Category: United States

I’m living the Black Friday dream. I did all my shopping last year with one fell click. Last year, I purchased a “hot” Black Friday item: a robot vacuum cleaner. I didn’t go for the Roomba. Instead, I chose a $ 220 Eufy RoboVac at a discounted price of $ 120, excluding tax. It cleans […]

Earlier this month, I realized I needed to buy a new pair of sneakers. But this being November, I immediately said to myself: “Wait till Black Friday since there’s bound to be a sale.” Here’s the thing, though: I really needed those sneakers. And when I did a little checking online, I found I could […]

Are some of the posts that you see on X.com, formerly known as Twitter, just ads in disguise? That’s what the Check My Ads Institute, a non-profit advertising watchdog group, is alleging against the social media platform. The organization has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission calling for the agency to “investigate the […]

I’m 48 and have been married to my wonderful husband, 49, for almost 20 years. We have one son, 18, who lives at home. We have three other adult children who now live on their own: My husband has two sons, ages 27 and 25, and I have a 29-year-old son from a previous marriage.  […]

OpenAI’s investors are making efforts to bring back Sam Altman, the  chief executive who was fired on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, the latest development at the artificial-intelligence company behind ChatGPT. See: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman steps down as board loses confidence in his leadership Chief Technology Officer Mira…

Israel, the United States and Hamas have agreed to a tentative deal that would free dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza, in exchange for a five-day pause in fighting, the Washington Post reported Saturday. The release, which could begin within the next several days could lead to the first sustained pause in conflict […]

The bottle Michter’s US*1 Kentucky Straight Bourbon, $ 50 The back story This is the time of year I usually recommend a bottle of wine to pair with your Thanksgiving feast. But this year, I’m going to talk about American whiskey — and a very special brand of American whiskey (and a very enjoyable bottle […]

Dear Quentin, I got myself into a real doozy of a situation.  I made $ 57,000 in loan payments on my then boyfriend and now husband’s house. He was going to let his place get foreclosed on, but since I had already spent quite a bit of money helping him out, I didn’t want that […]

It’s a Prime time for scams. If you’re an Amazon AMZN shopper, then you’re a target for scammers, unfortunately —especially as we head into Black Friday and the busy holiday shopping season. And the retail giant has been warning customers to be wary of bad actors trying to hack into their Amazon accounts through scam […]

“A Better Biden-Xi Summit?” was the title of my recent commentary about a meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Xinping at the APEC conference in San Francisco this week. The title’s emphasis was on the question mark. With good reason: Last year’s summit in Bali was a flop. Owing to poor […]

Dear Quentin, Do you think it’s OK for a guy to ask his new girlfriend to split the bill when they go out to eat? We have been dating for a few months. Neither of us has ever been married before.  I am 28, he is 29, and we both live in San Francisco. We […]

This year’s first Global Stocktake is likely to make grim reading, highlighting that the world’s collective efforts to meet the targets of the Paris Agreement on climate change are falling well short.  Cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030 is vital if we are to avoid the worst effects of global warming. This is still possible — just. But by the time that the U.N.’s […]

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Is this the beginning of the end for X, the social-media site previously known as Twitter? In the last two days, major advertisers, ranging from IBM Corp. IBM, Apple Inc. AAPL, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. LGF.A, Walt Disney Co. DIS, even the European Union, have pulled their ads from X, after Elon Musk appeared to […]

The Biden administration on Friday slammed Elon Musk after the billionaire owner of X Corp. responded to a social-media post that promoted an antisemitic conspiracy, calling his reply “abhorrent.” Musk on Wednesday replied to the post on X, formerly Twitter, with the comment: “You have said the actual truth.” The post said Jewish people hold […]

Microsoft earlier this week took the wraps off one of the more important reveals in the chip market in a long time. Microsoft MSFT now has both a custom-designed AI processing chip and a custom Arm-based CPU to add its growing stable of products to help it vertically integrate its services and solutions. The star […]

Dear Dan, Your article, “What’s the best way to give to charity?” piqued my interest. I have shares of stock that I’ve held for 20 years and are worth about seven times what I bought them for, so using those to make a donation is interesting to me. However, near the end you said there […]

With wars between Russia and Ukraine and between Israel and Hamas, an investor might expect oil prices to soar because of the potential for supply disruption. But that hasn’t happened. The front-month contract price for West Texas Intermediate crude oil CL.1, +3.06% CL00, +3.05% has declined 9% this year, and it is down nearly 10% […]

Shares of BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings Inc. took a dive Friday, after the membership-based warehouse retailer reported a surprise dip in fiscal third-quarter same-store sales and cut its full-year outlook, citing “shifts in consumer behavior” driven by the broader economic environment. The miss in same-store sales, or sales from stores open more than a year, […]

U.S. stock futures on Friday inched higher, consolidating recent gains ahead of the expiration of key options contracts. What’s happening Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, +0.26% rose 75 points, or 0.2%, to 35094. S&P 500 futures ES00, +0.22% gained 10 points, or 0.2%, to 4533. Nasdaq 100 futures NQ00, +0.05% increased 13 points, or […]