Economy

2 Portfolio Names Hike Their Dividends

Every weekday, the Investing Club releases the Homestretch; an actionable afternoon update just in time for the last hour of trading.

The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s tariffs: a nostalgia that misreads a changed world

The US president fights 1970s battles in a financialised age. America faces not a payments crisis but a slow erosion of industrial and technological power

Watch these chart formations for clues into what's next for market volatility

Despite talk of the great rotation out of growth and technology and into value and defensive areas, the Nasdaq 100 is only 4.5% off its all-time high.

Home Depot delivers its best quarter of 2025

The company is operating in a part of the retail sector that is under outsized pressure from stubbornly high interest rates. That could soon change.

Here's what can happen to a retirement portfolio when stocks are volatile (and how to hedge against it)

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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: IBM, AMD, Dillard's, Novo Nordisk, Keysight Technologies & more

These are the stocks posting the largest moves in midday trading.

Consumer confidence ticks up in February as labor market outlook improves

Updated on: February 24, 2026 / 1:07 PM EST / CBS/AP

Couple bought an abandoned fire station for $90,000, renovated it into their dream home—take a look inside

Steven and Ashley Evans bought a fire station in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 2016.

Donald Trump's new 10% global tariff comes into effect

US president had said he would raise levy to 15% after last week's supreme court ruling

Jim Cramer says you 'have to own' this retail winner that reports earnings this week

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Biggest risk to the economy now? Goldman says it's a stock market correction

U.S. economist Pierfrancesco Mei worries that a 10% stock market pullback in the first half could cut GDP growth by half a percentage point, in one scenario.

Trump Imposes 10% Global Tariff Despite Promised 15% Rate

A 10% global tariff issued by the United States took effect on Tuesday, despite the Trump administration previously promising to enact a 15% rate.