In 2017, Leena Pettigrew was gifted her first houseplant — a golden Pothos, notoriously easy to care for — and killed it.Five years later, she tried again. She and her husband Marquise were redecorating their home in Houston, and they needed to fill its empty corners, she says. She drove…

Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist Looking for high-yield opportunities can be a focus for many income-hungry investors in the closed-end fund space. However, just trying to buy whatever the highest-yielding investment out there is often not a great strategy. It can end up costing investors more in…

An uptick in sausage demand can offer the latest sign of consumers tightening their belts as they continue grappling with high prices.There’s been “modest growth” in the dinner sausage category for one producer, according to the Dallas Federal Reserve’s Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey released Monday. This underscores the trends of…

Here are the stocks making notable moves on Monday: PDD Holdings — Shares of the Temu parent company plunged nearly 30% on disappointing second-quarter results. The China-based online retailer posted revenue of 97.06 billion yuan, or $13.6 billion, versus consensus estimates of 100.17 billion yuan, according to analysts polled by…

Synopsis Toll Brothers (NYSE:TOL) designs, constructs, and markets luxury residential homes. TOL is well positioned to capitalize on the strong housing demand that is driven mainly by an undersupply of housing and a favourable demographic. Its strategic initiatives to focus on spec homes enable it to meet the demand of…

Travelers, be warned: The federal government may revoke your passport if you ignore a big tax bill.Such punishments have become more frequent in recent years, experts said.Federal law requires the IRS and Treasury Department to notify the State Department if an American has a “seriously delinquent tax debt.”This is a…

Wall Street takes back-to-back weekly gains and an overbought market into an important week featuring Nvidia earnings and the latest reading on the Federal Reserve’s favorite inflation gauge. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell on Friday gave the speech from Jackson Hole that investors wanted to hear. The S & P 500…

The 1-Minute Market Report August 25, 2024 In this brief market report, we look at the various asset classes, sectors, equity categories, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and stocks that moved the market higher and the market segments that defied the trend by moving lower. Identifying the pockets of strength and weakness…

It appears more investors are eyeing dividend stocks ahead of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision in September.Paul Baiocchi of SS&C ALPS Advisors thinks it is a sound strategy because he sees the Fed easing rates.”Investors are moving back toward dividends out of money markets, out of fixed income, but…

Boeing will return its capsule from the International Space Station without the NASA astronauts that Starliner delivered to orbit, the agency announced on Saturday.The decision to bring Starliner back from the ISS without astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams marks a dramatic about-face for NASA and Boeing, as the organizations…