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Last year was challenging in many respects for investors. The unprecedented coronavirus pandemic upended societal norms and rapidly transformed the traditional work environment. It also played at

When it comes to buying stocks, dividends are icing on the cake. Whatever your personal style of stock trading may be, incorporating dividend-paying companies into your portfolio is one of the most

If you're looking for growth stocks that could make you rich, the health insurance industry probably isn't the first place you'd think to look. Over the past decade, though, companies working behind

Shares of GameStop (NYSE: GME) soared more than 1,600% in January, even though the outlook for the video game retailer continues to look grim in what's become a more digital world for gamers. Retail

When most of us think of coronavirus stocks, we think of vaccine makers or companies developing therapeutics. We probably don't think of medical device players specializing in heart pumps.

Since

OK, OK, you're shaking your head at the football metaphor. But if you're nearing retirement and have paid into Social Security all your life, you may be thinking of claiming benefits very soon. And

What are the four most dangerous words in investing? This time it's different.

That phrase implies that a person knows enough about what's happened in the past to think that what's going on now will

In the world of genome sequencing, Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN) is the undisputed market leader. Pacific Biosciences of California (NASDAQ: PACB), or PacBio, has been viewed as more of an also-ran since

2020 was a great year for IPOs. There were 480 of them, the highest ever in one year, despite the global economic downturn and volatility of the stock market.

One high profile IPO was home

Over the past year, the Nasdaq Composite index has surged by 45%. Most of the gains can be attributed to stocks that have done well in the stay-at-home and remote work environments of the COVID-19

It's a David and Goliath story of the modern age. A rogue group of individual investors band together in an online community and decide to take down hedge funds that profit from companies failing

For more than a decade, growth stocks have been virtually unstoppable. Historically low lending rates have allowed companies to aggressively borrow in order to hire, innovate, and acquire other

Given the massive trading volume that GameStop (NYSE: GME) shares have seen over the past few days, there's clearly a huge appetite for explosively volatile stocks. I'll admit that it's exciting to

What's it going to take for Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: VRTX) to regain its mojo? Shares of the big biotech have a long way to go to recapture the highs set last year before Vertex reported

The good times can't keep rolling forever. Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) just found that out the hard way.

Nearly everything seems to have gone Pfizer's way over the past three months. Pfizer and its partner

Can Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) new service, Amazon Pharmacy, supplant brick-and-mortar retailers like CVS Health (NYSE: CVS)and Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ: WBA)? As it turns out, it's not easy to

Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA) and the Pfizer/BioNTech partnership might not enjoy a duopoly in the U.S. COVID-19 vaccine market for much longer. Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) announced late-stage results

We've turned the page on 2020, but that doesn't mean we left last year's volatility at the doorstep. If anything, Wall Street and investors have been made well aware of the uncertainty still

The stock market can be intimidating even for experienced investors, and it's easy to feel overwhelmed if you're new to the world of investing. There are also several myths surrounding the stock

Whenever something big hits the financial markets, many people turn to legendary investor Warren Buffett for guidance. The Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) CEO has had a successful

If you made a few New Year's resolutions for 2021, I've got some bad news for you -- nearly 80% of people abandon their resolutions by the second week of February. The good news is that if you set

Earnings season is at its peak right now, and with January now behind us, investors are trying to figure out what the rest of 2021 is going to look like. The market lost its momentum toward the end

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As a big bank goes, so goes its CEO compensation.

That, at least, is the dynamic at the most troubled of the big four American banks, Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC). Last year, the company paid leader

Shares of Niu Technologies (NASDAQ: NIU) jumped last month as the Chinese electric-scooter maker got a boost from a strong fourth-quarter sales report. Investors also continued to be bullish on the