This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Christine Casady, a 75-year-old retiree from the US. It has been edited for length and clarity. My husband is an avid traveler, and thanks to that, we’ve been traveling extensively for almost three decades. Ten years before I retired, we started taking longer trips, spending a […]
Jeff Bezos has bankrolled his rocket company Blue Origin almost single-handedly for a quarter century, quietly selling roughly $1 billion of Amazon (AMZN 0.73%) stock a year to keep it flying. This week, he changed that playbook — and told investors something in the process. Blue Origin is raising about $10 billion in its first-ever […]
Oil prices rose and U.S. stock-index futures slipped on Sunday, after the U.S. and Iran continued their tit-for-tat attacks around the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend.
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Mortgage rates saw a meaningful increase Thursday as a fragile U.S.-Iran peace deal disintegrated amid a hail of mutual airstrikes, driving up oil prices and long-term borrowing costs. The average rate on 30-year fixed home loans rose to 6.49% for the week ending July 9, up 6 basis points from 6.43% the previous week, according […]
Key Points The CEO of Accelerant Holdings sold 80,000 Class A Common Shares for $1.1 million at $13.33 per share on July 6, 2026. The disposition represents a roughly 0.3% reduction in reported equity holdings. Sales were executed indirectly through Badly Bent LLC under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plan. 10 stocks we like better than […]
The trading week between July 13th to July 17th will be very busy with stock-specific actions. Because approximately 96 stocks are turning ex-date for either their dividend rewards, bonus issues, buyback shares or stock splits. Majority of them are dividend stocks. These ex-dates are also record date to identify eligible shareholders on BSE and NSE […]
The June quarter earnings season, which kicked off on July 9 with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) reporting its results, is expected to gather pace this week. Corporate earnings are projected to grow around 10%, marking the strongest expansion in four quarters. With the results calendar set to intensify, as many as 143 companies are scheduled […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) has a major bottleneck, and it isn’t limited to chips, servers, or memory. Estimates suggest that trillions in investment will be needed to build the power infrastructure to support data centers in the coming years. That’s good news for investors who feel like they missed the early innings of the AI bull […]
Svetikd | E+ | Getty Images The U.S. Department of Education’s new Repayment Assistance Plan, or RAP, offers certain benefits to student loan borrowers — but only if their bill is paid on time. “Being late with a payment, by even just one day under the RAP repayment plan, will cost you,” said higher education […]