If your goal is to have a stress-free retirement, you should aim to set yourself up with different income streams. Social Security can certainly be one of them. But you should also, ideally, have savings and investments to cover your costs as well.
If you were a higher earner during your career,
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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) before the closing bell in New York City on April 8, 2026.
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Stock futures ticked higher early Tuesday, following a strong session in which traders shrugged off a breakdown in peace talks between the U.S.
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Money market funds are mutual funds that invest in short-term debt instruments with high credit quality, including US Treasury bills and short-term unsecured corporate-backed notes (aka commercial paper). Money market funds aim to sustain a net asset value of $1.00 per share while offering higher yields than bank savings accounts.
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Cocoa prices are already retreating back toward normal levels from the unusual highs they reached in 2024 and 2025.
Because large buyers like Mondelēz hedge their costs by locking in purchases in advance, they aren’t fully seeing the benefit of those lower prices yet,
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A surge in software stocks to start this week might be the tip of a much larger rally in tech stocks following a brutal decline in the opening months of this year.
Oracle led gains in software and the broader tech sector on Monday,
The early March 2026 market pullback, triggered by escalating Middle East tensions and a sudden spike in the Shiller CAPE ratio, has forced a valuation reset for the “Trillion-Dollar Club.” The era of rewarding AI spending on blind faith has officially ended. Institutional capital is now fleeing “AI fluff” and concentrating into a handful of mega-cap tech stocks to watch that possess a “dual growth engine”: massive high-margin software backlogs and tangible,
A feedback loop is playing out in cybersecurity stocks right now that deserves a second look. The fear is that artificial intelligence (AI) will eventually do what human security analysts do, like detect threats, investigate incidents, and close vulnerabilities. In doing so, it would make the expensive platforms that enterprises pay for every year obsolete.
By STAN CHOE, AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rallied closer to their records Monday as hope remains on Wall Street that the global economy can still avoid a worst-case scenario because of the U.S.-Iran war.
The S&P 500 rose 1% and pulled back within 1.3% of its all-time high set early this year.
