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Hyundai HYMTF, -1.35% redesigned its 2024 Hyundai Kona subcompact SUV, stretching its length, modernizing its styling, and bringing its ample array of technology fully up to…

Demand for international travel has soared since pandemic restrictions subsided. And when those Americans return home, they have to pass through airport customs facilities.U.S. Customs and…

The numbers: Mortgage demand fell as mortgage rates surged to multi-decade highs. The 30-year mortgage rate hit it highest level since December 2000, and the jumbo…

Americans are facing economic challenges on multiple fronts.U.S. consumer confidence fell to a four-month low in September, as people became more concerned about rising interest rates,…

Simplifying and streamlining our portfolios and the rest of our finances should be an estate planning priority as we age. I learned this firsthand when I…

Vin Walker, a 67-year-old retiree from Plymouth, Mass., has been trying this year to buy a second home in Naples, Fla., so that he and his…

Amid high inflation and rising interest rates, most Americans believe the economy is in bad shape, according to a poll from Quinnipiac University. In fact, 71%…

When Robert Merton, MIT finance professor and Economics Nobel laureate, speaks, we should listen. Fifty years ago, Merton, together with Fisher Black and Myron Scholes, developed…

If you have been following my posts on required minimum distributions from retirement accounts over the last few years, I have an important update to share…

Student loan payments are resuming, and time is running out. Millions of borrowers are only days or weeks away from having a student loan payment due…