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“I expect to receive at least $9,000 per month before federal and California state taxes.”

“It wasn’t an ACA plan, but it was meaningfully cheaper than anything I could find on the ACA exchange.”

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) on Friday rose by +0.86%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) rose by +0.98%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) rose by +0.91%.  E-mini S&P futures (ESU26) rose +0.83%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures (NQU26) rose +0.86%.Stock indexes closed higher, supported by Friday’s -2.4% decline in oil prices.  The stock market took Friday’s CPI report largely in stride, even as the 10-year T-note yield closed slightly higher and the odds of a Fed rate hike next week rose to 85%. Join 200K+ Subscribers: Find out why the midday Barchart Brief newsletter is a must-read for thousands…

The next big drama in Hollywood may not play out in the movie theater, but possibly the White House. President Trump has threatened to impose a 100% tariff on all foreign made films. AUSTIN, Texas – The backstory to how this movie got to a theater near you could be a movie. And it might be someday, but Hollywood won’t make it.   Hollywood isn’t making a lot of movies these days. Production has moved away, to Texas, to Georgia, to Canada. California has the natural environment that created Hollywood in the first place, but the business environment has driven much of…

Wage growth for U.S. workers has cooled substantially from the pandemic period while inflation remains elevated, a trend that is adding to economic pressures.Diy13 | Istock | Getty ImagesAmericans face a renewed squeeze on their paychecks as inflation once again rises faster than wage growth, putting further pressure on consumer wallets.”A substantial number of Americans are worse off, their incomes are not keeping up with the price increases right now,” Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union, told CNBC.Consumer prices rose 3.4% in August from a year earlier, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of…

Sam Bankman-Fried asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to overturn his fraud conviction stemming from the collapse of FTX, following high-profile pardons of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht and Binance co-founder CZ.He is serving a 25-year prison sentence following his 2023 conviction, and his lawyers are also challenging an approximately $11Bn forfeiture. The justices must first decide whether to hear the case. The court receives thousands of such requests each year and agrees to hear arguments in about 60 cases. JUST IN: Sam Bankman-Fried has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn his 2023 fraud conviction and 25-year prison…

Key PointsThe sale was valued at $120,400.The transaction size represents 6% of the equity holdings Rapp maintained prior to the filing.The shares were sold directly by Rapp under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.10 stocks we like better than Plexus ›Karen Marie Rapp, Director of Plexus (NASDAQ:PLXS), reported a sale of 500 shares of common stock on Aug. 31, 2026, according to a recent SEC Form 4 filing.Transaction summaryMetricValueShares sold500Transaction value$120,435Post-transaction shares (directly held)7,535Post-transaction value$1.8 millionTransaction value based on SEC Form 4 weighted average sale price ($240.87); post-transaction value based on Aug. 31, 2026, market close ($239.47).Key questionsWhat was the structural…

DUBLIN, IRELAND – SEPTEMBER 12: U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to deliver remarks to U.S. Embassy personnel and business leaders at Deerfield Residence on September 12, 2026 in Dublin, Ireland. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThe war in Iran will likely end soon after November’s midterm elections, President Donald Trump said Saturday, and predicted that energy prices would fall sharply once that happens.”I think very soon, I think it’ll be right after the midterms, actually,” Trump said on a trip to Ireland when asked by reporters when the Iran war is likely to…

Key PointsNvidia says that its forecast for the next fiscal year is supply-constrained, not demand-constrained.The 70% revenue target is what management believes Nvidia can confidently deliver given current supply chain dynamics.Nvidia stock could move considerably higher over the next year, and its valuation multiples wouldn’t even need to expand. 10 stocks we like better than Nvidia ›So far this year, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock has put up a solid but unspectacular 17.3% gain. That sounds decent until you remember its performance during earlier innings of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, when shares were routinely doubling or tripling in a calendar…

Leaders of major AI companies say they agree with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who just called for the tech industry to move more slowly with model development.