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It's tough to be an investor when the market is on a downhill slide.

Stock prices are continuing to fall, with the S&P 500 down more than 18% since its peak in early January. Even more unnerving is

One of the hardest truths about retirement planning is that all that money you've been saving over the years isn't yours. Most of it is, but you're probably still going to owe the IRS a share in

The stock market as a whole has taken a beating over the last few months, and cryptocurrency has been hit especially hard. The global crypto market has lost more than $1 trillion in the past six

Since Tesla's (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk disclosed his stake in Twitter on April 4, Tesla's stock has been on a volatile downhill ride, falling 42%. With the saga between Musk and Twitter becoming

Millions of seniors today regard Social Security as an important source of income. But the program has some financial issues it needs to sort out. And if that doesn't happen, benefit cuts could be a

The S&P 500 has officially fallen into a bear market, and some of the most popular U.S. stocks have now lost 50%, 70%, or even more from their recent peaks. This decline came quickly and

Is the housing market headed for a crash? Probably not. Let's just get that out of the way.

While it's true that today's sky-high home prices simply aren't sustainable, buyer demand has held fairly

Recent declines in the stock market may not put you in the mood to invest. After all, what if you buy a stock -- and in a few days it drops even further? You might ask yourself whether negative

Dividends can be a great source of income when used the right way. In fact, with time and consistency, they can even be a vital part of someone's retirement income, possibly accounting for thousands

Rotten, horrible, atrocious. Take your pick of adjectives to describe the stock performances of Canadian cannabis producers last year. So far, 2022 isn't looking any better.

Two of the top Canadian

You might have heard about a trick that racecar drivers sometimes use to make their cars go faster. They put nitromethane in the gas tank. The nitro doesn't need outside oxygen to combust. As a

High yield equals high risk. That's the conventional wisdom about dividend stocks. With this perspective, investors shouldn't bank on holding high-yield dividend stocks for very long -- if they buy

At this point, it's painfully clear that stocks are in an extended slump. Last week, the S&P 500 index plunged into bear market territory. And other major indexes are also down significantly year to

The benefit of holding REITs in your portfolio is twofold. First, like regular stocks, REITs have the potential to gain value over time -- especially if you do a good job of choosing quality

There's no sugarcoating it: the investing community is enduring a challenging year.

As of the closing bell on May 18, the benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) was off to its second-worst start to a

Who's ready for another viral outbreak? During the week ended May 21, the World Health Organization (WHO) said it had found about 120 cases of confirmed or suspected monkeypox, a dangerous viral

On the day he first took office on Jan. 20, 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order called Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.

Despite a seemingly endless parade of economic data and earnings reports, the most important data release of the quarter occurred on Monday, May 16, and there's a real possibility you missed it.

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Everything isn't always peachy keen in the stock market. History has shown us that volatility and market downturns are inevitable. However, as an investor, this doesn't mean panicking and losing

Earlier this month, the Terra (CRYPTO: LUNA) blockchain effectively collapsed. The breakdown started when stablecoin TerraUSD (CRYPTO: UST) lost its peg to the U.S. dollar and the built-in arbitrage

Stock market sell-offs are an unfortunate but unavoidable part of being an investor. In the last two decades, the S&P 500 has fallen by 10% or more on 10 different occasions. But every past correcti

Tech stocks have been one of the worst-performing sectors of the market, losing over 20% of their value so far this year.

After a 30-year bull run that saw the Nasdaq 100 index gain nearly 4,000%