Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: Avis, Stryker and more

In this article GT HOLX IDXX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A customer waits for his car at the garage of Avis Budget Group at the San Francisco airport. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading. Avis Budget Group – Shares of the budget…

Here’s what the inverted yield curve means for your portfolio

Catherine Yeulet | Getty Images As investors brace for another interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve, many are closely watching signals about the future of the economy. This week, investors are expecting the fourth 0.75 percentage point increase, which may continue to affect government bond yields. As the Fed takes further action to fight…

Self-driving truck startup TuSimple fires its CEO over improper ties to a Chinese firm

In this article TSP Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT TuSimple, partly owned by UPS, makes self-driving trucks, a technology that may be among the innovations to help lower longer-run inflation in the transport sector. Source: TuSimple Self-driving truck startup TuSimple has fired its CEO, Xiaodi Hou, after an internal investigation found improper dealings and…

Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Wynn Resorts, TuSimple, Newell Brands, First Solar and more

In this article TSP OXY ALGN HBI GPN NWL WYNN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT This photograph taken on October 20, 2022 shows the signage of Wynn Casino resort with the Grand Lisboa and Casino Lisboa in the backdrop in Macau. Eduardo Leal | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines…

Powerball jackpot hits $1 billion — but only if you pick the less-popular prize option. If you win, here’s the tax bill

Gene Blevins | Reuters The jackpot for Powerball’s Monday night drawing is a whopping $1 billion. Sort of, anyway. The advertised number represents the pretax amount you’d get if you were to receive your windfall as an annuity spread over three decades. Yet most jackpot winners choose the upfront one-time cash payment — which, for…

How top-ranked financial advisors are responding to near-retiree concerns about inflation, longevity

Fizkes | Istock | Getty Images Reaching retirement with a nest egg that you trust will last is a stressful endeavor even in the best of times. These days, those nearing the end of their careers also have to contend with historic inflation, stubborn market volatility and the remnants of the coronavirus pandemic. We asked…

Education Department overhauls federal student loan system, aiming to make it ‘simpler, fairer and more accountable’

Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images News | Getty Images The U.S. Department of Education announced on Monday sweeping new changes to the federal student loan system, including additional consumer protections for borrowers and limits on the amount of interest that can accrue on the debt. “Today is a monumental step forward in the Biden-Harris team’s…

Credit Suisse shares plunge 18% as bank announces huge third-quarter loss and strategic overhaul

Credit Suisse shares plunged 18% on Thursday after the Swiss bank posted a quarterly loss that was significantly worse than analyst estimates, and announced a massive strategic overhaul. The embattled lender posted a third-quarter net loss of 4.034 billion Swiss francs ($4.09 billion), compared to analyst expectations for a loss of 567.93 million Swiss francs….

China’s factory activity drops, bogged down by more Covid controls

China’s factory activity declined in October, official data showed Monday. Pictured here on Oct. 27, 2022, in Jiangsu province is an aluminum products company. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s factory activity fell in October due to frequent Covid outbreaks, the National Bureau of Statistics said Monday. The official purchasing…

Want to book a flight but pay for it next year? Here’s how it works

Travel demand is still picking up, and so are the prices of flight tickets.  Surging prices are causing some to cut back on spending, but others are finding new ways to pay for their holiday plans. More airlines are partnering with “buy now, pay later” firms to give customers the option to pay for their…