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May hasn't been a great month for the stock market's largest biotechnology stocks. The industry tracking SPDR S&P Biotech ETF has given up around 7% of its value since the end of April.

Despite the

I hope you're sitting down, folks, because I have some news that could be upsetting to some of you: A stock market crash or steep correction may be coming.

With the coronavirus crash -- a 34%

Cryptocurrencies have been all the rage these past few months, and it's not just Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) that investors are rushing to scoop up. There's a host of digital currency options to load up

Investing in a company that's on the verge of being able to sell a drug for the first time is as close as it gets to a slam dunk in the world of biotech. With the clinical trial process in the

Market volatility has been called the price of admission for the higher returns that stocks offer relative to other assets. That doesn't make it easier to ride out a downturn. It's why many suggest

If you're a bit too glued to the prices of your stocks or cryptocurrencies on a regular basis, you already know that there's nothing that commands your attention as powerfully as a crash. Still

The financial sector has been a welcome place for investors recently, bouncing back nicely in 2021 with the tailwinds of an improving economy likely to propel it forward into the future. For good

Investing in the stock market isn't hard. The difficult part is being patient and allowing your investment theses to play out over time. History pretty conclusively shows that the longer you remain

It's not exactly a secret that your age largely dictates how you invest. Younger people with growing wages can afford to take greater risks on growth stocks, since they have time to recover from any

Investors absolutely, positively hate delays. But a delay is exactly what Novavax (NASDAQ: NVAX) gave them in its first-quarter update earlier this month.

Novavax originally expected to file for

Warren Buffett is on a roll. Shares of his beloved Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) are handily beating the S&P 500 performance year to date. Most of the individual stocks in

It was a volatile trading week, but stocks ended up little changed last week. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) and the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) shed roughly 0.5% and are

While the S&P 500 remains within striking distance of an all-time high, tech stocks and cryptocurrency names are plummeting all around us. Robotics stocks are caught somewhat in the middle --

Ocugen (NASDAQ: OCGN) and Inovio Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: INO) have both stirred up stock market excitement in recent times. Inovio's gain happened a year ago when it was a front-runner in the

Having a low budget doesn't necessarily mean you have to go with low quality. This is true for nearly anything you buy -- including dividend stocks.

The highest-quality dividend stocks have

One of the greatest secrets to making a fortune on Wall Street is that you don't have to be right often -- you just have to be really, really right once in a while. Buying into game-changing

Many investors are considering adding cryptocurrency to their investment portfolios if they haven't already. But investors shouldn't conflate holding cryptocurrency with holding a stock. The two

Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) has been in the news a lot lately, and for good reason. Its partnership with BioNTech to produce a COVID-19 vaccine was massively successful, resulting in huge demand. This was

You'll often hear that to retire comfortably, you can't fall back on Social Security alone. And there's a lot of truth to that. The average senior today on Social Security collects about $18,500 a

Many tech stocks tumbled this year as investors fretted over rising bond yields, inflation rates, frothy valuations, and tough post-pandemic comparisons for companies that benefited from

Three months ago, Virgin Galactic (NYSE: SPCE) dropped a bombshell: Its long-awaited third rocket-powered trip to space -- the one that was expected to bring the company within just months of

Spotify (NYSE: SPOT) is the clear leader in audio streaming. The stock more than doubled in 2020, after adding 74 million new subscribers during the year. 

But after issuing a lower-than-expected

After a soaring 2020, many experts were predicting a market crash coming into 2021. That hasn't happened yet, and the S&P 500 reached new highs in May. The Labor Department released the Consumer

The S&P 500 index is hovering right around an all-time high and the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 12% for the year. Impressive returns, especially considering 2020's strong performance.

Unlike

Every media company worth its salt wants to produce the next Game of Thrones. The fantasy powerhouse based on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire books pulled in more than $2 billion of