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Bank of America Securities analyst Justin Post is sticking with his Buy rating on Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and a $370 price target heading into the company’s first-quarter 2026 earnings report on April 24. Post expects Alphabet to beat Wall Street estimates on both revenue and earnings per share, driven by strength in Google Cloud…
Fifteen months after the Palisades and Eaton fires destroyed more than 12,000 structures across Los Angeles and Ventura counties, thousands of displaced homeowners are still waiting to rebuild. Many remain in temporary housing, caught between mortgage payments on homes that no longer exist and a reconstruction process slowed by permit backlogs, contractor shortages, and insurance…
Patrick Barber has sold homes in San Francisco for more than two decades. He weathered the dot-com crash, the 2008 collapse, and the pandemic freeze. But nothing prepared him for what happened last month in Noe Valley, when a three-bedroom house drew 14 competing offers. “Almost every winning bid came from someone at an AI…
Renewing a homeowners insurance policy in 2026 will cost more for most Americans. How much more depends almost entirely on where the house sits. Nationwide, annual premiums are projected to rise between 3% and 8% this year, according to state-level modeling published by Insurify, an insurance-comparison platform that bases its forecasts on recent carrier filings,…
When Mariana Castillo walked across the stage at her university commencement in May 2024, she assumed her federal student loan payments would be manageable. She had budgeted around the SAVE plan, the most generous income-driven repayment option the government had ever offered. By the time her first payment came due that fall, SAVE was frozen…
For the first time in Medicare’s six-decade history, the standard Part B premium will top $200 a month. Beginning in January 2026, most of the more than 60 million Americans enrolled in Part B will pay $202.90 per month, a $17.90 jump from the current $185.00. The annual deductible climbs to $283, up $26 from…
Americans now owe more than $1.3 trillion on their credit cards, and a growing share of that debt has nothing to do with vacations, electronics, or impulse buys. According to multiple consumer finance surveys conducted over the past year, roughly one in three dollars carried on credit cards is going toward essentials: utility bills, groceries,…
Meta is eliminating roughly 8,000 jobs and shelving another 6,000 open positions it had planned to fill, a combined reduction of about 14,000 roles that makes this the company’s third major round of layoffs in 2026. The cuts amount to approximately 10% of Meta’s global workforce, according to the Associated Press, and arrive as the…
Social Security deposits are hitting bank accounts across the country this week as the April 2026 payment cycle gets underway. The largest possible monthly check, $5,181, goes to retirees who delayed claiming until age 70 and earned at or above the taxable maximum for at least 35 years. That number reflects the 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment…
Texas Instruments hadn’t moved like this in a quarter century. Shares of the analog chipmaker surged 18% on April 23, 2026, their largest single-day percentage gain since 2000, after first-quarter earnings blew past Wall Street forecasts and management signaled that artificial-intelligence demand is pulling revenue higher faster than almost anyone on the Street had modeled….