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According to Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), demand for fossil fuels will peak by the end of this decade. While the IEA's leader expects oil consumption

This has been the year of comebacks for technology stocks. One prime (pun intended) example is Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN). The e-commerce and cloud computing behemoth saw its shares fall over 50% from

Imagine a stack of $1 bills that extends more than 111,000 miles into the sky. That's almost half the distance from the Earth to the moon. And it gives you a visual picture of just how much federal

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) has long had a leading position in enterprise IT. It's known for having the world's top relational database management system as well as cloud infrastructure, enterprise

There's no point in sugarcoating matters. It's been a disappointing year so far for Boeing (NYSE: BA), and the fact that the stock is still up 11% in 2023 is more a marker of how low investor

Realty Income (NYSE: O) has trademarked the nickname "The Monthly Dividend Company." That's a bold statement, but it's one the real estate investment trust (REIT) has so far lived up to. It has

Over the past few months, the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, representing nearly 150,000 employees at General Motors, Ford Motor Company, and Stellantis (the conglomerate that owns the Chrysler

If you bought Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI) stock at the beginning of 2019 for $15.20 a share, you would have earned more than a 32% return off dividends alone. But that's about it, seeing as the stock

Hopefully, you'll enter retirement with a decent chunk of money in savings. But even then, you might end up pretty heavily reliant on Social Security once you see how expensive life can be when

After its last earnings report and subsequent jump in share price just a few months ago, Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) co-founder Larry Ellison surpassed Bill Gates on the list of the world's richest people

Cathie Wood and her Ark Investment funds are known for investing in cutting-edge technology companies. Across all of Ark's exchange-traded funds, the second-largest holding is UiPath (NYSE: PATH)

My portfolio is almost exclusively made up of domestic stocks, while my Fool.com colleague Tyler Crowe takes a more international approach. In this clip, Tyler and I discuss the reasons you might

E. Scott Santi's decade-long reign as CEO of Illinois Tool Works (NYSE: ITW) will end in January 2024. Shareholders will miss him after a highly successful tenure that resulted in a fundamental

Stocks splits have no direct impact on a business aside from reducing its share price, but they can still be a useful indicator for investors. Stock splits are only necessary following substantial

PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL) is one of the most popular stocks trading on the online brokerage site Robinhood Markets, and for good reason. But the reason might not be what you expect from a

There's a lot more to Social Security than retirement benefits. In addition to benefits paid to retired workers, there are several other programs designed to provide monthly income to workers with

"Regrets, I've had a fewBut then again too few to mentionI did what I had to doI saw it through without exemptionI planned each charted courseEach careful step along the bywayAnd more, much, much

The consumer staples sector is known for being fairly resilient throughout the economic cycle. Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) and Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) are two of the largest and best-known companies in

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has been one of the best-performing mega-cap companies in the last five years, gaining more than 190%.

Despite Microsoft's solid stock return, investors are optimistic that

Several of the world's most exciting companies completed stock splits last year, an operation that lowers the value of each individual share. Companies often launch a stock split after their shares

Over the past few months, much attention has been given to the potential approval of a spot Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Many

On Wednesday, technology leaders including Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates and Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang met with senators to discuss the future of AI. While corporate

Medical Properties Trust (NYSE: MPW) arguably ranks as one of the most controversial stocks on the market right now. Wall Street is split nearly equally down the middle on the stock after more than