Category: United States

These days, Americans are going beyond the norm on a daily basis. They feast upon plant-based Beyond Meat BYND, -2.57% products. They wear Beyond Yoga athletic clothes. They tackle home-improvement projects with Beyond Paint products. They even feed their dogs and cats Beyond brand natural pet food. In a word, “beyond” has become a buzzword. […]

The housing market is supposed to be on fire right now, but this might be a little too literal. Offers are pouring in — and above listing price — for an $ 850,000 burnt-out house in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Sure, many homebuyers are looking for a place that they can really put their […]

Is IBM a Democratic or a Republican stock? I ask because it is one of the largest holdings in the Democratic Large-Cap Core ETF DEMZ, which “only purchases securities of companies that are supportive, through their political contributions, of Democratic candidates and political action committees.” The ETF invests in companies “that, along…

U.S. consumers’ dashed hopes for an end to the pandemic are at risk of morphing more broadly into higher inflation expectations over the next year. And that’s the biggest risk facing financial markets through mid-2022, according to Jefferies LLC economist Thomas Simons. “The longer the economy and society remain distorted or abnormal relative to what we […]

Dear Quentin, I have (or, I should say, “had”) a wealthy benefactress who gave me money six years ago as a gift. Now her financial situation has changed (she’s down to her last several million) and she texted me last week that she would like the money she “provided” (her words) back — adding that […]

Dear Quentin, Four years ago, my husband and I divorced. It became a volatile situation in the end, so I moved my daughter and myself into a house with a friend of a friend, who had rooms to rent in his home.  My husband stayed in my house (which I owned pre-marriage) while looking for […]

The stock market is not a bad place to be if high U.S. inflation turns out to be more than transitory. It’s also not a bad place to be if inflation’s recent spike turns out to be merely temporary. This relationship that stocks have to inflation is comforting, because the current inflation debate remains as […]

Tesla Inc. set its shareholder meeting for Oct. 7 at the Fremont, Calif., factory, with a call for reducing its directors’ terms among the proposals the electric-car maker will bring to the table, the company said in filing late Friday. One of the proposals calls for each director’s term to be reduced from three years […]

Another quarterly report, another plunge for shares of ContextLogic Inc., the parent of mobile e-commerce platform Wish, as they sank toward a record low on heavy volume on Friday. The company, which focuses on affordable products, reported late Thursday a second-quarter loss that widened from a year ago and was wider than Wall Street expected, […]

The war of words over orders implemented by the governors of Florida and Texas seeking to ban school districts from requiring students wear face masks as protection against COVID-19 when they return to classes in person has escalated into a series of lawsuits from concerned parents. In Florida, a judge in Leon County is due […]

The first detailed results of the 2020 census show a diversifying nation where the total white population shrank for the first time in its history and where large metropolitan areas, especially in the South and Southwest, saw the strongest growth. The non-Hispanic white population dropped 2.6% between 2010 and 2020, a decline that puts that […]

Work and happiness don’t always go hand in hand. Given the need for many of us to work beyond what was once dubbed “retirement” age to help sustain future financial security, and stay mentally and physically sharp, I say let’s have at it. Finding joy in your job can be integral to making it a […]

Hi,  I am a 33-year-old that is actively saving and building toward a passive income stream enabling me to either retire early or shift to a nonprofit career instead of my current job in tech.  I have about $ 200,000 in taxable investment accounts, $ 120,000 in liquid savings, and own my home with a […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration late Thursday authorized an extra COVID-19 shot for people with compromised immune systems in a move that underscores the risk that the virus still poses to some vaccinated Americans.  “The country has entered yet another wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the FDA is especially cognizant that immunocompromised people […]

Mister Car Wash Inc. shares fell in the extended session Thursday after the car-wash chain’s earnings and outlook topped Wall Street results in the company’s first report as a public company. After falling as much as 5% in after-hours trading, Mister Car Wash MCW, +1.10% ended the extended session down just 1.4%. That was on […]

Clean hydrogen is a fuel the Biden administration believes will be part of the toolkit necessary to propel the U.S. to zero emissions by 2050, not to mention a 50% cut in those emissions as soon as the end of this decade. But a peer-reviewed study out Thursday argues that the fuel’s credentials need reconsideration. […]

About 30% of unvaccinated American adults say they’re waiting for the COVID-19 vaccines currently authorized for emergency use to be officially approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. That approval is expected within the next few weeks to months. But what has to happen for the FDA to advance from emergency-use authorization, or EUA, to full approval? […]

Palantir Technologies Inc. shares rallied Thursday after the data-analytics company’s revenue and outlook topped Wall Street estimates. Palantir PLTR, +11.05% shares surged as much as 15.2% in morning trading, and were on track for their best one-day performance since Feb. 19, when they gained a little more than 15%. The company went public through a […]

The numbers: New applications for U.S. unemployment benefits fell in early August to close to a pandemic low, signaling that fewer people are losing their jobs despite another surge in coronavirus cases. Initial jobless claims dropped by 12,000 to 375,000 in the week ended Aug. 7, the government said Thursday. That matched the forecast of […]

Typically a car depreciates in value the second it’s driven out of a dealership lot. But for the past couple of months, used cars prices have gone up to the point where consumers are discovering they could make a profit off selling theirs. In April consumers paid 7.3% more for used cars than in March. […]