Halfpoint Images | Moment | Getty Images The average 401(k) plan savings rate, including employee and company contributions, recently hit a record high — and the percentage is nearing a popular benchmark. During the first quarter of 2024, the combined 401(k) savings rate reached 14.2%, according to a quarterly Fidelity analysis of almost 26,000 corporate
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In this article MRK MRNA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Artur Widak | Nurphoto | Getty Images Moderna and Merck released more positive three-year data Monday on their experimental vaccine, given to patients with the most deadly form of skin cancer in combination with the therapy Keytruda. The vaccine together with Merck’s Keytruda improved
In this article GME Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Keith Gill, known on Reddit under the pseudonym DeepFuckingValue and as Roaring Kitty, is seen on a fragment of a youtube video displayed on a smartphone screen in front of GameStop logo. Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty Images Meme stock leader Keith Gill, who’s
D3sign | Moment | Getty Images Americans aren’t good at taking vacation. About 62% of workers say having a job with paid time off — for vacations or illness — is “extremely important” to them, more so than benefits like health insurance, a 401(k) plan or paid parental leave, according to a Pew Research Center
In this article STLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Jeep Wrangler plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) during the 2023 New York International Auto Show (NYIAS) in New York, on Wednesday, April 5, 2023. Stephanie Keith | Bloomberg | Getty Images NEW YORK – Jeep plans to grow U.S. sales of its plug-in hybrid
In this article WM SRCL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An employee cleans his company vehicle at the Waste Management facility on February 12, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Waste Management will buy Illinois-based waste-disposal company Stericycle in a deal valued at about $7.2 billion, the companies announced Monday. Under
Last month, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau declared that buy now, pay later customers should have the same federal protections as users of credit cards. However, Marshall Lux, a fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School who studies BNPL, says the government’s latest guidance is already a few steps behind.
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A Monzo debit card being used at a payment terminal. Monzo Monzo, the British digital challenger bank, on Monday reported its first full year of profitability. The fintech startup said in annual financial results that its pre-tax profits totaled £15.4 million ($19.6 million) in its 2023-2024 fiscal year, swinging to the black from a £116.3
Dutch digital bank Bunq is plotting re-entry into the U.K. to tap into a “large and underserved” market of some 2.8 million British “digital nomads.” Pavlo Gonchar | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images PARIS — Dutch digital bank Bunq is hoping it will manage to secure a banking license from U.K. financial regulators
Kathryn Burgum aplauds as her husband Republican Governor of North Dakota Doug Burgum shakes hands with former US President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump during a Caucus Night watch party in Las Vegas, Nevada, on February 8, 2024. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum – a potential
Early in her career, Kelly Harry worked at a major news organization in New York City as an account executive in ad sales. “I was making $40,000 a year, and I really thought that that was a lot of money at the time, until I had a casual conversation with my co-worker who was actually