Category: United States

With hurricane season about to start, key stocks in the home-improvement and consumer-staples industries could present opportunities, according to investing-information website Trading.biz. Hurricane season in the U.S. normally begins June 1 and runs through Nov. 30. There are no tropical Atlantic cyclones at this time, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. However, researchers at Colorado State […]

Ilaria Tripp amassed $ 8,000 in credit-card bills and a personal loan just over $ 6,000 before finally feeling pinned by her debt. So the 28-year-old confined her expenses to the bare minimum and applied the rest of her money to paying down the debt. She also started posting TikTok videos about her path to […]

Cisco Systems Inc. shares were gaining in Wednesday’s extended session after the networking and software company said customer demand was stabilizing and issued an upbeat revenue outlook for the ongoing quarter. The company CSCO, +1.47% on Wednesday posted fiscal third-quarter net income of $ 1.89 billion, or 46 cents a share, compared with $ 3.21 […]

Housing costs may have gotten out of control, but there’s another expense that now poses an even greater burden to many American families: child care.  Jessica Norwood, a working mother of two in North Carolina and host of the financial-literacy show “The Sugar Daddy Podcast,” said daycare costs when her two children were ages 3 […]

Shares of Progyny Inc. tumbled Friday after the fertility-services company said the Supreme Court of Alabama’s February ruling regarding in vitro fertilization seemed to scare off some potential customers. The increased customer caution led to lower-than-expected first-quarter revenue and prompted the company to provide a downbeat outlook for the current quarter and cut its full-year […]

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. on Tuesday named former Dallas Federal Reserve president Rob Kaplan as vice chairman and management committee member. Goldman Sachs GS, +0.13% said Kaplan will rejoin the firm after he worked there for more than 20 years before retiring in 2006 to teach at Harvard University. “Rob will also draw on his […]

In the battle against short sellers, Donald Trump is winning for now. The former president’s social-media company, Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. DJT, -1.54%, has battled its way back on the stock market after blaming its earlier share price woes on naked short selling. Since the company behind conservative social-media platform Truth Social declared […]

Dreaming of buying a house in today’s challenging real-estate market? In this economy, you’ll need to make at least six figures — in most markets. But there are still some parts of the U.S. where aspiring homeowners can comfortably afford to buy even if they make less than $ 100,000, according to a new report […]

Dear Quentin, I have an 86-year-old mother who is living with early- to mid-stage dementia. She has had a partner for 30 years. They live in Oregon and I live in Idaho; there is no common-law marriage in Oregon. In 2000, my mother put her partner on the deed of her house, while I, her […]

“ The U.S. Treasury is now rolling over maturing debt at a steeper cost.” A controversial new book by psychologist Jonathan Haidt laments The Anxious Generation. The number of sleep-deprived high schoolers has climbed 13% in the United States, and young people do indeed have reasons to be jittery. While Haidt blames social media, members of Gen Z […]

One of the best things you can do as an investor is study established professionals who have amassed outstanding records. Value-stock investor Mario Gabelli fits the bill, with more than five decades of stock-market experience. Gabelli’s GAMCO Investors oversees $ 32.4 billion in assets. It has 32 mutual funds, including two that recently caught my […]

Dear Quentin, I’ve finally decided to write a will, and I’m doing it with the help of an attorney. I will be dividing my estate between family and a couple of close friends. I don’t want to end up with stalkers, but I know my family will want to know how I intend to divide […]

Dear Quentin, My aunt and uncle never had any children so they created a will in which their six nieces and nephews, of which I am one, would inherit their estate equally upon their deaths. This property is in Ohio. My uncle died, and my aunt remarried years later but never changed the will – […]

After volatile trading sessions last week, it’s worth noting that the U.S. stock market’s major trend is still up. The market’s sector relative-strength rankings are confirming this, despite the market’s gyrations, I base this bullish assessment on an analysis of which stock-market sectors typically perform the best as bull markets come to an end. Recent […]

Rates on U.S. government debt held steady on Monday after no major escalation in Middle East tensions over the weekend. What happened The yield on the 2-year Treasury BX:TMUBMUSD02 Y was unchanged at 4.969% versus Friday’s 3 p.m. Eastern time level. Monday’s level is the second-highest of the year. The yield on the 10-year Treasury […]

Gold prices tumbled on Monday as investors weighed up fading geopolitical tensions eased and investor appetite swung towards stocks and other perceived riskier assets. Gold based on continuous prices GC00, -1.62% GCM24, -1.62% fell $ 39.50, or 1.6%, to $ 2,374.50. That percentage drop is the biggest one-day decline since Dec. 4, 2023 when the […]

Scottie Scheffler has done it again. The golfer continued his dominant season with a win at the Masters on Sunday, maintaining his top spot in golf’s rankings, and has now won the most prize money ($ 15 million) this year by an incredible margin. The player with the next highest tournament earnings is $ 7.9 […]

Shares of Ticketmaster parent Live Nation Entertainment Inc. slid on Tuesday, following reports that it could soon be hit by a government antitrust lawsuit. But analysts suggested critics of the concert-industry giant — who have long complained about its industry dominance — should temper their expectations. Whatever the precise allegations might be in any possible […]

“The broad stock market is not a trend follower in any straightforward way.” Breaking below the 50-day moving average — which the S&P 500 index SPX did on Monday — used to mean the stock market was in big trouble. Those days are long gone. That doesn’t mean the stock market won’t decline in the […]

The U.K. saw the biggest jump in unemployment since the pandemic, according to data released Tuesday that reinforces the likelihood the Bank of England will soon lower interest rates. The Office for National Statistics said the unemployment rate in the three months to February rose to 4.2% from 3.9%. Economists had expected the jobless rate […]