This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: Bull markets often carry with them great expectations about future growth. Sometimes those expectations by the investing masses are too lofty given fresh incoming realities. I fancy that is the case today as […]

Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures at the Bitcoin 2024 event in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., July 27, 2024. Kevin Wurm | Reuters With the levers of power in Washington, D.C., about to change hands, a raft of pro-crypto legislation is expected from Congress and the Trump administration. To date, there’s been

Jess Riley has charted her debt repayment journey on TikTok.tiktok/@jess.riley_ Micro-trends that circulate on social media can trigger some to make too many online purchases. Buy-now-pay-later can make the true costs of buying items seem lower. These payments add up over time, leading to a debt spiral that’s difficult to escape. Buy-now-pay-later services (BNPL), such

According to the most recent U.S. Census Data, there is more than a $45,000 swing in median income between the wealthiest and poorest household income states. The top-earning states for 2023 are Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, New Hampshire, California, Hawaii, and Washington.  What about these states’ educational opportunities, cost of living, and industries that help

Photo: Jim Allen – FreightWaves Chart of the Week: Outbound Average Length of Haul – USA SONAR: OALOHA.USA The average length of haul for a truckload has plummeted in recent months, averaging nearly 8% shorter year over year to start 2025. This is a dramatic shift from what was happening this summer, when the load lengths were averaging

Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer gives a media interview while attending the 79th United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, U.S. September 25, 2024. Leon Neal | Via Reuters LONDON — The U.K is looking to build a homegrown challenger to OpenAI and drastically increase national computing infrastructure, as Prime

By Sai Ishwarbharath B and Haripriya Suresh BENGALURU/MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s Tata Consultancy Services expects its retail and manufacturing clients in North America to step up spending on tech, following a similar upturn in its banking and financial services segment, a top executive of the nation’s No. 1 software-services exporter, said. “We have heard about

How would you like to get paid to sit back and watch a stock you own take off? That’s a scenario most investors would love. But is it unrealistic? Nope, not with the right dividend stocks. Analysts might have found just the stocks to buy, too. Here are three high-yield dividend stocks Wall Street thinks

It’s January, the designated month for self-reflection and setting goals. It’s a time when most people contemplate all the ways they’d like to change for the better in the new year. About a fifth, 21% of Americans want to save more money in 2025, according to Statista, 19% want to eat healthier and 17% want