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Steph Wagner is the author of "Fly! A Woman's Guide to Financial Freedom and Building a Life You Love."

Investor sentiment has dropped as the financial headlines increasingly stoke concerns.

Motley Fool contributors Matt Frankel, Tyler Crowe, and Jon Quast discuss Unity Software's strong progress toward a turnaround and other market news.

Spotify, Shopify, and Uber were once the poster children for "growth at any cost." Today, they're talking cash flow, margins, and discipline.

2025 has been quite the year for consumer brands, but not in a good way. The industry has underperformed for the past three years and many of the world's largest consumer brand companies are resorting to mergers & acquisitions, asset sales, and spin-offs to rejuvenate their prospects.

Five of the big tech behemoths recently reported. What did we learn, and what should we expect looking ahead?

Big tech earnings were the talk of the market.

Should investors take stock in preferred stock? Motley Fool analysts Matt Argersinger and Anthony Schiavone talk with Infrastructure Capital Advisors CEO Jay Hatfield about preferred stocks and why income investors should look beyond index funds.

What makes the U.S. consumer and investor unique? Are we biologically programmed to be dissatisfied? Should you want your kids to be poor?

2025 has been the year of AI capex (so far). Companies have been announcing huge spending increases and signing deals to secure critical supplies like semiconductors for years into the future.

Microsoft has agreed to a deal that will allow OpenAI to become a for-profit company, likely paving the way for an IPO. The tech giant's stake will be worth $135 billion and comes with another $250 billion in cloud computing revenue.

Scott D. Anthony is a professor of strategy at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and author of the new book, "Epic Disruptions: 11 Innovations that Shaped Our Modern World."

AIs are hungry and growing more insatiable by the day. Will we be able to sustainably generate the power needed to feed the AI beast?

We discuss how cloud outages may impact stocks beyond Amazon. Plus, GM's great results may show how weak EV sales will be in the U.S. and the how co-CEO roles have become so popular in tech.

There are a plethora of so-called stock market calendar effects.

Motley Fool Money contributors chew things over.

Prediction markets are having a moment.

Stocks with a high short interest have outperformed the market over the past five years, but is this meme trading or a new trend in long-term investing? Plus, the crew talks about Taiwan Semiconductor's earnings, Google's medical AI, and the "cockroaches" that could be hiding in the market.

Retirement can be an opportunity to do many things you always wanted to do. But it may also be a time when you have to do something you've never had to do -- namely, get your own health insurance.

In this episode of Motley Fool Money, Motley Fool analyst Emily Flippen and contributors Jeff Santoro and Jason Hall dive into bank earnings, Robinhood's meteoric rise, and how alcohol consumption has changed the landscape for vice investments.