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The U.S. tax code, overseen by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), is quite wonky, which is why many individuals simply don't worry about it until it's too late. Last year, Congress passed President

If you've got $5,000 available to split between two chip stocks ahead of their next earnings reports, I'd be using those funds to invest in Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) and Broadcom (NASDAQ:

For stock investors, any beaten-down sector is worth combing through for bargains. These days, healthcare certainly qualifies; the S&P Composite 1500 Health Care index has ticked only marginally

Death and taxes are the only two guarantees in life, and the second one is quite complicated. Retirement accounts can lower your tax bills, but the way you use traditional and Roth plans makes a

Artificial intelligence (AI) investors haven't had much to cheer about so far in 2026. Most major AI stocks are down, and some are way down.

Take Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), for example. Shares of the AI

Business is booming for Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR), as revenue grew 70% year over year to $1.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025. Despite that, the company's share price has fallen by

The war has fueled a massive spike in crude oil prices. Brent, the global benchmark price, has surged 70% this year, topping $100 a barrel. That rally has driven up most energy stocks.

The rally in

While the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) has obviously changed the world, not every utilization of AI has necessarily made the world a better place. Indeed, a recent survey from PwC

The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) sank to its lowest point of the year last week, falling by around 8.5% from its highest point and inching closer to correction territory. The Nasdaq Composite

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) burst onto the scene last year as a big player in the artificial intelligence space, but its meteoric rise was short-lived. The stock has nearly been cut in half over the past

While major indexes and many growth stocks started 2026 sluggishly, investors have been finding their way back to value and dividend stocks. One beneficiary has been Altria (NYSE: MO), which is up

In this video, Motley Fool contributors Jason Hall and Tyler Crowe explain why they think A.O. Smith (NYSE: AOS) and Toast (NYSE: TOST) look like incredible stocks to buy right now while they're on

Many Americans are worried that Social Security benefits are going to disappear because the retirement trust fund is in trouble. This fear has some basis in reality because the trust fund is

It's rare to find a company that has a true monopoly on its industry.

It's even rarer when that company has no meaningful competition in any form ready to break into the market and claim some of it.

It's natural to be caught up in grief when a spouse, partner, or child passes away, which is why it's so important to understand what you'll need to do to collect Social Security Survivor benefits

Increased market turmoil is hitting the Magnificent Seven, with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) taking the hardest hit out of all of them. It has fallen 33.5% from its 52-week high. A general sell-off in

The U.S. stock market is off to a difficult start to 2026. Ongoing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East have sent the price of oil soaring, which is creating economic instability and clouding

The once seemingly invincible "Magnificent Seven" stocks have not fared well this year. The Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF has fallen by more than 9%, underperforming the broader market. Investors

Shares of Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) are trading down by 10.2% so far in 2026, despite the company reporting a 65% year-over-year jump in revenue to $215.9 billion in fiscal 2026 (ending Jan. 25, 2026)

Volatility has returned to Wall Street. As of the closing bell on March 27, the stock market's most iconic index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), has officially entered

Higher oil prices are escalating inflationary pressures on already strained consumers. So you would think that most companies would ease up on price hikes and focus mainly on sales volumes to grow

The Federal Reserve has cut interest rates by 175 basis points since 2024. During that time, the 10-year Treasury yield has stayed roughly unchanged.

Long-term yields don't necessarily line up with

Cloud computing stocks have been an interesting case this year. Although demand for cloud computing continues to surge, many of the stocks in this industry have sputtered.

One of the reasons is the

General Douglas MacArthur quoted from an old barracks song in his farewell address in 1951: "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away." The adage could be aptly modified today for Warren