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Quick facts about auto insurance discounts Policy discounts can cut your car insurance bill by 40%. Coupling your cars on the same policy gets you easy savings. Review your car insurance policy and rates annually. Are you looking to save money on your car insurance? We’ll tell you about the best automobile insurance discounts so you can maximize all […]

The current scrutiny of anti-competitive business tactics by Amazon.com Inc. by both U.S. and European Commission regulators has put its pending acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot at risk, but there are hopes that tech M&A will come back this year nonetheless. This week, Amazon AMZN, +0.94% missed a deadline to file concessions to the EU […]

Shares of Future FinTech Group FTFT, -3.07% fell after the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Shanchun Huang with allegedly inflating the company’s share price just before he took over as chief executive. The stock slipped 17% to $ 1.07 in after-hours trading Thursday. Shares are down over 48% over the past 12 months. The SEC […]

Dear Quentin, I have a question for you that is short and sweet. (Or maybe not so sweet.) My friend recently learned through DNA analysis via an online service that he had a daughter 60 years ago that he was unaware of. He also learned that the mother had put the child up for adoption […]

Recent hacks of high-profile accounts on X, formerly Twitter, are putting a spotlight on the social-media platform’s security — and serving as a reminder that every user should take steps to protect their own accounts.  The Securities and Exchange Commission and even cybersecurity firm Mandiant have recently seen their X accounts compromised. On Tuesday, the SEC’s account […]

The numbers: The U.S. federal budget deficit widened to $ 129 billion in December, up from $ 85 billion in the same month last year, the Treasury Department said Thursday.   For the first three months of the fiscal year, the deficit widened to $ 510 billion, up from $ 421 billion in the same period […]

If you’re looking to add some kick to your retirement portfolio, here are 12 investments that do not seem obviously worse than anything else: the Sprott Physical Silver PSLV and Gold PHYS trusts, Canadian food company Lassonde LAS.A, -0.24%, Hong Kong-based pork giant WH Group WHGLY, +1.25%, power utility Avista AVA, -2.99%, telecom-software company Amdocs DOX, +0.08%, […]

Hertz Global Holdings Inc. said Thursday it is selling about 20,000 electric vehicles from its fleet, or about one-third of the total, and expects to book charges of about $ 245 million in the fourth quarter. The move is aimed at better balancing supply and expected demand for EVs, allowing the car-rental company to scrap […]

Pros Attractive pricing, resale value Hatchback versatility Refined fun Cons Short on rear-seat headroom Not luxury-quiet What’s new? Powerful Type S version The 2024 Acura Integra is a luxury compact car with a sporty edge. So sporty, in fact, that it offers a manual transmission. Pricing starts at $ 31,500. It’s 2024, and who’d have […]

Smith Douglas Homes Corp. priced its initial public offering at $ 21 a share late Wednesday, at the high point of its estimated range. The homebuilder plans to offer 7.69 million shares, raising about $ 161.5 million. Shares are expected to start trading Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “SDHC.” […]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended his high-profile battle against the Walt Disney Co. during a debate on Wednesday night, while rival Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley criticized his treatment of the entertainment giant. “The proper role of government, if it means anything, it’s to protect our kids, and I’ve stood for the innocence of our […]

Skydance Media is in early talks over an all-cash offer for National Amusements, the parent of media giant Paramount Global, in an effort that would eventually merge both Skydance and Paramount, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Citing sources familiar with the matter, the Journal said that under the current offer being discussed, Skydance […]

Homebuilder KB Home on Wednesday said it had seen a “meaningful” increase in orders over the first several weeks of its first quarter, after a dip in mortgage rates last month made buying a home more attractive. “We have experienced a meaningful sequential increase in our net orders for the first five weeks of our […]

Efforts at the state and local level to compensate descendants of enslaved people with reparations are counterproductive, a leading reparations scholar said — because they fall short of what a federal program could accomplish. Meanwhile, the total cost of such a federal program continues to rise, said William “Sandy” Darity, an economist and professor of public policy at Duke University. A nationwide […]

““Not good…. We obsess over GDP, unemployment, labor participation, etc as predictors of recession, but rising consumer debt levels have also portended economic downturns.”” — Sheila Bair, former FDIC chair, on record-high consumer credit levels That’s former chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Sheila Bair on the record-high consumer credit levels the Federal Reserve […]

Some billionaires are focused on the heavens above while others prefer to toil the fields below. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and chief executive of Meta Platforms META, -0.34%, took to the Instagram service his company operates to reveal he is raising cows in Hawaii on what could be considered a fratboy’s diet of beer and […]

U.S. stock index futures were mixed early Wednesday, as markets saw cautious trading ahead of the December inflation report on Thursday. How are stock-index futures trading S&P 500 futures ES00, +0.13% rose 6 points, or 0.1%, to 4799 Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, -0.03% fell 4 points, or 0%, to 37759 Nasdaq-100 futures NQ00, […]

Here are some markets, economy and stock predictions for 2024, including what would be a most unexpected outcome for the U.S. economy. First, a reminder: “The markets and the economy are not the same.” 1. AI continues to capture the world’s imagination: The biggest corporations start using artificial intelligence for real-world business purposes, including supply-chain management, distribution improvements […]

In an effort to keep up in the accelerating AI arms race, cloud-services provider Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. on Tuesday agreed to buy Juniper Networks, Inc. in a deal worth around $ 14 billion. Under the terms of the deal, Hewlett Packard Enterprises HPE, -8.92% will acquire Juniper JNPR, +21.81% — which makes communications-networking products […]

Intel agreed to buy Silicon Mobility SAS, a fabless silicon and software company that develops system-on-chips for intelligent electric-vehicle energy management. The purchase is one of the plans Intel INTC, -0.83% announced at CES to bring its “AI everywhere strategy into the automotive market.” Silicon Mobility SAS is a portfolio company of Cipio Partners and […]