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You could fill your portfolio with a variety of stocks: high risk, low risk, players in today's hot industries and players in evergreen sorts of industries. Or you could weigh your portfolio in

What's the last thing in the world income-seeking investors want? Inconsistency. If you can't count on sure and steady dividends from the stocks you buy, you need to look for better alternatives.

Elon Musk doesn't mind expressing his opinions on anything from cannabis to space exploration. The Tesla CEO is rarely without a view on whatever the hot topic of the moment might be.

You don't have

For the past 20 months, Wall Street and investors have enjoyed a historic rally in the benchmark S&P 500. Since losing more than a third of its value following the initial wave of the coronavirus

During your working years, retirement can feel like it's a lifetime away, but it creeps up faster than you think. Hopefully, by the time you get there, you've managed to save enough to cover all of

Social Security has been around for a long time. Despite that, there's a lot that many people don't know about the program.

If you're counting on Social Security to get you through retirement, it's

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It's no surprise that exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have become so popular over the past decade. They offer investors the ability to invest in wide swaths of the market in one portfolio that can be

Technology giant International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) recently completed a long-awaited spinoff, setting Kyndryl Holdings (NYSE: KD) apart as a separate business and independently traded

Market volatility can distract investors from the gains they're aiming to achieve over the long term. But it's important to keep focused on that wider growth goal.

In this video clip from "The 5,"

It appears to be extremely difficult for investors to get a raw deal with SushiSwap (CRYPTO: SUSHI). A decentralized exchange (DEX), SushiSwap was originally a fork of Uniswap. Since its early days

Intellia Therapeutics (NASDAQ: NTLA) and CRISPR Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CRSP) are pioneers in developing CRISPR gene-editing therapies. In this Motley Fool Live video recorded on Nov. 10, 2021, Motley

A side hustle, or a second job aside from your full-time employment, can be a great way to earn extra money. It could even be a stepping stone to starting a business of your own, if you're

TheRealReal (NASDAQ: REAL) is growing fast, but the stock is still down substantially since its IPO. Is the market missing the opportunity here?

In this episode of "Upgrade or Topgrade," recorded on

Stitch Fix (NASDAQ: SFIX) is slated to report its results for the first quarter of fiscal 2022 (which ended Oct. 30) after the market close on Tuesday, Dec. 7.

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There are hundreds of dividend-paying stocks in the S&P 500. They come in all shapes and sizes. Some pay out high dividend yields, while others have long histories of steadily increasing their

There's no end in sight yet for BJ's Wholesale Club's (NYSE: BJ) growth spike. In an earnings report on Thursday, the warehouse retailer announced accelerating expansion trends that kept it near the

The market will crash again. That is inevitable. The only real question is when will it happen?

Let's be clear: there are lots of reasons to believe the market could crash soon. Skyrocketing

Rivian (NASDAQ: RIVN) hit the public markets last week. A company with only a few dozen vehicle sales and a market cap over $100 billion seems to have broken the imagination of some investors. But

ThredUp's (NASDAQ: TDUP) Clean Out Kits help distinguish the company from other secondhand sellers, giving individual sellers an easy way to ship to the company. With some technology advances, the

At first glance, it would appear as though CVS (NYSE: CVS) is having a pretty good year. The pharmacy chain's stock price is up roughly 41% from a year ago, and recently, it enjoyed

The pharmaceutical industry appears poised for a record-breaking level of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in 2022. Four emerging trends back up this assertion.

First, Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and

Kohl's (NYSE: KSS) served up another big earnings beat on Thursday. While the company has lagged many of its peers on revenue growth this year, it continued a streak of impressive margin expansion.