Many technology stocks have gotten crushed in the high-inflation, rising-interest-rate environment of 2022. Some may have further to fall. Investors with shorter-term horizons may wish to steer clear of more volatile, innovative companies, despite outperformance during the pandemic. Those include …
Tesla TSLA, -3.66% and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has overtaken Amazon AMZN, -2.47% founder Jeff Bezos as the richest person in the world. According to the latest Forbes billionaires list, Musk is the new No. 1, with a net worth …
The level of profit that large corporations experienced in 2021 was unparalleled in American history, as consumers faced the worst price inflation the U.S. has seen in decades Even as top executives warn about the effects of inflation on their …
I have not seen anyone address student-loan debt for people over 70 years of age. I am a 74-year-old retired speech-language pathologist with a student-loan debt of $200,000. I’m on a fixed income, and the weight of this debt is crushing …
I graduated from college in 2017 with more than $210,000 in federal student-loan debt thanks to out-of-state tuition, a master’s program, and not fully understanding this cost at that time. I’ve chiseled away at the debt since, often making greater …
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Dear Quentin, My wife and I currently make $250,000 a year, which will climb north of $500,000 in the next few years. I have a currently unemployed sister and a brother who makes $40,000 annually with three kids. We are …
The World Bank cut its growth forecast for East Asia and the Pacific for 2022 — which includes growth engine China — to reflect the economic pinch of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Washington-based lender said in a report early …
You don’t know what you don’t know until you get an incorrect answer in a financial literacy quiz. It stings. But there’s no harm in that. We should all learn something new every day, especially when it comes to managing …
The COVID-19 pandemic instigated a boom in personal-computer sales, and supply-chain issues pushed prices up, but analysts see softening sales and a normalizing supply/demand environment in 2022, which slammed a few stocks Thursday. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. AMD shares dropped …
Dear Quentin, Several years before my father’s death, he offered my two siblings and myself each an early “cash gift” from his estate in the amount of whatever the maximum non-taxable amount was at the time. He was an active …
On the heels of its milestone Academy Awards victory, Apple Inc. shares notched their longest winning streak in more than a decade Monday. Apple shares AAPL, +0.50% ended slightly in the black Monday, gaining 0.5%, for their 10th consecutive trading …
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