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Like most cryptocurrencies, Litecoin (CRYPTO: LTC) took some drastic price cuts in the first half of 2022. As investors and regulators struggled to manage an inflation-soaked global economy, the

This year has not been kind to most tech stocks. The Nasdaq Composite was down a brutal 28% through mid-December, and many of its members posted even worse results.

Some of those slumps made sense

Cloud computing has caused a dramatic shift in the database software market. Gone are the days of oppressive software licenses and on-premises installations. Today, spinning up a database in the

Annaly Capital Management (NYSE: NLY) pays one whopper of a dividend. The company's payout currently clocks in at an eye-popping 16.4% yield. That's multiples above the S&P 500's dividend yield,

Just when it looked like the market might be on the mend, pow! Thanks to the 6.6% pullback from last week's high, the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) is now 20% below its January peak. That's bear market

Cloud computing is become the industry standard for the management and distribution of computing resources. Businesses can use the power of the cloud to more effectively run software, store data

For many, holding on to a nice cash cushion or identifying potentially undervalued blue chip stocks are logical, and safe, investment strategies in times of economic trouble. Economists around the

As Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett has famously said: "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." With sell-offs across the market pushing stock prices down, long-term investors have the

The Bitcoin-(CRYPTO: BTC)-versus-gold debate is heating up again after Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) released a new research note documenting all the reasons it views gold as

With just days remaining in 2022, Social Security retirees will soon receive the largest increase to their monthly benefit checks in more than 40 years.

The Social Security Administration (SSA)

Online used car retailer Carvana (NYSE: CVNA) is probably not the future of the used car industry. After demand and prices for vehicles boomed during the first two years of the pandemic, the market

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) hugely outperformed the other two major indexes in 2022 -- the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite -- but it's still down about 10% so far.

If you look at

It's fair to say that 2022 has been a rocky year for investors. And now that we're at the tail end of it, you may be iffy about the idea of adding more money to your portfolio in 2023.

On the one

In the past year, real estate disruptor Zillow (NASDAQ: Z) (NASDAQ: ZG) has exited the iBuying business, accumulated billions of dollars in cash, and been trying to navigate an extreme slowdown in

Bear markets are nothing new in crypto. While the S&P 500 experienced a gradual increase since the Great Recession and posted only one year with a decline in the span from 2009 to 2021, the

Monster growth stocks have the power to keep outperforming the market year after year, and that's why practically everyone loves to have them in their portfolios. But those stocks wouldn't be

2022 was the worst year for the stock market since the financial crisis, fueled by a combination of rising interest rates, economic worries, war in Ukraine, inflation, and other factors. As of Dec

Today, I share my top 15 investing tips for beginners in 2023 and beyond to help you be a successful long-term investor. I discuss growth stock investing, ETF investing, dividend growth stock

As 2022 winds to a close, the stock market is on track to have its worst year since 2008. But focusing too much on calendar-year performance sidesteps the brutal drawdowns that investors have

This year hasn't been easy for investors. Stock prices have been sliding throughout 2022, and it can be discouraging to see your portfolio drop in value.

Because it's been so long since the last

In this video, I will use my simplified six-step framework for stock valuation to determine whether Raytheon (NYSE: RTX) stock is an excellent defensive stock to buy right now.

*Stock prices used

This has been a difficult year for asset managers in general, with the stock market in bear market territory for most of the year. As we enter the final two weeks of 2022, a year that investors will

If you're relatively young, you might not be giving too much thought to saving and investing, and you might not be thinking much about your retirement, either. It makes sense: After all, you're

Less than 29% of the stocks in the S&P 500 have delivered positive returns so far this year. But over 80% of those winners share at least one thing in common: They pay dividends.

Some members of

Warren Buffett is one of the most successful people in finance, and his portfolio's performance is a testament to the power of long-term investing. Buffett bought his first stock at age 11, he took