These are the top 10 high-yield checking accounts — and they pay up to 9% APY

The national average checking yield is a dismal 0.07%. Here’s how some institutions pay well above the national average, and ...

Social Security recipients will get more money next year. Here’s how much the COLA may boost benefits.

Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustment could be between 3.2% and 3.6% in 2027, adding at least $67 a month to the average retiree benefit amid cooling inflation. Estimates for next year’s COLA ...

Lumentum’s stock surges, giving a further boost to the optical-networking trade

Lumentum Holdings sees big opportunities in its future, and that’s reason enough for investors to cheer the broader optical-electronics industry on Wednesday.

An active fund holding a whopping 800 stocks is beating major indexes. Here’s how.

You can make good money in the stock market even if you are not holding the hottest individual stocks. After several years during which the largest U.S. technology stocks have driven investors’ gains, ...
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The 10 housing markets where the most sellers have listed their homes for less than what they paid

More local housing markets are beginning to crack. The U.S. housing market has been in a slump all summer, with buyers finding little reason to jump in as home prices and home-loan rates remain ...

The $30 trillion Treasury market is facing a painful reckoning. How rising yields could squeeze your portfolio.

The roughly $30 trillion Treasury market — widely seen as the bedrock of the global financial system — is facing a dangerous reckoning driven by a perfect storm of rising risks.
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Goldman’s latest deal underscores how ‘boomer candy’ ETFs are now big business on Wall Street

Goldman Sachs announced Wednesday that it has agreed to buy Neos Investments, adding yet another ETF shop to its fast-growing asset-management business. Goldman Sachs GS is paying up to $2.25 billion ...

Most of the inflation in July was in housing costs

The cost of shelter — rent and home prices — rose 0.1% in July and accounted for two-thirds of the same 0.1% increase in the ...

CoreWeave’s stock is rocketing after earnings, leading to praise from bulls and bears alike

As CoreWeave Holdings shares soar on Wednesday, even one of the most vocal bears is willing to give the neocloud company some praise.

S&P 500 opens in record territory as rate-hike worries ease

The S&P 500 opened above its recent record closing price, and the other broad-market indexes also rose, as investors had less reason to worry that [an interest-rate hike]( ...
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What's a bad CPI number? Watch the core.

The core rate of inflation. The core number strips out energy and food and gives a better idea of the long-run trend in inflation. A good core CPI reading would be an increase of 0.16% or less, says ...

Citadel Securities called the stock-market reset. Now it sees a leverage buildup on the horizon.

Strategist Scott Rubner says a growing list of stock-market buyers are pushing it in a positive direction, notably big hedge funds and institutional managers.