3 Obamacare Terms to Know Before March 31st
Filed under: Investing With the open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, almost over, there is still widespread uncertainty about the law and precisely what it...
View Article1-Up on Wall Street: Androids Everywhere, Titans Falling, and Asgardians to...
Filed under: Investing Google wants Android in everything. Will Apple respond with iOS-powered scarves? Who stands to profit more from the release of the highly anticipated Xbox One game, Titanfall?...
View ArticleState Tax Deductions: Make the Most of Your Options
Filed under: Investing Tax season is a tough time for all Americans, but those who pay state taxes as well as federal taxes have an added burden. What many don't know, though, is that they might be...
View ArticleWhich Potash Producer Will Cut Its Dividend Next?
Filed under: Investing There seems little worry that PotashCorp will cut its dividend -- which it called "sacrosanct" this past December -- even though it's planning on cutting some 18% of its...
View ArticleIs the United States the World's Most Indebted Country? Not Even Close
Filed under: Investing The national debt United States is a national nightmare for a fairly large part of the population. There are debt clocks aplenty online, tracking in real time a whole mess of...
View ArticleThis Week in Biotech: NW Bio Soars While Geron Goes Geronimo
Filed under: Investing With the SPDR S&P Biotech Index up 59% over the trailing-12-month period, it's evident that investment dollars are willingly flowing into the biotech sector. Keeping that in...
View ArticleWill NBC Have a Sunday Night 'Crisis' With its New Serialized Dramas?
Filed under: Investing Sunday nights have become the new "it" night for TV, but if you're a network without one of those "must-watch" shows it's not easy to break into the mix. This Sunday, NBC (a...
View ArticleAmazon's Video Game Controller Looks Hideous
Filed under: Investing Last year, Game Informer reported that Amazon.com was working on a video game console. Then, in February, TechCrunch said the retailer had acquired Double Helix Games, the...
View ArticleTesla Motors Inc. Stock This Week -- New Jersey Bans Tesla, Fan Makes Commercial
Filed under: Investing Tesla Motors stock fell about 6% this week, faring worse that the S&P 500's decline of about 2%. While there were news-worthy items related to Tesla during the week, the most...
View ArticleWhy ARM Holdings Is a Difficult Short
Filed under: Investing A common mistake that many retail/new investors make is to short richly valued stocks and to buy stocks that trade at a modest multiple. But the best analogy to illustrate why...
View ArticleIs Microsoft Corporation Adopting an Android Strategy for Windows Phone?
Filed under: Investing Free is tough compete with. Microsoft knows that better than anyone these days. It has been Google's strategy for Android from the beginning -- and it has worked. The Android...
View ArticleA 100-Bagger 16 Years in the Making
Filed under: Investing Co-founders Tom and David Gardner look back on The Motley Fool's journey with Amazon.com since first purchasing it in September 1997. The brothers discuss the ups and downs...
View ArticleWill We Ever See an iPad Pro From Apple, Inc.?
Filed under: Investing The iPad Pro may have just been shelved, according to Digitimes. For investors closely following the Apple rumor mill, this may come as quite a surprise. Up until now,...
View ArticleNondeductible IRAs: Worth the Bother?
Filed under: Investing Traditional IRAs can be a great way to get a last-minute tax deduction, but high-income taxpayers often aren't entitled to deduct IRA contributions. If that's the case, does it...
View ArticleWhat Brought Howard Stern Into the Honest Tea Story?
Filed under: Investing Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff founded Honest Tea in 1998. In the recently released Mission in a Bottle , the co-founders tell -- in comic book form -- the story of building a...
View ArticleEarned Income: Why You Need It for Retirement Saving
Filed under: Investing IRAs can be great ways to save for retirement, but in order to qualify for them, you need to have earned income. But what is earned income, and how can you make sure you have...
View ArticleBarking Up the Right Tree With This Pet Industry IPO
Filed under: Investing Although the rate of growth in the amount we spend on our pets is slowing, the continuing trend toward their humanization ensures that companies catering to those whims will...
View ArticleWarren Buffett's Will: 1 Surprising Investment Strategy
Filed under: Investing Source: Flickr, thetaxhaven; Warren Buffett picks stocks - and ukuleles - better than most. Warren Buffett may be the best investor - ever. But while Berkshire Hathaway...
View ArticleCan Royal Dutch Shell plc's Innovation Save the Oil Industry Billions?
Filed under: Investing Big Oil needs to stop complaining about all the money they spend on exploration and development, because a large part of it is their fault. The entire industry spends billions on...
View Article3 Enticing (Yet Lesser-Known) Reasons to Consider a Roth IRA
Filed under: Investing Want to boost your retirement savings and lower your taxes? A Roth IRA is a way for investors to do just that. But tax-free growth potential and tax-free withdrawals are just two...
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