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Itemizing on your tax return is a great way to benefit from a host of tax breaks the IRS makes available to filers. But for itemizing to make sense for you, your total deductions will need to exceed

Years from now, when the world looks back at 2020, the big story is going to be the global coronavirus pandemic. However, there are lots of smaller stories that make up that big-picture view, and

Bitcoin has had a remarkable run over the past year or so. Even after a recent pullback, the leading cryptocurrency is still up by nearly 400% since the beginning of 2020.

Should investors buy more

Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI) closed 2020 on a down note as its earnings and cash flow declined. Several factors weighed on its results, including asset sales, lower volumes, and weaker commodity

Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS) battled back from the drubbing it took from the COVID-19 pandemic last year, but its stock still ended 2020 down 11% from where it began the year.

Toys were a surprisingly weak

Could this be the year that legal cannabis becomes a reality nationwide? It certainly could be. After the Democrats took the White House and both houses of Congress, many expect some rollback of

Cathie Wood is the founder and CEO of ARK Investment Management, and retail investors are tracking her moves like never before. Even Matthew Winkler, editor-in-chief emeritus at Bloomberg, recently

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) is a blue-chip pharma stock with annual revenues in the neighborhood of $80 billion -- and that's before considering the potential of its coronavirus vaccine candidate,

Clover Health Investments (NASDAQ: CLOV) recently made its public debut after merging with one of former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya's SPACs (special purpose acquisition companies). Of

Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX), an international retailer and roaster of specialty coffee, is set to report its fiscal 2021 first-quarter earnings on Tuesday, Jan. 26. When it last reported results

PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP) is one of the world's leading food and beverage companies, with a wide portfolio of well-known brands including Doritos, Lay's, Tostitos, Cap'n Crunch, Quaker Oatmeal

Some analysts are bullish on bank stocks for 2021 -- not all of them, but certainly some of them. There are two major reasons why: an expected improvement in the economy as the year progresses and a

Pot giant Aphria (NASDAQ: APHA) released its latest earnings report on Jan. 14 for the second quarter ending Nov. 30, 2020, and investors were excited by the company's growth and bottom line. The

Home Depot (NYSE: HD) thrived in a challenging operating environment in 2020. While shopping behavior was reshaped through the pandemic, the home improvement leader added over $15 billion to its

Novavax (NASDAQ: NVAX) is nearing the finish line of the coronavirus vaccine race. The clinical-stage biotech company expects to report interim data from a phase 3 trial in the early part of this

Both Moderna and Pfizer have brought coronavirus vaccines to market, but there still are plenty of opportunities to bet on players that haven't yet brought their vaccines across the finish line. I'm

There have been hundreds of special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, created over the past couple of years. And these have been led by many investors, some of whom bring extremely

Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) develops and manufactures an extensive portfolio of medical devices for both patients and doctors. It sells over 13,000 products across 120 countries treating over 30

Americans love their pets. According to the Insurance Information Institute, pets are running the show in 85 million households. This number includes 63.4 million dogs, 42.7 million cats, 11.5

The second-largest dating app by audience size, Bumble, released its S-1 this week ahead of its IPO, and there's plenty to be excited about. But how does this company's fast-growing, women-first

Competition is growing in the healthcare industry, and a pharmacy retailer like Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ: WBA) needs to adapt. Tech giant Amazon launched Amazon Pharmacy late last year as it

The price of gold was up nearly 25% in 2020, using SPDR Gold Shares as a proxy. That's an impressive gain for this precious metal, and helped to push shares of miners like industry giant Newmont

The coronavirus pandemic is making it harder for Americans to avoid tapping into their retirement savings. According to one survey last year, close to 30% of people either stopped saving or

People like to use websites that inspire them to do the things they love. Pinterest (NYSE: PINS) believes that being a beacon of positivity on the internet can be a huge advantage -- and

There's a more powerful force than the fear of missing out -- plain old fear itself. The stocks of several small companies developing COVID-19 diagnostics, therapies, and vaccines skyrocketed last