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According to the latest available information, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) had about $109 billion in cash and equivalents on its balance sheet. CEO Warren Buffett insists on

In its most recent quarterly report, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) reported more than $1.3 trillion in annualized payment volume on its platforms. So, it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the big

There's no way to guarantee that a stock will be a great investment forever, but some certainly have better chances than others. In this short video, Fool.com contributor Matt Frankel, CFP®

As investors continue to trudge their way through this crypto winter, it's easy to get caught up in the bad news. The vast majority of cryptocurrencies have tanked over the past year, and nobody

There are seven stocks in my portfolio I consider to be nonspeculative growth stocks. In this video, I discuss why I bought each of them, and what I think about them now. 

*Stock prices used were

Bear markets are painful, but they can actually be healthy for the stock market. For instance, they tend to push investors with limited conviction to get out of stocks. If you think long-term

Many Wall Street pros like to measure returns in absurdly short episodes like a quarter or a calendar year. It's anyone's guess where the economy, let alone the stock market, might move in such a

The key to building wealth is to find a proven investing strategy and stick with it over the long run.

Few investors exemplify this better than Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) chief

Privately held artificial-intelligence (AI) company OpenAI created a product called ChatGPT. And public interest in AI is booming because of recent advancements with this product. Suddenly everyone

Investing in great companies doesn't have to mean tracking them day in and day out. Great companies can be held for decades, so investors can set an investment and forget it. Motley Fool

Just because some stocks had a bad 2022 doesn't mean the companies were doing poorly. Many stocks became disconnected from their actual business performance in 2021 and paid for it in 2022. But now

It hasn't exactly been an easy time to be a semiconductor company lately. A global chip shortage over the past couple of years caused lots of headaches for chip companies. 

Add to that the fact that

Warren Buffett has developed a reputation for finding bargains throughout his career. Stocks such as Apple and Coca-Cola have brought him massive returns over the years.

Though Buffett is no longer

The stock market has been dragged down over the past year, with the Russell 3000 dropping by 10%. But growth stocks, losing 16%, have fared worse than the broad market. That's because many traded at

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has put up record stock returns since going public in the late 1990s. Shares are up 99,000% on an all-time basis even after a huge drawdown in 2022, which is more than 100x the

Social Security benefits typically rise every year thanks to the program's annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), which tries to ensure that retirees don't lose purchasing power due to inflation.

It's been a difficult few years for the airline industry, and Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) hasn't been spared any of it. The pandemic and resulting travel restrictions savaged the industry, and it's

The commercial aviation industry hasn't been a great investment for most of its history. Yet Heico (NYSE: HEI) has almost secretly carved out a high-margin niche and rewarded shareholders with

General economic woes last year crushed many of the world's most promising cryptocurrencies. That's because, in times of uncertainty, investors tend to favor the safest investments. Cryptocurrency

The investment bank Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) launched a consumer banking division in 2016, which included its digital deposit platform Marcus, several credit card partnerships, and the

Sometimes corporate spinoffs work really well. Other times, they don't. You can put General Electric's (NYSE: GE) spinoff of GE HealthCare Technologies (NASDAQ: GEHC) in the former category.

General

Both CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) and Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ: WBA) delivered disappointing returns in 2022. Neither stock has started off the new year with a bang, either.

However, Wall Street

Abbott (NYSE: ABT) reported its full-year and fourth-quarter results for 2022 on Wednesday. As is often the case with companies' updates, there was both good news and bad news.

Our human nature is

The past year has been a trying one for Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) investors. After pandemic-fueled lockdowns drove accelerating adoption of e-commerce, merchants flocked to its platform, ready to embrace

In 2016, the investment banking powerhouse Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) launched a consumer banking business that would gather deposits, provide online investing capabilities, and issue personal and