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Buying and holding shares of the best businesses in the world is the easiest way to build wealth over the long term. Some of the largest, most profitable companies in the world also just happen to

Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) is no longer just a smartphone chipmaker -- it's expanding into AI, automotive, and IoT with bold acquisitions like Alphawave. With analysts seeing 41% upside, Qualcomm may

Picking stocks is hard work -- and your job isn't done after making the buy decision. Then you have to keep track of the companies you've chosen to own to make sure that the reasons why you picked

It has been decades since the world saw a true physical transportation innovation. Sure, Uber Technologies and Lyft -- and now Waymo -- have innovated in how we interact with cars, but people are

Many financial services companies benefited from a booming economy and robust consumer spending over the past few years, including SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI). The company has moved beyond its

If you're going to save money for retirement (which, to be clear, you should), then you probably want to do it in the most seamless, painless way possible. And that could mean falling back on your

It's no secret that The Motley Fool admires, respects, esteems, and appreciates Warren Buffett and what he's done for investors. Buffett started investing before he was a teenager and is now worth

Lots of ink has already been spilled about Warren Buffett's recent market activity. What's significant is the tremendous cash position and 11 quarters of net selling. However, he and his team have

Social Security turns 90 this year, and there's a lot to celebrate about it: "Today, almost seven in 10 Americans (69%) are expecting Social Security as a source of retirement income, and 32% expect

Dividend stocks are a great way for investors to generate passive income that can be more reliable and predictable than investing in stocks for pure appreciation. While there are no guarantees in

When the market is on a tear, it's tempting to hold back and wait for a pullback. The problem is that waiting usually works against you.

History shows that new highs aren't rare, and many times

IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) is one of the top quantum computing stocks, and many investors are bullish on its long-term outlook. Its stock has already been quite the success story, rising over 200% since the

Few companies have spent as much on artificial intelligence (AI) as Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META). While many companies have invested heavily in AI infrastructure, almost nobody has spent as much on

The market has been on quite a run lately, and if you have cash on the sidelines, you may have been somewhat disappointed in the returns compared to what they could have been if the money were

CEO Warren Buffett purchased a majority stake in Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) in May 1965. Using the company as the namesake and a foundational element for his new investment

Since spinning off from General Electric (now operating as GE Aerospace), GE Vernova (NYSE: GEV) has gone on an absolute tear, with the stock surging 373% since going public in early 2023. The

If you're looking for a high-risk, high-reward cryptocurrency, look no further than XRP (CRYPTO: XRP). After soaring in value in the early part of 2025, it tumbled during the spring, only to mount a

The hottest area of growth in the market is artificial intelligence (AI). This is being led by big tech companies, which continue to see strong demand stemming from AI.

Let's look at three red-hot

Investors have been on a roller-coaster ride this year. The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) began 2025 with strong momentum. The good times didn't last long. By early April, the widely followed index was

You don't have to be rich to make money. Furthermore, you don't have to have a lot of money to begin making money almost immediately.

An easy way to get started is to invest in great dividend stocks

Perhaps one of the more dramatic recoveries over the past few years has been that of Carnival Corp. (NYSE: CCL). The forced shutdown of the cruise industry during the early stages of the COVID-19

There are millions of seniors who collect a monthly benefit from Social Security. And if you're one of them, you may be itching to find out what 2026's cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will amount

By dint of its speed and cheapness, Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) is forcing the crypto sector to grapple with a chain that's capable of making brand-new market segments viable.

That means it's a coin that

There's a new kind of company in town, and it's built around the premise that stock prices sometimes go up when you buy and hold a ton of crypto on the balance sheet. These so-called crypto treasury

Investing always requires trade-offs. For every stock bought, another stock goes unbought. And sometimes, another stock was sold to buy a stock.

That's exactly what happened for Warren Buffett