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In 1897, Jerome Monroe Smucker started selling apple butter out of an Ohio cider mill with a horse and wagon. This was the start of the J.M. Smucker (NYSE: SJM) company. And from these humble

Etsy (NASDAQ: ETSY) sells a lot of stuff. The e-commerce company, which specializes in unique and handmade goods, processed over $13 billion of transactions in each of the last two fiscal years.

You

It's a new year, the best time yet to start investing. After all, compounding does its best work late. The sooner you start, the more wealth you'll build over time.

One of my favorite aspects of

Citigroup (NYSE: C) Chief Executive Officer Jane Fraser has been making moves to turn the sprawling bank into a leaner, more profitable business. The bank has made several moves in recent years to

Fool.com contributor Parkev Tatevosian evaluates Ford's (NYSE: F) prospects for 2024 and gives a stock price prediction.

*Stock prices used were the afternoon prices of Jan. 4, 2024. The video was

The start of a new year is a great time to pledge to better your long-term financial picture. And that might include signing up for a retirement plan.

Now in that regard, you have choices. Anyone

Carvana (NYSE: CVNA) made headlines in late 2022 when the business appeared to be on the verge of bankruptcy. It ended up surviving, and investors have been handsomely rewarded, but it could be time

When should I file for Social Security retirement benefits? That's one of the biggest questions that Americans in their 60s must address.

To be sure, different answers will be right for different

If investing in the stock market is on your list of New Year's resolutions, you're making a great decision that your future self will thank you for.

Investing in the stock market might seem

As 2024 begins, there are opportunities and threats across the market. Investors looking to set up their portfolios for success should look at more than what happened in 2023 and instead look at

Fool.com contributor Parkev Tatevosian gives his opinion on what Tesla's (NASDAQ: TSLA) numbers mean for investors and what's ahead for Tesla stock in 2024.

*Stock prices used were the afternoon

Fool.com contributor Parkev Tatevosian highlights one artificial intelligence stock that is selling at an attractive valuation.

*Stock prices used were the afternoon prices of Jan. 4, 2024. The

Thirteen spot Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) ETFs are currently awaiting approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Up to this point, the SEC has denied similar exchange-traded fund (ETF)

Thinking about buying stocks as the new year begins? You might want to press the pause button.

No, I'm not recommending that you avoid the stock market altogether. That could prove to be a mistake

It's the beginning of a new year. And that means many investors are looking for ideas for stocks to buy. The good news is that are plenty to be found.

Quite a few of those ideas for the new year

Turning the calendar to a new year marks the perfect time for investors to reflect on where their portfolio has been and where they want it to go. Investors who regularly contribute new deposits

In 1869, a commercial canner named Abraham Anderson joined forces with a vegetable vendor named Joseph Campbell. In no time, the duo had a hit product: canned beefsteak tomato soup. In 1922, the

Real-time data streaming is changing the way companies use information, and it's growing from a $60 billion market in 2022 to over $100 billion by 2025. In this video, Motley Fool contributor Jason

In 2023, soaring Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) prices made investing in Bitcoin mining stocks a no-brainer. Bitcoin mining stock Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT), for example, is now up more than 300% during

Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD) is a financial fortress. The master limited partnership (MLP) has the highest credit rating in the midstream energy space. That allows it to raise capital at

Almost everyone who plans to retire has heard the advice that you should aim to replace 80% of your work-based income once you quit forever. For decades, this rule of thumb was on target. The theory

The Federal Reserve began raising its benchmark interest rate in March 2022. Policymakers pushed that rate higher at its fastest pace since the early 1980s in an effort to bring inflation back to

It's a modern miracle: Order any of the millions of items on Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), and most can be on your doorstep in 48 hours or less. Some items even arrive that very same day.

Consumers might

Over multiple decades, Wall Street is a surefire wealth creator. When compared to the annualized returns of housing, gold, oil, and even bonds, the stock market easily has these asset classes beat

Social Security is a major source of retirement income for a lot of older Americans. And for some people, those benefits constitute their sole source of income.

You may be planning to largely retire