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Sadly, higher oil prices are making a comeback. For how long is unknown. Also unknown: how will the latest increase in tensions in the Persian Gulf affect pump prices in the United States over the next few weeks or months. What we do know is that crude oil prices jumped about 5% on July 8 […]

After decades of building savings in a traditional individual retirement account, retirement may finally be within reach.  But once retirees reach the required minimum distribution age, currently 73 for those born 1951–1959 and rising to 75 for those born in 1960 or later, the Internal Revenue Service requires annual withdrawals from those accounts, regardless of

You can save well for retirement, manage your IRA or 401(k) carefully, and even adjust spending downward when markets don’t cooperate. But there’s still a lurking threat to your retirement security you should know about — inflation.  Even when prices rise modestly from year to year, the cumulative effect of inflation can significantly erode your

GameStop shareholders approved a routine-sounding item on Tuesday: more authorized Class A shares. The timing complicates that read. Six days earlier, Sony confirmed it will stop manufacturing physical PlayStation game discs starting in January 2028, closing the book on the exact product category GameStop was built to sell. Sony’s move wasn’t really a surprise. Nearly

Broadcom (AVGO) got some cold water poured on it on July 7. Just one day after, the stock jumped on news that Apple (AAPL) had extended its chip supply agreement through 2031 in a deal expected to exceed $30 billion. Erste Group analyst Hans Engel, who ranks 1,995 out of 12,375 Wall Street Analysts and

If you have ever caught yourself doom scrolling on Instagram or Facebook for hours on end and felt bad, don’t; the technology is working exactly how it was intended to. Everything from the length and style of the Reels to the algorithms’ encyclopedic knowledge of your likes and dislikes is designed to keep you on

The Iran War, tariffs and the demand-driven AI-investment boon could add up to create inflationary conditions where Federal Reserve policymakers would need to consider interest-rate hikes later this year. But not just yet.  According to the minutes of the June Federal Open Market Committee meeting, policymakers at the central bank were concerned about high inflation

T-Mobile is facing backlash for revoking a privilege that customers used when chatting with customer support representatives in the T-Life app.  The change comes as the carrier has been making customers increasingly reliant on the app to handle account changes in recent months. For example, in October, T-Mobile began requiring customers to use its T-Life

International Business Machines (IBM) has spent years trying to convince investors that it deserves a new label. For Wall Street, IBM long looked like a legacy hardware and consulting company with limited upside. As IBM shifts deeper into higher-margin software, AI infrastructure, and free cash flow, it becomes increasingly difficult to justify that perspective. Bank

Tesla’s (TSLA) fresh bull case lands at a strange moment for the stock. Investors were anxiously waiting for a demand reset after concerns of some major EV competition, sluggish margins, and lackluster growth.  However, in a surprise turn of events, Tesla then beat Q2 delivery estimates by a wide margin, giving bulls a rare hard-data