Laurie Sepulveda is a MarketWatch Guides team senior writer who specializes in writing about insurance, investing, personal loans, home equity loans, mortgages and banking. She lives in North Carolina ...

Cash-strapped Americans are growing increasingly pessimistic about their financial future, as data continues to reveal declines in consumer confidence and heightened anxieties about the economy in ...

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July 24 (Reuters) - Pinnacle Financial Partners (PNFP.O), opens new tab and Synovus Financial (SNV.N), opens new tab have agreed to merge in an $8.6 billion all-stock deal, forming one of the largest ...

Anthropic announced Claude artificial intelligence tools for the financial services sector. The AI tools can help financial professionals make investment decisions, analyze markets and conduct ...

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Many American consumers fail to grasp the basic math of inflation, according to a large-scale study of financial literacy. The FINRA Investor Education Foundation, a financial education nonprofit, ...

For a good few hours on April 9th, disaster beckoned. Share prices had been falling for weeks. Then the market for American Treasury bonds—normally among the safest assets available—started convulsing ...

Luke Hartigan receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Financial markets around the world have been slammed by the Trump adminstration’s sweeping tariffs on its trading partners, and ...

The foundation of American economic prosperity is a society empowered with the knowledge and tools to make informed financial decisions to achieve the American Dream. During National Financial ...