Credit card debt is on the rise. Americans now owe a record $1.14 trillion on their credit cards, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported Tuesday. The average balance per consumer stands at $6,329, up 4.8% year over year, according to a separate quarterly credit industryinsights report from TransUnion. Credit card delinquency rates are also higher
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In this article DIS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A scene from Disney and Pixar’s film “Inside Out 2.” Courtesy: 2024 Disney | Pixar Here’s a surprise: Disney‘s media business isn’t weighing down the company anymore. The primary Disney investor narrative since 2022 has been how streaming losses, combined with a declining traditional pay
Shares of Disney fell Wednesday as concerns about attendance at its theme parks overshadowed streaming profits and better-than-expected headline results. However, the quarter checked the boxes that matter most to us, making the stock decline a buying opportunity. Revenue in the fiscal third quarter totaled $23.16 billion, topping the $23.07 billion expected by analysts, according
Traffic_analyzer | Digitalvision Vectors | Getty Images Financial services companies and their digital technology suppliers are under intense pressure to achieve compliance with strict new rules from the EU that require them to boost their cyber resilience. By the start of next year, financial services firms and their technology suppliers will have to make sure
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Jeremy Poland | E+ | Getty Images American consumers claimed $8.4 billion of Inflation Reduction Act tax breaks tied to boosting the energy efficiency of their homes in 2023, according to Internal Revenue Service data, a sum that exceeded officials’ projections. More than 3.4 million U.S. households claimed at least one of two tax breaks
Kroger, Walmart, and McDonald’s. Beata Zawrzel | Nurphoto | Brandon Bell | Getty Images | Kamil Krzaczynski | Reuters Expensive Big Mac meals and fears of surge pricing at grocery stores have put food chains and consumer product companies in politicians’ crosshairs. Walmart, McDonald’s and Kroger are just a few of the companies that have
In this article WBD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A sign outside of the Warner Brothers Discovery Techwood Turner Broadcasting campus is seen on June 26, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images Warner Bros. Discovery‘s stock dropped Wednesday after it reported a $9.1 billion write-down on its TV networks and missed
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Wednesday he still believes that the odds of a “soft landing” for the U.S. economy are around 35% to 40%, making recession the most likely scenario in his mind. When asked by CNBC’s Leslie Picker if he had changed his view from earlier this year that markets were too
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Vice presidential candidate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz looks on during a campaign rally with U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., August 6, 2024. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters As many retirees struggle to afford the basics, there’s been bipartisan support to exempt Social Security from income taxes. That policy
Paige Bueckers has kicked off her partnership with Madison Reed by going from blond to “sparkling rose.” Courtesy: Madison Reed The latest women’s college sports deal comes with a splash — of color. The University of Connecticut has struck a deal with beauty brand Madison Reed in a wide-ranging partnership that includes court-naming rights; name,
In this article CVS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The CVS pharmacy logo is displayed on a sign above a CVS Health Corp. store in Las Vegas, Nevada on Feb. 7, 2024. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images CVS Health on Wednesday reported second-quarter earnings that topped expectations, but slashed its full-year
Pictured here is a McDonald’s store in Yichang, Hubei province, China, on July 30, 2024. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BEIJING — A theme emerging in the latest slew of U.S. companies’ earnings reports is a drag from the China market. The Chinese economy — home to more than four times the population of
Ezra Bailey | Stone | Getty Images The unemployment rate jumped in July, and there’s a detail in the data that has alarmed some economists. So-called “marginally attached workers,” according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, are those who are available to work and want a job, but have not searched for a job in
In this article DIS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The atmosphere at the Disney Bundle Celebrating National Streaming Day at The Row in Los Angeles on May 19, 2022. Presley Ann | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Disney is raising prices on its streaming platforms. Starting mid-October, most plans for Disney+, Hulu and
In this article DIS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The “Partners” statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse, at Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom, at Walt Disney World, in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, photographed Saturday, June 3, 2023. Joe Burbank | Tribune News Service | Getty Images Disney reports earnings before the bell,
The U.S. Federal Reserve does not need to make an emergency rate cut, despite recent weaker-than-expected economic data, according to Claudia Sahm, chief economist at New Century Advisors. Speaking to CNBC “Street Signs Asia,” Sahm said “we don’t need an emergency cut, from what we know right now, I don’t think that there’s everything that
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Westend61 | Westend61 | Getty Images Picture this: You walk into a big grocery store and everything is deeply discounted, said Winnie Sun, co-founder and managing director of Sun Group Wealth Partners in Irvine, California. “What would you buy that you know that your household would need for the future?” she said. “That could be
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