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Didn't Get a Raise This Year? Here Are 3 Stocks That Will Pay Their Investors More in 2018
This past year has been a good one for income investors. Overall, 310 companies in the S&5 500 have increased their dividends while only 10 have cut them. However, that does leave nearly 200....
Danger Lurks for These 3 High-Yield Dividend Stocks
Buying dividend stocks is a time-tested way to build wealth, but investors often chase stocks with high yields without doing their homework. High payout ratios -- or the percentage of a company's....
Apple's Impressive Fiscal 2017 in 4 Charts
Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) 53-week fiscal 2017, which ended on Sept. 30, was packed with news, including a significant increase to its capital return program, double-digit earnings growth, and lots of....
Why Are Stock Valuations So High Right Now?
If you look at stock prices right now, you'd be excused for thinking they're high. That's because they are. The bigger question is: Why are they so high?You can get a sense for just how pricey....
Intel's Processor Price List vs. Reality
On chip giant Intel's (NASDAQ: INTC) investor relations page, the company provides a link to a price list for its wide range of processor offerings. These prices are what Intel refers to as....
Top Marijuana Stocks to Buy in 2018
Investing in marijuana stocks seems practically stuffy in comparison with buying bitcoin. But at least with some marijuana stocks, your investment buys part of a business that is growing, both....
5 Big Banks Currently Testing Ripple's Blockchain Technology
When the calendar does finally turn on 2017, investors are liable to look back in awe at a truly remarkable year for cryptocurrencies. According to data from CoinMarketCap.com on the aggregate....
Forget Canada: Boeing Needs to Ensure Its Trade Dispute Doesn't Spill Into Europe
Canada, as expected, has fired back at Boeing (NYSE: BA) over the aerospace giant's trade complaint against Canadian manufacturer Bombardier (NASDAQOTH: BDRBF). It's a drop in the bucket for....
Can Big Oil Survive the Threat of Electric Vehicles?
As you may have heard, electric vehicles are catching on. It's to the point where several of the world's largest countries have announced tentative dates for when the last gas-powered vehicles....
3 Things to Watch in the Stock Market This Week
Stocks posted strong gains last week as investors reacted to positive earnings news and the increasing likelihood that Congress will pass a tax bill that includes significant corporate tax cuts.....
3 Artificial-Intelligence Stocks You Probably Overlooked
You can't have a conversation about investing in artificial intelligence (AI) without having companies like Google parent Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and chipmaker NVIDIA (NASDAQ:....
3 Top Dividend Aristocrats to Buy for 2018
It's quite an honor for a stock to land on the list of Dividend Aristocrats. Income investors like the stability of large-cap stocks that have not only paid out but also increased their dividends....
Elon Musk Is Sending a Tesla to Mars
If Loki, that merry prankster, hailed from South Africa rather than Norway, I suspect he might look a lot like Elon Musk.Earlier this month, founder of start-up space-launch company SpaceX took to....
3 Attractive Income Stocks Whose Dividends Could Double
Dividends are good. Growing dividends are even better. But dividends that double in only a few years? They're great. Or at least some of them are.There are some stocks with fast-growing dividends....
Forget Gold -- Your Money Is Better Off in These 3 Stocks
Everywhere around us, the cost of investments looks incredibly high. The S&P 500 is trading at all-time high valuations, a 10-year treasury note only pays about 2.4%, and the price of bitcoin....
Canada's Fighter Jet Saga Just Got Weirder
Pity Boeing's (NYSE: BA) shareholders. It's starting to look like they bought stock in the gang that couldn't shoot straight.As a founding member of the nine-nation international coalition that....
Crude Oil Prices Went on a Wild Ride in 2017
Heading into the year, most analysts expected that 2017 would be a tamer one for oil prices because OPEC had finally stepped in to support the market by pledging to limit its production. Because....
3 Stocks Investing the Most Money in Blockchain
Traditionally, mid-December is the time of the year when investors reflect on how well, or poorly, the stock market treated them during the year. But that's not the case this year. In 2017, all....
Like Dividends? I Bet You'll Love These 3 Stocks
Famed industrialist John D. Rockefeller once quipped to his neighbor that the only thing that gave him pleasure was to see his dividends coming in. If you're like Mr. Rockefeller and enjoy seeing....
Tech Stocks This Week: Apple's Acquisition, Twitter's Threads, and More
Despite being in the middle of earnings seasons, several major headlines in tech surfaced this week. Some of the most interesting news was Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) acquisition of music-discovery....
As Expected, Amazon and Google Dominated the Smart Speaker Market Last Quarter
Last week, Strategy Analytics released its latest estimates on the smart speaker market. Surprising no one, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) subsidiary Google....
3 Times Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Predicted the Future
Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) has been a big winner since its inception 20 years ago, both as as an entertainment provider and then as a stock, but that success hasn't been an accident. A major....
3 Things Costco Wants You to Know
Many retailers are posting improving operating results these days as consumer spending marches higher. But the numbers that Costco (NASDAQ: COST) just announced stand out as particularly strong.....
The Most Expensive Wearable Fitness Device of 2017
This year, fitness wearables once again proved that they are not just a passing fad, soon to be gathering dust in the backs of our dresser drawers. In the third quarter, total global wearable....
The U.S. Army Wants a Laser Tank
Predators and Reapers and Ravens (oh, my!) Nearly 15 years of televised war in the Middle East have trained Americans to think of "drones" as an American invention. But in case you haven't....