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Christmas also fuels one form of lottery playing in particular.

Over the last year, middle-income Americans have started to behave more like lower-income consumers, an economist noted. More inflation and a tight job market in 2025 stand to increase pressure on a group that is already financially spread thin.

A lawsuit filed by the CFPB says Zelle and the big banks that own it left the platform vulnerable to fraud in an effort to rush it to market to compete with Venmo and CashApp.

KBW praises Citi’s value, Goldman’s revenue upside and Bank of America’s expected net interest income growth.

Nvidia’s stock is rallying, with Morgan Stanley writing that the Blackwell ramp could soon quash several investor worries.

Winnebago’s stock falls after another disappointing quarterly report, which included a surprise adjusted loss and a revenue miss.

There have been six government shutdowns since 1978 that lasted five days or more, and the S&P 500 stock index gained in the four most recent shutdowns.

Carnival’s stock rallies as bookings for future cruises keep breaking records, and at all-time highs for price and occupancy.

These innovators are expected to increase revenue at multiples of expected growth rates for the S&P 500.

Broadcom’s stock is bucking Friday’s tech-sector declines as a Jefferies analyst highlighted rosy pricing and earnings-growth opportunities.

Consumer spending rose fast enough in November to suggest a pretty good start to the holiday shopping season, but not enough to suggest an acceleration in U.S. economic growth.

The barometer of U.S. inflation favored by the Federal Reserve rose more slowly than expected in November, breaking what appears to a gradual drift higher in prices that forced the central bank to scale back plans to cut interest rates.