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Fed Cut or Not, Here’s How Much You Lose by Keeping Savings at the Biggest Banks

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Fed Cut or Not, Here’s How Much You Lose by Keeping Savings at the Biggest Banks

Key Takeaways The Fed is expected to cut rates this week, but whether it does or not, the three biggest banks are still the lowest-paying places to keep your savings. Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo all pay just 0.01% on savings—essentially nothing compared with the 4%–5% APYs offered by the top high-yield savings […]

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Trump Wants to End Quarterly Reporting for Companies. Here’s Why That Matters.

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Trump Wants to End Quarterly Reporting for Companies. Here's Why That Matters.

Tired of reading quarterly reports? President Donald Trump is paying attention to this matter. Trump on Monday morning wrote on Truth Social that he would prefer publicly traded companies be required to update investors twice a year instead of quarterly. The notion, he says, is that fewer reports would mean more time for managers to

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Wednesday’s Fed Meeting Will Be Extraordinary. Here’s Why

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Wednesday's Fed Meeting Will Be Extraordinary. Here's Why

Key Takeaways Fed officials are likely to cut the central bank’s benchmark interest rate by a quarter-point Wednesday to boost the rapidly slowing job market. Policymakers have grown more worried about the health of the labor market than the outlook for inflation, for the time being at least. Fed officials will also release their projections

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Tesla’s Rising Stock Is Moving Toward Break-Even for 2025. Here’s Why.

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Tesla's Rising Stock Is Moving Toward Break-Even for 2025. Here's Why.

Tesla’s stock is on the rise. Shares of the electric vehicle maker, up about 19% this month through Friday’s close, are on a roll. Though it’s been bumpy, Tesla (TSLA) stock has climbed off year-to-date lows around $222, seen in March, and is approaching break-even. (The stock, which finished last year near $404, ended the

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If You’d Invested $10,000 in Nvidia 5 Years Ago, Here’s How Much You’d Have Today

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If You'd Invested $10,000 in Nvidia 5 Years Ago, Here's How Much You'd Have Today

This dominant AI enterprise carries a monster market cap of $4.32 trillion. Nvidia (NVDA 0.04%) has quickly ascended up the ranks to become the world’s most valuable enterprise today. It sports a monster market cap of more than $4.32 trillion (as of Sept. 11). The company is valued at $600 billion more than second-place Microsoft.

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More Than Half of Gen X Doesn’t Think They’ll Be Ready For Retirement. Here’s Why

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More Than Half of Gen X Doesn't Think They'll Be Ready For Retirement. Here's Why

Key Takeaways A new report by Northwestern Mutual found that most Gen Xers don’t feel they will be financially prepared to retire. This generation has its fair share of unique financial challenges, including being “sandwiched” between caring for aging parents and children at an increasing rate. Gen X was also most severely impacted by the

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Tesla Just Offered Elon Musk $1 Trillion. Here’s What It Could Mean for the Company.

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Tesla Just Offered Elon Musk $1 Trillion. Here's What It Could Mean for the Company.

The world’s richest person could find himself much, much richer if he achieves the board’s proposed long-term goals. It hasn’t been the best year for Tesla (TSLA 0.15%) so far, with the stock down over 8% through Sept. 8 (the worst-performing of the “Magnificent Seven” stocks). Part of this has to do with the company’s

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Here’s Why Bitcoin’s Scarcity Matters Now More Than Ever

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Here's Why Bitcoin's Scarcity Matters Now More Than Ever

When governments loosen the liquidity taps and public debt piles up, investors instinctively reach for assets whose supply cannot be increased by the vote of a committee. Bitcoin (BTC 0.40%) was engineered so its supply schedule could not be edited on a whim. In the current macroeconomic environment, and with reasonable assumptions about the near

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GitLab Stock Drops on Conservative Guidance. Here’s Why This Pullback Looks Like a Buying Opportunity.

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GitLab Stock Drops on Conservative Guidance. Here's Why This Pullback Looks Like a Buying Opportunity.

GitLab has become one of the cheapest growth stocks around. Share prices of GitLab (GTLB 4.94%) slid after the company issued conservative guidance and announced its chief financial officer (CFO) was leaving. The stock now trades down about 20% on the year. However, the sell-off looks overdone, as the company issued conservative revenue guidance with

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Here’s Why QuantumScape Stock Is Soaring Today

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Here's Why QuantumScape Stock Is Soaring Today

QuantumScape (QS 22.26%) stock is rocketing higher this morning, and for good reason, too. QuantumScape’s solid-state battery technology has been touted to have the potential to revolutionize electric vehicle (EV) batteries and spur an increase in EV adoption. QuantumScape surprised investors with a live demonstration today, and investors bid the stock up as much as

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