The median amount of cash saved by Americans under the age of 35, not including retirement funds, was just $3,240 last year, according to government data. istock Recession — and layoff — fears loom la...
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Democrat Brandon Presley—Cousin Of Elvis—Close To Mississippi’s Republican Governor In Recent Polls
Topline This year’s gubernatorial election in reliably red Mississippi is shaping up to be the most competitive in decades, according to recent (if small) polls, with a distant relative of rock and ro...
‘Timing couldn’t be worse’: Inflation is easing, but more people are using credit cards for unexpected expenses — and the next Fed meeting will raise borrowing costs
A record number of people say they would need to pay for an unplanned $1,000 expense by using their credit card, according to a new survey showing the burden of high prices even as inflation rates ebb...
Elon Musk Says He’ll Restrict Polls To Twitter Blue Subscribers—After Vote Said He Should Step Down As CEO
Topline Elon Musk on Monday said Twitter polls on major policy decisions at the company will be restricted to Twitter Blue subscribers a day after a majority of respondents voted for the billionaire t...
Polls Show Walker And Warnock In A Near Dead-Heat Two Weeks Before Runoff
Topline Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) has a slight edge over Republican Herschel Walker in the Georgia Senate runoff election, according to a new poll that suggests Warnock may have gained independent vote...
Kazakhstan Goes To The Polls, Hoping Investors Return Post-Pandemic
Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev leaves a voting booth to cast his ballot at a polling … [+] station in Astana, Kazakhstan, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022. Tokayev easily beat five cand...
The brands and models car shoppers want most—despite inventory levels
Toyota dealers are low on cars. All the same, more American car shoppers consider a Toyota TM, +1.95% than any other brand. Fully 35% of American car shoppers looked closely at buying a Toyota product...
Public Opinion On An Accurate Vote Count
There are more than 10,000 election jurisdictions in America. For most people, that means their local county, but in New England and parts of the upper Midwest, often very small cities, towns, and tow...
Netanyahu On Track To Return As Israel’s Prime Minister, Exit Polls Suggest
Topline Longtime former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on the verge of a political comeback, according to exit polls that show his right-wing coalition leading in Tuesday’s legisla...
40% of households will pay no federal income tax this year. Why that’s good news.
Millions of workers are bouncing back — and making enough money to pay Uncle Sam. Some 72.5 million households or 40% of households will pay no federal income tax this year, down from the pre-pandemic...
Petrobras Surge Evaporates With Polls Showing Bolsonaro Stalling
(Bloomberg) — The rally that drove Petrobras shares to the highest in more than a decade risks fizzling out as support for President Jair Bolsonaro appears to be stalling in voter polls just day...
What stock-market investors will be watching in Thursday’s U.S. inflation report
Hotter-than-expected U.S. consumer-price index readings have triggered some of the stock market’s biggest one-day selloffs in 2022, serving to focus investor attention ahead of the latest measure of r...
Most investors think the next big move for the S&P 500 will involve a near 20% drop, says Deutsche Bank survey
Last week’s first gain in four for stocks has likely emboldened some bulls out there, but investor wariness remains, according to a new survey from Deutsche Bank. Observe the chart below that shows ho...
What does Friday’s jobs report mean for the market? ‘Too hot’ and stocks could tumble, says market pro
With Federal Reserve Chair Powell last week reaffirming plans to keep raising interest rates to bring down inflation despite the risk of recession, Friday’s monthly U.S. jobs report may once again car...
Two Bitcoin price prediction polls, same outcome: $10K BTC is coming
Bitcoin (BTC) investors in China plan to buy the dip despite an ongoing market correction and a nationwide crypto ban, a new survey shows. Consensus sees Bitcoin at $10K A survey of 2,200 people condu...
Home builders cut prices and slow construction as buyers pull back, survey shows
Home builders are feeling jittery. That’s according to a June survey of home builder sentiment by John Burns Real Estate Consulting. Demand for new homes is cooling as buyers cancel orders, and builde...
Biden Says Voting ‘Only Way’ To Fix Roe V. Wade Ruling—But Here’s What Polls Indicate For Midterms
Topline President Joe Biden predicted Friday the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade would send American women to the ballot box in “record numbers”—but while polling released since the decisio...
Snowflake has catapulted into ‘elite territory,’ JPMorgan says in upgrade
Snowflake Inc. is winning big praise from those in charge of tech spending, and that’s cause for an upgrade of its stock at JPMorgan. The bank’s recent survey of chief information officers found stron...
25% of U.S. expats ‘seriously considering’ or ‘planning’ to renounce citizenship
While many taxpayers dread tax filing season, Americans living abroad face even bigger yearly burdens and those are so frustrating that some want to ditch their U.S. citizenship. Roughly 1 in 4 Americ...
70% of economists say America is headed for a recession: poll. How to invest now
Worried about a recession? Here are some tips from pros Getty Images/iStockphoto Many economists say the United States will fall into a recession next year, according to a new poll by the Financial Ti...
Biden open to canceling $10,000 in student loans per borrower — what that means for your budget, credit score and tax bill
If $10,000 vanishes from your student debt, you may want to celebrate. This is a question millions of student loan holders may be facing soon if President Joe Biden proceeds with a controversial plan ...
Here’s the asset investors want if inflation stays high, says Deutsche Bank. And crypto isn’t even ‘on the radar’
Home is where the heart is, and the money, if inflationary trends don’t cool. That’s according to the latest Deutsche Bank survey of investors, who say that property will be their most preferred buy-a...
A larger share of younger investors say they’re not afraid to buy the dip in the pursuit of long-term gains — but there’s one big caveat
The stock market is taking on a deepening red hue as steep sell-offs continue, but a new report says some younger retail investors are seeing red meat for ‘buys.’ Fewer than two in ten people, 18%, sa...
French President Macron Wins Re-Election Against Far-Right Le Pen, Polls Show
Topline Initial polling data from France’s runoff election Sunday indicate French President Emmanuel Macron will win a second five-year term, fending off his competitor Marine Le Pen in an election th...
Millions of working Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck — and running out of cash as another recession looms
Inflation is taking its toll on people’s emergency funds. The share of workers who say they are living paycheck-to-paycheck has surged among middle- to high-income earners — 63% and 49%, respectively ...