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Social Security is generally the largest source of income in retirement, but many seniors think benefits have fallen behind inflation. The Motley Fool last year surveyed 2,000 retired workers, and

Some companies are just better than others at paying dividends. They offer higher-yielding payouts that they steadily increase in good times and bad. They're the type of companies you can buy and

Three catalysts drove AT&T's (NYSE: T) stock price nearly 50% higher over the past two years.

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From 2024 to 2027, analysts expect AT&T's EPS to grow at a compound annual

If you're looking for market-beating stocks, it can sometimes be good to travel a bit off the beaten path to find more unusual options. Innovative Industrial Properties (NYSE: IIPR) offers just such

Utilities are very boring businesses. However, they tend to generate steady returns. Because of that, they can be great investments to slowly grow your wealth.

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Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has proven itself to be a winning investment in recent years. The stock has climbed quadruple digits over the past five years as the artificial intelligence (AI) boom

Roughly two-and-a-half years ago, the iconic Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), widely followed S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), and innovation-inspired Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC)

Social Security serves as an essential source of income for millions of retired Americans today. But unfortunately, even people who depend heavily on those benefits don't necessarily get to keep

Reading the headlines might make you nervous about stock investing. After all, you're hearing about tariffs, stubborn inflation, and the possibility of a recession.

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The stock market gave back some gains over the last month, as Wall Street weighs the effect of President Donald Trump's tariff policies on the economy. But no matter what happens in 2025, the

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Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) has made quite a name for itself in recent years as a key player in the semiconductor industry. Its stock has also been one of the hottest on the market -- it's up by more

On news of a new contract with a rock-steady arm of the U.S. government, investors loaded up on storied industrial company GE Aerospace (NYSE: GE) stock during Monday's trading session. The

With the Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 indexes entering correction territory, it has opened up a lot of good buying opportunities for investors, including in the semiconductor space. This includes

The companies that are enabling the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) have led the stock market to new highs over the last few years. Concerns over near-term headwinds to the economy have

Shares of sprawling alternative investment management company Blackstone (NYSE: BX) rose Monday on news of an analyst's recommendation upgrade. The move pushed Blackstone's stock price nearly 5%

The cryptocurrency market is notoriously volatile. However, long-term investing can help smooth out these short-term fluctuations and give time for an asset's fundamental value to shine through.

Hard knocks tend to teach lessons that don't get forgotten, in investing as well as in life. But as most investors know, learning from someone else's experiences is a far better way of deriving

Three years after the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT, the generative AI hype cycle is getting long in the tooth as investors grow impatient with the lack of value being created on the software side of