This article is reprinted by permission from NextAvenue.org. If the volley of flyers, brochures, letters, emails, social media ads and other marketing materials unleashed by insurance companies during Medicare open enrollment last fall had you feeling under siege, you’re not alone. “I am a college graduate, but I do not understand any of it,” says Liz Markowski, 74, of Vergennes, Vermont,

The biggest luxury brand in the world has announced a shake-up of its two major fashion labels, a move that has put the daughter of the world’s richest man in charge at one of them. LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton LVMH, +1.41% said Wednesday that Pietro Beccari, head at Christian Dior Couture up to now, will take on the roles

Dear Quentin, My boyfriend and I come from completely different backgrounds. I am in my mid-30s and he is 40. We both own our own homes, and had a life built prior to meeting. We have now been together for five years and we have lived only at my house for the last 2.5 years. Here’s the rub: My boyfriend

Oil futures settled higher on Tuesday, with U.S. prices up a fourth straight session, finding support as investors continue to monitor China’s reopening and look for signs of a potential global recession. Price action West Texas Intermediate crude for February delivery CL.1, +0.74% CL00, +0.74% CLG23, +0.74% rose 49 cents, or 0.7%, to settle at $75.12 a barrel on the

Trouble may be brewing in the second half of this year, but there’s “a window” for a stock-market rally during the first six months of 2023, in the view of Stifel chief equity strategist Barry Bannister.  The potential for a rally in equities is based on his expectations for inflation to fall sharply, the Federal Reserve to pause interest rate

Since it was unveiled in 2018, Google Duplex has been making waves in the world of artificial intelligence and voice assistants, steadily gaining attention and popularity. So, what exactly is this technology and what it can do? Simply put, Duplex is a voice assistant that uses natural language processing and deep learning algorithms to carry out complex tasks and conversations

The U.S. as a whole could be edging nearer a ban on gas stoves if the interest of a federal consumer safety agency is any indication. A member of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission told Bloomberg News in a recent interview that the agency is reviewing gas stoves and range tops, opening a comment period for now. Attention on

The U.S. dollar is on the verge of its first “death cross” in two-and-a-half years as a rally that peaked in September with the buck at its highest level in more than two decades continues to unwind. In markets parlance, a death cross occurs when the 50-day moving average of a given asset or currency pair moves below the 200-day

U.S. stocks are drifting between positive and negative territory on Tuesday as investors try to find a foothold, amid talk of tighter Federal Reserve policy and anticipation for earnings and inflation data out later this week. How stocks are trading The S&P 500 SPX, +0.18% is up 4 points, or 0.1%, to 3896 The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.18%

China on Tuesday suspended visas for South Koreans to enter the country for tourism or business in apparent retaliation for South Korea’s COVID-19 testing requirements for Chinese travelers, the Associated Press reported. No other details were given, although China has threatened to retaliate against countries that require travelers from China to show a negative result for a test taken within the

Dear Quentin, I’m a pretty fortunate person who lives a pretty fortunate life, and our annual household income at $160,000 is high compared to the rest of the world. However, we are still pretty frugal — we cook at home, drive old Hondas and do home repairs ourselves where possible.  We put away about 20% of our income into retirement

Norman Millette has been cutting hair in Portland, Maine, for 65 years. He’s been in the same location for 62 of those years, in a tiny triangle-shaped shop with a red, white and blue barber pole out front and one barber chair. The shop once was busier, with three chairs and another barber working alongside Millette. But now Millette works

Say you’re a professional football player and you get injured. You can no longer compete at a high level, but you can have a successful career doing something else. The salary differential: around $1 million a year vs. maybe $75,000. Plus, you no longer qualify for disability insurance because there’s something else you can do for a living. NFL players in

The London Metal Exchange needs to overhaul how it oversees live trading to prevent another market collapse after it was forced cancel $4 billion in nickel trades, a report into the fiasco says. The exchange needs to improve its risk and control functions and upgrade its volatility controls, according to consultants Oliver Wyman, who were commissioned by the LME to

No matter how miserable 2022 was for investors of all sorts, they could have undone all manners of sin with one simple move — going long Chinese stocks in late October. The KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF KWEB, +0.12% has exactly doubled (okay, rose 99.88%) from its Oct. 24 intraday low. Of course, no one in their right mind would’ve