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If you invested in COVID-19 vaccine maker Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA) last year, you're likely sitting on a fantastic return, as the stock is up more than 500% in 12 months (the S&P 500 has increased by

Take a moment and make a list of all the expenses you'll have in retirement. It's not easy, is it? There are a lot of them, and they're not always easy to predict. Most people remember the basics

Teladoc Health's (NYSE: TDOC) shares skyrocketed nearly 140% last year. So far in 2021, though, the stock is down close to 30%. In this Motley Fool Live video, recorded on Sept. 8, Fool contributors

With the stock market hovering around an all-time high, risk-averse investors may be looking for safer investments that can generate income even if there's a market downturn.

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Stocks dropped for a second straight week last week, as both the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) and the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) shed less than 1%. The decline still left investors

Sea Limited (NYSE: SE) has three businesses that work together to make each separate business even more valuable. Garena, short for "gaming arena," has a worldwide mobile hit, Free Fire, on its

One of the biggest misconceptions for tech investors is that you must invest in unproven frontier concepts to make money. While investing in game-changing start-ups can be lucrative (though often

We've seen quite a few property technology, or PropTech, companies go public over the past year or so, but one that has a particularly interesting market opportunity is Matterport (NASDAQ: MTTR). In

We now live in a world where the word "trillion" is used quite frequently -- and not just when discussing the epic scale of government budgets. A few publicly traded companies have reached

The stock market in general has had quite a year. The S&P 500 index is up nearly 20% so far this year, and more than 100% since the market crashed last March.

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), a technology

It's well-known that Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) doesn't pay a dividend, and hasn't since Warren Buffett founded the conglomerate in 1965. The thinking goes, instead of paying out

For nearly 18 months, investors have enjoyed a historic bounce-back rally in the stock market. After losing 34% in roughly a month during the first quarter of 2020, the benchmark S&P 500 has since

Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA) awaits two decisions from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The company hopes to win full approval for its COVID-19 vaccine. It also wants the FDA to give a green light

Ocugen (NASDAQ: OCGN) shares were flying high earlier this year. The company signed a deal with India's Bharat Biotech for co-commercialization rights to its coronavirus vaccine candidate in the

Some decisions practically make themselves. An ice cream cone or a molded slice of bread? A trip to Hawaii or a trip to the dentist? A Ferrari or a Yugo?

Most investing decisions require a

Although the stock market is completely unpredictable in the short term, history has shown time and again that patience is rewarded over the long run. Despite 38 double-digit percentage corrections

Social Security has long been considered one of the pillars of a safe retirement. Along with pension income and a healthy nest egg, the program can be expected to cover at least a portion of your

Many Americans aim to retire at the age of 62 because it's the earliest age to begin collecting Social Security. But actually, in a recent survey of investors across 24 countries, Natixis Investment

After having a subpar customer experience a decade ago, Freshworks CEO Girish Mathrubootham built a tool to help businesses better manage and centralize their customer interactions. In this episode

Disney (NYSE: DIS) announces that the rest of its 2021 slate will hit movie theaters before heading to Disney+. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) gears up to launch a new line of TVs and possibly sign exclusive

On the heels of its recently announced partnership with Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) company Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM) just released some pretty impressive results. And elsewhere in

T-Mobile's (NASDAQ: TMUS) is heavily focused right now in rural markets. It plans to expand its share ifrom 13% today to 20% by 2025. And now, it has a new partner to help: Walmart (NYSE: WMT).

There's never a shortage of confident-sounding predictions about what's coming up for Wall Street, but no one ever knows for sure when the next market crash will hit. Indexes have soared so far in

The good news is, Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) is still the undisputed king of streaming. The bad news is, its slowing growth may soon come to an outright halt.

That's the gist of a recent survey

The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) was hit hard at the pandemic's onset. The entertainment titan had to temporarily shut some of its most lucrative, revenue-generating businesses to help slow the