US stock futures tumbled but were trimming losses on Monday on hopes for an easing in the oil supply squeeze, after crude prices surged past the $100-a-barrel mark amid fears of a prolonged Middle East conflict.
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures (YM=F) were down 1.2% after plunging more than 1,000 points overnight.
Social Security isn’t automatically tax-free. Whether you owe federal income tax depends on what other income you have, because the IRS uses a combined income formula to determine how much of your benefit is taxable.
Those thresholds were set decades ago and haven’t been adjusted for inflation, so more retirees cross them each year as benefits rise.
With Social Security benefits a key piece of a senior’s retirement income, any time someone from the Trump administration mentions changes to the program, it’s important to pay attention.
With the Social Security trust funds projected to face shortfalls in the early 2030s, even offhand remarks about senior benefits seem like veiled threats to a program that supports millions of retirees.
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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on March 5, 2026.
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Stock futures plunged to start the week as U.S. oil surged amid the U.S.-Iran conflict, raising fears higher energy prices could dramatically slow the U.S.
Palantir has tremendous earnings power due to its fast-growing customer base and the ability to win bigger contracts from existing customers.
Its revenue pipeline is strong enough to help the company clock stronger-than-expected growth in 2026 and beyond.
Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) stock has lost 30% of its value from its 52-week high that it hit in early November last year,
US stock futures tumbled on Monday as oil prices surged past the $100-a-barrel mark and investors braced for the next development in a still-escalating Middle East war.
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures (YM=F) were down 1.5% after plunging 1,000 points overnight. Contracts on the S&P 500 (ES=F) and the Nasdaq 100 (NQ=F) sank roughly 1.3% and 1.5%,
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The past 18 months have been challenging for India’s mutual fund industry, with the most popular schemes delivering negative returns amid heightened market volatility. Data from leading large-cap and flexi-cap funds shows that while losses were widespread,
Warren Buffett has spent decades warning investors that their own impatience—not the market—poses the greatest threat to their wealth.
Oil and natural gas prices have always been volatile. That’s just the nature of the sector. Despite knowing this, Wall Street seems to tie itself in knots every time prices move too much in one direction. To be fair, the geopolitical concerns that are upending the energy sector today are huge, newsworthy events.
But that’s how Wall Street tends to react.
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The uncertain economy is forcing some consumers to tighten their spending, something Chipotle’s 2025 financial results revealed.
Investors should focus on the long term, as the business will have a much larger store footprint in the future.
Although the valuation presents a compelling buying opportunity,
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