3 Dow Jones Stocks to Buy for the Next Decade

The Dow Jones Industrial Average may be a fundamentally flawed index in terms of how it's weighted — choosing to use price rather than the market cap — but in terms of what companies are in the index, the Dow Jones can't be beat. Dow Jones stocks represent the “Bedrock of America” and some of the most important companies on the planet. There's a reason why financial media still quotes the close and movements of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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  Futures rise, Asia mixed, Dow Jones in focus

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  Dow Jones Today: China, Earnings Anticipation Stall Stocks on Monday

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3 Things to Know Before Buying iQiyi Stock

The Chinese streaming company iQiyi (NASDAQ:IQ) has faced a number of challenges since going public nearly a year and a half ago. The company offers both free and paid streaming service. Although it's often compared to Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), iQiyi is a very different company.

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  Netflix is raising its prices

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  Netflix earnings — What to know in markets Wednesday

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How To Trade Stocks: What Is A Base? And How To Use Stock Charts To Win Big

If you're new to investing and struggling with the features, screens and unique charts of IBD, you may have wondered what a "base" is. You may have wondered why Investor's Business Daily uses the term a lot in its market-related news coverage. Treat "base" as the most important four-letter word in your investing vocabulary.

The Leveraged-Loan Collapse That Reveals a Key Risk in the Credit Market

Almost overnight, a $693 million loan Clover Technologies took to the market five years ago lost about a third of its value. The startling nosedive stung even sophisticated investors, people who deal in the arcane business of trading corporate loans. Bloomberg's Lisa Lee has more on "Bloomberg Markets."

Here's a lesson for 401(k) investors: Don't just save, save to create wealth

My mom, Tobie, worked two jobs, seven days a week from the time my dad walked out on my 10th birthday until she was almost 70 years old. You cannot save your way to wealth. You must save to invest to create wealth.

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  408(k) Plan vs. 401(k) Plan: What's the Difference?

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  Midyear 401(k) Checkup: 3 Things To Do Before the Summer Ends

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Doctor Who Sold $12 Billion Drug Firm Eyes Biotech Property

A deal-making cancer doctor who sold his pharmaceutical company for almost $12 billion is launching a real estate venture to bolster the growth of the biotechnology industry. Arie Belldegrun's family office, Bellco Capital, has entered into a joint venture with New York-based real estate developer Tishman Speyer to start Breakthrough Properties, the companies said Tuesday in a statement. The venture said it bought its first property, a 1-acre (0.4 hectare) development site in Boston's Seaport District, for $80 million, and is exploring other acquisitions in the area as well as in San Francisco.

With Red Hat, IBM just won a billion dollar AT&T deal

Just days into Red Hat's tenure as an IBM company, and the $34 billion marriage is already paying off for Big Blue. Tuesday, IBM announced a “multi-year strategic alliance” with wireless giant AT&T communications centered on cloud computing. In a press release, IBM notes that, as part of the deal, AT&T Business “will utilized Red Hat's open source platform to manage workloads and applications.” That's as AT&T uses IBM's expertise and infrastructure to modernize its own software and business applications.

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  AT&T inks multi-year agreement with IBM that touches on modern technology trends

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5 Top Stock Trades for Wednesday: JNJ, WFC, UBER, APRN, ROKU

Let's get a look at a few top stock trades going into mid-week. Top Stock Trades for Tomorrow #1: J&J Shares of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) are down just over 1% despite beating on earnings estimates. The price action over the last few days has been telling and leaves a roadmap for investors.

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  Synovus Financial (SNV) Surpasses Q2 Earnings and Revenue Estimates

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  Here's Why J&J Stock Is Sliding Despite A Second-Quarter Beat

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How Much Do I Need to Retire?

Recent research from Schwab Retirement Plan Services illustrates two things: First, 401(k) participants believe they need $1.7 million, on average, to retire. There may be multiple causes, but not knowing how much to save, when to save it, and how to make those savings grow with the most efficiency can go a long way toward creating retirement account shortfalls. As a result, most 401(k) participants (54%) tend to put additional retirement funds in a savings account instead of another investment account such as an IRA, brokerage account, or health savings account (despite its name, an HSA has numerous important advantages over ordinary savings accounts).

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  408(k) Plan vs. 401(k) Plan: What's the Difference?

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  Here's a lesson for 401(k) investors: Don't just save, save to create wealth

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Fed Pushing on a String as Credit Market Poses Significant Risk, Ex-Cantor CEO Says

Shawn Matthews, Hondius Capital Management chief investment officer and former Cantor Fitzgerald chief executive officer, discusses the risk in credit markets and Federal Reserve monetary policy with Bloomberg's Vonnie Quinn on "Bloomberg Markets."

Will Alibaba Stock Soar Thanks to Its Hong Kong Listing?

Despite trade tensions between the U.S. and China and Altaba (NASDAQ:AABA) liquidating its stake in Alibaba (NYSE:BABA), Alibaba stock has done very well in 2019, rising 21% year-to-date. According to Bloomberg, Alibaba has filed confidentially for a Hong Kong listing in what could be the territory's biggest listing sale since 2010. Although the final fundraising target isn't finalized, Alibaba could raise as much as $20 billion from the listing.

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  Is Alibaba Stock A Buy Right Now? Here's What Earnings, Chart Show

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  3 Reasons Why Alibaba Stock Is Still a Solid Buy

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22 Big Companies Are In Recession; Do You Own Them?

It's strange to talk about recession as the stock market is hitting all-time highs and earnings season is heating up. But recession is here now for a number of large companies — like Western Digital and Nvidia stock — a reminder why long-term investors need diversification. There are 22 companies in the Standard & Poor's 500, also including Franklin Resources and Macy's, already feeling the pains of contraction.

Heading Into Q4 Earnings at All-Time Highs, Microsoft Stock Still Has Incredible Upside

In April, the company's market cap hit $1 trillion for the first time ever, and with yet another all-time high close of $138.90 MSFT is currently worth $1.06 trillion. At the moment, it's the only American company in that lofty trillion dollar club, with Apple currently worth $944.19 billion and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) at $995 billion. Retail Stocks Goldman Sachs Says Are Ready to Rip Many investors remain bullish on MSFT, despite its record high valuation.

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  Microsoft's (MSFT) Cloud & Azure Adoption to Aid Q4 Earnings

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  Microsoft (MSFT) Q4 2019 Earnings Preview: Cloud, Computing & More

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How a Roth IRA Works After Retirement

In recent years, the Roth IRA has skyrocketed in popularity with Americans looking to squirrel away money for retirement. Since they require you to pay taxes on contributions—but none on distributions—Roth IRAs work well for those expecting to be in a higher tax bracket in the future and/or when they retire. Keep reading to learn how a Roth IRA works after retirement.

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  408(k) Plan vs. 401(k) Plan: What's the Difference?

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  Here's a lesson for 401(k) investors: Don't just save, save to create wealth

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Health care 'Cadillac Tax' repeal bill up for vote Wednesday

Congress will be voting Wednesday on a repeal of what is known as the “Cadillac Tax”—a provision of the Affordable Care Act which would place a 40% tax on employer-sponsored health care plans which provide excess benefits. The tax was supposed to be a funding source and would include 40% on anything greater than the value of health insurance benefits surpassing approximately $11,200 for individuals and $30,150 for families in 2022, according to the Tax Foundation. If the bill passes, it would bring a moment of stability during a continuously unpredictable time in health care policy and politics.

4 ‘Strong Buy’ Biotechs With Big 3Q19 Catalysts

The company already has one drug on the market (for primary biliary cirrhosis), and recently released positive results from the Phase 3 REGENERATE trial in NASH Fibrosis. Nash is a chronic condition in which the buildup of fat and inflammation in the liver may eventually lead to severe scarring called fibrosis. It is currently the second leading cause of liver transplant in the US- making it a very lucrative opportunity for drug companies.

Core Inflation Rises but Fed Is Going to Cut Rates. Will Gold Gain?

Maybe this is because we are not working at the central bank, but we struggle to see why lower energy prices should be negative for the economy and the reason for the Fed to adopt a more accommodative monetary policy. Shouldn't the central bank focus on core inflation, which strips out volatile food and energy prices? After all, this is what the FOMC does when the prices go up, but apparently it does not work the same way both ways.

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  A $51 Billion Manager Says Markets Are Wrong to Cheer Fed Cuts

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  Here's why the Fed's coming rate cut makes no sense

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Here's why the Fed's coming rate cut makes no sense

I'm not much of a Fed watcher (never mind a Fed basher), but in my 35 years of covering the financial markets, I've never been more vexed by what our central bank is up to. The disconnect is this: Fed Chair Jay Powell is strongly signaling he will cut interest rates at the end of the month, and for the life of me I can't figure out why. The way I've always understood it, the Fed is supposed to cut rates when the economy needs a boost.

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  Traders See a July Fed Cut as Certain Even With More Upbeat Data

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  Powell Maintains Fed Pledge to Act to Sustain U.S. Expansion

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