Stocks surged into the close reversing earlier losses on Friday as investors took in earnings results from some major tech companies and another hot print on inflation at the end of another volatile week.  The S&P 500 closed up 2.4%, posting a weekly advance and

Fed chief Jerome Powell says there is an ‘element of uncertainty around the balance sheet’ and the central bank’s plans to shrink it from the pandemic-inflated $9 trillion at which it now stands. Graeme Jennings/Pool/AFP/Getty Images The Federal Reserve wants to slowly and quietly extricate

Apple (APPL) helped kick off Big Tech’s earnings season on Thursday with its best quarter in history. Revenue came in at $123.95 billion, an 11% jump over last year’s Q1 revenue, which itself was a record at the time. To top it off, the company

Ready for today’s retirement investing pop quiz? What year was the worst possible time in U.S. history to retire, from an investment point of view? To put this question another way: What year’s U.S. retirees had the greatest difficulty sustaining their retirement standard of living,