Category: Your Money

Walmart shoppers are pumping less than 10 gallons of gas per trip for the first time since 2022, a shift the retailer’s chief financial officer has called “an indication of stress.” The pattern points to real-time pressure on lower-income households as fuel prices stay elevated and broader inflation continues to climb. With consumer sentiment falling…

American car buyers face a punishing sticker price. The average transaction price for a new vehicle sits near $49,000, hovering close to its all-time peak. That figure has climbed sharply since 2020, driven by pandemic-era supply shortages, a shift toward larger trucks and SUVs, and persistent cost pressures across the auto supply chain. For households…

Roughly three million Texans who hold state hunting and fishing licenses have been told that an unauthorized actor gained access to a vendor system storing their driver’s license numbers, passport numbers, email addresses, phone numbers, and residential addresses. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department disclosed the incident after Texas Cyber Command flagged the intrusion, putting…

Eastman Kodak confirmed that hackers broke into its systems and stole data after the ShinyHunters extortion group claimed responsibility for taking 2.2 million records from the imaging company. The breach places Kodak, a 135-year-old brand that has spent the past decade rebuilding itself around commercial printing and advanced materials, squarely in the crosshairs of one…

More than half of Americans are now putting groceries, utilities, and rent on their credit cards because their paychecks cannot keep up with the cost of those basics. New federal data released on May 12, 2026, from both the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics paints a picture of households stretched so…

Up to 14.2 million email login credentials tied to six Japanese internet service providers were exposed after attackers compromised a shared backend email system operated by KDDI, one of Japan’s largest telecommunications companies. The breach turned a single point of intrusion into a sprawling, multi-company security failure, putting millions of users at risk of account…

Credit card borrowers who pay more than the minimum each month already have a legal ally they may not know about: federal law requires issuers to send every extra dollar to the balance carrying the highest annual percentage rate first. That rule, written into the Credit CARD Act of 2009 and codified in both statute…

Scammers posing as bank fraud departments are tricking people into handing over money and personal data at a growing rate, and federal agencies say the single best defense is the simplest: hang up and call the number printed on the back of your debit or credit card. Bank impersonation is the most-reported text message scam,…

American households carrying credit-card debt face a sharp warning sign: 13 percent of credit-card balances are now at least 90 days past due, the highest share recorded since 2011. The milestone arrives as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation publishes its latest system-wide data on bank asset quality, and it raises direct questions about whether lenders…

Households carrying high credit-card balances relative to their limits can see their scores drop fast, but the reverse is also true. Federal guidance from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau confirms that credit scores weigh how close a cardholder is to being maxed out, and that crossing below widely cited utilization thresholds can produce visible score…