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For many Americans, contributing to an employer-sponsored plan is the primary way they're saving for retirement. Unfortunately, not all of these plans are excellent, and you're stuck with the investment choices and features chosen by your employer. Or are you?

Chinese stocks are back in the headlines, and we're putting them on trial.

Reports from Nvidia, Home Depot, Lowe's, Walmart, and Target provide both a look into the financials of great businesses and a deeper look into three of the biggest markets: AI, housing, and consumer spending.

Gemini 3 is out and it may change the landscape in artificial intelligence. Benchmarks have it performing better than GPT-5, and Google is leaning into its competitive advantages in AI tech.

The market is hopping with interesting news.

The stock market slumped in the first two weeks of November as investors worry about layoffs, consumer spending, and returns of the AI buildout.

Warren Buffett's surprise announcement this past May that he would be stepping down as Berkshire Hathaway's CEO left a few lingering questions. Many of those questions were answered in a letter he penned to shareholders that will be his new Thanksgiving tradition.

Wall Street didn't take kindly to financial reports from Axon, Trex, and Warby Parker. Should investors be buying amid the bloodbath?

We're mashing up quantum computing, AI infrastructure, and space stocks as we dig into a handful of headline-grabbing earnings reports. From GPU farms on the ground to satellites in orbit, we're asking what's investable now and what still belongs in the "sci-fi someday" bucket.

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.