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As lawmakers spent nearly five hours grilling TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew on Thursday, you could be forgiven for having a serious case of déjà vu. Congressional hearings in which social-media executives take a beating have been happening for the past five years in Washington — just ask Meta Platforms Inc. META, +2.24% CEO […]

It has been three years since the U.S. stock market hit its COVID-19 bottom as the global economy suddenly shut down at the start of the pandemic in early 2020.  The S&P 500 SPX, +0.30% has risen nearly 76% from its closing low of 2237.40 reached on March 23, 2020, while the Dow Jones Industrial […]

Gold futures settled Thursday at a more than one-year high, after touching a high above $ 2,000 an ounce, finding support from declines in U.S. Treasury yields and weakness in the dollar. Moves for the market followed the Federal Reserve’s 25 basis-point interest-rate hike announced Wednesday, as the central bank’s Chairman Jerome Powell and his […]

Citigroup Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jane Fraser said the U.S. banking system remains in solid shape despite the demise of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank of New York in the past two weeks and a subsequent swoon in bank stocks. “This is not a credit crisis,” Fraser said at the Economic Club of Washington, […]

This article is reprinted by permission from NextAvenue.org. Recently, when a family member died unexpectedly, I saw financial chaos up close and personal: his wife couldn’t access some accounts, didn’t have login or bank information and didn’t even know what credit cards or bills he had. The grieving widow could have been spared the hassle and added stress […]

When traveling, instead of booking a hotel, retirees sometimes turn to short-term vacation rental online sites and platforms. In the process, they can face fraud in the form of fake listings and attempts to move unsuspecting consumers off the site as a way to scam them. “It can happen that you book a vacation rental, and […]

When Nashville, Tenn. native Stephen Parker recently listed a mobile home that he owns on the rental market, he received about 30 applications in one week. “I priced it competitively,” he said. Parker, who is also a real-estate agent, said that he sees rent growth staying strong as people find it too expensive to purchase homes, […]

Dear Quentin, I asked my girlfriend to move in with me and am having a moral personal dilemma when it comes to rent.  She has said she would not move in with me if she wasn’t paying, so nothing isn’t an option. I bought the house in November 2019, and up until a few months […]

Shares of Coinbase Global Inc. dropped 15.8% in the extended session Wednesday after the crypto exchange disclosed a warning from regulators that it may have broken securities laws. Coinbase COIN, -8.16% said it received a Wells notice from the Securities and Exchange Commission, which could lead to formal charges. “We asked the SEC for reasonable […]

Bitcoin fell Wednesday after the Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, as widely expected, while the Fed chairman Jerome Powell said it’s “the most likely case” that the central bank would refrain from cutting its key interest rate this year.  The largest cryptocurrency BTCUSD, -0.58% dropped 4% […]

Treasury yields dived on Wednesday after Federal Reserve policy makers signaled just one additional interest rate hike will be appropriate this year and as Chairman Jerome Powell addressed banking-system concerns in his press conference. What’s happening The yield on the 2-year Treasury TMUBMUSD02Y, 4.010% dropped to 3.943% from 4.175% on Tuesday. It had jumped by […]

A large slug of option contracts tied to the Cboe Volatility Index are set to expire on Wednesday, which could potentially amplify stock-market volatility after the Federal Reserve releases its latest decision on interest rates, several analysts said. Better known as “the Vix,” or Wall Street’s “fear gauge,” the Vix VIX, -2.06% attempts to reflect […]

Shares of Harley-Davidson Inc. charged higher Tuesday, after Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas urged investors to buy, citing their recent selloff, coupled with confidence in the motorcycle maker’s management and diminished electrification risks. “If you can take some upfront bumps, we’d stay riding with HOG,” Jonas wrote in a note to clients. Harley-Davidson’s stock HOG, […]

What was an uncertain Bank of England decision became almost a lock after U.K. inflation data came in unexpectedly hot. The odds of a quarter-point hike, to 4.25% from 4%, moved to 97% after the data from the Office for National Statistics on Wednesday showing inflation accelerating to 10.4% year-over-year in February. The yield on […]

By Adria Calatayud UBS Group AG said Wednesday that it is launching a tender for senior bail-in notes worth 2.75 billion euros ($ 2.96 billion) in aggregate that were issued last week, just before its agreement to take over rival Credit Suisse Group AG. The Swiss bank said it is offering holders of EUR1.5 billion […]

GameStop Corp. stock jumped 48% in the extended session Tuesday after the specialty retailer reported a surprise quarterly profit and sales that were above Wall Street expectations. The retailer is “aggressively focused on year-over-year profitability improvement while still pursuing pragmatic long-term growth,” Chief Executive Matt Furlong said at the company’s call after the results. GameStop […]

“‘That’s my problem.’” Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, spoke last week at the Vision 2024 National Conservative Forum in Charleston, S.C. logan cyrus/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Those were the words of Senate Republican Lindsey Graham, by his own recollection and that of former Democratic colleague Al Franken, responding in a men’s-room conversation to Franken’s […]

A sculptural but fully functioning solid-gold toilet by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, shown in 2016 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. william edwards/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Look, if I’m Donald Trump’s lawyer and fixer and he comes to me in 2015 and says he’s going to run for president, the first thing I do is […]

Here are some of the biggest movers on Tuesday, as the Federal Reserve begins deliberations on a key interest rate decision with the banking system wobbling. Stock gainers: First Republic Bank‘s stock FRC, +34.85% rocketed 45% in afternoon trading after surrendering 47% on Monday. CNBC reported the bank has hired JPMorgan as an adviser, as […]

First Republic Bank’s stock was up 40% Tuesday amid reports that JPMorgan Chase & Co. was working to help bolster the bank’s capital, and as U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen pledged to help banks. Yellen delivered a speech to the American Bankers Association saying that the government has a “resolute commitment to take the necessary […]