Catherine Mcqueen | Moment | Getty Images Inflation is gradually falling but remains high, meaning consumers’ budgets continue to be stressed by fast-rising prices. For some, that might mean making tough financial tradeoffs — an exercise that starts by coming to terms with the situation and making an honest assessment of your needs, said Lazetta
Collectively, Americans owe more on credit cards than ever before. And they’re paying a higher price for it, as well. The average annual interest rate for credit cards is now near 21%, according to data from the Federal Reserve — marking the highest rate since the Fed began tracking this figure nearly three decades ago.
In this article WMT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Walmart Chief Merchandising Officer Charles Redfield is stepping down next month. Walmart U.S. CEO John Furner said in an employee memo on Friday that Redfield will leave the role on May 1 to spend more time with his family.
In this article C Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Bloomberg Citigroup reported rising net income and better-than-expected revenue for the first quarter, boosting its stock in premarket trading Friday. Here is how Citigroup’s key metrics compared to expectations. $4.6 billion in net income versus $4.3 billion in the same period last year $21.45 billion
In this article VFC RIVN UNH BA JPM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Boeing 737 MAX 8 sits outside the hangar during a media tour of the Boeing 737 MAX at the Boeing plant in Renton, Washington. Matt Mcknight | Reuters Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Boeing — Shares
Steven Heap/EyeEm/Getty Images If you don’t file your taxes, you may be leaving money on the table — and there’s a free option to make the process easier. Generally, you’re not required to file a federal tax return if your gross income is below the standard deduction, which is $12,950 for single filers and $25,900
Homes in Centreville, Maryland, US, on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty Images Today’s homebuyers are exceptionally sensitive to mortgage rates with house prices so high — and they’ve found their tipping point. After years of government intervention following the great recession and the first years of the Covid-19 pandemic that
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Zamrznutitonovi | Istock | Getty Images New government inflation data shows inflation is cooling — and that could point to a lower cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, for Social Security beneficiaries next year. The Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers, or CPI-U, rose 5% from a year ago and 0.1% in March, according to data
In this article LCID LCID Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT With 1,050 horsepower, the new Grand Touring Performance edition becomes the most powerful version of Lucid’s electric Air sedan. Lucid Motors Luxury electric vehicle maker Lucid Group said late Thursday that it produced 2,314 of its Air sedans in the first quarter. But it
Jamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., during a Bloomberg Television interview at the JPMorgan Global High Yield and Leveraged Finance Conference in Miami, Florida, US, on Monday, March 6, 2023. Marco Bello | Bloomberg | Getty Images JPMorgan Chase is scheduled to report first-quarter earnings before the opening bell
The luxury watch market is well-positioned to avoid a crash as tight supply and a new generation of young collectors drive demand, according to the CEO of Audemars Piguet. Luxury watch prices on the secondary market fell 8% last year, with some top models falling more than 20% from their peak, according to WatchCharts. Experts
Investors are questioning the health of the commercial real estate sector following a string of recent banking crises. Mike Kemp | In Pictures | Getty Images Concerns are mounting around the health of Europe’s commercial real estate market, with some investors questioning whether it could be the next sector to blow following last month’s banking
More women are becoming breadwinners, but the division of labor at home has barely budged, a new report found. Although men still out-earn women in most households, the share of women who earn as much as or significantly more than their husband has roughly tripled over the last half-century, according to a new Pew Research Center
In this article SPR BA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Boeing 737 Max airplanes sit parked at the company’s production facility on November 18, 2020 in Renton, Washington. David Ryder | Getty Images Boeing on Thursday warned it will likely have to reduce deliveries of its 737 Max airplane in the near term because
The European Union will launch an 11th wave of sanctions on Russia and seek to crack down on efforts to evade economic penalties introduced in the wake of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a top EU official told CNBC Thursday. “Europe has rolled out 10 packages of sanctions. We will have another package,” Mairead McGuinness,
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Sdi Productions | E+ | Getty Images After a federal judge in Texas struck down a key provision of the Affordable Care Act last month, some health insurance plans may soon scale back their preventive care coverage, experts say. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled in late March that one of the three panels of
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