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Fed may need to be even more aggressive fighting inflation as U.S. household cash exceeds debt for first time in three decades, warns Deutsche Bank
With U.S. households looking in good financial shape, the Federal Reserve may need to be even more aggressive raising interest rates to cool the economy and bring down high inflation, according to a r...
Why you should retire with more money than you need
I’m frequently asked some variation of this question: Can I afford to retire? The question seems simple, but it’s trickier than you might think. The simple answer is: It depends on how much you need f...
‘My degree has not led to greater income.’ Can I get rid of old student loans?
How to get out of student loan debt Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: I have a degree, and I’ve been paying the student loan for about 25 years. I switched to income-driven repayment in 2011. The loa...
When a traditional IRA makes sense over a Roth account
Saving in an IRA makes sense whether you have a retirement plan at work or not, but investors then have to decide if a traditional or Roth account is better – as always, it depends. Retirement Tip of...
Here are 30 stocks that Goldman Sachs likes when the economy stutters and markets gyrate
Wall Street is finding some traction for Tuesday, as investors wade through big earnings and ample, gloomy distractions. Fighting has ramped up again in Ukraine as the battle begins for the country’s ...
You need to pay more attention to dividends — this math shows why they beat inflation
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – One of the best bear-market-protection strategies is hidden in plain sight: Dividend-paying stocks. Most investors pay little attention to them. Because the stock market’s dividend...
Buy Bank of America on the Earnings Beat? First, Check the Chart.
Bank of America (BAC) – Get Bank of America Corp Report is giving a boost to the financials on Monday, with the shares up 4.5% after the financial-services giant reported earnings. The stock op...
What the rising probability of a ‘growth scare’ means for the stock market, according to Citigroup
Recession worries are working their way into equities, according to Citigroup. A “mild recession in 2023” could lead to a drop of about 20% for the S&P 500 index from its late March high of around...
Coinbase’s stock selloff is ‘way overblown’ for these reasons, analyst says
Shares of Coinbase Global Inc. sank toward another record low Monday, even as bullish analyst Owen Lau of Oppenheimer attempted to debunk the bears’ reasons to sell the crypto-trading platform. The st...
Oil Service Stocks Are Gaining Steam. These Are the Ones to Watch.
Text size Prices and margins are improving for companies like Haliburton. Dreamstime Oil services and equipment companies slimmed down after the last oil bust, and that’s left them looking lean as oil...
My ex-husband encouraged me to drop out of college after a year, and now I’m struggling to repay my student loans. Is there anything I can do?
It’s also important to make sure you don’t neglect the emotional impact of this situation. Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: I took out a student loan in 2006, but my ex-husband was very controlling,...
Have fun AND retire rich — a great tax-refund life hack
For the 100 million of you who will get a tax refund this year, the former head of retirement solutions at J.P. Morgan has a great and very simple idea. Don’t spend all your refund. And don’t save all...
‘The graveyard shift is the most understaffed:’ I work as a waiter on the Las Vegas Strip. We are overworked, underpaid, and our drunk customers often don’t tip
Dear Quentin, I currently work at a fast-casual restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip. I have worked at the company for three years. I work at the busiest outlet of this restaurant in the world. During t...
Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are Hours for Easter Monday 2022.
Text size Dreamstime U.S. investors eager to trade after the holiday weekend will have plenty of news to digest, thanks to corporate earnings. More than 100 companies are slated to report this week—an...
U.S. stock futures slip headed into big earnings week
U.S. stock-index futures fell Sunday, ahead of a big week of earnings reports. As of midnight Eastern, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, -0.16% futures were down about 80 points, or 0.2%, whi...
Tesla, AT&T, Netflix, Bank of America, IBM, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week
Text size First-quarter earnings season picks up next week, with 67 S&P 500 companies scheduled to report. Bank of America will be Monday’s highlight, followed by Netflix , Johnson & Johnson ...
These money and investing tips are what you need when markets aren’t giving what you want
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This is how much you made if you bought into the oil crash 2 years ago
If you want to retire rich, the late, great Dan Bunting has some advice for you. “Always buy the market (i.e., stocks or even just the index) after a spectacular bankruptcy,” my old friend Bunting, a ...
A retired nurse lost $43,000 to bitcoin — watch out for red flags online
A New York retired nurse lost $43,000 of her life savings to bitcoin scammers, after transferring the money to them through a malicious computer pop-up – an unfortunate reminder to be vigilant when it...
‘The Fed always screws up.’ This forecaster sees inflation peaking and U.S. stocks in a bear market by summer
Keith McCullough, founder and CEO of Hedgeye Risk Management, has been bullish on gold, silver and utilities since the start of the year, when his investment-research firm’s economic models turned bea...