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My job is offering me a payout. Should I take a $61,000 lump sum — or $355 a month for life?
Dear Quentin, When I leave my job, would I be better off taking a $61,000 lump sum to roll over into an existing IRA or, ...
Figma files for an IPO. What investors should know about the Adobe design rival.
Less than two years after agreeing with Adobe to call off plans for a megadeal, Figma has filed IPO paperwork and could ...
‘Finance makes me break out in hives’: I inherited $240K from my parents. Do I pay off my $258K mortgage and give up my job?
Dear Quentin, I recently lost both my parents and inherited $240,000. Due to life choices (divorce) and living paycheck to ...
S&P 500 just saw its first ‘golden cross’ in more than 2 years. Here’s what comes next.
The S&P 500 is kicking off the second half of 2025 in style. For the first time in more than two years, the benchmark index ...
Even billionaires are having trouble finding homes to rent now, thanks to a ‘mansion deficit’
Everyday home buyers have struggled to find houses amid an inventory crunch, and now the superrich are dealing with their own ...
My mother, 89, keeps getting her credit card scammed. She gets a new one — and it happens again. What’s going on?
My 89-year-old mother keeps getting her two credit cards scammed. Then she gets new ones and it happens again. I had set both ...
Stock Market Today: S&P 500 and Nasdaq slip from record highs, Dow gains as second half begins, Fed's Powell speaks. Tesla slips on Trump threat.
Stocks are mixed Tuesday as investors tune into comments from Fed Chair Jerome Powell, speaking in Europe, and to see if U.S. equities will extend their bull run as the second half of 2025 gets underw ...
This fund returned 21% in May alone buying ‘left-for-dead’ stocks — and it has a new target
An average holding period of three years meant some of the bets made in the 2022 sell-off started to come good for Whetstone ...
Home buyers have more ‘negotiating power’ (finally), and mortgage rates have fallen from 2025 highs. 5 pros on what’s next
Recently, aspiring home buyers are seeing a little relief. The housing market in general — though there are, of course, ...
Americans are about to hit a new air-travel record. But demand is still in a holding pattern.
Major U.S. airlines’ financial snapshots are around the corner, with Wall Street predicting that, despite heightened demand ...
Senate passes Trump’s big bill. Here’s where things stand on Medicaid and taxes as it goes to the House
The Senate passed President Donald Trump’s signature tax-and-spending legislation on a party-line vote that marks the largest ...
Mortgage rates are down this week — and here are 10 markets where homes are selling below asking
Right now buyers have less competition, more options, and more time to consider those options,” one pro tells us ...