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Over the past few months, global leaders in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries have entered newsworthy partnerships, accelerating human trials on an unprecedented level in the ongoing race

Stocks that trade for less than $5 are often derided as "penny stocks," and typically they are the worst investments in the stock market. Usually these small-cap or micro-cap stocks are priced so

GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) disappointed a lot of investors when it trimmed its dividend by 17% in April to $0.465 a share , but the pharmaceutical giant is still an income stock.

Even at its

Know what's great? Owning a dividend-paying stock. The company literally pays you, quarter after quarter, just for holding onto your shares! 

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Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) had to shut down many of its most lucrative operations to help slow the spread of COVID-19. Now, as cities, states, and countries begin to allow businesses to reopen, Disney

Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) mastermind Warren Buffett may be the investing GOAT -- greatest of all time -- but Berkshire's performance lately has been downright sheepish.

Nearly

There's no question that Disney's (NYSE: DIS) business has been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus pandemic.

Many of its biggest revenue generators have been hobbled by the virus. Its theme

Oil and natural gas are trading at historically low levels, which has been a huge problem for energy stocks like ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM). Investors fear the worst, which in the case of ExxonMobil

Retirement costs the average senior $46,000 a year, while Social Security pays the typical beneficiary about $18,000 annually. Do the math, and it's clear that those numbers don't line up. Even if

The U.S. economy entered its first recession in over a decade in February, and many investors might be inclined to stay on the sidelines. And it's not hard to see why -- during recessions, the

Over the past few months, I've been more aggressive with stock purchases than in any three-month stretch previously. While the COVID-19 pandemic is an absolutely terrible situation, it has also

If there were a single savings target that could guarantee financial security during retirement, we'd all know exactly how much to save. But that magic number just doesn't exist. In fact, you can

Earlier this week, edge computing platform provider Fastly (NYSE: FSLY) announced that its installed global network capacity had crossed 100 terabits per second (Tbps). The achievement represented a

The coronavirus pandemic has affected our society in countless ways, and it also has many older workers concerned about their retirement. In fact, a whopping 89% of those who plan to retire within

Since the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, healthcare stocks have been hotly traded in the face of turbulent and unpredictable market conditions. Whether investors are interested in speculating on

Biotech has outpaced nearly every other sector this year in growth. While the S&P 500 was down 3.6% for the year as of Wednesday, the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index (NBI) is up 10.5% in 2020. That

Livongo Health (NASDAQ: LVGO) is one of the post-market-crash winners. Shares of the digital-health company have soared more than 200% from their March low. And the stock is up more than 100% from

Exciting new investment opportunities don't come along every day, but fractional shares are one of them. Fractional shares aren't a new asset you can buy, but instead are a new way to invest. While

There's no denying it any longer -- Social Security is in some pretty big trouble.

Since 1985, the annually released Social Security Board of Trustees report has cautioned that the program wouldn't

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the oil industry hard. Even with the worst for the sector as a whole likely in the rearview mirror, millions of people around the world are set to work remotely for

AGNC Investment Corp. (NASDAQ: AGNC) has a dividend yield over 10% today with the stock having lost about a quarter of its value in 2020. Investors looking for yield have probably seen the name pop

Chances are that if you weren't already a long-term investor when the year began, the volatility in the stock market over the past four months has taught you a valuable lesson about thinking long

Shares of Bill.com (NYSE: BILL) were climbing today after the digital payments technology company said it has extended its contract with Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU) through 2023.

Shares were up 6.5% as

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At Home Group Inc. (NYSE: HOME)Q1 2021 Earnings CallJun 18, 2020, 4:30 p.m. ET

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Urovant Sciences Ltd (NASDAQ: UROV)Q4 2019 Earnings CallJun 18, 2020, 4:30 p.m. ET

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