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‘I’m scared to lose too much in risky investments’: I have $140K in a 401(k) and earn $45K a year. Can I retire in 20 years?

“My 401(k) retirement planner shows I’ll likely be short $1,500 every month during my retirement.”

Swiss investors return from a holiday to face the Trump tariff music.

Swiss stocks were down on Monday as investors returned from a holiday to face fallout from a 39% tariff on imports from the U.S.

U.S. stock futures dip after Friday’s drop on Wall Street; oil falls as OPEC+ extends output boost

U.S. stock-market futures declined Sunday, after Wall Street ended last week with its worst session since April.

Trump’s firing of BLS commissioner decried as ‘groundless’ and ‘giving way to authoritarianism’

White House defends firing following worse-than-expected jobs report; Democratic senator says investigation is warranted

Top Fed officials unswayed by poor July jobs report, take wait-and-see approach to rate cuts

Several senior Federal Reserve officials on Friday characterized the labor market as “solid” even after a poor July jobs report and appeared in no rush to lower U.S. interest rates.

A court could strike down Trump’s tariffs—and blow a hole in the U.S. budget

Trump administration lawyers are trying to save ‘liberation day’ tariffs—or risk losing billions in government revenue.

Stocks get hit as economic clouds, tariffs gathered—but history suggests it’s too soon to panic

Tariff threats from President Trump and a weakening U.S. labor market have unsettled financial markets ahead of a seasonally weak period for stocks between August and October. Still, there’s plenty of reason to hold tight and look past any choppy trading.

Afraid to leave your job right now? Here’s how to stay put without killing your career.

For anyone who’s been feeling guilty about not looking for a new job lately, take a look at Friday’s jobs report and let go of those misgivings.

Don’t blame Jerome Powell — or the Fed — if you can’t afford to buy a house right now

Trump says the Fed’s high interest rates are keeping Americans from buying houses. There’s more to it than that.

Private-credit ETFs are here. Why your retirement account may be their next target. 

Private-credit ETFs aren’t in 401(k)s yet — but they are Wall Street’s latest effort to bring private assets to the masses and, eventually, into retirement plans.

Here’s what the E.U. and South Korea trade deals mean for U.S. natural-gas investors

The European Union and South Korea have pledged to buy billions of dollars’ worth of energy products under trade deals with the Trump administration, as the White House aims to capitalize on the role of the U.S. as the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas. But are U.S. producers up to the challenge?

‘I worked at 14, had an 8.8% mortgage rate and drove used cars’: Did boomers really have it easier than millennials?

‘We were frugal, using coupons, discount stores, shopping during the sales and eating leftovers,’ one baby-boomer reader writes.
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