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Nejdet Duzen / Shutterstock.com America’s housing market has entered a period of recalibration after the frenzy of recent years. Home prices are still hovering near record highs, though their growth has slowed significantly, now trailing general inflation on average rather than outpacing it. While existing homeowners have largely benefited from high prices in the form…

Ten years ago, Axon Enterprise (AXON +9.29%) was a small-cap company best known for its TASER stun guns. A share cost about $17 when 2016 began. As of this writing, the price is near $553 — a gain of more than 3,100%, enough to turn a $10,000 investment into about $329,000. The recent chapter looks…

Any child with earned income from a job, babysitting, or mowing lawns can have a custodial Roth IRA, and you can contribute whatever they earned, up to the annual IRA limit. Money invested at 15 has half a century to compound tax-free. Open one the first summer your kid earns a paycheck. Source

More than 50,000 employers in the U.S. have joined a pooled employer plan, creating opportunities for recordkeepers to grow their businesses and differentiate their organizations in the retirement plan marketplace, according to new data from Cerulli. PEPs first launched 5.5 years ago after being authorized in the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act…

A gauge of the risk in holding these firms’ debt has climbed to record highs, the Financial Times reported, citing LSEG data, with credit default swaps tied to Oracle, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Broadcom, Nvidia and SpaceX all touching records in recent days.  Oracle’s five-year swaps traded at 215 basis points on Monday, up from 144…

Among active traders, inflation has re-emerged as the dominant macro concern: 52 percent believe inflation will be the key driver of market direction in the second half of 2026, up from 40 percent in Q2. Geopolitical conflict (44 percent) and artificial intelligence developments (35 percent) round out the top factors retail clients expect to shape…