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E-commerce is back to its old ways. After declining for most of the past two years, the niche is now growing as a percentage of the total retail pie. That rate has more or less steadily increased

It's been a tough year for the semiconductor sector as the post-pandemic drop in PC sales and the end of the 5G smartphone upgrade cycle curbed the market's appetite for new chips. Nevertheless

Though it's been a good year for major market indices like the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite, not all stocks have participated in this rally. Indeed, much of the market's gains have been driven

The S&P 500 Index has climbed more than 20% from its bear market low, prompting many to call a bull market. This may be a bit premature, because generally, the index also must reach a new high in

EPR Properties (NYSE: EPR) has done a good job of navigating a very difficult period. But this real estate investment trust (REIT) still has some lingering issues to deal with. The biggest by far is

Do you like bargains? Do you also need growth stocks in your portfolio? For most investors in this volatile market, the answer to both questions is a resounding "yes." But it's rare to see a growth

Volatility has been the name of the game on Wall Street since this decade began. The major indexes have vacillated between bear and bull markets since the start of 2020, which has encouraged

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For decades, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and its second-fiddle rival Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) dominated the microprocessor market. From PCs to business servers, finding a processor that wasn't

MongoDB's (NASDAQ: MDB) stock has rallied nearly 70% so far this year as the software company impressed investors with its robust growth in a tough macro environment. But even after that run, it

Since becoming the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) in 1965, Warren Buffett has masterfully steered the ship. Whereas the benchmark S&P 500 hasn't quite reached a 30,000% total

W.P. Carey (NYSE: WPC) is one of the largest net lease real estate investment trusts (REITs). The business is usually driven by fairly long leases, with W.P. Carey's average remaining lease term

At the start of 2023, seniors on Social Security saw their monthly benefits rise 8.7%. That was the largest cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, to arrive in decades.

But 2024's COLA is shaping up to

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Saving for retirement is a goal for most investors, and the stock market is an excellent vehicle for doing so. The S&P 500 has returned a historical average of 9%, including dividends, and the magic

Shares of electric-car maker and clean energy company Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) were hammered last week, falling more than 11%. Though much of this pullback was likely driven by a broader-market

There are thousands of cryptocurrencies nowadays. Coingecko.com tracks more than 10,100 different coins and Messari provides data on nearly 22,500 digital currencies. Anybody can launch a new

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Noted investor Cathie Wood, the founder and CEO of investment management firm ARK Invest, is known for investing in companies capable of disruptive innovation. It's not surprising, therefore, that

In this week's video, I cover need-to-know news related to Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) during the week of Sept. 18. Today's video will focus on concerning results from a recent survey, Tesla's sales

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is the most valuable company in the world by market cap, and its business has hit record heights since its founding 47 years ago. The company has had immense success with

UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) has seen its shares decline more than 6% so far this year. That may not seem like much of a drop, but for a company as steady as UnitedHealth, that represents a

At first glance, it might appear that Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR) ended their recent standoff the way most cable TV blackouts end -- the two companies agreed on

Advertising has become a monster source of revenue for e-commerce and cloud computing giant Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN). Ads generated nearly $10.7 billion of revenue for Amazon in the second quarter

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway made an unusual investment three years ago by investing $735 million in Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), a cloud-based data platform provider, when it went public in