AI software application is almost unmatched, which is why investors are

Readers are almost certainly familiar with both Costco (NASDAQ: COST) and Home Depot (NYSE: HD). These are two massive companies that have done a great job of compounding shareholder capital over

There isn't a stock on the market that has been talked about more in the past two years than Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA). The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has made Nvidia's graphics processing

With the attention artificial intelligence (AI) is getting, it's easy to focus on Nvidia as a top tech stock. It's a great pick and has performed incredibly well, but there are other stocks that

Shares of Peloton Interactive (NASDAQ: PTON) have been taking off of late. After reporting stronger-than-anticipated quarterly results, investors have suddenly turned bullish on the stock. In just

It's been a rough year for Nike (NYSE: NKE) and Lululemon Athletica (NASDAQ: LULU) investors, with both stocks selling off sharply. Shares of Nike are down about 25% year to date while Lululemon has

It has been a turbulent week for Pinduoduo's (NASDAQ: PDD) investors. Despite reporting an 86% growth in its top line in the latest-quarter earnings, the leading e-commerce platform saw its stock

Few retirement decisions have as lasting an impact as when you decide to claim Social Security. The decision permanently affects how much you receive, so it's not one you want to gloss over as

Are you looking for dividends? That's a tough one today, given the market's shockingly low 1.3% or so yield. But if you are willing to look, and perhaps make some reasonable risk/reward trade-offs

It wasn't all that long ago that investors wondered which stock would be the first to reach a market cap of $1 trillion. Today, seven stocks have market caps of at least $1 trillion, with a couple

As the U.S. economy goes, so goes the stock market. At least, that's generally the case. When the economy is strong, corporate earnings tend to rise. And when earnings rise, stocks usually move

PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) has taken investors on a bit of a roller coaster ride since it was spun off from eBay and went public in 2015. The stock was a big winner as consumer preferences shifted to

For more than 128 years, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) has served as Wall Street's most prominent barometer of the stock market's health.

When it debuted on May 26, 1896, it was

Disney (NYSE: DIS) has spent years building a streaming business, but there has been very little focus on sports so far. That could change in 2025 when ESPN goes over the top. And if Disney can get

One of the easiest and smartest moves you can make as an investor is buying exchange-traded funds (ETFs). ETFs do much of the hard work of investing for you, keeping your portfolio diversified and

Consistently buying shares of growing companies is a proven way to build lasting wealth in the stock market. The following companies would make great stocks to hold over the next few decades to

Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) stock is still 86% off of its highs, but it got a little push last week when an analyst upgraded it. Are things finally starting to look up? It's already rebounding from its

Retiring a millionaire is something many people aspire to do. But recent data from Vanguard indicates that it's not a particularly common achievement.

In its most current How America Saves report

Owning shares in The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) has been a bitter taste in recent months. Rising cocoa prices and less appetite for chocolate left the stock rangebound, and the stock's price is

Shares of Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) sank after the cybersecurity company issued disappointing guidance in conjunction with its fiscal 2024 fourth-quarter results this week. The stock now trades down

There's a "strange" thing going on in the broader market today, with a small number of large stocks (particularly Nvidia) largely driving market returns. That's left the Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is known as a cryptocurrency exchange, but its future could be defined by innovations on the blockchain. In this video, Travis Hoium shows how even Visa (NYSE: V) is taking

The stock market has been on a bull run for over a year and a half. The benchmark S&P 500 index has risen about 48% since the end of 2022.

Economic recoveries tend to last much longer than