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Aug 19, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Northwestern Mutual’s 2024 survey found 38% of Gen Z expect to receive an inheritance, while 22% of boomers expect to leave one behind, even though half of respondents said an inheritance would be critical to long-term financial security.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
By the end of the 2026 filing season, the IRS issued $296 billion in taxpayer refunds—$43 billion more than in the comparable period a year earlier, a 17% jump.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Robert Kiyosaki argues you shouldn’t avoid debt and says, in real estate, “the more debt I use on real estate the less tax I pay.”
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Workers’ compensation payments are excluded from Social Security’s retirement earnings test because they replace injury-related lost wages, not pay for work performed, so they don’t trigger withholding of a retirement check.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Social Security benefits at 62 can be as high as $2,572 per month (vs a claimed $3,000), and miscalculating that by $428 per month could mean about $5,000 less in annual income.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Fidelity says the number of 401(k) millionaires reached 645,000 in early 2026, up 26% from the year before, as millennials increasingly enter the group.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Philip Morris International’s quarterly dividend is $1.47 per share ($5.88 annually) after an 8.9% increase in September 2025, while Altria’s quarterly dividend is $1.06 per share ($4.24 annually) after a 3.9% increase announced in August 2025.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Johnson & Johnson raised its quarterly dividend to $1.34 in April 2026—$5.36 per year—for a 3.1% increase and a 64th straight year of dividend growth.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Badger Meter increased its quarterly dividend by 10% to $0.44 per share (from $0.40) on August 14, 2026, extending its 34th consecutive year of annual dividend growth and bringing the annualized payout to $1.76.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Kimberly-Clark raised its quarterly dividend to $1.28 per share in January 2026 (from $1.26), bringing the annual payout to $5.12 and implying a roughly 4.6% yield on a stock price near $110.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The 30-year U.S. Treasury yield jumped to 5.29%—its highest level since 2007—driving up borrowing costs for homebuyers, businesses, and the federal government.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Bankrate research found that in 2025, 87% of borrowers chose a more expensive mortgage than they needed to, costing the typical borrower an extra $3,343 annually and $78,186 over the loan term.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A healthy, nonsmoking 30-year-old woman paid an average of $23.10 per month for a $500,000, 20-year term policy in October 2025, versus $408 per month for a comparable $500,000 whole life policy—nearly 18 times more.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
VanEck’s Pharma ETF (PPH) pays a 1.9% trailing-12-month dividend yield versus State Street’s Biotech ETF (XBI) at a 0.4% yield.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A man with rare stage 4 lung cancer sold $1.5 million of life insurance for $430,000 via a life settlement, expecting to invest the proceeds to earn more than the $1.5 million death benefit before he dies.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Conventional seller concessions are capped at 3% of the purchase price (appraised value if lower) with under 10% down, 6% with 10%–24.99% down, and 9% with 25%+ down—e.g., a $450,000 home with 5% down allows up to $13,500 in concessions.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A Gallup poll found 62% of Americans worry they haven’t saved enough for retirement and 54% worry about maintaining their lifestyle, which Vanguard strategist Garrett Harbron says can drive retirees to spend less than they can afford or not live the life they want.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Betterment’s Retail Investor Survey found 26% of Gen Z investors say sports betting is a primary wealth-building plan.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
iPhone’s built-in Magnifier app lets you zoom in on tiny print (near or far) and can also capture text for a transcript and read it aloud via Reader and text-to-speech.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
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