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08/22/2025

The stock market may need ‘tariff checks’ to keep rallying — but the bond market wouldn’t like it

The idea of using collected tariffs for anything other than paying down the U.S.’s debt or funding its spending commitments isn’t terribly popular in the bond market.

08/22/2025

Trump says he’ll fire Lisa Cook. Here's why that might not happen.

President Donald Trump on Friday stepped up his administration’s pressure campaign on Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook, saying he’d try to remove her from her post if she didn’t step down.

08/22/2025

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08/22/2025

With a high cost of living, mounting student-loan debt and job-market instability, dating isn’t a priority for much of Generation Z. Instead, it’s a financial burden.

Data on spending habits provide a glimpse of how young folks’ mindset toward dating has shifted.

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08/22/2025

Stocks open with modest gains ahead of Powell's speech in Jackson Hole

U.S. stocks rose at the opening bell Friday as investors awaited Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's highly anticipated speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Investors are still pricing in a September rate cut, but have scaled back those bets in part due to renewed concerns that tariffs will feed thro

08/22/2025

ESPN and Fox roll out streaming services. But how much is too much for viewers?

Despite the bringing together of many different kinds of sports programming in the new ESPN+ and Fox One sports services, football superfans may still need to subscribe to multiple platforms to watch all their teams’ games.

08/22/2025

Have critics gotten the Trump tariffs all wrong? Here’s a case for why they will help the economy.

Twentieth-century free trade is out, at least under the Trump administration. “Managed trade” is in — and it might not be all that bad for the U.S.

08/22/2025

Some experts claim recessions are ancient history. What will they say after the next one?

Hubris in the financial markets is most apparent when growth is robust and investors ignore the past.

08/22/2025

Opendoor is throwing its weight behind AI and its stock is surging — but buyer beware

Opendoor is going big on AI and the stock is surging, but some express concern that a ”meme” frenzy is masking problems with the business.

08/22/2025

‘I worked at 14, had an 8.8% mortgage rate and drove used cars’: Did boomers really have it easier than millennials?

‘We were frugal, using coupons, discount stores, shopping during the sales and eating leftovers,’ one baby-boomer reader writes.

08/22/2025

Labubu’s viral success propels Pop Mart into Hong Kong index

Pop Mart International, the maker of the wildly popular Labubu plush dolls, is set to join the main Hong Kong stock market index after a ferocious rally.

08/22/2025

The golden anomaly. Here’s why RBC is bullish on what it calls an ‘overvalued asset.’

Gold is a haven asset with virtues that confound standard financial modelling