economy & policy

There have been two big surprises in the first half of 2024.In January, everyone was confident the Federal Reserve would be cutting interest rates this year, and now that’s by…
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Is this Nvidia ’s world and we’re just living in it? It’s hard to escape that feeling when it seems as if it’s the only stock that matters in the…
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This is commentary by Allan Sloan, an independent business journalist and seven-time winner of the Loeb Award, business journalism’s highest honor.We hear lots of talk about the…
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Bond investors hoping to make money from eventual (although probably delayed) interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve might need to start looking beyond long-term Treasuries.…
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Home buying season typically heats up in the spring—but prices in some cities have already taken off. Listing prices in some northern, Midwestern, and western metropolitan areas…
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It is always a stockpicker’s market. You just have to pick the right stocks. If you picked the so-called Magnificent Seven last year—a group of highflying, mostly tech stocks…
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Markets have largely been shrugging off the escalating crisis in the Red Sea. Not anymore.The U.S. and the U.K. carried out strikes on Houthi rebel sites in Yemen late Thursday.…
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Carbon capture and storage—the technology that traps carbon dioxide from industrial processes and permanently sequesters it in rock formations underground—has become a…
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You’ve probably heard of the “4% rule” for making withdrawals from your retirement account but how about trying “the reverse 4% rule?”Flipping this investing guideline on its…
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