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Fourth of July travelers, brace yourselves for a rough weekend — especially if you’ll be spending any time at the airport. Demand for airline travel is roaring back. Nearly 13 million people are expected to fly this weekend, according to data from travel app Hopper, and more than 2.4 million people passed through TSA checkpoints on Thursday alone.

Starting Friday, the three largest credit bureaus are overhauling how medical debt affects your credit. Equifax, Experian and TransUnion are automatically removing a significant portion of medical debt that plagues the credit reports of tens of millions of Americans. The credit bureaus first announced the reform in March amid regulatory pressure from the federal government's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The initial round of changes are in effect as of Friday, with more changes slated for next year.

Investors everywhere are wondering: When will the bear market end, and just how bad will returns be during the downturn?. Bear markets, defined as when the stock market falls at least 20% from its recent peak, are often associated with recessions, but the two don’t necessarily move in tandem.

No investor likes to see stocks fall. But this year's market downturn is especially bad news for the cohort of retirees and near-retirees with large portions of their portfolios tied up in stocks. While the S&P 500 officially entered a bear market in June (down more than 20% from its...

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Bad news, coffee lovers. Turns out filling up on caffeine before your next shopping trip could make you spend... quite a latte. People who drank a cup of caffeinated coffee before shopping spent roughly 50% more money and bought almost 30% more items than people who drank decaf coffee or water, a recent study by the University of South Florida found. The study of more than 300 shoppers was conducted at two stores in France and Spain.

It's always important for investors to have cash on hand for emergencies. But when stocks are in a bear market and inflation is running rampant, you may be especially worried about having enough to cover any surprise expenses. The S&P 500 — an index commonly used to measure how stocks...

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last week, revoking the constitutional right to have an abortion, Americans got busy. Folks nationwide poured money into abortion funds, stocked up on Plan B and vowed on social media to support friends in states that are hostile to abortion. And, amid...

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Amazon announced that Prime Day — its annual midsummer version of Black Friday — is returning to its traditional July time slot after two years of moving the sales event due to pandemic disruptions. Amazon Prime Day is eagerly awaited every year by deal seekers hoping to score...

If you've been putting off your first foray into the stock market, listen up: Now may be the opportune time to take the plunge. This month, the S&P 500 — a benchmark index commonly use to measure how the stock market overall is doing — fell into a bear market, meaning that its value dropped at least 20% from its previous high. Stocks have had a small comeback and are down around 17% for the year as of Tuesday morning. The overall downturn is still a stark difference from what investors got used to during the pandemic, when prices were buoyed by stimulus money from the government and near-zero interest rates.

Want to work from home? The vast majority of workers would like to have the option. Yet whether you can work remotely has a lot to do with your income. Of all employees, 58% now have the option to work from home at least once per week, according to new research from McKinsey, a management consulting firm. However, big discrepancies emerge when factoring in earnings.

The housing market may finally be starting to cool, but homes are still selling faster than they did at this time last year. Homes were on the market for a median of 31 days in May, according to data from Realtor.com. That’s four days faster compared to the same period in 2021, though it's significantly slower than the 21 days homes spent on the market at the beginning of the year.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been in free fall. But just how low will their prices actually go?. Bitcoin, which hit a high of $68,000 per coin in November, has plummeted around 70% and sat below $21,000 on Monday. Ether, the second largest cryptocurrency by market value after bitcoin, hit a high near $4,800 before plunging to around $1,200 now. Across the board, cryptocurrencies and tokens have taken a hit.

The United States Supreme Court overturned the landmark legal decision Roe v. Wade on Friday, ending Americans' constitutional right to abortion 49 years after establishing it nationwide. The court returned the power to regulate abortion to individual states — and, in doing so, set into motion a series of financial consequences for people who can become pregnant.

The U.S. Supreme Court officially overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that guaranteed the constitutional right to an abortion, on Friday. The ruling means that laws surrounding abortion access will be determined by the states rather than the federal government. Abortion was already restricted in many parts of the U.S., and it’s likely that roughly half of states will enact near-total bans on abortion.

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A familiar and frightening word is popping up everywhere again: recession. More people searched for “recession” this month on Google than in any other time since 2004. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said recently he thinks a recession is “more likely than not” in the near term, and even rapper Cardi B has wondered aloud — er, on Twitter — whether one has officially started.

A bear market is bad enough. But there's some more bad news in store: Bear markets are typically followed by recessions. During the last half century, bear markets were accompanied by recessions 83% of the time, according to an analysis by Morningstar vice president of research John Rekenthaler. The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), which declares when U.S. recessions begin and end, defines a recession as "a significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and that lasts more than a few months." The typical metric used is quarterly gross domestic product (GDP), the value of goods and services produced in the U.S.

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