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Health care stocks staged a comeback in 2025 after months of weak sentiment, buoyed by improving earnings expectations and growing enthusiasm around artificial intelligence. By early 2026, much of the sector had regained technical strength, signaling renewed investor confidence.  But beneath that rebound, deeper pressures are building. Schwab’s latest analysis points to two major forces […]

Apple just delivered a quarter that surprised even its skeptics. Services grew faster than expected. Margins held up better than feared. And for a company that has spent much of 2026 navigating tariff concerns and AI doubts, the results landed exactly when it needed them to. Morgan Stanley noticed. And the bank’s response tells you

There is an old line I picked up early in covering Detroit: never bet against the American consumer’s love of trucks. For the past three years, automakers tried anyway. They poured tens of billions of dollars into electric vehicle factories, lithium supply deals, and battery joint ventures, betting that a $7,500 federal tax credit and

Every big platform has the same uncomfortable secret. The kind of content it tells users to avoid is often the kind that pulls in the most traffic. Clickbait. Outrage. “You won’t believe what happened next.” Meta (META) has spent close to a decade publicly fighting this stuff. The company calls it engagement bait. Posts that

Subway’s origin story feels like the setup to a bad joke: a college student and a nuclear physicist walk into a bar… While a bar may not have been their actual meeting place, the beloved sandwich chain is the result of a partnership between a nuclear physicist, Dr. Peter Buck, and a young college student,

Most retirees who donate to charity write a check and never consider whether their IRA could serve both generosity and income at once. A financial vehicle lets you support the causes you love while collecting fixed payments for the rest of your life. Charles Schwab recently outlined how the SECURE 2.0 Act lets IRA owners

Your tax refund arrived this spring, and there is a strong chance it was significantly bigger than you expected or planned for. The average individual filer received $3,462 as of April 3, 2026, up $346 (about 11%) from $3,116 at the same point in 2025, according to IRS filing season statistics.  That gap between what

During my years reporting on real estate and personal finance matters, I’ve frequently encountered the incorrect assumption some make that interest rate changes directly cause shifts in real estate mortgage rates. It’s important for people to understand that bond markets, not the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy, drive mortgage rates, because lenders price loans off long-term

Anthropic’s CEO warns that half of all entry-level white-collar jobs could vanish within one to five years, potentially driving U.S. unemployment to between 10% and 20%, a range that at its upper end would exceed any level seen since World War II.  Goldman Sachs estimates that 300 million jobs globally are exposed to AI-driven automation,

Cathie Wood is doubling down on her buy-the-dip strategy.  The Ark Invest chief just picked up shares of a megacap tech name that fell 9% after reporting results. In 2025, the flagship Ark Innovation ETF gained 35.49%, far outpacing the S&P 500’s return of 17.88% in the same period. But so far this year, Wood’s