Smart Investor: Undervalued Stocks That Raised Dividends, What’s Next for Growth Stocks As Value Starts 2025 Strong
In the background, one trend we’ve seen so far in 2025 is that growth stocks have struggled. As Bella Albrecht reports, value ...
My husband and I are in our 50s - and 85% invested in stocks. Is our strategy too aggressive for the next 10 years?
At 57, the rule of thumb suggests that your husband should have roughly 43% of his investments in stocks, and the rest in bonds and other safer havens to shield him from a downturn in the market in ...
Trump has two strong options to defuse the U.S. debt time-bomb. He should use them.
In contrast, mass deportations of undocumented immigrants would tank the U.S. economy. If President Donald Trump can limit himself to booting criminals and those under existing deportation orders, and ...
My friend, 62, may only have weeks to live. How does he prevent his second wife from inheriting everything?
He is disabled and on Medicare because of multiple organ transplants - two livers and a kidney - but his wife is employed. Just last week he fell again at home, and this time the pain was so great he ...
'I've been named sole heir': My father, 92, is a Korean War veteran and stays out until dawn playing poker. What can I do?
Because of my brother's delinquent tax and student-loan issues, I have been named sole heir and executor of my parents' estate. Baby brother expects me to administer the estate and give him his half ...
My husband has millions in a trust fund, pays all our bills and gives me $4,000 a month. Will I get our house if I divorce him?
We have $30,000 left on our $400,000 mortgage, which we took out three years after we married. In the current market, it appraises for $800,000. After the birth of our first child 12 years ago, I ...
Who gets to rebuild? Los Angeles fires expose the weakness of U.S. home insurance.
Along with this more than fivefold increase in billion-dollar disasters came rising insurance costs - exacerbated by weather disasters striking densely populated areas more frequently, the rising ...
These 2 seasonal stock-market patterns could give your portfolio a boost
Another seasonal trend is the four-year U.S. presidential cycle. In general, the market rises modestly in the first year after a presidential election, followed by trouble in the second year. In years ...
The end of insurance: Climate change is destroying homeowners and insurers
Many homeowners now choose to go skip insurance altogether, owing to the difficulty of obtaining coverage at all or even at a reasonable price. Insurance coverage has been diminishing in many respects ...
Here's what junk bonds are saying now about the value of Treasury bonds
Consider the junk-bond spread, which is the additional yield above ultra-safe U.S. Treasury bonds that investors demand for incurring the risk of high-yield, or "junk" bonds. Nowadays they're not ...
As egg prices spike, some see an opportunity that's hard to beat
But at current levels, are egg investments all they're cracked up to be? "The stock that I invested in is benefitting from the egg shortage," one investor said on TikTok last month. "The forward ...
How much should you pay to do your taxes? Maybe nothing - if you qualify for free tax prep.
People will spend an average of $290 on filing their tax returns this year, according to IRS estimates. Individuals will pay $160 on average for tax prep, while the typical business owner will pay ...