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All eyes have been on tech stocks this year as advances in high-growth areas like artificial intelligence (AI) have made Wall Street particularly bullish. Despite macroeconomic headwinds last year

The Retirement Confidence Survey (RCS), conducted annually by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, assesses how confident workers and retirees are in their ability to live comfortably in

It's been a brutal 2023 for former solar growth darlings Enphase Energy (NASDAQ: ENPH) and SolarEdge (NASDAQ: SEDG). In this video, Motley Fool contributors Jason Hall and Tyler Crowe break down

The growth stock party has returned in late 2023. Space flight start-up Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB) has joined in, with shares up 20% in the last month alone. It has been a volatile year for the

Aurora Cannabis (NASDAQ: ACB) shareholders have been on a wild ride, and there just might be more in store. Over the last six months, the stock catapulted up more than 60%, only to crash and lose

Earlier in the pandemic, Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) stood out as an earnings and stock-market star thanks to its leading coronavirus vaccine and treatment. But these days, those products are weighing on

Making money usually requires a lot of effort. That's not always the case, though. The idea behind passive income is that you barely have to lift a finger for the dollars to flow in.

There are

Albert Einstein once said, "Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world." Compound interest, of course, being the ability to earn interest on your investment, then reinvest that interest at

Over the past decade, Ark Investment Management has established its niche on Wall Street by making sizable investments in disruptive and groundbreaking technologies. These include genomic research

Retirement planning is for everyone. You're never too young or too old to get started. You may have your financial future in mind as you prepare for a new year in 2024. Planning for life after your

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has captivated Wall Street this year as its business has exploded alongside a boom in artificial intelligence (AI). The company's years of dominance in graphics processing

Getting started is one of the toughest parts of investing. You have to figure out how to free up money to sock away, get a process in place to actually put your money to work, and learn to handle

Telecom veteran AT&T (NYSE: T) has delivered dividends to investors for decades. Rival T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) followed suit in 2023, offering a dividend for the first time in company history with

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood is known for her wild price targets. In 2018, she famously predicted that Tesla would hit a pre-split price target of $4,000, representing more than a 1,000% gain at the

Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) recently agreed to a $12 billion deal to buy privately owned CrownRock. Soon after the deal, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) disclosed multiple Oxy

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) may not be among the esteemed ranks of the "Magnificent Seven" tech stocks, but the database software kingpin has a long track record of delivering superior returns to investors.

Pardon the cliché, but Wall Street's only given in the short-term is that there is no such thing as a given. Since this decade began, the ageless Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI)

The excitement around Virgin Galactic (NYSE: SPCE) has faded considerably. The shares are now down over 90% from the peak levels reached in 2021. But the idea of a space tourism business might still

In this video, Motley Fool contributor Jason Hall discusses the eight bank stocks that he owns, making up over 12% of his portfolio. In addition to a review of how they've done in 2023, Jason shares

Social Security is a complex program that, as you might imagine, is loaded with different rules. And some of those rules are fairly well-known.

You might, for example, be aware that if you sign up

A new investing year is almost here, and now is a great time to prepare. It's impossible to predict which stocks will climb the most in 2024 or whether the overall market will soar. But, if you

Nearly $121 billion. That's how much Warren Buffett is worth at the time of this writing. The total is substantially more than it was 12 months ago thanks to Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE: BRK.A)

No program is more vital to the financial well-being of Americans than Social Security. Every year, America's top retirement program is responsible for pulling 21.7 million people out of poverty

In just a couple of weeks, every retiree who receives Social Security benefits will get a raise. Beginning in 2024, monthly payments will increase by 3.2%.

This is an annual rite of passage for

When the S&P 500 is up big on the year, it's easy to miss the value of reliable dividend stocks. After all, what good is a 3% yield if the market is up nearly 20%?

But the value of quality dividend