WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve officials are committed to fighting inflation and expect higher interest rates to remain in place until more progress is made, according to minutes released Wednesday from the central bank’s December meeting. At a meeting where policymakers raised their key interest rate another half a percentage point, they expressed the importance of
Designer491 | Istock | Getty Images If you’re eager to boost your retirement savings, there’s good news for 2023: higher 401(k) contribution limits. And now is the time to adjust your deferrals, financial experts say. You can funnel $22,500 into your 401(k), 403(b) and other such plans for 2023, up from the $20,500 limit in
dowell | Moment | Getty Images Investors have many options when saving for short-term goals, and those choices have become more complicated amid high inflation and rising interest rates. While there have been signs of slowing inflation, the Federal Reserve is expecting higher interest rates to continue. “It looks like this year might be a
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While some Americans are still recovering from holiday festivities, many others may have lingering effects of spending regrets. Overall U.S. retail sales increased 7.6% year-over-year between Nov. 1 and Dec. 24, according to the latest Mastercard SpendingPulse survey. For many consumers, the amount of debt they took on to pay for holiday purchases grew as well.
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Many Americans are setting financial goals for the year ahead. An extra paycheck could help. If you are a W-2 employee and get paid biweekly, there are two months out of the year when you will receive three paychecks instead of the usual two. The months in which you get three checks depends on your
A ‘For Sale’ sign stands in a vacant lot near new homes in Dunlap, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images After a brief reprieve in the first half of December, mortgage interest rates shot up again to end the year, weighing on mortgage demand. Mortgage application volume was down 13.2% at the end
In this article EDR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Dana White appears at the UFC 282 post-fight press conference on December 10, 2022, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, NV. Amy Kaplan | Icon Sportswire | Getty Images Media and entertainment company Endeavor saw its shares fall on Tuesday after a video showing
A pink Nezha V and black Nezha U Pro electric car models are on display at a store in Shanghai on Nov. 7, 2021. Costfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — Another budget-priced electric car brand is taking off in China, this time selling compact SUVs. Nezha, named after a feisty Chinese mythological
Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Mega Millions players may be daydreaming about what they’d do with an extra $785 million, the game’s current jackpot amount. One way they should count on using it if they win? Sharing a slice with the IRS. After no tickets matched all six numbers drawn Friday night,
President Joe Biden signed a $1.7 trillion legislative package on Dec. 29, 2022 that has several updates for retirement savers. Drew Angerer | Getty Images News | Getty Images A new law is changing rules governing how and when certain retirement savers can withdraw money from their nest eggs. Tax-advantaged accounts earmarked for people’s golden
Craig Warga | Bloomberg | Getty Images Manhattan apartment sales fell by 29% in the fourth quarter, sparking fears of a frozen market in which buyers and sellers stay on the sidelines due to economic and rate fears. There were 2,546 sales in the quarter, down from 3,560 last year, according to a report from
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Ether has hugely outperformed bitcoin since both cryptocurrencies formed a bottom in June 2022. Ether’s superior gains have come as investors anticipate a major upgrade to the ethereum blockchain called “the merge.” Yuriko Nakao | Getty Images U.S. banking regulators warned financial institutions on Tuesday that dealing with cryptocurrency exposes them to an array of
This could be a very good year for one lucky winner of the fourth-largest jackpot in Mega Millions history. And yet, kicking off 2023 with $785 million could have a downside. “The curse of the lottery losers is very real,” said Andrew Stoltmann, a Chicago-based lawyer who has represented several recent lottery winners. One of
Valentinrussanov | E+ | Getty Images As the Federal Reserve continues to hike interest rates, you may assume you’re earning more on the money in your savings account. But that may not be the case. related investing news Three painful lessons for investors in 2022. How to put them to work in the new year