Most people know they should be investing, but far fewer realize that taxes can quietly eat into their long-term returns. Even if your portfolio is growing on paper, a poor tax strategy could mean you’re actually losing money every year. Learn More: Here’s Why Bitcoin Can Act Like ‘Digital Gold’ in Your Portfolio, Says Investing Expert Find Out: 3 Advanced Investing Moves Experts Use to Minimize Taxes and Help Boost Returns From tax-loss harvesting to asset location and tax-smart withdrawals, there are si ...

Key Points In his 2022 letter to shareholders, Warren Buffett celebrated Berkshire Hathaway’s 3,787,464% return, and noted consistently rising dividends in his “secret sauce.” Buffett singled out Coca-Cola and American Express, which had grown payouts by 836% and 637% since 1994, calling them “highly likely” to continue hiking dividends. These companies are well positioned to keep growing their dividends, thanks to growing earnings, low payout ratios, and shareholder-friendly management. 10 stocks w ...

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) -Investors are cautiously approaching the U.S. Treasury's sale of $22 billion in 30-year bonds on Thursday after an underwhelming auction last month that had some of the weakest demand metrics of 2025, though some believe it could be different this time. The auction size is $3 billion smaller than that in August and could be easier to absorb, which could be an advantage, analysts said. However, the 30-year bond sale comes amid global disdain for the long en ...

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and users, has entered into a strategic partnership with Franklin Templeton, a global investment management firm overseeing $1.6 trillion in assets. In a blog post the firm’s said the collaboration aims to develop new digital asset initiatives and investment solutions tailored for a broad range of investors. The partnership will explore ways to integrate Franklin Templeton’s expertise in the compliant tokenization of securities with B ...

U.S. mortgage rates declined to their lowest level in nearly a year, prompting more homebuyers and homeowners to apply for loans. The average interest rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 6.49% in the week ending Sept. 5, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). That is the lowest since October 2024. The lower rates pushed more borrowers to act. Homeowners rushed to refinance, with applications up 12% from the week before and 34% higher than the same week last year, per the MBA. Buyers al ...

Retiring early may seem like a dream come true. And for some, it is — but often not for the reasons you might think. While more than half (58%) of workers retire earlier than planned, it’s frequently due to unforeseen life events, according to research from Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies and Transamerica Institute. Learn More: I’m a Financial Advisor: Here Are the Top 3 Surprises My Clients Face in Retirement Find Out: 3 Advanced Investing Moves Experts Use to Minimize Taxes and Help Boost Retur ...

Survey: Small business owners are less confident about year-end profits Business owners are heading into the last quarter of 2025 — often the most crucial time of year for retail, e-commerce, restaurants, and hospitality — with less confidence in profit growth expectations than they had at this time last year, according to a recent NEXT Insurance survey. This year, just under half of business owners (49%) expect their profits to increase, down from 55% in 2024. That six‑point drop may reflect that small b ...

At the same time, marketplaces Collector Crypt and Phygitals have established similar businesses, and they issue their respective NFTs on Solana . Another project called RIP.FUN is in closed beta on the Ethereum scaling network Base . The NFTs issued by these firms are permissionless, so anyone can build an application that supports them on-chain.Courtyard emerged as a marketplace for tokenized Pokémon cards, and other collectibles, on Ethereum scaling network Polygon in 2021. And its business has been grow ...

For some DeFi projects, when airdrop rewards dry up, it kickstarts a terminal liquidity decline from which they don’t recover. DeFi lending protocol Gearbox has defied that pattern. Last year, its total value locked fell 80% from its $410 million peak. Users caused the slump by abandoning Gearbox when opportunities to farm airdrops of restaking services like Renzo shrank. TVL is a metric that measures the amount of deposits to a DeFi protocol. Yet, Gearbox’s TVL has since bounced back to $340 million, D ...

Bitcoin ticked higher after the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the producer price index dropped 0.1% in August—suggesting there’s less pressure on producers to raise prices and making a Fed rate cut more likely next week. As of this writing, BTC has gained about 0.5% in the past hour since the new U.S. economic data was released and is trading over  $114,000. That puts Bitcoin 2.3% higher than it was this time last week, but still 5.7% below its price 30 days ago. Ethereum also got a slight boost fro ...