WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve officials are committed to fighting inflation and expect higher interest rates to remain in place until more progress is made, according to minutes released Wednesday from the central bank’s December meeting. At a meeting where policymakers raised their key interest rate another half a percentage point, they expressed the importance of
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Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Mega Millions players may be daydreaming about what they’d do with an extra $785 million, the game’s current jackpot amount. One way they should count on using it if they win? Sharing a slice with the IRS. After no tickets matched all six numbers drawn Friday night,
dowell | Moment | Getty Images Investors have many options when saving for short-term goals, and those choices have become more complicated amid high inflation and rising interest rates. While there have been signs of slowing inflation, the Federal Reserve is expecting higher interest rates to continue. “It looks like this year might be a
The S&P 500 lost 18.11% during 2022, when you include the return from dividends. If you’re retired or soon-to-be retired, should this development be a cause for concern? You might not have reasons to be worried if you implemented a strategy that prevents you from experiencing life-changing losses and if you can maintain a positive
Once they finally pick a Speaker, the very first bill House Republicans will adopt likely would make it harder for the IRS to help taxpayers file their returns and easier for tax dodgers to cheat. It doesn’t seem like very smart branding, but what do I know? Of course, that’s not how the House GOP
The 939 Coast complex rises above La Jolla Cove Beach along the Southern California coast. The oceanview condo building is a local landmark, a secure haven and, for many, a home. Located along Coast Boulevard, the high-rise building is located in the Village of La Jolla and … [+] within walking distance of local dining
In this article GM 7203.T-JP Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT 2022 GMC Sierra 1500 Denali Ultimate GM DETROIT – General Motors reclaimed its U.S. sales crown from Toyota Motor last year as the Detroit automaker eked out a slight gain in its annual U.S. vehicle sales despite supply chain problems. GM said Wednesday it
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While some Americans are still recovering from holiday festivities, many others may have lingering effects of spending regrets. Overall U.S. retail sales increased 7.6% year-over-year between Nov. 1 and Dec. 24, according to the latest Mastercard SpendingPulse survey. For many consumers, the amount of debt they took on to pay for holiday purchases grew as well.
In this article 9961-HK BIDU 9999-HK JD BABA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Alibaba has faced growth challenges amid regulatory tightening on China’s domestic technology sector and a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy. But analysts think the e-commerce giant’s growth could pick up through the rest of 2022. Kuang Da | Jiemian News
Many Americans are setting financial goals for the year ahead. An extra paycheck could help. If you are a W-2 employee and get paid biweekly, there are two months out of the year when you will receive three paychecks instead of the usual two. The months in which you get three checks depends on your
In this article EDR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Dana White appears at the UFC 282 post-fight press conference on December 10, 2022, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, NV. Amy Kaplan | Icon Sportswire | Getty Images Media and entertainment company Endeavor saw its shares fall on Tuesday after a video showing
London Stock Exchange Toby Melville | Reuters LONDON — The U.K. economic contraction of 2023 will be almost as deep as that of Russia, economists expect, as a sharp fall in household living standards weighs on activity. In its 2023 macro outlook, Goldman Sachs forecast a 1.2% contraction in the U.K. real GDP over the
Craig Warga | Bloomberg | Getty Images Manhattan apartment sales fell by 29% in the fourth quarter, sparking fears of a frozen market in which buyers and sellers stay on the sidelines due to economic and rate fears. There were 2,546 sales in the quarter, down from 3,560 last year, according to a report from
President Joe Biden signed a $1.7 trillion legislative package on Dec. 29, 2022 that has several updates for retirement savers. Drew Angerer | Getty Images News | Getty Images A new law is changing rules governing how and when certain retirement savers can withdraw money from their nest eggs. Tax-advantaged accounts earmarked for people’s golden
Lisa Rein, Alice Crites, and Jennifer Jenkins of The Washington Post have written an excellent exposé of Social Security’s treatment of the disabled and poor, including its use of archaic job-availability lists to deny benefits to obviously terribly disabled people and its imposition of astronomical penalties on a range of people, many poor or disabled,
Sales of luxury homes fell 38.1% year over year during the three months ending November 30, 2022, the biggest decline on record, according to a new report from Redfin, a technology-powered real estate brokerage. That outpaced the record 31.4% decline in sales of non-luxury homes. Redfin’s data goes back to 2012. The luxury market and
In this article LUV Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Pristine Floyde searches for a friend’s suitcase in a baggage holding area for Southwest Airlines at Denver International Airport on December 28, 2022 in Denver, Colorado. Michael Ciaglo | Getty Images Southwest Airlines stabilized its schedule over the weekend after about 16,000 cancellations since late
In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tesla electric cars in Germany on March 21, 2022. Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty Images Tesla just published its fourth-quarter vehicle production and delivery report for 2022. Here are the key numbers. related investing news Pro Picks: Watch all of Tuesday’s big
Ether has hugely outperformed bitcoin since both cryptocurrencies formed a bottom in June 2022. Ether’s superior gains have come as investors anticipate a major upgrade to the ethereum blockchain called “the merge.” Yuriko Nakao | Getty Images U.S. banking regulators warned financial institutions on Tuesday that dealing with cryptocurrency exposes them to an array of