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Many seniors find that once retirement kicks in, healthcare becomes their greatest monthly expense, surpassing even housing. The good news is that people who sock money away in a health savings

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All the Industry Focus hosts come together to celebrate the 2,000th episode of the podcast. Topics include lessons learned from the podcast, the story that made the biggest impact on the hosts, most

"One of the biggest trends of the 2020s decade will likely be an unfortunate one: climate change," I wrote in an opening to a January 2020 article in which I chose three top climate change stocks to

Disney's (NYSE: DIS) decision to exclusively release to theaters its remaining 2021 movie slate wasn't just because cinema had sufficiently rebounded to support stand-alone feature films, but also

As a senior, you'll probably count on Social Security as an important source of your financial support. But you can't afford to rely on it too much or take too optimistic a view about just how much

Will the market crash, or won't it? It's a question many investors are asking themselves now that the market's hinting that it may not be as resilient as it has been since March of last year.

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Dividend stocks are a great way to start earning passive income. However, one minor inconvenience of most dividend stocks is that they only cut checks quarterly. Because of that, the dividend income

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently announced restrictions on JAK inhibitors that hurt AbbVie's (NYSE: ABBV) prospects for autoimmune disease drug Rinvoq. AbbVie stock sank more than 10%

Every weekend over the past few months I've been trying to single out three stocks that will lose to the market in the week ahead. My three stocks to avoid last week were all over the place --

The United States spent $725 billion on national defense in 2020; the U.S. government is big business. While investors can't buy "shares" of the U.S. government, there are ways to gain exposure to

Two years ago, American Airlines' (NASDAQ: AAL) plan to form a joint venture with South American airline giant LATAM Airlines fell apart after Chile's Supreme Court ruled that the deal would be

Value investors use specific metrics to find great deals. Some popular ones they use include the price-to-sales ratio, the price-to-earnings ratio, and the price-to-book ratio. And these tools

Stocks are expensive right now, with the S&P 500 price-to-earnings ratio at its highest level since the dot-com bubble. That doesn't mean that investors should be selling all their stocks and

DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) has seen a fast run-up recently, taking the spotlight as a challenger to cloud behemoths like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft's Azure, and Alphabet's Google Cloud. While the

Biotech stocks can be highly risky. But they can also offer the potential for massive returns in a relatively short time. In this Motley Fool Live video recorded on Sept. 8, 2021, Motley Fool

GoPro (NASDAQ: GPRO) has been through its share of struggles since becoming a public company in 2014. The company failed to move into media, crashed in the drone market, and hasn't been able to turn

Consumer product and technology company Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is one of the largest and most dominant businesses globally, since building a base of more than 1 billion iPhone users worldwide.

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Vail Resorts (NYSE: MTN) investors are in for a potentially volatile trading week ahead. The ski resort giant will announce its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year results after the markets close on

Most investors are aware of the boom in special purpose acquisition companies taking private companies public over the last year or so. Some of these stocks, like Nikola Corp, have ended up making

A couple of years ago, I wanted to understand cryptocurrencies and began doing some research. I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of different coins. Why is one coin stronger or more valuable than

Are you thinking about claiming Social Security? This is a big decision that will affect your finances for the rest of your life, so you don't want to file for benefits until you're 100% sure you're

At first glance, it doesn't even seem to be a contest. Shares of e-commerce giant Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) have not only outperformed those of brick-and-mortar rival Walmart (NYSE: WMT) in recent