I’m 57 and I don’t have much money. Is a financial adviser right for me?

How to find a financial adviser Getty Images Question: I’m 57 years old and late to the party. I do not have much money socked away nor do I have investments outside of my retirement fund, and I never...

XP.NETWORK Joins Tezos Ecosystem as Corporate Baker – crypto.news

OR YEHUDA, ISRAEL – April 8, 2022 – XP.NETWORK, creator of the NFT cross-chain platform that supports more chains than any other NFT protocol, has officially announced plans to expand its involvement ...

XP.NETWORK Obtains Corporate Baker Status in Tezos (XTZ) Ecosystem

Vladislav Sopov NFT-focused crypto infrastructure provider becomes latest corporate baker for Tezos (XTZ) Contents XP.NETWORK team becomes newest Tezos (XTZ) corporate baker Strengthening multi-chain ...

Online Sports Betting Is a Buzzy Industry, but Where’s the Money?

Text size Gamblers may have won big with the men’s March Madness championship game on Monday, but investing in online gambling platforms has been a losing hand as of late. Shares of DraftKings (ticker...

UPS Stock Is Down For a Seventh Straight Day. Here’s Why.

Text size UPS stock is on a seven-day losing streak. Alex Wong/Getty Images   United Parcel Service stock is on an ignominious streak, falling for seven consecutive days. There hasn’t been much compan...

Do I resist refinancing my $160,000 federal student loan at a lower rate in the hope there will be loan forgiveness? What are the chances it will happen?

I graduated from college in 2017 with more than $210,000 in federal student-loan debt thanks to out-of-state tuition, a master’s program, and not fully understanding this cost at that time. I’ve chise...

As mortgage rates surge higher, these home buyers are being pushed out of the market

The steep upward climb in mortgage rates still isn’t showing any signs of stopping. The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was 4.72% as of the week ending April 7, Freddie Mac FMCC, -0.03% ...

Retired? Here’s when you don’t have to file your taxes – and when you do

Not all seniors need to file a tax return, but others may incorrectly think they fall in this category – don’t make that mistake.  Retirement Tip of the Week: If you don’t plan to file a tax return th...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Takes 11% Stake in HP

Text size Warren Buffett Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc. Berkshire Hathaway has accumulated an 11.4% stake worth $4.2 billion in HP Inc. , the maker of personal computers and printers, ...

Rivian’s Production of Electric Trucks More Than Doubles. The Stock Falls.

Text size Courtesy Rivian Production at Rivian Automotive grew in the first quarter from the fourth, but the stock was falling Wednesday. Rivian (ticker: RIVN) reported first-quarter production on Tue...

Ackman’s Closed-End Fund Trades at a Steep Discount. Maybe It’s the High Fees.

Investor Bill Ackman recently highlighted market-beating 17% annualized returns generated by his Pershing Square Capital Management since 2004. But many investors in Ackman’s largest investment vehicl...

These 6 ‘Dividend Aristocrats’ Have a Strong Pipeline for Cash. That’s a Plus.

Text size Exxon Mobil is among the companies whose yield on free cash flow indicates strong support for the payout’s resilience. Here, an Exxon refinery in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Dean Mouhtarop...

Wells Fargo to Pay to Settle Lawsuit Over Its 401(k) Plan

Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $32.5 million to settle a two-year-old case involving alleged self-dealing with the company’s 401(k) plan. Wells Fargo, which had previously sought to dismiss the lawsuit...

These income strategies can help protect your stock investments from inflation and a recession

There is always uncertainty in the stock market, but the deflationary cycle that helped feed tremendous gains over the past several decades has ended. Two related strategies can give you downside prot...

Elon Musk admits his Twitter investment isn’t passive and reveals that he began buying the stock in January

Elon Musk filed a new disclosure on his Twitter Inc. stake with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, admitting that he invested in the company with the goal of effecting change and that ...

Elon Musk Named to Twitter’s Board. He Can’t Own More Than 14.9% of the Stock.

Text size Elon Musk gestures as he speaks during a press conference at SpaceX’s Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas on Feb. 10, 2022. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images Elon Musk w...

U.S. Treasury bars Russia payments in dollars from US accounts

The U.S. Treasury Department will not allow any Russian government debt payments from accounts at U.S. financial institutions to be made in U.S. dollars, restricting one of the strategies President Vl...

Carvana Stock Tumbles as Analyst Sees Risk of Car Boom Becoming Car Bust

Text size An eight-story car-vending machine, operated by Carvana, in Huntington Beach, Calif. Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images Car sales have are slowing after their pandemic-fueled boom and have le...

Cathie Wood’s ARK Snaps Up Nearly $20 Million of UiPath Stock

Text size Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF purchased 867,331 shares of UiPath on Monday. Courtesy of ARK Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation exchange-traded fund purchased 867,331 shares of UiPath , th...

Corporate America flocks to the metaverse with a combined $1 trillion valuation

Filings in 2022 indicate that one thing about the metaverse is that it will be well fed and well dressed. Companies with a combined market cap of around $1.1 trillion have filed for trademarks related...

Cardano leads rises as largest cryptocurrencies start mixed

The largest cryptocurrencies were mixed during morning trading on Monday, with Cardano ADAUSD seeing the biggest move, rising 2.96% to $1.21. Polkadot DOTUSD led the decreases with a 2.79% drop to $22...

I’m 41, my partner is 50. We have $800,000 in retirement savings and make $250,000. We want to retire ASAP but know our money won’t last us our lifetimes – what can we do?

I love reading your responses to everyone’s retirement questions, but realized that I haven’t seen one that matches up closely to what I’m hoping to do. I am 41, and my partner is 50. We are both empl...

NIO Has a Plan to End the Anxiety Over Charging Electric Vehicles

Text size NIO, the Chinese electric-vehicle maker, is in talks to license its battery swapping technology, according to the Financial Times. Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images Electric-vehicle sales are ...

Why U.S. consumers suspect gas price gouging — and how much stations actually profit from a gallon of the fuel

Oil company executives will be on the hot seat Wednesday at a House subcommittee hearing as U.S. consumers across the country allege gasoline price gouging at the pump, where drivers last month paid r...

A big shift is under way for markets, and old Warren Buffett shareholder letters point to which companies will survive

Given a war and inflation have marked the start of 2022, investors would be forgiven for holding their breath over the rest of the year’s offerings. Our call of the day from a team at Saxo Bank sees a...

Elon Musk Is Already Dropping Hints on His Plans for Twitter. So Much for ‘Passive.’

The world’s richest person may have taken a ‘passive’ stake in Twitter , but he is clearly intent on playing an active role in pushing for change on the platform itself. There is a chance the stake wi...

‘Only a few’ cryptos should avoid SEC oversight, Chairman Gensler says

The vast majority of crypto tokens in circulation are securities that should be overseen by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Chairman Gary Gensler said in a speech Monday. “The fact is, most cr...

Why GM and Ford Stocks Have Driven Off Course

Are high gas prices and rising interest rates hitting demand for gas-guzzlers? Sales data don’t offer much of an answer these days, leaving investors to fear the worst. On Monday, Ford Motor reported ...

Investment Firm Files Finra Arbitration Demand Against Morgan Stanley

An investor accused Morgan Stanley of leaking information about a large sale of shares of Palantir Technologies Inc., saddling it with millions of dollars in losses. Morgan Stanley is at the center of...

AMD, Qualcomm make software-focused acquisitions as growth in core chip businesses questioned

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. both announced acquisitions on Monday that will help diversify into greater software holdings as analysts question growth in the chip makers’ core busines...