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The U.S. birth rate has never been lower. Here’s what that means for stocks.

Americans aren’t having as many kids, but the economy can handle that — for now.

Adjustable-rate mortgage demand surges to highest level this year as 30-year rate keeps climbing

Mortgage applications fell 2.3% in the last week, the Mortgage Bankers Association said. The average rate for a 30-year mortgage is 7.29%.

Move over, meme-stock millennials. Your grandma wants to trade options.

Trading covered-call options on big stashes of stock can earn retirees extra income.

Oil prices fall after industry data points to rise in U.S. crude inventories

Oil futures are on track for a three-day losing streak.

Biden administration to cancel $6.1 billion in student debt for borrowers who were scammed by single school

The Department of Education is cancelling $6.1 billion worth of student debt for 317,000 borrowers who were scammed by their school, officials announced Wednesday.

Mini’s new all-electric Aceman looks fun, and in a category of its own

The 2025 Mini Aceman is sort of like a subcompact luxury hatchback. It’s larger than a Cooper and smaller than a Countryman.

The incredible homes of Taylor Swift’s ex-boyfriends (or tortured poets?)

From John Mayer’s Beverly Hills mansion to a chic Tribeca building where 2 of her rumored exes reside, we rounded up the real estate of Swift’s former romances.

GSK ups 2024 guidance as HIV drugs and new vaccines boost its bottom line

The British drugmaker’s remaining 4.2% stake in its consumer health arm Haleon also boosted its bottom line, following its spin off in July 2022

Treasury yields hold near 2024 highs as traders eye Fed decision

Bond yields were little changed early Wednesday, holding near five-month highs as investors expect the Federal Reserve to affirm market predictions that a rate cut may not be coming until much later in the year.

I’m 62 with no debt and a part-time job. My advisers say keep saving, but my kids say spend — do I go for a Roth 401(k)? 

“My salary was never high and I lived a frugal life to accumulate these savings.”

My mother-in-law died. My husband, her executor, did not file a will or even open probate. What happens if we sell the house?

“The home was willed to her son with the provision that he paid his sisters a percentage of the home’s value.”

Argentina president’s scaled-down economic package wins approval in lower house

Argentina President Javier Milei’s scaled-back package of reform measures designed to turn around an economy with the highest rate of inflation in the world won approval from in the lower-house of congress.
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