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Inflation trap? Stock market’s near-record run faces the most crucial CPI reading of 2024

These ideas could help protect your portfolio from stubborn levels of inflation

Big retailers report as Q1 earnings wind down. This company has been the biggest drag on the S&P 500’s results.

Groceries and houses are still way more expensive than they were before the pandemic. This week, two of the nation’s largest retailers — Walmart Inc. and Home Depot Inc. — will probably have more to say about it.

I’m a 42-year-old single mom of 8 who gave away all my money. I’m tired of struggling. What do I do?

‘I am finally reviewing my financial life and have clearly made many mistakes’

My property-tax bill spiked 40%. I fought the city — and won. Can I get tax write-offs for my time and costs?

Mad about your property taxes? Join the club.

As stocks near record highs, a sense of complacency is returning to the options market

A sense of complacency that pervaded options markets during the first quarter is returning, as stocks have resumed their march toward record highs following April’s short-lived selloff.

Subsidized internet and online-safety measures fail to make it into FAA bill

Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Senate floated a number of closely watched measures for inclusion in a key bill that authorizes the Federal Aviation Administration — but in the end, supporters of the measures were left disappointed.

U.S. regulators call for new fund to prevent mortgage servicers from going under

U.S. regulators are calling on Congress to introduce a new industry-financed fund to support mortgage-loan servicers as they weather a drought in demand due to high mortgage rates.

‘Jim Simons was the greatest’ — Ray Dalio, others pay tribute to trading legend

Investors and others offer praise for billionaire investor Jim Simons, credited with building one of Wall Street’s most formidable money-making machines.

Worried AI will take your job? These employees say it actually makes work better.

Employees are as eager to bring AI into the workplace as companies are, a new report from Microsoft says.

This Social Security rule change could help millions of people who get food benefits

Under a new rule, people receiving and applying for Supplemental Security Income will now have an easier time getting benefits.

Why Alphabet investors shouldn’t worry about OpenAI’s search engine — for now

Competition in search looms, but whether it will it be a big improvement is the big question.

Ford plans to make Lucid and Waymo veteran its new CFO, as EV demand remains in flux

Ford Motor Co. is bringing aboard a veteran of the electric- and autonomous-vehicle industries who is set to become its new chief financial officer next year, the automaker said Friday, as it rethinks its approach to a cooling electric-vehicle industry.
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