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Social Security’s COLA will be 2.5% in 2025, down from 3.2% in 2024

COLA helps the roughly 67 million Social Security beneficiaries keep up with inflationary pressures

Pfizer’s stock dips after two former execs say they won’t support Starboard, offer backing for CEO Albert Bourla

Pfizer Inc.’s stock dipped early Thursday, after two of its former executives said they would not support an effort by activist shareholder Starboard Value to orchestrate a turnaround.

Delta Air Lines’ stock drops as less travel around the election will hurt sales growth

Delta Air Lines’ stock was headed for another post-earnings selloff on Thursday, after the air carrier missed third-quarter profit expectations and gave a downbeat revenue growth outlook, as travel is expected to decline around the election.

Oil prices bounce after 2-day pullback as investors monitor Middle East

Oil futures rose Thursday, bouncing after a two-day pullback, with support tied to continued worries over the potential for a more direct confrontation between Israel and Iran that could threaten Middle East crude flows.

What if Warren Buffett had faced Kamala Harris’s unrealized capital tax gains from the outset? Here are the numbers.

One fund manager calculated the ‘mad’ idea of imposing unrealized capital gains taxes on Warren Buffett.

The Fed’s cutting rates. Here are three yield curve scenarios, and what they’d mean for the stock market

Tan Kai Xian, an analyst at financial research service Gavekal, says there are three scenarios for the yield curve, and for each he gives the implication for the U.S. stock market.

How the presidential election is playing havoc with stock-market volatility

The VIX is getting jolted as Election Day nears.

Here’s how the IRS could collect over $1 billion in unreported gambling income

The tax agency has failed to collect gambling winnings from many Americans, a new report shows.

‘It’s so unfair!’ I’m miserable in my job. I’m 58 and have $1 million in a 401(k) and Roth IRA. Can I afford to quit?

“Currently, I live comfortably on $5,000 a month, but I could probably live on $3,500 a month.”

Domino’s Pizza tops profit expectations but misses sales view

Domino’s Pizza Inc.’s stock fell slightly early Thursday, after the chain’s fiscal third-quarter profit beat was not enough to offset a slight revenue miss in a still challenging consumer environment and small downward revision to sales guidance.

Only investing when one party is in the White House is not a ‘winning strategy,’ new analysis shows

Investors who kept their money in the S&P since 1950, regardless of who was in power, would have made 10 times the returns generated by those who only invested while either the Republicans or Democrats were in charge

Higher 10-year Treasury yields were enemy No. 1 for markets for years. Why now looks different.

The 10-year Treasury yield’s recent climb above the psychologically important 4% level might not be as big of a threat to the stock market — or the U.S. economy — as in the past.
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