A 64-Year-Old Couple Ran the Numbers on Claiming Social Security Early and Spending the 401(k) Later. They Had It Backwards.
Claiming Social Security at 64 while letting the 401(k) compound sounds like a smart hedge, but the math behind that sequence hides a tax trap most couples never see coming until it is too late to undo.
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Read MoreSocial Security Warning Issued by GOP Senator—'We Really Have a Problem'
Senator Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, just issued a warning that lawmakers are running out of time to act before the Social Security program faces automatic benefit cuts.
Speaking at Semafor’s Future of Health Forum on Tuesday, Cassidy said Congress needs to act soon to fix Social Security, which is currently projected to exhaust its retirement trust fund in 2032.
Read MoreDow Jones Top Company Headlines at 1 AM ET: OpenAI Shares More Safety Incidents and Adopts New Rules for Reporting Them | Exxon …
OpenAI Shares More Safety Incidents and Adopts New Rules for Reporting Them
The company said it hopes to inspire competitors to greater transparency as public fears about AI dangers mount.
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Exxon Is Nearing Preliminary Deal to Invest in Venezuela’s Oil Fields
The company is negotiating a potential return to the Latin American country 19 years after its exit.
Read MoreNews Flash: 70% of Wall Street Institutions Are Calling for at Least a 50-Basis-Point Fed Rate Hike in 2026
Today, Sept. 16, is the day all of Wall Street has been waiting for. In mere hours, at 2 p.m. ET, Fed Chair Kevin Warsh and the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will announce what, if any, monetary policy changes have been made to the federal funds target rate — and that answer is expected to cause wild vacillations in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI -1.21%),
Read MoreFederal Reserve and Bank of England ramp up scrutiny of bank-trading firm ties after Jane Street’s $15B loss
Jane Street, the quantitative trading powerhouse that has quietly become one of the most profitable firms on Wall Street, just had its worst month in a decade. The firm posted a roughly $15 billion trading loss in July 2026, its first month of negative trading revenue since 2016. Now the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England are using the episode as a catalyst to take a harder look at the risks banks face from their deep financial ties to firms like Jane Street.
Read MoreThe Burst
Smartest AI Stock to Buy Now
It’s easy to get caught up in the hype of Nvidia but perhaps the smartest stock to buy now is Alphabet (GOOGL). Across the gamut of products and services offered by Alphabet, a whole new world of revenues opens up when AI is factored in.
We delve in to explore just how large the opportunity is for Alphabet and potentially for shareholders over the next few years.
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Read MoreThe Ivy
What Oracle CEO Said 55 Hours Ago Will Shock You
I’m old enough to remember when Oracle was $13 per share in 2003 and by 2006 it was still $13 per share.
The company seemed as old and boring and stodgy as any tech company could become. It was almost like an IBM relic that would gather dust, selling software to enterprises and producing a boatload of cash flow but really doing nothing to excite investors or innovate.
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Is Sea Limited The Next Amazon?
As one of the few trillion-dollar companies in history, many investors and traders wish nothing more than to be able to go back in time a decade to when Amazon stock sold for under $200 a share. As a matter of fact, it would be even better to go back two decades to when the company’s stock was barely over $10 a share.