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There's a lot of doom and gloom in the cannabis industry. It's hard to avoid when even the Horizons Marijuana Life Sciences ETF (OTC: HMLSF) has crashed 65% in the past year. Many cannabis companies

Investing in the stock market can be daunting, particularly if you're a beginner. Especially right now, when the stock market recently closed out one of its worst first quarters in history due to

Things were rough for most nonessential retailers in March and April, thanks to coronavirus-related shutdowns. For L Brands (NYSE: LB) and its Victoria's Secret business, though, they were downright

If you're familiar at all with the cannabis industry, you've undoubtedly heard of Canopy Growth (NYSE: CGC). It's the biggest Canadian cannabis producer with the largest market cap of any pure-play

In the venture capital investing business, investors often target a tenfold return on their investment within 10 years. Obviously, venture capital investors need incredibly high returns on their

Millions of Americans are having a hard time making ends meet during the COVID-19 crisis. Some have seen their wages reduced, while others are incurring added expenses that are wreaking havoc on

Novavax (NASDAQ: NVAX) is developing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate, and recent spikes in its stock price and trading volume indicate that investors suspect such a treatment could give the company

It can be daunting to check your retirement account balance right now. The last few months have been a doozy of a time for the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average experiencing its

It's not surprising in the least that Amazon.com's (NASDAQ: AMZN) business has been dramatically changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Online shopping has skyrocketed. Amazon Prime

The beginning of the new decade hasn't exactly gone according to plan. The past couple of months have been consumed by dealing with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which has

You've no doubt thought to yourself, "If only I'd have done [fill in the blank] back then." It's easy to see in retrospect what would have been a great move to make.

Buying Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA) at

The U.S. oil and gas sector has been languishing ever since crude oil prices fell steeply in 2014. Investors who entered the sector just before that oil price crash have been left holding the bag

Stocks jumped last week as investors gained more optimism that the economy will kick into higher gear as the COVID-19 threat fades. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) and the

After falling deeply and quickly from late February through late March, the S&P 500 has bounced back pretty strongly. Yet even within that recovery, there are still plenty of stocks trading at much

Social Security serves as a major income source for millions of retirees, and for those without much in the way of savings, it's a lifeline. If you're behind on retirement plan contributions, or are

Warren Buffett likes 44 stocks plus two exchange-traded funds (ETFs) enough for them to be included in Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) portfolio. Of course, Buffett likes Berkshire

2019 was an incredible year for streaming-TV platform specialist Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU). The company's revenue soared 52% year over year and gross profit surged 49% over the same timeframe. This was

Shares of Aurora Cannabis (NYSE: ACB) have been trading wildly since the cannabis producer released its third-quarter results May 14. The report was an encouraging one for investors, as Aurora made

Since the COVID-19 pandemic sparked a massive stock market sell-off in late February and March, many investors have bought stocks with the expectation that they'd make nice gains when the market

Worries about the COVID-19 pandemic have fueled investors' excitement about quite a few stocks of companies that are focused on novel coronavirus diagnostics, treatments, or vaccines. This makes

Back in late March, I outlined the reasons why I purchased shares of Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and Target (NYSE: TGT) as the economic lockdown to bring COVID-19 to heel got under way. Both buys have been

One high-quality dividend stock often overlooked is Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU), a financial software company that owns the popular tax-filing service TurboTax, credit monitoring website Credit Karma, and

There are plenty of reasons for investors to like big pharma stocks. They're usually resilient during economic downturns. Many of them have solid growth prospects. And nearly all of them pay

Almost all of us have heard of Medtronic (NYSE: MDT), one of the largest medical-device companies in the world with more than 90,000 employees.

On Thursday, the company announced in its

2020 has been a crazy year for investors.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq all started the year strong, with the three major U.S. indexes trading at all-time highs in February.