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2023 has thus far been a winning year for stocks, despite fears of a recession overshadowing the market over much of the first half.

While the economy seemed headed for a recession at the start of

It's been a fairly volatile and unusual first half of the year. You've seen a bull market for technology stocks -- the Nasdaq Composite is up more than 30% year to date -- yet it has been a

If you work with a financial advisor, you've no doubt been presented with a long-term plan that tells you how much you'll need to save for retirement. The plan is likely based on your lifestyle, how

Fisker (NYSE: FSR) is finally making cars, and there's hope this will be the kind of disruption the auto market needs. In this video, Travis Hoium covers why the business model is potentially better

Over the past few years, Biogen (NASDAQ: BIIB) has been engaged in a much-talked-about journey to develop an effective Alzheimer's disease (AD) medicine. On July 6, the company announced that along

Fintech is making a comeback this year. It was one of the worst casualties of the bear market last year, since it's a growth industry with a tech orientation, and those were some of the hardest-hit

The healthcare sector is unlikely to become obsolete anytime soon, but individual companies can very much get left behind if they fail to keep up with the changing dynamics of the industry. That's

The last few years have been dynamic for growth stocks. A massive bubble and a rough return to Earth followed the March 2020 COVID-19 crash. Many investors lost faith. But growth stocks demand a

Artificial intelligence (AI) is taking Wall Street by storm. With analysts estimating that the market will grow rapidly in the coming years, investors are rushing to buy shares of those corporations

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PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP) just announced another strong earnings report, which Wall Street promptly shrugged off. The snack and beverage company beat sales expectations and raised its outlook for a

Brokerage Charles Schwab (NYSE: SCHW) is facilitating fewer trades than it was a year ago. It's also earning less interest income. But, net customer gains mean it's at least generating more

Shares of Verizon (NYSE: VZ) got shellacked earlier this week. That followed a Wall Street Journal investigation finding toxic lead in cables laid by telecom companies to build out regional

Rising interest rates have put a lot of pressure on Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR). They have made it more expensive for the data-center real estate investment trust (REIT) to borrow money, affecting

Americans owe an astounding $1.78 trillion in student loans. And for many people, that debt is downright unmanageable.

How did we get here?

Part of it is that the cost of higher education has risen

Fool.com contributor Parkev Tatevosian compares Target (NYSE: TGT) and Costco (NASDAQ: COST) across key financial metrics to determine the better buy for dividend stock investors.

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The "electrification of everything" trend is real and permeates all areas of the economy. From the consumer (electric vehicles, charging infrastructure, connected homes) through the industrial

Both the real meat and fake meat industries are dealing with major challenges. Tyson Foods (NYSE: TSN), one of the leading meat processors, is struggling to cope with slumping prices and rising

The cryptocurrency industry is on the rebound this year after a miserable 2022. It's being led by the largest token, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), which has generated a year-to-date gain of 83%

Tech is hot again. After falling in 2022 and taking the rest of the market with it, tech is once again popular with investors. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite is up 37% so far in 2023, about double

Currently trading at just under $2,000, Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) has a market capitalization of $227 billion, making it the world's second-largest cryptocurrency. Ethereum now accounts for about 20%

The term "artificial intelligence" (AI) seems to have become a fixture in the mainstream investment lexicon.  First-quarter earnings calls were dominated by corporate executives parroting buzzwords

Over the past decade, BlackBerry (NYSE: BB) has reinvented itself as a cybersecurity and Internet of Things (IoT) software company to offset its loss of the smartphone market to Apple and Alphabet's

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an extremely wide field, making it easy for companies to emerge out of nowhere. One of those companies is UiPath (NYSE: PATH), which specializes in process

Virgin Galactic (NYSE: SPCE) completed its first commercial space flight at the end of June, and now regular flights will begin in August. It's a big milestone and Travis Hoium covers what investors