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Investors had to deal with a lot of crosscurrents on Wednesday, with the results from the midterm elections trickling in along with corporate earnings reports. In early trading before the official

Graphics card leader Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) announced new high-end graphics cards in September, the first in its new RTX 4000 series. Performance gains over Nvidia's previous-generation cards are

Consumers are tired of how Airbnb (NASDAQ: ABNB) and other companies display their pricing and some folks in Washington, D.C., are trying to do something about it. It's been in the works for a few

Considering how the market is doing these days, it's not very hard to find stocks with a price tag of less than $300. Some of these are excellent buying opportunities, and others are value traps

Shares of coffee-giant Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) are down about 30% from their all-time high, but the stock is still handily beating the market over the past 10 years -- returning 249% compared to

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) stock collapsed after its recent earnings report. 

The price plunged 25% in one session, capping off a year of unprecedented value destruction for the tech giant. The

A virtual server in the cloud is a commodity. There are countless cloud computing providers, and for the most part, a basic cloud server is the same everywhere. You get access to some number of

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) stock got absolutely crushed last week after disappointing investors with a tepid fourth-quarter outlook. Despite being down 18% since the report (and 45% this year), Amazon

It was a rough fiscal fourth quarter for Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS). Revenue rose 9% to $20.15 billion for the three months ending in September, woefully short of the 30% increase that analysts were

Technology stocks have suffered steep declines in 2022, as rising inflation has slowed consumer spending. However, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has staved off the worst market declines, with its shares down

A gold rush is a great time to be in the shovel business, and during 2020 and 2021, the financial markets were as frenzied as they've been at any other time in history. Naturally, then, it was also

Electric vehicles have gone from a backwater industry to a full-blown revolution over the last few years. Spurred on by the huge growth of Tesla, companies have committed to investing tons of money

The big story around Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) this year was The Merge -- the moment when Ethereum transformed into a proof-of-stake blockchain with faster transaction processing speeds, huge new

Enbridge (NYSE: ENB) has treated its investors like dividend royalty over the years. The Canadian energy infrastructure giant has increased its payout for 27 straight years, growing it at a 10%

Steadily growing passive income can be life-changing. Since it can help an investor cover bills without having to sell off stock holdings, this can ease the fear of running out of money in

Software stocks have gotten crushed in 2022.

Sky-high valuations coming into the year, rising interest rates, and macroeconomic pressures have led to a collapse in share prices nearly across the

In late July, Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) launched a first-of-its-kind crypto retail experience in the middle of New York City. Then, in October, it followed that up with the launch of another Solana store

Investors have been punishing tech stocks as if they're all seeing significant plunges in business activity. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite index has fallen more than 32% in 2022, and many

A whopping 97% of retired Americans say they've noticed inflation's effect on their expenses, according to a 2022 survey from The Motley Fool, and 85% of those respondents say that inflation is

Many companies have watched their share prices fall significantly as rises in inflation and interest rates have increasingly stunted consumer spending. As a result, the stock market has become a

The past year has been rough for crypto, with most investments seeing their prices plummet.

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) are both down nearly 70% from their peaks last year, for

This has been a rough year for investors. Since peaking about a year ago, the three major indexes, Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite, find themselves in bear markets --

You'll need money outside of Social Security to make for a comfortable retirement. That's pretty much a given, unless you're somehow in line for a huge monthly benefit and expect to have very low

If this year's weakness in most banking stocks has you wary of buying them, you may want to dial back your worry. The economic turbulence admittedly translates into challenges for the business. But

It can be difficult to figure out which stocks are not only great long-term opportunities but also beginner-friendly and not excessively risky. In this video, Certified Financial Planner® Matt