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"My Social Security benefit is way more than I need," said no one, ever. Social Security is a nice retirement safety net, but it often falls short as a primary source of retirement income.

If you went back and told someone in 1995 that we'd have a pandemic where many people didn't leave the house for months, and yet still have their basic needs met, there'd be a lot of confusion

Peloton (NASDAQ: PTON) has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the stay-at-home economy of the past year and a half or so, with over 100% year-over-year growth. However, one big unanswered

Intellia Therapeutics (NASDAQ: NTLA) recently reported positive results for gene-editing candidate NTLA-2001. After its stock soared on the news, the company took advantage of the higher share price

Economic recovery concerns and inflation worries have been no match for a smoking-hot stock market. The industrial sector is helping to lead the charge. It sports a fair share of up-and-coming

Stock market "crashes'' are quite common. Historical averages show that the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) registers at least a 10% tumble from highs about every year to year and a half. We're closing in

Stocks have some momentum heading into the second trading week of July. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) and the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) rose by roughly 1% last week and are

Here's a bit of bad news for you -- retirement will probably cost more money than you think it will.

Many people expect their living expenses to drop drastically once they stop working, but when you

Over the past five years, biotech stocks have somewhat underperformed the S&P 500 benchmark. Controversies regarding drug pricing, the rising cost of innovation in medicine, and increased generic

Since the year began, retail investors have been making their presence known on Wall Street. Even though John and Jane Q. Public have been putting their money to work in the stock market for more

Pinterest (NYSE: PINS) is a social media company like no other, focusing on things instead of people. In this Fool Live video clip, recorded on June 8, Fool.com contributor Matt Frankel, CFP, and

Recently, Fool.com contributor Matt Frankel, CFP, decided to hit the "sell" button on Medicare Advantage company Clover Health (NASDAQ: CLOV). But unlike with most stocks, he didn't sell this one

There are 21,951,202 millionaires in the United States, according to Credit Suisse. That's a huge number, which means that it can happen to anyone.

But how can you get there? Three Motley Fool

Although the stock market is near all-time highs, and its cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio is close to the dot-com peak, it is still possible to find attractive value stocks. Since

Since the end of the Great Recession, Wall Street and investors have been focused on growth stocks. Historically low lending rates and ongoing quantitative easing from the Federal Reserve have

The stock market may be volatile, but it remains one of the most effective tools to help grow your savings.

Depending on how much you can afford to invest, you can potentially accumulate hundreds of

Investors have been cheering about Moderna's (NASDAQ: MRNA) ability to bring a coronavirus vaccine to market in less than a year -- and post more than a billion dollars in profit in the first full

Investors were treated to a rally in the first half of the year, with the S&P 500 surging higher by 16%. That's an unusually high jump for any period, but especially following the 16% increase that

Some investors might have the Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) blues right now. Several of the most popular cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, crashed last week after the U.K. moved to block the world's

Chip and Dan Heath wrote a great book titled Decisive several years ago about making better decisions. One of the key steps the brothers discussed was to attain distance before making a final

Patience is a lesson the stock market is more than willing to teach. Despite undergoing 38 crashes or corrections since 1950, the benchmark S&P 500 has eventually put every single decline firmly in

Although Social Security has been around for years, the program keeps changing. But some of those changes may be less obvious than others. Here are a few ways the program changed in 2021 -- and how

There's an interesting dilemma when it comes to picking stocks investors can likely hold for years or even decades. On the one hand, investors looking to hold shares for the long haul can stick with

Semiconductors aren't just a basic building block of technology anymore. With devices of all sorts (like appliances, vehicles, industrial equipment, and more) getting turned into computers and

Only a handful of tech companies have ever become $1 trillion companies. Apple and Amazon crossed that milestone in 2018, Microsoft followed suit in 2019, and Facebook joined the club earlier this