• Apr 27, 2025

Market turmoil has many afraid to check retirement savings

Michael Montgomery used to check the balance on his retirement account once a week and smile. “I’m not looking,” says the 66-year-old professor from Huntington Woods, Michigan. As the White House simultaneously injects turmoil into financial markets with its trade war and dismisses fears of a downturn, retired and near-retired Americans are anxiously looking on, worried about outliving their savings or having to put off entries on their bucket lists.

  • Apr 27, 2025

How investors can navigate European markets through uncertainty

Credit spreads have widened, but so far, only to their five-year historical average levels, not nearly to the wides seen during the pandemic period and after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, Gordon Kerr writes.View on euronews

  • Apr 27, 2025

With 1 New Tailwind Already Blowing, 1 Huge New Catalyst Could Be Coming for Bitcoin Soon

With Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) looking as if it's regaining momentum, there's reason to believe there's a new tailwind helping it along, as well as potential catalysts on the horizon. Let's take a look at both of those factors because they're both related to China and its Bitcoin policies. Despite it being illegal to mine and trade Bitcoin in China since 2021, 21.1% of the world's Bitcoin is produced in the country.

  • Apr 27, 2025

IMF-World Bank meetings end with little tariff clarity, but economic foreboding

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Global finance leaders came to Washington this past week seeking clarity on what it would take to get some relief from President Donald Trump's multi-layered tariff assault and on just how much pain it will bring to the world economy. Many participants in the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Spring Meetings had a sense that Trump's administration was still conflicted in its demands from trading partners hit with his sweeping tariffs. During the whirlwind week, many finance and trade ministers sought to meet with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other key Trump administration officials, to no avail.

  • Apr 27, 2025

What To Expect in the Markets This Week

Coming Up: Trump's 100th Day, April Jobs Report, Inflation Data, First Quarter GDP, Earnings From Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Amazon, McDonald's, Exxon and Others

  • Apr 27, 2025

Since DOGE Was Created, This Is How Much Dogecoin Has Crashed

Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) is one of the most popular meme coins in the crypto world, often getting a boost from Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, who pumps up the digital currency either directly or indirectly, normally via social media. Dogecoin investors initially reacted positively to news that Donald Trump won last year's election, especially given Musk's close relationship with the new president. One of the biggest changes involving the government this year was the creation of the initiative called the Department of Government Efficiency -- which is often referred by its acronym, DOGE, not unlike how people refer to Dogecoin.