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Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) stock, like many others, has had a rough time in 2022. The shares have dropped by 22% since reaching an all-time high of $182 back in early January.

Apple's success has been

The stock market has gotten locked in a holding pattern lately, and many investors anticipated that would likely continue on Monday. With the Federal Open Market Committee scheduled to meet on

Few retail stocks are as popular as Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) these days. The membership-based warehouse retailer has put up strong growth numbers during the worst of the pandemic and in the

Banks have had a tough year when it comes to investment banking, with most reporting year-over-year declines in segment revenue somewhere between 40% and 60%. Obviously, 2021's strong investment

Lululemon Athletica's (NASDAQ: LULU) stock tumbled 13% on Dec. 9 after the yoga and athletic apparel maker posted its latest earnings report.

For the third quarter, which ended on Oct. 30, its

This has not been a good year for Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) shareholders. Investors have seen the media giant's stock plummet 39.7% this year, more than double the stock market's slide. 

Revenue rose

Long-term investors usually aim to buy stocks that can beat not only the S&P 500, but also the bear markets that tend to appear every few years. While investors should never "set it and forget it,"

Thanks to a variety of economic and geopolitical factors, risks of a global recession in 2023 are mounting. Even so, there are still plenty of smart things that investors can do to position

The largest possible Social Security benefit is set to climb from $4,194 to $4,555 in 2023. Checks that big could pay for a pretty comfortable retirement, especially when paired with personal

The super-regional bank Truist Financial Group (NYSE: TFC) has widely underperformed its peers this year, with its stock down more than 30%, compared to the SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF only down

BJ's Wholesale Club (NYSE: BJ) delivered the most profitable third quarter in its history within a shaky macro environment. And its stock has outperformed the S&P 500 for well over two years now. 

The Nasdaq Composite has nosedived into a bear market this year, as investors have become increasingly pessimistic about high inflation and rising interest rates, both of which threaten to tip the

Wall Street took a breather last week. The "three stocks to avoid" in my column that I thought were going to lose to the market last week -- Coinbase, Baozun, and AeroVironment -- fell 16%, rose

Motley Fool contributor Tyler Crowe breaks down the reasons he owns Rexford Industrial Realty (NYSE: REXR) stock. This industrial REIT has an incredible moat in an extremely profitable geography

The stock market this year has largely been in a state of uncertainty. That's because inflation has run rampant, and the economic outlook has gotten more and more negative to the point where most

Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE: BAM) recently completed a unique stock split. It was announced as a 3-for-2 stock split. However, instead of receiving additional shares of the same company for

Millions of seniors today collect a monthly benefit from Social Security. Some use that money in conjunction with other income sources, like withdrawals from a savings plan. But for many retirees

The stock market is probably the best tool that investors have at their disposal for generating lasting wealth. We can look at the S&P 500 to illustrate this point. This index of the 500 largest

Motley Fool contributor Tyler Crowe shares one of his favorite stocks. Nutrien (NYSE: NTR) makes fertilizer, and as demand for it has soared in 2022, Nutrien has profited.

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While there is much more to Warren Buffett's conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) than mere stock-picking, Berkshire's public equity portfolio does get a lot of attention

Rising prices have hammered the U.S. economy this year, as pandemic-era stimulus checks, supply chain problems, and geopolitical conflict have triggered the worst bout of inflation in four decades

You don't have to be in a hurry when it comes to buying stocks. At least that's true most of the time. Whether you invest sooner or later usually doesn't matter all that much over the long run.

This year, the S&P 500 dropped into its 22nd bear market of the last century, and the broad-based index is currently 18% off its high. That downturn has erased trillions of dollars, but it has also