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Sometimes we're forced to put off expenses. Maybe you have to hold off on renovating your home, or even fixing your car if the issue doesn't impact safety -- say, a broken air conditioner. There's one expense you generally can't afford to delay: medical care. Yet a survey relea

America will reopen. It may not happen right away and it's going to happen in stages but eventually, businesses will open their doors, restaurants will open their dining rooms, and normalcy will come back.

Energy stocks are facing significant headwinds. With unprecedented restrictions on travel and movement across most countries, the demand for gasoline and other fuels has decreased dramatically. This is a severe blow for energy companies that were already grappling with a supply

To say the stock market has been volatile in recent weeks would be a bit of an understatement. As you watch stock prices rise and fall dramatically over the course of a week while the coronavirus crisis unfolds, it's hard to know exactly what to do with your money. 

Is COVID-19 responsible for the current troubles at J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP)? The short answer is no: The retailer was in trouble long before the current economic downturn.

For the past two months, stock market volatility has been historically high. The proliferation of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pushed equities into the fastest bear market in history, with the benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) taking a mere 17 trading sessions t

Most of us have been spending a lot of time at home lately, and investors are starting to notice. We've seen the obvious names soar in recent weeks, as video streaming services, videoconferencing platforms, and even gourmet meal-kit providers take off.

Millions of Americans have lost income due to COVID-19, either facing layoffs or furloughs or having their hours reduced. In fact, over the span of just three weeks, nearly 17 million U.S. adults filed for unemployment benefits.

Many Americans will soon be receiving a coronavirus stimulus payment from the IRS. Depending on your income, you could receive up to $1,200 per adult and an additional $500 per child dependent in your household. 

This is likely to be the hardest weekend ever for millions of small business owners around the country. The SBA ran out of money on Thursday after just 1.6 million business had loans been “approved”—the vast majority of which have not been paid, according to COVID Loan

Seniors aren't forced to claim Social Security at one specific age. Rather, they get a window to file that starts at age 62 and technically extends indefinitely, though generally speaking, 70 is considered the latest age to sign up for Social Security since there's no financial

"Buy and hold" is Warren Buffett's investing cornerstone, and it's a successful strategy for mom-and-pop investors, too. It's essential to avoid the traps of making poor emotional decisions, or trying to time the market. Staying in the market has historically produced the best r

In a single day earlier this month, the video game Valorant drew 34 million hours' worth of streaming views on Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) video game streaming platform, Twitch. That's the site's all-time single-day viewing hours record. That would be impressive by any standard -- b

The treatment landscape for kidney cancer has undergone a significant shift in the last decade. Between 2006 and 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved six drugs for renal cell carcinoma (RCC), the most common form of kidney cancer. A new slate of targeted th

The coronavirus crisis is already many weeks old, with no definite end in sight. Not surprisingly, many people are worried, to say the least, about their finances -- fully 60% of them, in fact, according to a survey conducted recently by TheAscent.com.

Given the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, figuring out which companies to invest in may carry an even higher degree of difficulty these days, particularly with the likelihood of a recession in the near future.

Most of us know that landing in debt is a bad thing -- it can not only cost us money and ruin our credit, but also give us something to feel bad about and stress over constantly. In fact, in a recent study on debt by The Ascent, 28% of people who owe money in some shape or form

Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) is currently worth more than $450 billion and literally has more than a hundred billion dollars to put to work. One downside of the company's size is that Warren Buffett can't bother looking at small businesses. The reason? They ar

Coronavirus stimulus checks have started coming this week, with most Americans getting up to $1,200 per person and $500 per child, depending on household income. 

March was a strong month for pot sales. As the coronavirus pandemic put consumers on edge, many people loaded up on cannabis, presumably in anticipation of prolonged stays at home. However, the data suggest that sales surged during the first half of the month, while sales began