GE boosts profit outlook, but stock falls as booming order growth cools

Credit card rewards were once a ticket to premium travel, luxury experiences, and aspirational purchases. Increasingly, however, consumers are using those same rewards to offset everyday costs like groceries and gas, signaling a shift in how households are managing their finances. That’s according to new research from USAA, which found that consumers are not only…

Although the Bank of Canada has held its key rate steady this year, only 21 percent of Canadians say they could absorb an extra $130 in monthly interest payments, while 35 percent say they could not, as per the index.   The share needing rates to fall rose one point to 62 percent, and 53 percent…

At the center is the main action, filed in December 2023. A group of investors says that beginning in 2016 they advanced about $150 million to a businessman to put into local real estate projects. They allege that he, along with family members and business associates, diverted those funds for their own use. The investors…

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At 6:15 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil was priced at $76.80 per barrel with Brent serving as the benchmark (we’ll explain different benchmarks later in this article). That’s a drop of $2.45 compared with yesterday morning and around $7.17 higher than the price one year ago. Oil price per barrel % Change Price of oil…

Wheat is showing 3 to 5 cent losses across most contracts. The wheat complex was lower across the three exchanges. Chicago SRW contracts were fractionally to 5 cents lower on the day. Open interest was up 6,116 contracts on Monday. KC HRW futures were down 4 ¼ to 10 cents at the close. OI dropped…