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Planning young: a retirement roadmap Though retirement can be a fulfilling time in people’s lives, it can also be a stressful one. This especially holds true if you fall victim to the following mistakes, so be sure to avoid them at all costs. 1. Relying too heavily on Social Security Millions of seniors collect Social…

El-Erian: Investors recognize trade fears are short-term Procter & Gamble, the maker of familiar brands like Tide, Pampers, Gillette and Bounty, has been knocked around the past few years by lackluster sales and new competitors. Its latest headache is President Donald Trump’s trade war with China. For P&G, the Trump administration’s latest round of tariffs…

The U.S. dollar strengthened against its main rivals early Friday in New York, though the currency was still looking at an almost 1% weekly loss, while the British pound pulled back from its highs amid souring sentiment around Brexit negotiations. The ICE U.S. Dollar Index DXY, +0.17%  was 0.1% stronger at 94.028 on Friday, but…

Treasury yields were mostly unchanged on early Friday trading as traders looked ahead to next week’s meeting by the Federal Reserve, where a rate increase is expected. The 10-year Treasury note yield TMUBMUSD10Y, +0.46% was flat at 3.080%, close to a seven-year high at 3.119%. The 2-year note yield TMUBMUSD02Y, +0.32% was up 1.3 basis…

Is Wall Street ignoring the potential for simmering trade conflicts with China to intensify, upending the stock market’s newfound buoyancy? It may be hard to fathom that consternation tied to President Donald Trump’s hard-line stance with China, Europe and other major economies may bubble up into something more severe for investors after the Dow Jones…

U.S. stock-index futures inched higher on Friday, indicating that Wall Street would extend its recent uptrend and push further into record levels. Where are the major benchmarks trading? Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average YMU8, +0.13%  advanced 44 points, or 0.2%, to 26,771. S&P 500 futures ESU8, +0.03%  gained 2 points, or less than…

Asian stocks markets on Friday registered strong gains for the day and week, with the Shanghai Composite notching its best weekly run in more than two years, extending on a rally seen overnight in Europe and the U.S. Japan’s Nikkei NIK, +0.82%  finished 0.8% higher, helped by more declines in the yen USDJPY, +0.21% during…

The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.95%  rose to an intraday high Thursday, closing with a 1% gain. The S&P 500 Index SPX, +0.78%  was up 0.8% after setting another intraday record, following the latest round of good economic news. Bloomberg said its Consumer Comfort Index had climbed to its highest level since 2001. Meanwhile,…

This article is reprinted by permission from NerdWallet. The way couples talk about money — and fight about it, inevitably — doesn’t depend on whether they’re married or not. There are good and bad ways to discuss topics as emotional as money, no matter where you are in your relationship. If you think this could…

We tend to think of investing as requiring big bucks. But microinvesting makes it possible to start even if you only have a few dollars to spare. What is microinvesting? As you may have guessed, it’s investing in super small increments by buying fractions of shares. And it’s been gaining in popularity in recent years, allowing people…