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Kate_sept2004 | E+ | Getty Images As mutual fund investors brace for year-end distributions, experts have tips to lessen the tax burden in future years. Certain mutual funds have capital gains payouts in November and December, which can trigger taxes in brokerage accounts, even if you haven’t sold shares. By comparison, most exchange-traded funds avoid

Aire Images | Moment | Getty Images Holiday shoppers won’t have to look far to find deals this season. While Covid-era supply chain strains have eased, consumer spending has declined, prompting many businesses to sweeten incentives to buy. “This is the best discounting season in years,” said Ted Rossman, senior industry analyst at Bankrate and

In this article M Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Macy’s Herald Square store in New York is shown on Aug. 21, 2023. View Press | Corbis News | Getty Images Macy’s on Thursday topped Wall Street’s quarterly expectations, as inventory and margin improvement helped offset an 7% year-over-year decline in sales. The department store

In this article WMT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Walmart store with gardening products for sale in Atchison, Kansas. Ucg | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Walmart will report quarterly earnings Thursday as the discounter generally outperforms its rivals. Here’s what Wall Street expects from the retailer, according to consensus estimates from LSEG,

In this article GPS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Gap retail store sign on September 20, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.  Allison Dinner | Getty Images Gap posted a better-than-expected third quarter on Thursday, but the apparel retailer still appears cautious ahead of the holiday season as it works to reverse slowdowns at

Men interact with a Baidu AI robot near the company logo at its headquarters in Beijing, China April 23, 2021. Florence Lo | Reuters BEIJING — Chinese tech giant Baidu reported Tuesday third-quarter revenue that beat expectations, although growth was slower than during the previous three months. The company’s U.S.-listed shares were up around 2%

In this article LOW Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An exterior view of a Lowe’s home improvement store. Lowe’s Companies, Inc. reports quarterly earnings on Tuesday, May 23, 2023.  Paul Weaver | Lightrocket | Getty Images Lowe’s on Tuesday lowered its full-year sales outlook, after customers spent less on do-it-yourself projects and caused its

In this article DKS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Dick’s Sporting Goods store stands in Staten Island on March 09, 2022 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Shrink who?  Sales and profit at Dick’s Sporting Goods bounced back in the fiscal third quarter, leading the retailer to raise its full-year

In this article BBY Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT People walk past a Best Buy store in Manhattan, New York City, November 22, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Best Buy cut its full-year sales outlook Tuesday, as the company weathers a period of cooler demand and prepares for price-conscious holiday shoppers. The consumer electronics

In this article ANF Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Abercrombie & Fitch. Courtesy: Abercrombie & Fitch Abercrombie & Fitch on Tuesday blew past estimates as it posted a 20% jump in sales thanks to a strong back-to-school shopping season and growth at both its namesake brand and Hollister.  The longtime mall retailer, which has bounced

In this article JWN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Shoppers exit Nordstrom at the King of Prussia Mall on December 11, 2022 in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Mark Makela | Getty Images Nordstrom on Tuesday said sales slid by nearly 7% year over year, echoing other retailers’ comments about weaker demand and budget-pressured consumers.

In this article NVDA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Nvidia Co-Founder and CEO Jensen Huang arrives at a Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Insight Forum in Washington on Sept. 13, 2023. Sarah Silbiger | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia shares slid 2% in extended trading on Tuesday after the chipmaker reported fiscal third-quarter results that

In dating app Bumble’s early days, CEO and founder Whitney Wolfe Herd realized something: Twitter and Instagram were two of the most popular apps out there, but she never saw advertisements for them. She wanted to make her dating app as ubiquitous as the social media giants, and the idea of not spending money appealed

LIVERPOOL, U.K. – Oct. 11, 2023: Britain’s main opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer applauds a speaker the final day of the annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool, northwest England, on October 11, 2023. Paul Ellis | Afp | Getty Images LONDON — The U.K.’s main opposition Labour Party last week set out the economic

In this article Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Snickers and Mars candy bars, produced by Mars Inc., sit on display. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images For 11 months of the year, Tim LeBel is Mars Wrigley’s president of sales. But for the month of October, he dons a new title: chief Halloween officer.

Without broad-based student loan forgiveness, some colleges have a new strategy to keep students from drowning in debt.   Roughly two dozen schools have introduced “no-loan” policies, which means they are eliminating student loans altogether from their financial aid packages. “College is expensive — we have to make sure we keep it accessible,” said Nicole

In this article C Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Citigroup reported its third-quarter results on Friday morning, with solid growth in both institutional clients and personal banking fueling higher-than-expected revenue. Here’s what the company reported compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG, formerly known as Refinitiv:

Jetcityimage | Istock | Getty Images The annual rate for newly purchased Series I bonds could rise above 5% in November based on inflation and other factors, financial experts say. That would be an increase from the current 4.3% interest on I bond purchases made through Oct. 31. But it’s less than the 6.89% rate

Jamie Dimon, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., gestures as he speaks during an interview with Reuters in Miami, Florida, U.S., February 8, 2023.  Marco Bello | Reuters JPMorgan Chase delivered strong profits for the third quarter along with a stern warning Friday from its top executive about

In this article JPM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, at the U.S. Capitol for a lunch meeting with the New Democrat Coalition in Washington, D.C., June 6, 2023. Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty Images JPMorgan Chase is scheduled to report third-quarter earnings before the opening

Prospective buyers visit an open house for sale in Alexandria, Virginia. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The housing market is dealing with a number of “tricky” dynamics, according to Tracy Kasper, the president of the National Association of Realtors. “What we’ve experienced over the last probably 12 to 18 months is what I really like to

In this article WBA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A sign displays the types of COVID-19 vaccination doses available at a Walgreens mobile bus clinic on June 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Walgreens on Thursday offered soft profit guidance and reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings that fell short of

Justin Sullivan | Getty The Powerball jackpot surged to an estimated $1.73 billion, the second-largest prize in the game’s history, without a winning ticket on Monday. While it’s the first time Powerball has seen back-to-back billion-dollar grand prize cycles, lottery jackpots have gotten bigger more frequently over the past several years, experts say. The next

In this article GS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs, during a Bloomberg Television at the Goldman Sachs Financial Services Conference in New York on Dec. 6, 2022. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Goldman Sachs said Wednesday that it agreed to sell its fintech lending platform GreenSky

A house for sale in Arlington, Virginia, in July of 2023. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage rose to the highest level since 2000 last week, but rates on adjustable-rate mortgages fell. That caused a run on these so-called ARMs, pushing total mortgage application volume very

Luis Alvarez | Digitalvision | Getty Images Some lawmakers and regulators are calling for interest rate caps and lower fees on credit cards as debt levels march higher. Total credit card debt topped $1 trillion in the second quarter of 2023 for the first time ever. The average interest rate for all cardholders jumped to

In this article PEP Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Pepsi products at a convenience store in Crockett, California, June 16, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images PepsiCo on Tuesday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that beat analysts’ expectations and raised its outlook for its full-year earnings. Shares of the company rose 2% in

A recession is all but inevitable for the U.S. and investors should be playing defense in that kind of environment, according to the head of the TCW Group. “We are going to have a recession, because that’s the way the world works,” Katie Koch, CEO of the firm with $210 billion under management, said Thursday

Blackstone, the biggest owner of commercial real estate in the world, is placing its bets on the student housing rental market as demand surges worldwide. “Student housing is, I think where the opportunity is most specifically generating a lot of strong cash for us and our investors,” as universities seek more accommodations to satisfy growing