Walgreens Earnings: Solid Start to 2025 and Early Green Shoots of Recovery Lift Shares
Walgreens Boots Alliance WBA reported better-than-expected fiscal first-quarter results, marking a solid start to the fiscal ...
Fed Rate Cuts on Hold with Continued Healthy Job Growth
The US economy continued to add new jobs at a healthy clip in December, with the latest jobs report likely cementing the ...
California wildfires highlight the fast pace of home building in fire-prone areas
In a sign of how difficult it was, even before the recent fires, for homeowners to obtain insurance, California's insurer of last resort, known as the FAIR Plan, had an estimated $9 billion exposure ...
Surprising December jobs growth is denting chances of a first-half Fed rate cut
Friday's unexpectedly big increase in December nonfarm payrolls led to a diminished market-based likelihood for any rate cut by the Federal Reserve until September, based on one method of calculating ...
The California wildfires could push more people toward travel insurance. This type offers extra peace of mind - for a price.
Given all the attention that the California wildfires have gotten, it may prompt more consumers to consider travel insurance, period - whether a traditional plan or one with CFAR protection - when it ...
Here's when you can file your 2024 taxes - and what's new this year with refunds, tax laws and free tax prep
The Internal Revenue Service has set its calendar for the upcoming tax-filing season: Americans can start submitting their income-tax returns on Monday, Jan. 27. As people send in their 2024 federal ...
10-, 30-year Treasury yields end at highest since November 2023 after strong jobs report
Yields on 10- and 30-year U.S. government debt finished at their highest levels in over a year on Friday after December payrolls data came in stronger than expected, reducing market expectations for ...
Front Month Nymex ULSD Rose 6.56% This Week to Settle at $2.5017 — Data Talk
--Up 21.56% from its 52-week low of $2.058 hit Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024 --Up 6.56% from its 2025 settlement low of $2.3478 hit Friday, Jan. 3, 2025 --Off 51.29% from its record high of $5.1354 hit ...
Front Month ICE Brent Crude Rose 4.25% This Week to Settle at $79.76 — Data Talk
Front Month ICE Brent Crude for March delivery gained $3.25 per barrel, or 4.25% to $79.76 this week --Largest one week net and percentage gain since the week ending Dec. 13, 2024 ...
High five or high dive? What we know about stock returns in years ending in '5.'
Another sign that the "years ending in 5" theory is not worth following in your investments is that there is no plausible explanation for why it should work. That's a revealing deficiency, since if ...
10-Year Treasury Yield Rises to 4.772% This Week — Data Talk
The 10-year yield rose 0.175 percentage point to 4.772% this week. The price is 95 30/32. --Today it is up 0.092 percentage point and the price fell 22/32 price points ...
My wife and I passed on a family wedding due to a 'no-child' rule. We're now attending a friend's nuptials without our kids. Are we hypocrites?
Five years ago, I was invited to my cousin's wedding in Portland, Ore. There were no children allowed. We couldn't take our 2-year-old and didn't really have someone to care for her (I don't think ...