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Buy now, pay later plans offer an attractive alternative to credit cards for consumers: They allow purchases to be split into short-term, typically interest-free installments. “Credit isn’t new. Credit’s been around for thousands of years and credit cards aren’t new. But they’ve had a hard time adapting to consumer needs,” said Michael Linford, chief operating…
The upcoming earnings season will show investors whether the bull case for equities still holds. The second quarter reporting season comes at a pivotal point for the stock market, with the S & P 500 and Nasdaq Composite trading at all-time highs this week even after an onslaught of bad news regarding higher tariffs, a…
Stocks inched higher in early trading on Tuesday, as the Trump administration’s chaotic tariff rollout continues to spur volatility in the markets. The S&P 500 opened up 0.5 percent, and the technology-heavy Nasdaq also gained slightly. President Trump’s whipsawing tariff policies are still driving sentiment on Wall Street, especially in sectors facing the threat of…
The roller-coaster ride the stock market has been on is unlikely to end next week, with earnings ramping up in an environment where investors, companies and consumers have absolutely no certainty as to what will happen next with trade. Wall Street is about to wrap up one of its wildest weeks of trading ever, that…
The recommendation came after President Donald Trump walked back a trade policy that many worried would tip the U.S. economy into a recession. Source link
Wall Street has not typically been accused of doing too much for women and minority groups. The financial services industry, after all, is one in which more major banks are named after the Morgan family than led by a female chief executive. So it meant something over the past half-decade or so when the biggest…
A swath of the nation’s largest lenders, including JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs, reported quarterly and annual financial results on Wednesday that beat analysts’ expectations, and largely expressed a go-go attitude about what’s ahead for the economy after President-elect Donald J. Trump is inaugurated next week. JPMorgan, the nation’s biggest bank, said it…