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If You're Retired, Consider Buying These 3 Stocks
Lacking a flexible investing time horizon that stretches into several decades, retirees tend to favor stable businesses with long track records of sales and earnings growth. Hefty dividend yields....
7 Medical Conditions That Will Be Lining Big Pharma's Pockets by 2020
Image source: Getty Images.Imagine a stack of dollar bills reaching from the ground to more than 95,000 miles into the sky -- nearly four-tenths of the way to the moon. That stack would total $1.4....
3 Consumer-Goods Stocks to Buy With Dividends Yielding More Than 3%
Buying and holding solid dividend stocks is arguably the best way to predictably generate wealth over the long term. After all, you not only get paid to hang on to these stocks -- typically in the....
1 Stock Retirees Should Consider
Younger investors can chase risky growth stocks, but that strategy stops making sense as your retirement approaches. The best way to manage your nest egg after retirement is to focus on risk-free....
Roundtable: 1 Stock Retirees Should Consider
Younger investors can chase risky growth stocks, but that strategy stops making sense as your retirement approaches. The best way to manage your nest egg after retirement is to focus on risk-free....
3 High-Yield Stocks
Though these three high-yield stocks play in different sandboxes, they share a common theme in addition to their strong dividends. Tech giant Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), gaming upstart....
Why Frontier Communications Corp. Shares Lost 12% in August
Frontier Communications (NASDAQ: FTR) has delivered nothing but bad news since it spent $10.54 billion buying Verizon's former business in California, Texas, and Florida (CTF) in April 2016. That....
Comcast Kills Dragons to Go to War with Disney World's Falcon
Comcast's (NASDAQ: CMCSA) Universal Orlando ran a pair of roller coasters for the last time last night. Dragon Challenge -- billed as a single attraction at the resort's Islands of Adventure theme....
Apple Inc.'s Rumored "iPhone X" Name Sounds Ridiculous
A story in 9to5Mac, citing sources at case makers who claim to have "sources in Shenzhen who claim to have seen the new iPhone packaging," recently said that this year's new Apple (NASDAQ:....
Will Disney Dominate the Media Space? 1 Analyst Thinks So
Every day, Wall Street analysts upgrade some stocks, downgrade others, and "initiate coverage" on a few more. But do these analysts even know what they're talking about? Today, we're taking one....
Here's How Apple Inc. Will Price Its Amazing OLED iPhone
Product leaker Benjamin Geskin tweeted out how Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will apparently price its upcoming premium OLED iPhone models, which could be called either "iPhone Edition" or "iPhone X,"....
The Key Reason Incyte Corporation Added $850 Million in Market Cap in August
Shares of Incyte (NASDAQ: INCY), a large-cap biotech company primarily focused on developing therapies to treat cancer and inflammatory diseases, tacked on more than $4 per share, or $850 million....
3 Stocks Warren Buffett Should Buy More of
Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) has a stock portfolio worth roughly $161 billion, and while the company has given some responsibility to its two stock-pickers, the majority of....
Why Apple, Inc. Stock Popped 10.3% in August
Shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) jumped 10.3% in the month of August, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence, after the tech juggernaut announced strong fiscal....
3 Things That We Now Know About the Apple iPhone 9
As of writing, we're less than 10 days from Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) special event, during which the company is sure to unveil its next-generation trio of iPhones, reportedly called iPhone 8, iPhone....
Do Apple Inc.'s New iPhones Deserve to Be Called "iPhone 8"?
9to5Mac recently reported that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) plans to call the successors to today's iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus smartphones by the names iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, respectively.Though this....
2 Possible Reasons This Intel Corp. Exec Is Abandoning Ship
Late last month, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) disclosed that executive Stacy Smith, who oversees the company's manufacturing, sales, and operations, will be out of the company by the end of January....
Most Popular Bank CEOs According to Their Employees
If you want to comprehensively understand a bank from an investment perspective, you need to look at it through several different lenses.Fundamental metrics are important, including those that....
How Extreme Networks Stock Rose 30% in August
Shares of Extreme Networks (NASDAQ: EXTR) gained 30% in August 2017, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The maker of enterprise-grade networking equipment and network....
Apple Inc.'s Big iPhone Secret Revealed
There has been a lot of speculation on how Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will name its upcoming trio of iPhones. In the press, the two LCD models were referred to as the iPhone 7s and iPhone 7s Plus, while....
Pulling Back the Curtain on Apple's Self-Driving Car Project
When Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) revealed to the world that it was working on its own autonomous car, speculation ran rampant about what it could mean. As it turns out, Apple's own research and....
A Foolish Take: The Highest-Grossing Movies of 2017 (So Far)
Movies seem flashier than ever, but the domestic film market remains a slow-growth one. PwC expects annual U.S. box office revenue to grow at a compound annual growth rate of just 1.2% between....
NVIDIA's Processors May Soon Power Wal-Mart's Deep Learning Push
Recently, analyst Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities Research wrote in an investor note that Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE: WMT) will ramp up its focus on deep neural networks for its OneOps cloud business....
Are Digital Wallets Doomed to Fail?
The success of digital wallets varies greatly depending upon whom you ask. In early August, Goldman Sachs analysts proclaimed that digital wallet adoption had been "underwhelming to date by nearly....
The 2 Credit Card Companies With the Most Satisfied Customers
Americans love their plastic. Last year, for the first time in the Total System Services U.S. Consumer Payment Study's history, credit took over the top spot as the preferred way for U.S.....