The answer: It depends. Even if you pose this question to financial professionals, you will get the same non-answer, and then usually a slew more questions.

Consumer confidence is buckling and debt is mounting. Here's how to steer your portfolio. Americans have just hit their credit limit - literally. With credit-card interest rates above 20% and housing ...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba--Intercontinental Exchange canola futures were moderately higher in the middle of Friday trading. The old-crop July contract saw the largest increase as it surpassed the ...

--On pace for largest percent decrease since May 24, 2024, when it fell 15.33% --Down 1.53% month-to-date; on pace for worst month since March 2025, when it fell 11.32% --Down 21.47% from its all-time ...

Alert your father about the wisdom of leaving his three siblings a poisoned chalice, a wonderful gift that ties you together and ties you to a sibling who has proven themselves unfit to be embroiled ...

If your mother purchased the home for $100,000 and it's now worth $800,000, gifting the home to you assumes that the tax basis in the property is $100,000, not $800,000 and/or the value at the time of ...

The Kansas City Fed said activity in tourism, wholesale trade and professional services increased in May, while the retail-trade and auto sectors saw declines. The bank said its index of expectations ...

Another reason to pay attention to AI in retirement planning comes from the work of Andrew Lo, a professor at MIT, and Jillian Ross, a doctoral student who collaborates with him. Together, they are ...

"While AI offers transformative potential in finance, it also raises serious concerns about data privacy and the risk of algorithmic misuse in decision-making," wrote the authors of The Roles of ...

The S&P 500 pulled back 2% during the first four trading sessions this week, but it was essentially flat for 2025 through May 22, with dividends reinvested. So some investors might still have been ...

Stock and bond investors are fumbling in the fog of the U.S. budget deficit, the dollar and how to trade the Trump administration's tax bill, which passed the House early Thursday. Yet for Keith ...

Dow Jones Top Energy Headlines at 11 AM ET: Oil Prices Pressured by Trade, OPEC+ Supply Hike Concerns | Trump ... Oil futures were lower for a fourth consecutive session with trade concerns back in ...