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After 10 straight hikes, the central bank switched gears and opted to keep rates steady. But that doesn't mean the Fed's inflation fight is over.

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The Fed's Rate Pause, Explained

A publicly traded company can increase it's number of shares available by splitting its stock. Here's why companies may do it and how it affects investors.

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Stock Splits Are Big This Year. Here's What They Mean for Investors.

Here's why a publicly traded company may decide to go private and what it means for its shareholders.

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What Happens When a Stock Goes Private?

What Happens When a Public Company Goes Private?

When saving for retirement, there are many different accounts and tax strategies to consider. Here's how to tell if a Roth IRA conversion could be right for you.

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What to Know About Roth IRA Conversions

As recession fears loom, here are three ways investors can prepare and protect their portfolios.

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Preparing Your Portfolio for a Recession

Retiring abroad could lower your cost of living, so you can make your savings go further in your golden years. But a permanent move to a new country could be more complicated than you think. Here's what you should know.

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Thinking Of Retiring Abroad? Here's What to Consider.

Billionaire-backed space companies have made space tourism a reality. How to participate in a potential private-sector space boom.

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How To Invest In Space Tourism

When you hear the words 'electric vehicle', you might immediately think 'Tesla'. But as more automakers enter the EV competition, Tesla might have trouble holding its lead. Here's what investors need to know.

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Is Tesla Miles Ahead of Others in the Electric Vehicle Race?

Chinese tech company DiDi Global, which runs a ride-sharing app, has announced it plans to delist from the New York Stock Exchange. Investors are watching and waiting to see what other Chinese giants with U.S. listings, like Alibaba and JD.com, will do. Here's what delisting entails.

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What Happens When a Stock Delists?

Bond investors are effectively losing money as their returns aren’t big enough to cover the value lost through near-record inflation. Here are three other areas income investors can consider.

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3 Income Investing Strategies to Consider Amid High Inflation

If you’re looking for retail stocks that are worth your investment, take note of the biggest trends we’re seeing in the marketplace.

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How to Pick Winning Retail Stocks

As inflation worries grow and interest-rate-hike speculation continues, you may want to take a second look at your bond portfolio. Here's what to consider before making any major changes.

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How to Build a Bond Portfolio for Rising Interest Rates

When you think about estate planning, you probably think first about wills and trusts. But there are other financial tools with estate-planning potential. Here's what to consider.

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3 Estate-Planning Tools That Most People Overlook

Meme stocks have changed the game for investors with the help of social media and trading apps. Here's what to know about the phenomenon and how it can affect your investing strategy.

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Why Investors Shouldn't Ignore Meme Stock Trends

As cryptocurrency grows in popularity, new and expanding government regulation could be a threat to its future. Here's what investors should know.

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The Biggest Regulatory Threats to Bitcoin

Mortgage rates are still near historic lows, but home prices continue to rise. Here's what you need to consider if you're looking to buy a home soon.

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Is Now a Good Time to Buy a Home?

The recent success of Covid-19 vaccines has sparked more interest in biotech companies among some investors, but the long-term landscape could be different. Here's what you need to know.

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What Happens to a Biotech Stock After a Vaccine is Developed?

There has been a boom in new IPOs this year, which has created a lot of opportunities for investors. These opportunities also come with great risk. Here's what you need to know.

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How to Invest in an IPO

Institutional investors are playing a major role in Bitcoin's recent uptick. Here's why, and what it means for the future.

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The Future of Bitcoin

There are many ways for investors to participate in the electric vehicle revolution. Here's what you need to know.

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EVs Beyond Tesla: How to Invest in Electric Vehicles

SPACs, or special purpose acquisition companies, have become extremely popular in 2020. Here's what investors need to know.

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What is a SPAC?

Emerging Asian markets like China, India, and the Philippines could have great opportunities to diversify your investments. Here's what to know.

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What to Know About Investing in Emerging Asia

As companies like Pfizer and Moderna move closer to creating a successful Covid-19 vaccine, is now the time to invest in biotech? Here's what to know.

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4 Things to Consider Before Investing in Biotech Stocks

The Fed drastically cut interest rates in response to the economic fallout from the pandemic. Here's what that means for your investments.

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What Near-Zero Interest Rates Mean for Your Investing Strategy

Here's how home builder stocks have adapted since the 2008 recession, and how they're weathering the pandemic today. 


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What to Know About Home Builder Stocks in Times of Crisis

These common pitfalls in retirement could direct more of your hard-earned dollars to Uncle Sam. Here's how to avoid them.

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Beware These Tax Traps in Retirement

Contrary to popular belief, a country's economic growth or turmoil is not always reflected in stock-market moves. Here's why.

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Why the Market and the Economy Sometimes Diverge

As online gambling and sports betting grow in popularity, here are ways investors could benefit.

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How Investors Can Play the Coming Rise in Sports Betting

In its simplest form, momentum investing means buying stocks that have performed well recently and selling those that have performed poorly. But there's more to this challenging investing strategy. Here's what you need to know.

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What is Momentum Investing?

ESG refers to investment strategies that consider environmental, social, and governance factors. Here's what to know and how you can use it to boost your portfolio.

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How to Build Your ESG Portfolio

Here's everything you need to know about investing in bonds.

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How to Invest in Bonds

Here's how a wealth tax could affect Americans of different income and asset levels.

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What is a Wealth Tax?

The tax deadline was extended to July 15th due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Here are tax strategies that can help as you keep more of your investment gains.

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Your Guide to Tax-Efficient Investing

Annuities can help plan for retirement during a volatile market. Here's what to know before you start looking for one.

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How Annuities Could Protect Your Retirement Income

The U.S. has almost certainly fallen into a recession from the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. But is it also in a bear market? Here's what each term means, and whether the U.S. is now in a sustained period of lower economic growth and falling stock prices.

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What's the Difference Between a Bear Market and a Recession?

The economy is in a historic downturn as the coronavirus pandemic continues. Some say that this could lead to a depression. Here's what that means.

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What Is a Depression?

Worries about coronavirus are pushing Americans to think about their estate plans. Here's a guide to establishing one.

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A Guide to Estate Planning

Bond-like stocks are, well, stocks. They are companies that provide essential but not glamorous products and services, like utilities. They often use the money they make to pay dividends to shareholders. Investors can buy exchange-traded funds that track these sectors or hold individual stocks to boost income and reduce volatility.

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Investing in Bond-Like Stocks

The U.S. issues bonds to fund the government budget, and the debt ceiling caps the amount of money the U.S. government can borrow. But sometimes the U.S. Treasury needs to borrow more than the debt ceiling allows. If Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling, the government could free up cash by skipping interest payments. But that move could wreak havoc in the global financial system. Policymakers tend to exhaust other options first.

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What Is the U.S. Debt Ceiling?

Exchange-traded funds are investments that hold a basket of securities that include stocks, bonds and other assets. Usually, they track a market index like the S&P 500. They're convenient, inexpensive and hold diverse investments. But buyer beware: Some ETFs trade at discounts or premiums to their net asset value, and if you trade them frequently, that can undo their tax benefit.

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What Are the Benefits and Risks of ETFs?

Corporate lenders used to extract promises from borrowers to maintain certain financial ratios on their debt. The promises are supposed to restrict borrowers from doing anything that would erode the debt's value. But in the past decade, a flood of money has meant an oversupply for issuers, who have been able to sell new debt with lower yields, and many of those promises have gone away. A company can burn cash and sell assets. For investors, that probably means lower recoveries. Companies like Xtract Research and Fitch Ratings are now fighting back by working on new ways to measure how protected a lender might be in a new debt deal. 

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How Corporate Lenders Fight Back Against Loopholes

Investors have become excited about "direct lending" loans that are generally smaller than those from banks. Hedge funds, private equity and insurance companies are deploying money. What sparks a worry these days is that investors aren't demanding the kinds of yields and protections that will help cushion losses.

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What is Private Debt?

This program, which has a mission to boost economically distressed areas, allows investors to defer taxes on their capital gains by putting capital in property or business equity in a designated Qualified Opportunity Zone. If they hold on to the investment, they pay taxes on just 85% of the original capital gains at year seven, and any appreciation on that zone investment is tax-free after 10 years.

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What Is a Qualified Opportunity Zone?

Hedge funds are pools of money for investors who can absorb potential losses such risky trading might generate. But they charge high fees and have performed poorly in recent years.

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What Is a Hedge Fund?

Venture capital firms fund private startups with the aim of bringing them public at high valuations--think Beyond Meat. But beware the risks to investors in the differences between private and public valuations.

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How Does Venture Capital Work?

Works by Warhol, Basquiat, and many others have been setting record prices for years. So it's no surprise that 88% of wealth managers think art should be part of their services. Here's what you need to know.

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