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Medicare is a crucial part of retirement, yet 72% of Americans say they wish they better understood how the program works, according to a survey from Nationwide.

Healthcare expenses can be

Unemployment claims this week rose 33% to about 281,000, according to the Department of Labor -- the highest total since Sept. 2, 2017. That number will be dwarfed next week, says an analyst from

Shares of AT&T (NYSE: T) have dropped today, down by 6% as of 11:30 a.m. EDT, after the company said it would cancel a previously announced stock buyback plan due to uncertainties around the

Shares of upscale yogawear retailer lululemon athletica (NASDAQ: LULU) were rising on Friday, after a Citigroup analyst upgraded the stock and said that Lululemon is likely to do well once the

Shares of Charlotte's Web Holdings (OTC: CWBHF) were skyrocketing 19.8% higher as of 11:24 a.m. EDT on Friday after jumping as much as 33.8% earlier in the day. The CBD products company didn't

Shares of Momo (NASDAQ: MOMO), the biggest online dating company in China, tumbled over the past three months as the novel coronavirus crisis killed the aging bull market. However, the stock

Shares of Alliance Resource Partners LP (NASDAQ: ARLP) fell as much as 22.2% today. That's not quite news. After all, shares of the coal producer have tumbled 77% in the last year in a nearly

Shares of XPO Logistics (NYSE: XPO) gained nearly 10% on Friday after the shipping and logistics company said it was a terminating its strategic review that could have seen it sell off multiple

The share price of Hanesbrands (NYSE: HBI) has been on a downslide for five years, falling 75% from its high in 2015 to the current share price of roughly $9.80 per share. A substantial fall in the

Shares of Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ: ULTA) were moving up on Friday after a key analyst upgraded the stock and said the company looks likely to rebound well from the coronavirus pandemic. 

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Fox (NASDAQ: FOXA) doesn't have much of a footprint in streaming video, unlike fellow media companies. After selling its stake in Hulu to Disney (NYSE: DIS) last year -- along with most of its cable

Shares of McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) were rising for the second day in a row as investors seemed to believe that the fast-food giant had been oversold. A number of restaurant stocks have rallied over

Brookfield Property Partners (NASDAQ: BPY), the real-estate arm of asset management company Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE: BAM), just released an update for shareholders about the potential

One of the items that seemed to disappear from supermarket shelves first and still remains difficult to find is hand sanitizer. The nation's distillers are asking the Trump administration for an

The stock market remained jittery on Friday morning, although the swings in major market benchmarks were less severe than investors have seen in the past few weeks. Market participants are waiting

In one of the latest examples of the havoc that the novel coronavirus is wreaking on the U.S. economy, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) -- the national trade association for the U.S. wind

Intel's (NASDAQ: INTC) tenuous lead in the video-gaming laptop market was threatened a little more on Monday, when Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) unveiled two computer processors built from

Shares of Wayfair (NYSE: W) were rising on Friday morning, as concerns about the company's supply line eased and bargain-hunting investors began buying its battered shares.

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Shares of Uber Technologies (NYSE: UBER), a leading provider of ridesharing and transportation services, rose as much as 16% in early-morning trading on Friday. The stock was up about 15% as of

Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) is expected to release its fiscal 2020 second-quarter results on Tuesday, March 24, and the numbers aren't going to be pretty. The chipmaker has been struggling as a

Along with taking a huge toll in terms of human suffering and death, and upending everyday life, the novel coronavirus pandemic has caused extreme turbulence in the stock market. Investors are

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The novel coronavirus pandemic is creating new challenges for physical supply chains, and it's also putting a strain on internet-communications channels. With people staying inside to help stem the

Volatility continued to be the theme for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) on Friday. The index tumbled into negative territory as early gains were quickly wiped out, only to bounce

Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) cloud unit Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Friday it is investing $20 million to speed up the development of a faster COVID-19 test. 

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