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After several lean years, income-focused investors have many more options following a significant interest rate surge. Higher rates make lower-risk income investments like bank CDs and bonds more

Footwear retailer Foot Locker (NYSE: FL) is having all sorts of trouble coping with the current economic environment. Sales plunged 11.4% year over year in the first quarter, with comparable store

Coincidentally or not, the decision comes shortly after Tesla's (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO, Elon Musk, acquired Twitter, a company that is reliant on ad revenue.

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Not all advice is excellent, and not all futurists are right. But Kevin Kelly, founder and senior maverick of Wired magazine, is the exception on both fronts. Today he returns to the Rule Breaker

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) stock is down almost 5% over the past three years despite sales increases, new products and services, and the power of Amazon Web Services (AWS). That's been changing this

Ark Investment Management CEO Cathie Wood's portfolio of funds have struggled over the past few years as growth stocks took a beating in a bearish market. Investors, along with Wood and Ark Invest

Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) shares have been on quite the run, rising 45% over the past 12 months (as of this writing). This compares very favorably to the S&P 500, which is up just 2% during the same

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is building its ecosystem, attracting people with its innovative products. Fool.com contributor and finance professor Parkev Tatevosian discusses why stock market investors are

Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG), now a nearly $60 billion business, has been crushing it recently. After posting outsized gains during the depths of the coronavirus pandemic, the restaurant

John M. Jennings is the president of St. Louis Trust & Family Office, a professor at Washington University's Olin Business School, and the author of The Uncertainty Solution: How to Invest with

As a class, dividend growth stocks consistently outperformed all other classes of stocks over decades-long periods. One reason for this is that dividend-paying companies tend to be more disciplined

Anyone who has followed the stock market for years will attest the market isn't always rational in the near term. At the drop of a hat, a stock can receive more praise and price appreciation than it

The big question on the mind of just about every investor right now is whether the U.S. economy will tip into a recession, and if it does, how severe will that recession be? Naturally, the market is

Hypergrowth is a very specific part of an emerging company's history. This the steepest bit of the S-curve, after setting up a promising business plan but before it matures and slows down. It's

On Wall Street you often make out better when you avoid extreme choices. For instance, AGNC Investment (NASDAQ: AGNC) is currently offering dividend investors a huge 15% dividend yield. But is that

Dual shockwaves from growing geopolitical tensions and the pandemic are causing companies to rethink their global supply chains. Many companies are reshoring manufacturing, reversing decades of

The Federal Reserve's spate of aggressive rate hikes has had all sorts of effects on the broader U.S. economy, including putting real estate investment trusts (REITs) in the discount bin. As a

Sometimes, when good news comes, it comes in spades.

As recently as a decade ago, expectations were that the International Space Station (ISS) was due to expire and be decommissioned -- perhaps as

Cloudflare (NYSE: NET) is a lot more than a content-delivery network. The company has been building out a developer platform over the past few years, leveraging its global network of edge computing

In this podcast, Motley Fool senior analyst Jason Moser discusses:

Motley Fool analyst Nick Sciple joins Jason to discuss the business of golf and analyze two publicly traded golf companies.

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Cryptocurrency is experiencing a promising surge in adoption as citizens not only seek refuge from inflationary pressures and unstable monetary policies, but also look to invest in a burgeoning

Motley Fool content strategist Mary Long caught up with four other Motley Fool employees to get some actionable advice for new college grads. They discuss: 

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Investing in the stock market can be daunting at times, especially during periods of high volatility. But it's also a wealth-building method that could help you reach long-term financial security if

The amount of money you collect each month from Social Security is based on your personal earnings history. But you filing age also plays a role in determining what your monthly benefit looks like.

I recently made a portfolio shift, capturing a material loss in 3M (NYSE: MMM) so I could reduce the tax hit from taking profits in a real estate investment trust (REIT) that I will be switching