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If you are like many Americans trying to sort out priorities between balancing the urgency of getting out of debt and the need to save for retirement, you are not alone. And a common question arises when people try to sort out contradictory expert advice on the subject. “Do I eradicate all of my debt […]

Ordering through platforms like DoorDash or Uber Eats costs nearly 80% more on average than picking up, a LendingTree study found. Service fees, delivery charges, and inflated menu prices all add up on the final bill, often without a clear explanation of where each dollar goes. The Federal Trade Commission opened a preliminary rulemaking process

Earlier this year, Meta cut thousands of employees and told investors the reductions were necessary to fund its AI ambitions. The company redirected that payroll into infrastructure, researchers, and models designed to compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Mark Zuckerberg called it the most important investment Meta would ever make. The first real test of

The usual airline credit card upgrade comes with a predictable trade-off, where issuers add new perks while quietly raising annual fees in the same announcement. Delta Air Lines and American Express just broke that pattern with a package of benefit improvements across the full SkyMiles co-branded credit card portfolio. The changes include a free second

There’s a fear quietly spreading through enterprise software circles — that agentic AI is coming for the business model. Why pay for software licenses when AI can write, replace, or automate what that software does?  It’s a legitimate question. And 65-year-old Broadcom (AVGO) CEO Hock Tan just answered it with unusual directness. We’re not seeing

With mortgage rates hovering around 6.5% for weeks, many would-be homebuyers are wondering whether they should actually buy property in 2026. Is it a good time to buy? Would monthly mortgage payments be too high? Now, potential buyers should ask themselves yet another question: Will they even qualify for a mortgage with a lender? New

Ciena (CIEN) just delivered the kind of quarter most companies dream about. Revenue jumped 40%, profit nearly quadrupled, and management raised its full-year outlook. Wall Street liked what it saw. Analyst after analyst lifted price targets on the stock, some by hundreds of dollars. And then shares fell anyway. Ciena (CIEN) dropped sharply right after

Apple is heading into its most closely watched developer conference in years with a record quarter behind it and one of the highest-stakes AI announcements in its history in front of it. The stock has climbed 15% year to date, services revenue hit an all-time high of $31 billion in the March quarter, and Wall

Alexander Browder of the Henry Jackson Society explains how state actors and criminal networks are exploiting cryptocurrency to fund military programs, skirt sanctions, and target ordinary investors — and why his reporting led to UK sanctions and a personal retaliation from Russia. He breaks down North Korea’s and Iran’s use of crypto, warns about the

PayPay, listed on the Nasdaq less than three months ago, has already made a move that reshapes investor expectations. SoftBank Group’s Japanese payments subsidiary announced on June 4 that it will acquire a 70.2% controlling stake in T&D Financial Life Insurance. The total estimated price, including acquisition expenses, comes to roughly $840 million, according to