Finance

What it takes to retire comfortably in America: Nearly $1.5 million, Northwestern Mutual says

Year-round warm weather, hitting the links, and kicking back with the grandkids has long been the quintessential American retirement daydream. While that’s still...

Got $1,000? 1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock to Buy and Hold for the Next Decade and Beyond

Shares of technology behemoth Amazon (AMZN 0.41%) have had a surprisingly tough run so far in 2026. As of this writing, the stock...

Trump wants to add nearly $7T to the $39T national debt with military budget, watchdog warns

Budget hawks in Washington have their eyes trained on April 3, when the White House is scheduled to release its fiscal year 2027...

VDC vs. PBJ: Is Broader Consumer Staples Exposure the Better Buy?

The Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF (VDC +0.01%) and the Invesco Food & Beverage ETF (PBJ 0.26%) both offer exposure to U.S. consumer staples...

Gen Z fled San Francisco for Texas and Florida. Now they’re turning to Nashville and Orlando

From the mid-2000s through the late 2010s, San Francisco was a magnet for young graduates driven largely by Web 2.0 and the mobile...

The SpaceX IPO is great — but it won’t deliver 100x returns 

With SpaceX filing for an initial public offering, the tone in markets is unmistakably bullish. Analysts are already calling it “one of the...