Apple Inc. bears have spent the past few months warning of lackluster iPhone adoption, competitive pressures in China and supply-chain rumors about order cuts. But despite all that, Apple (AAPL) beat ...

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Mortgage rates actually increased and have remained a major hurdle for prospective home buyers. Car loans haven't downshifted much, and credit-card annual percentage rates, or APRs, have only crept ...

This week's action in the stock market has made clear that the S&P 500 has become a riskier play - despite its status as the benchmark for U.S. large-cap stocks - because it has become a highly ...

While many have referred to the offer as a "buyout" - and there is a process for the government to offer buyouts - experts on the federal workforce argue that this deferred resignation offer shouldn't ...

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Two decades ago, Raymond Lombra, a now-retired economist at Penn State University, warned of a "rounding tax" that could amount to at least $600 million a year if merchants were to routinely add a ...

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Still, the S&P 500 SPX rose over 0.7% since Inauguration Day. It was the best first nine trading days of a presidency for the large-cap index since former President Barack Obama was sworn in for a ...

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Following are lists of January's best and worst-performing stocks in the S&P 500 SPX. And further down is a close look at performance and valuations for the index and its 11 sectors. All investment ...