Most couples assume Medicare eligibility lives and dies by your own paycheck, but there is a lesser-known clause buried in the Social Security Act that could hand a non-working spouse a $0 monthly premium at 65 using someone else’s decades-old pay stubs.
Applied Optoelectronics closed out the week up 15.4% at $150.13, nearly triple the next best move on the board. Chip and storage names filled in behind it, while Duolingo and Asana ended the week lower.
A 0.2% slide into the weekend leaves the S&P 500 at 7,782, still within arm's reach of its high, with next week's Fed minutes the next real catalyst. Nothing broke today, but positioning ahead of that release starts Monday.
If regulators signed off on more than 80% of carrier requests to carve AI damages out of general liability coverage, every company deploying AI is now self-insuring that exposure whether it knows it or not.
The insurance industry has priced the AI risk. Carriers went to state regulators this year asking to exclude AI-related damages from ordinary general liability policies. Regulators approved more than 80% of those requests, and the standard forms behind roughly 82% of
Reddit just scored S&P 500 membership, but the pop is already fading and the stock sits down 24% for the year. The path back to $200 depends on forces that index inclusion alone cannot deliver.
Seth Klarman built his reputation by staying quiet and staying out of the spotlight, so when the most reclusive value investor of his generation puts money into Bill Ackman’s publicly listed firm, the question worth asking is what he sees that most investors are missing.
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Global X’s DIV ETF hands retirees a 7% yield paid out every single month, but the 50 stocks generating that income include shipping firms riding tanker cycles, mall REITs with foreclosures in progress, and MLPs that swing dividends by thousands of percent depending on commodity…
Vanguard swapped the benchmark powering one of the most popular growth ETFs on the market, and most holders never saw it coming. What looks like a paperwork formality could quietly reshape which companies sit inside your portfolio over time.
When a retired mechanic skips the cash and takes bike credits instead, he assumes Social Security will not notice. The IRS and SSA see the arrangement very differently.
Income investors have a narrow window to capture a wave of dividend payments locking in this month. Three large-cap names, led by Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX | SBUX Price Prediction), are going ex-dividend today, August 14, 2026, and two more are queued for the following two weeks. S…
Tesla’s long-delayed next-generation Roadster is expected to briefly lift off the ground at SpaceX’s rocket test site in McGregor, Texas, in a demonstration that could come as soon as August 2026, according to reporting by The Information, which cited sources familiar with the p…
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Home Depot reports Tuesday before the open, the cleanest read yet on whether the housing-tied consumer is still spending. It anchors a 103-company week that also puts Baidu, Klarna and optical supplier Fabrinet on the tape.
