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Junk fees, insurance phone calls, and medical waits add up to $165 billion a year in consumer friction, per a new study from Groundwork Collaborative and Stanford economist Neale Mahoney.
Converting a large purchase to credit card EMI lowers monthly payments. It can increase total cost due to interest and fees. Experts explain when EMI makes sense and when to pay upfront.
New IFS/AEI research shows children from intact married families earn As and Bs at a 74% rate, versus 60% for others, and face fewer disciplinary and depression risks.
Jessica Pegula rallied from a break down to beat Iga Swiatek 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 in nearly three hours. She faces either Sara Bejlek or Coco Gauff in Sunday's final.
Paramount and California officials meet Monday to discuss settling the antitrust suit blocking the $110B Warner Bros. Discovery deal. Bonta demands structural remedies.
DBS yields 5%, OCBC yields 4.8%, and Meta runs a $50B buyback. Alpha Score of 59/100 for Meta suggests moderate upside. Each capital-return plan signals confidence.
Robots from X-Humanoid ran 9.39 seconds and jumped 2.88m at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, as US-China tech rivalry intensifies.
Kroger will close about 60 stores by 2026; Raley's shutters seven; Cosentino's, 78 years old, closes its first location. Industry pressures from online competition and inflation drive downsizing.
Hospitals scaling ambient AI scribes face consent, trust and hallucination risks. A study found the tools saved 24 minutes per shift, but full deployment tests governance and safety thresholds.
Brand Risk 15 streams free at 8 p.m. ET on Saturday, Aug. 22, across Kick, Twitch, YouTube, X, and TikTok. McBroom vs. Temperrr headlines a 12-bout card.
ResMed's price-to-sales ratio of 4.76x is well below its five-year average of 8.70x, as healthcare spending growth projections and sticky demand draw investor attention.
Apple spent $877B on buybacks under Cook, cutting share count 44%. The arithmetic works best at lower valuations; Ternus takes over Sept. 1.
President Trump's financial disclosure shows over 1,000 trades in June, with a $1M-$5M Berkshire buy and smaller Visa purchases. Alpha Score 57 for BRK.B, 72 for V.
Perrigo's core earnings fell 21%, margins shrank, and the CEO left abruptly. The 8.3% dividend yield may not survive the restructuring and leadership vacuum.
Former NY Fed chief Bill Dudley flags bubble risk as the Shiller CAPE hits 42.15, second-highest in a century. Defensive sectors led during the last crash.
Mark A. Cohen traces two innovations by his father, a New York City sanitarian, and the patent he never received for a device that prevented carbon monoxide poisonings.
Pete Wargent and Chris Bates say refinancers locking in older valuations and fewer investors are creating pockets of opportunity in Sydney and Melbourne before spring.
A free model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter this week with capacity for 100 trillion tokens per day. No one knows who built it.
Moderna surged 177% on Wednesday after a cancer vaccine trial with Merck showed a statistically significant improvement in recurrence-free survival for melanoma patients. Shares ended the week up 129%.
A humanoid robot ran faster than Usain Bolt in a test run, then crashed into a padded wall. The games highlight the gap between flashy demos and real-world deployment, even as investment surges.
Filippo Sorcinelli, who dressed three popes, relies on Vatican commissions for his Atelier LAVS. Diversification into perfumes is limited. A leadership change could slow orders.
A 56-year-old turned a $735,000 401(k) rollover into $4,300 monthly income at a 7% blended yield using covered call funds, REITs, and midstream partnerships. Inflation and distribution durability matter.
Yields hit two-decade highs after bond buyers demanded higher term premium, with economists saying markets have lost patience with U.S. fiscal path.
Dividend investors can find stability in Unilever's 3.5% yield, Colgate-Palmolive's 2.4% payout, and Mondelez's 3.2% dividend backed by emerging-market growth.
Amazon's Trainium chips hit a $25B run rate, with Trainium3 sold out and Trainium4 reserved. Alpha Score 65. Here's why the stock is a buy.
KFC closed 312 U.S. restaurants over 12 months as Chick-fil-A and Popeyes pulled ahead. CEO Christopher Turner described a turnaround with a new brand identity and menu changes.
BankUnited CFO James Mackey sold 3,517 shares to cover RSU tax after the stock gained 24% in a year. His derivative holdings signal continued alignment.
Integrity Urgent Care, backed by a Goldman Sachs fund, opened in Murphy, Texas, on Aug. 22. The clinic serves Collin County with walk-in care, x-rays, lab tests and employer services.
Chinese humanoid robots ran 100m in 9.39 seconds and high jumped 2.88 meters at Beijing games, beating human records. The event follows US import bans on foreign-made humanoid robots.
Andrej Karpathy's digital brain concept turns AI agents into knowledge-compounding wikis. VCs are adopting it, and memory startups battle frontier labs for the layer.