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In 2018, Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) set ambitious plans for growth in China, its second-largest market. It targeted nearly doubling its store count in the country by fiscal 2022 (relative to fiscal

This year has featured a little bit of everything. During the first quarter, the broad-based S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) plunged into bear market territory faster than ever before. The ensuing

Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE: LYV) is playing a sad song in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic forced the company to cancel or postpone nearly all of its scheduled events

2020 has been the most tumultuous year that Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) has seen, and one of the most volatile years in the history of the entire sector. The company's operations in Macao were shut

Many people struggle to max out an IRA or 401(k) year after year. But what if you have the opposite problem? What if you routinely max out your retirement plan contributions and find yourself with

Artificial intelligence (or AI) gets a lot of attention these days because the technology is being implemented into so many parts of our lives, from smart speakers to apps. And as AI expands, the

With the market recently surging to all-time highs, investors may wish to look for more defensive names in the new year. One such name is Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), America's largest broadband and

Raising children can be expensive, as every parent reading this already knows. Thankfully, some pretty valuable tax breaks are designed to help ease the financial burden on parents in the U.S., and

If you believe in the so-called "clean energy transition," then you almost certainly believe that demand for copper is going to rise significantly in the decades to come. That's what major copper

2020 has been, to put it lightly, a terrible year for travel stocks. McKinsey projected in October that global tourism revenue may fall to $2.1 trillion in 2020, a 50% haircut from 2019. It also

CRISPR -- which stands for "clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats" -- has been a hot area of research and investment since scientists discovered that this naturally occurring

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Coronavirus vaccine makers have garnered much attention this year. That's because the investors and medical professionals alike believe that vaccination is a good way to halt the spread of the

You probably wouldn't want to buy stock in an unprofitable company that's posting declining trailing revenue while also crashing in value by more than 62% over the course of the year -- especially

Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) recently agreed to purchase workplace collaboration platform Slack (NYSE: WORK) in a $27.7 billion deal, making it the company's largest acquisition yet. While there are

The stock market is back with a vengeance from the sharp COVID-19 plunge of the spring. The S&P 500 market index stands near its all-time highs after gaining 14% in 2020. The tech-heavy NASDAQ

Many of the best stocks in 2020 were healthcare companies focused on two disease areas: trying to stop the spread of COVID-19 and improving survival rates from cancer. To find out which stocks

If you thought the market was crazy about vaccine stocks this year, just wait until 2021. As coronavirus vaccines are distributed to the public and a slew of companies prepare to report new revenue

Some of the best inventions were just a combination of other great inventions. For instance, although they aren't as popular as they once were, modern fax machines simply combined the photocopier

The banking sector got hit hard in 2020 mainly due to the coronavirus pandemic, which sent credit costs soaring and ultimately resulted in an ultra-low-rate environment that lowers the revenue

E-commerce has come into its own in 2020. Not only have those who've been using online retail for years increased their use of e-commerce during the coronavirus pandemic, but millions of others have

A year ago, you might not have heard of Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA). The clinical-stage biotech company's messenger RNA (mRNA) drug candidates were in preclinical or early human trials for indications

If you owned shares of Novavax (NASDAQ: NVAX) at the beginning of 2020, you're probably a happy camper right now. Its shares have skyrocketed more than 3,000%. An initial investment of $10,000 would

Whatever you think about Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA), there's no question that the electric vehicle (EV) pioneer has enjoyed a remarkable year. Its shares have skyrocketed more than 660%. The company

Christmas hasn't arrived yet, even though the Hallmark Channel has been airing Christmas movies since October. You still have a little over a week to finish your shopping.

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