When you have a long list of financial responsibilities, your top priorities may be to simply pay all the bills and keep food on the table. However, some of the most dangerous expenses are the ones you don't see coming.
PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP) shares have slipped 2.2% so far this year, dramatically outperforming the rest of the market. As the coronavirus outbreak expanded last month, weighing on companies' supply chains and sales, the S&P 500 plunged into bear-market territory. The index has
The COVID-19 pandemic has brewed strange circumstances for Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD). The Belgium-based beer producer has seen its stock drop as bars close their doors and consumers take their alcohol consumption into the home.
Saving money is harder than it seems. While most people know they need to put aside cash for the future, actually coming up with money to put into retirement accounts and other savings accounts often seems impossible due to pressing expenses you're facing today.
Levi Strauss (NYSE: LEVI), after remaining a private company for more than three decades, became public once again with an initial public offering (IPO) in March 2019. The company has been around for 167 years, surviving everything thrown at it. Aside from this impressive longe
If you're not thinking too much about retirement, you might want to start doing so, even if you're still in your 30s or 40s. After all, many of us will be spending 30 or more years of our life retired, so it's important that we plan for it effectively, lest we end up financially
The bear market brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic seems -- at least for now -- to be in hibernation, as the major stock market indices have gained between 19% and 29% since bottoming out on March 23. Those indices, though, are still down by 9% to 16% this year.
McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) reported that global sales fell by 22% in March, and that actually seems like a victory. Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) has warned that the impact of the coronavirus pandemic will cut its profits in half. But while that may seem bad, any chain that can deliver a
Your Social Security benefits are calculated by taking your wages during your 35 highest-paid years in the workforce, adjusting them for inflation, and applying a special formula to determine what monthly income you're entitled to as a senior. But the age at which you claim thos
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) are mature tech companies looking to the cloud to help them orchestrate a comeback. Just this month, the head of IBM's cloud division, Arvind Krishna, took over as CEO. Oracle, a company associated with database management software for muc
The market -- in fact, the economy in general -- has fallen quicker than at any point in modern history. In time, we will see official unemployment numbers sky-rocket, and official productivity numbers plummet.
Square (NYSE: SQ) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) have more in common that one might think. To be sure, Amazon has grown into one of the largest companies in the world. Square, on the other hand, is only a few years removed from start-up status.
Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU), the owner of China's top search engine, recently suspended some newsfeed channels within its mobile app to "comply with government directives." It warned that the suspension could reduce its ad revenue from those channels, but didn't specify the exact chan
Groupon's (NASDAQ: GRPN) investors were recently hit by a flurry of troubling news. On March 25, the company announced the abrupt resignations of CEO Rich Williams and COO Steve Krenzer, though they remain employees with the company. Aaron Cooper, previously the president of Gro
If you think oil and gas stocks have had a rough go of things in recent weeks, take a gander at marijuana stocks since March 31, 2019. Over the past year and change, most cannabis stocks have lost at least half of their value, with the losses being especially noticeable for Cana
Spirit AeroSystems (NYSE: SPR) has halted work on Boeing (NYSE: BA) commercial aircraft fuselages and furloughed more than 3,000 workers for 21 days following Boeing's decision to suspend final assembly due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
Believe it or not, there will come a time when the coronavirus contagion is in the rearview mirror. For a few people, life will have changed dramatically. For most people, life will have changed at least a little. Whether it be due to a job loss, concern about the cleanliness of