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It's easy to get lured by the stock market's day-to-day movements and cash out when your stock pops, but real money is made only when you can hold on to your stocks for years. That's when you let

Despite having an IPO just three months ago, Compass Pathways (NASDAQ: CMPS) is already up a staggering 224% from its IPO price of $17. If you invested $10,000 in its first-ever public offering,

One of the biggest risks when investing in dividend stocks is that payouts are never a guarantee and a company can decide to cut or suspend its payments, often without warning. Not only is it a sign

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As we approach the end of what's been nothing short of an interesting year, many high-earning individuals and couples are now taking the time to reevaluate their retirement strategies. Given the

As 2020 nears an end, we're going to look at the best-performing 3D printing stocks of the year, as of Dec. 24. Overall, this space outperformed the broader market. Moreover, the two biggest winners

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are great tools for retirees to gain diversified access to equities that fulfill investment goals, including income generation, stability, and growth. With thousands of

The turbulent ride of 2020 is finally coming to a close. Whether you had a market-beating investment year, did OK, or had a year you'd rather forget, now is the time to look ahead toward 2021.

The

In recent weeks, we've learned that tech heavyweights including Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) have decided to move their headquarters away from Silicon Valley. This

For better or worse, 2020 is almost behind us. And while that's a good thing from a mental-health perspective (let's face it... we all want to be done with this year), it also means the clock is

The tech sector was the single biggest driver in the stock market's 2020 gains. Part of the remarkable performance stemmed from businesses and consumers rushing to digital channels amid

The defense sector fell out of favor in 2020 as investors worried about long-term growth trends and focused their dollars instead on high-flying tech names.

Election years often weigh on defense, as

Two COVID-19 vaccines are already being given to Americans. But what about AstraZeneca (NASDAQ: AZN), which announced interim efficacy results from a late-stage clinical study of its coronavirus

All of a sudden, Wall Street loves space investing -- as evidenced by the "second annual space summit" that Morgan Stanley just held up in NYC earlier this month. Because of the coronavirus, MS held

If you purchased just $10,000 in shares of vaccine drugmaker Novavax (NASDAQ: NVAX) at the beginning of the year, your investment would be worth a stunning $304,000 in less than 12 months. That kind

It may be our imagination, but everyone seems happy that 2020 is finally coming to a close. Investors were challenged not only by the coronavirus pandemic, but also by the extreme volatility of the

Even though the Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA) and Pfizer (NYSE: PFE)-BioNTech (NASDAQ: BNTX) vaccines have been authorized for emergency use by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, we still have plenty of

There's no denying it: A lot of the world's best investing opportunities will happen outside of the United States over the coming years and decades. For this reason, investors should look for

This has been one of the wildest years on record for the stock market. Investors experienced about a decade's worth of volatility between late February and late August, with the benchmark S&P 500

One of the hardest truths of retirement planning is that you're never going to get it right. Just like today's retirees never could've foreseen the pandemic and recession we're currently living

Recently authorized coronavirus vaccines from Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA) and the Pfizer (NYSE: PFE)-BioNTech (NASDAQ: BNTX) team are the first messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines ever to be commercialized

There are lots of stocks in my portfolio, and while some may be shorter-term holdings, others have been in it for many years and are likely to remain in it a decade or two from now. What are the

Investing success is underpinned by owning great businesses that can grow their earnings and deliver steady returns to investors for many years. And the companies that have the best prospects are

Could Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) be about to throw its hat into the ring in the telehealth market? Recent reports indicate that it could be likely. The e-commerce giant launched telehealth services for

Here's a prediction for 2021 that doesn't require any fortune-telling skills at all: Pfizer's (NYSE: PFE) COVID-19 vaccine will soon become a megablockbuster. The big drugmaker's U.S. and European