Smart Investor: Top-Performing Dividend Stocks, Are Mega-Sized Stocks a Buy and What to Expect from the Fed

The big event on the horizon is the Federal Reserve meeting that concludes Wednesday afternoon. As Sarah Hansen writes, the ...

Trump likes Australia's retirement-savings program - but could it actually work in the U.S.?

Mercer rates retirement systems throughout the world, and gives the Australian model a solid B+. By contrast, the U.S. gets a C+. The U.S. has already been looking at ways to revamp its ...

Does my friend have a right to her late father's multimillion-dollar property portfolio? His widow claims they're mired in debt.

My friend really wanted to keep her father's condo, but her mother sold that too - and it broke her heart' "He owned several rental properties, five houses and two condos." (Photo subject is a model.) ...
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'I love my work': I'm a 61-year-old Chicago public-school teacher with a $60K annual pension. Is it safe?

The Chicago Public School District pensions are in a precarious place, and not considered "safe" due to significant underfunding. The Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund (CTPF) has a funded ratio of less ...

'I am increasingly resentful': My husband of 10 years has $1 million and cars worth $200K. Why won't he give me money?

I've been married to my second husband for 10 years. I have always contributed to the household bills, plus I pay all my own medical bills and car maintenance on my dented 12-year-old car. I have very ...

Netflix Wins Warner Bros. Auction, but at an Exorbitant Price

Warner Bros. shareholders win big, and we anticipate raising our fair value estimate for the stock while lowering our ...

Your tax refund could be $1,000 bigger next year - and even more if you make these money moves in time

Much of the extra refund money next year will go to upper-income households, he said. That's largely due to a temporarily higher $40,000 deduction on state and local taxes, he said. That so-called ...

Carvana gets a spot in the S&P 500 ahead of these tech stocks

Carvana and two other companies will join the S&P 500 in about two weeks, S&P Dow Jones Indices said late Friday - dashing the hopes of those investors who expected bigger tech names or a crypto giant ...

The Fed is running into a wall of its own making

As for printing cash, the Fed has been printing cash like a counterfeiter with a fresh cartridge since 2008. The problem isn't the quantity of money; it's where money goes when it's scared. And scared ...

SpaceX may be worth more than half of Tesla - with a sixth of the revenue

With an $800 billion valuation, SpaceX would be worth more than half of Tesla, which has a market capitalization of around $1.43 trillion.

S&P MERVAL Index Ends the Week 0.66% Higher at 3046354.76 — Data Talk

The S&P MERVAL Index is up 19885.38 points or 0.66% this week to 3046354.76 --Largest two-week point and percentage gain since the week ending Nov 7, 2025 ...

'China's Nvidia' shows that the global chip race is heating up as it basks in post-IPO glow

Moore Threads shares rose more than 400% after the AI chip company's Shanghai IPO on Friday Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been vocal about his view that China is not far behind the U.S. in the ...