Finance

Mellody Hobson Shares the No. 1 Mistake Derailing Retirement Savings

The road to retirement is filled with potential missteps, but one of the most serious — affecting how you live your golden years if you aren't careful — is being ...

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Can Tom afford to retire by 63 with a $1.16 million portfolio?

Married couple Tom,* 61, and Judy, 63, are at an inflection point. Judy retired just over a year ago and loves it. Tom plans to retire in two years. He’s happy to retire sooner, if possible, so lo...

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Dow Falls 419 Points as Bond Yields Rise: Stock Market Today

Escalation in the Middle East made for higher crude oil prices and interest rates but lower levels for the main equity indexes again Tuesday. Indeed, the worst mon...

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I left corporate America for a gap year in my 40s. The experience changed my spending and priorities.

The author took a career break in her 40s.Courtesy of the authorI took a gap year after 20 years of trying to have a balance as a working mom.I used the time to be curious, try new things, reconnec...

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Apple isn't losing its Trump whisperer

Apple CEO Tim Cook has been a constant sight in President Donald Trump's Washington.Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty ImagesTim Cook is no longer leading Apple.He's not going far. Cook will remain as ex...

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Here’s how a growing pool of Canadians are paying off their mortgages

Alexis Levenson knew she found the perfect house when she saw it: a 1950s-style, semi-detached bungalow with plenty of space and light — and an unfinished basement she could easily convert into a ...

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RSP vs SPY: Why These S&P 500 ETFs Have Such Different Returns Over the Past 20 Years

A funny thing happened to the bull market that was supposedly driven by only a handful of stocks. The S&P 500 is actually lagging its equal-weight counterpart ...

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How to Support Local Communities With Your Fixed-Income Strategy

Investing in U.S. Treasury securities has long been the financial equivalent of vanilla ice cream: Not the most exciting choice, but generally predictable and depe...

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It's time for Canadian income tax rates to match those of the U.S.

My wife and I have some long-term friends who we get along with swimmingly, but we sometimes disagree, like most friendships. We work through it maturely because we value the history and the relat...

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How to Turn the Complexity of Your Equity Compensation Into Opportunity

Equity compensation can be a powerful wealth-building tool when deployed correctly. However, it can also quietly become one of the most misunderstood parts of your...

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Defamation vs Protected Opinion: Jackie's Risky Magnetic Sign Courts Major Consequences

You've no doubt heard the saying, "There is nothing as uncommon as common sense."There is a closely related issue in the form of several questions that we should a...

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6 Tips for Women Taking the Financial Lead in Retirement

Twenty years ago, a surviving spouse might have inherited a pension and a checking account. Today, she's more likely to inherit multiple retirement accounts, taxab...

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What Dolly Parton Taught Us About Building Wealth That Goes Beyond Financial Success

Dolly Parton spent a lifetime turning contradictions into strengths. She grew up with very little money yet became extraordinarily wealthy. She left the mountains ...

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Anthropic's Tom Blomfield says his new coworkers are a 'hyper-earnest group of meganerds' with a 'lack of ego'

Tom Blomfield is a member of technical staff at Anthropic.Noam Galai/Getty Images for TechCrunch,Tom Blomfield's two-month review of his Anthropic colleagues is in.The verdict? A "hyper-earnest gro...

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What's the salary? These employers aren’t saying, despite warnings from New York regulators

Getty Images; Tyler Le/BINew York in 2023 began requiring companies to include pay ranges in job listings.Polymarket and others continued to post jobs without pay ranges after warnings from the sta...

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Stocks Lose Again as US-Iran War Heats Up: Stock Market Today

All three main equity indexes opened lower and stayed in the red through the last trading session of August amid a re-escalation of war in the Middle East. Crude o...

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Are You Really on Your Best Investing Behavior? Take Our Quiz

Whether you're a spender or a saver, a speculator, trader or investor, you're only human.And there's no sense in not being constructive about it.If you aspire to b...

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Congress Faces Busy Autumn

To help you understand what's going on in the economy, business and politics and what we expect to happen in the future, our highly experienced Kiplinger Letter te...

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AI is a threat to the stability of the global financial system, a top central banker says

NYSEGlobal markets are vulnerable to "disorderly corrections," Bank of England chief Andrew Bailey says.AI is ramping up the threat of a big upheaval in the financial system."The risks associated w...

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Oil's fresh surge highlights a growing threat to the stock market's biggest catalyst

VCG/VCG via Getty ImagesOil prices are on the rise again after the US and Iran exchanged fire over the weekend. Stocks fell and bond yields rose, and the latest jump raises the threat to the market...

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AI Can Build a Budget, But Does It Know the Person Behind It? Why Your Financial Plan Will Benefit From the Human Touch

I've gotten pretty good at recognizing AI-generated emails. A client sent me one recently about their portfolio — formal, thorough and missing the person I knew on...

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