Meredith Tabbone first decided to buy and renovate a cheap home in Italy to reconnect with her family history. More than four years and nearly half a million dollars later, her 1-euro home journey has given her a new perspective on work, life, friendships and happiness.Tabbone, 44, is a financial…

I am updating my previous analysis on Telephone and Data Systems (NYSE:TDS) in advance of Q1 2024 earnings, which will be released pre-market on Friday, May 3rd. In my last analysis, I rated TDS a sell for the following reasons: Capital investments were not paying off Profitability continued to decline,…

A week ago, Nvidia suffered its third-worst session on record, plunging 10%, in a broader wreckage for artificial intelligence stocks. Those losses have now been completely erased and then some – and not because of anything the AI chip king has said or done. Nvidia’s gains of 4.35% and 3.65%…

The last batch of inflation news that Federal Reserve officials will see before their policy meeting next week is in, and none of it is very good.In the aggregate, Commerce Department indexes that the Fed relies on for inflation signals showed prices continuing to climb at a rate still considerably…

In my 10 Dividend Growth Stocks series, I rank a selection of Dividend Radar stocks and present the ten top-ranked stocks for further research and possible investment. Dividend Radar is a weekly automatically generated spreadsheet of dividend growth [DG] stocks with dividend increase streaks of five or more years. To…

Inflation showed little signs of letting up in March, with a key barometer the Federal Reserve watches closely showing that price pressures remain elevated.The personal consumption expenditures price index excluding food and energy increased 2.8% from a year ago in March, the same as in February, the Commerce Department reported…

Some mornings, Kaitlin Jorgenson travels 544 miles to get to a job she’ll be at for 72 hours. She says it’s the happiest she’s been.Her alarm goes off at 5:30 a.m., reminding the 30-year-old that she has less than an hour to start driving to Charlotte Douglas International Airport —…

The Short Duration Income Fund’s Institutional Class returned +1.16% in the first quarter compared to a +0.45% return for the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate 1-3 Year Index. For the one-year period ended March 31, 2024, the Fund’s Institutional Class returned +5.46% compared to a +3.56% return for the index. Given the…

Francisco Rivera’s “original plan” after college graduation was to work in music and travel.But after he finished his degree in music production at Full Sail University in 2017, he couldn’t find a job in the industry. So, Rivera made money where he could: He worked in an Apple Store, then…

U.S. economic growth was much weaker than expected to start the year, and prices rose at a faster pace, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.Gross domestic product, a broad measure of goods and services produced in the January-through-March period, increased at a 1.6% annualized pace when adjusted for seasonality and inflation,…