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Real estate has long provided some shelter from economic storms, and real estate investment trusts (REITs) can be a powerful way to grow wealth. That's true even when share prices are being buffeted

The stock market dealt investors a volatile hand lately, but companies with durable underlying businesses and growth stories continue to make themselves known. Share prices of stocks can tell you

There are a lot of reasons to like 3M (NYSE: MMM) stock, including a historically high 5.9% dividend yield, a more than 60-year streak of annual dividend increases, and a broadly diversified

Social Security is synonymous with retirement to many people, but your relationship with the program starts long before you retire. You pay Social Security taxes on your income during your working

This is turning out to be a solid year for technology stocks following last year's forgettable performance -- as evidenced by the 21.7% gains clocked by the Nasdaq-100 Technology Sector index so far

Investing is all about risk versus reward. When you take on higher levels of risk, you typically have an opportunity to receive greater rewards. And vice versa.

But there's always a balancing act

The Nasdaq Composite dropped into a bear market in late 2021, and the tech-heavy index is still 27% off its high. Economic uncertainty brought on by high inflation and rising interest rates played a

I suspect if you asked Warren Buffett about Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), he'd probably acknowledge that he admires the company's business. After all, Microsoft reigns as one of the biggest giants in

Investors are flocking to self-storage real estate investment trust (REIT) Life Storage (NYSE: LSI). Talk of a potential buyout from its larger peer, Public Storage (NYSE: PSA), and super-strong

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), the only cryptocurrency to ever hit a market capitalization of more than $1 trillion, has firmly established itself as the world's most widely used and accepted digital asset

Spring is in the air, and investors are looking forward to turning the page after a rocky March.

While stocks have recovered from a surprise banking crisis after Silicon Valley Bank and Signature

Chewy is a fast-growing e-commerce business focusing on pet supplies, but you wouldn't know that by looking at its recent stock performance. Shares of Chewy (NYSE: CHWY) have fallen 72% from their

Manufacturing is an age-old cycle of using past work to advance the precision and efficiency of the next generation of products. This circular iteration is on grand display right now in the

Investors don't know quite what to make of Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) stock right now. The company targets a massive market that spans e-commerce and in-person retailing. Yet today it is losing money and

No one likes it when markets are down. But the good news is these times represent great times to put your money to work.

That's because many solid companies with long-term track records trade at a

Sustainability is a deceptively complicated term that touches virtually every part of the economy. But simply put, investing in clean energy is centered around the belief that the global energy mix

Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK) is an industrial company that owns a collection of iconic tool brands. It built that portfolio up via a series of acquisitions that have left it with a

The past 15 months have been an unpleasant reminder that stocks can, indeed, move lower. All three major U.S. stock indexes were mired in a bear market last year, with growth stocks getting hit

A few big winners can turn a mediocre portfolio into a monster portfolio. Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) and Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) are proof of that. Shares of Nvidia soared 8,250% over the past decade

Utilities are generally considered boring investments appropriate for conservative investors looking for reliable income streams. That's not the case with NextEra Energy (NYSE: NEE), but in a good

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank sent investors running from many bank stocks in fear. Motley Fool contributor Jason Hall took a different approach, leveraging his knowledge of

General Mills (NYSE: GIS) is a large and iconic consumer staples company. But it isn't exactly correct to view it as a food maker, because what it really owns is a collection of brands that it

Altria's (NYSE: MO) main business is in decline. Management knows this, and has opted to treat its core cigarette operations as a cash cow, investing a portion of the cash flow generated for the