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Income investors need to balance three competing goals. First, they need steady, reliable income. Second, they need safety, because capital preservation is of paramount importance to a retiree

Dividends are rare in the tech world, and rarer still are head-turning payout raises. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is a happy exception. The software giant in late September announced that it will soon

Coffeehouse giant Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) announced on Sept. 1 that it hired Laxman Narasimhan to become its new CEO. He will take the helm next year from founder and three-time CEO of the chain,

The stock market has been hammered this year. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite has now posted three consecutive quarterly losses, its longest losing streak since 2009, and the index currently sits

Investors have a habit of overcomplicating the process of constructing a portfolio. Sure, there are infinite potential worries about how any business might perform over the next quarter and what you

Are you looking for stocks that could put up big gains in a fairly short amount of time? If so, Wall Street analysts would like to talk to you about a few stocks they believe are deeply

Do you think the story on digital payments is already written? Not so fast. Though the conversion to digital money has made rapid headway against cold, hard cash in the last couple of decades, much

GameStop's (NYSE: GME) unprecedented rally last year, which was largely driven by a massive short squeeze, caused some investors to seek out other heavily shorted stocks to buy into in hopes of

Since taking the helm at Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) in 1965, Warren Buffett has steadily outperformed the overall stock market. Shares of his holding company are down sharply this

Few people command the attention of Wall Street professionals and everyday investors quite like billionaire Warren Buffett. Since taking the reins of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) in

Retirement can be a financially precarious period of life. After all, you're moving over to a fixed income and may not have the option to hold down a job to boost your earnings.

In a recent

Nike (NYSE: NKE) stock tumbled after its fiscal 2023 first-quarter earnings report was released last week, and it's easy to see why.

Revenue for the quarter (which ended Aug. 31) grew just 4% year

Conagra (NYSE: CAG) has a collection of iconic brands and is a key partner for grocery stores and other retailers. It's also an attractive income stock for investors, with 4% dividend yield. There's

For income investors, sustainable and growing passive income is the name of the game. Dividend income at a low risk of being cut often grows over time. And when done right, this income grows as fast

Your eyes aren't deceiving you: It really has been that ugly of a year on Wall Street. Through the first half of 2022, the broad-based S&P 500 produced its worst return in 52 years!

But things have

Electric vehicles are a tiny part of the auto market today, but there's no doubt they will continue to take market share and come to dominate the auto industry. And that has investors excited about

Nearly nine out of ten people age 65 and older currently receive Social Security benefits, and the past year has been tough for many of those seniors. In 2022, the standard Medicare Part B premium

The stock market sell-off is intensifying heading into the final three months of the year. And while companies can't control the business cycle, they can prioritize capital discipline and maintain

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Shares of streaming titan Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) climbed 5.3% in September, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. Rallying investors seem increasingly convinced in the

Thursday was a forgettable day on the market for a great many stocks, and that includes high-profile vaccine-developer Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA). Although there was some mildly encouraging news coming