July ends on a hopeful note for stocks after momentum trade sees biggest wipeout since 2000

Even if some retirees do not know how their retirement assets are allocated, a consensus among workplace plan participants is they will need more than $1 million for retirement when it is time to cash out. Schroders PLC’s 2026 US Retirement Survey, which surveyed 1,500 U.S. investors nationwide from ages 30 through 79, including 382…

Taylor Farms bagged salad mixes for sale at a grocery store in Hercules, California, US, on Friday, July 17, 2026. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Taylor Farms is voluntarily recalling iceberg lettuce in 27 states because the greens potentially could be contaminated with cyclosporiasis. The fruit and vegetable producer announced the move…

The White House is visited by tourists on July 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir and more than 20 other companies released a letter on Friday urging policymakers to avoid “premature restrictions” on open-weight artificial intelligence models that would “stifle competition or drive innovation overseas.” Open-weight…

NextEra Energy (NEE 0.62%) is already a very large company, with a market cap of $185 billion. With its planned acquisition of Dominion Energy (D 0.91%), a $60 billion market cap competitor, NextEra is looking to get even bigger. The increased scale should help NextEra compete as electricity demand rises, thanks to new technologies such…

You might often see the acronym PFAS. But what does that actually mean? Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals, collectively known as PFAS, consist of more than 12,000 man-made chemical compounds that are “used in a broad array of consumer products,” Susie Dai, PhD, an environmental scientist at Texas A&M University, previously told USA TODAY. Most commonly,…

Your answer to this viral poll question probably says a lot about the state of your finances.