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Fed governor Stephen Miran and New York Fed President John Williams say they are not worried about inflation.

Most premium travel credit cards offer added benefits at select hotels when you book through the card issuer’s travel portal. For Chase’s Sapphire Reserve cards, those hotels are called The Edit — a collection of more than 1,300 luxury properties that provide cardholders with special perks when you book a minimum two-night, prepaid stay. Benefits include:Complimentary breakfast for two people.$100 property credit toward dining, spa services or other on-site activities. (Select all-inclusive properties have a $200 property credit.)Room upgrade at check-in (when available).Early check-in and late checkout (when available).Ability to earn points and elite nights in the hotel’s loyalty program.Those…

Last Updated: Dec. 15, 2025 at 6:02 p.m. ETFirst Published: Dec. 15, 2025 at 11:12 a.m. ETOracle’s earnings report last week didn’t do much to soothe concerns about how the company will fund its artificial-intelligence investments. In fact, investor sentiment has taken a turn for the worse.The company’s standing in the equity and credit markets has taken a hit. Shares of Oracle ORCL have dropped about 15% since Wednesday’s close, including a 2.7% drop in Monday trading. All the while, Oracle’s five-year credit-default swaps (CDS) —a key indicator of credit risk — have been surging.

Published: Dec. 15, 2025 at 6:12 p.m. ETBroadcom’s steepest three-day drop in over five years has the chip maker falling down the ranks of the largest U.S. companies. Shares of Broadcom AVGO lost 5.6% on Monday, capping a 17.7% three-day slide that’s their worst such stretch since March 18, 2020, according to Dow Jones Market Data. That persistent pressure meant that it only took a fractional Monday gain for Meta’s stock META to put the Facebook parent company back in the No. 6 spot among the largest U.S. companies by market capitalization.

Property taxes will be front and center in several states’ taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or businesses to cover the costs of general government services, goods, and activities. debates in 2026. From January 2020 to July 2025, aggregate US home prices soared 55.9 percent, outpacing both incomes and aggregate inflationInflation is when the general price of goods and services increases across the economy, reducing the purchasing power of a currency and the value of certain assets. The same paycheck covers less goods, services, and bills. It is sometimes referred…

In This Article The hype on tiny homes has been anything but small. But how practical is it for investors to scale a portfolio of cash-flowing micro-dwellings into an oversized income?  Loudoun County, Virginia, could give landlords a chance to find out. The affluent northern Virginia county is studying whether one-bedroom homes under 800 square feet can serve as a realistic path to increased homeownership and, in doing so, more affordable rentals. According to a recent feasibility study reported by Homes.com, the Board of Supervisors asked for an evaluation of how county-owned land could reduce the sale prices of units…

Signs of possible trouble are cropping up again in a crucial corner of the financial market despite the Federal Reserve’s best efforts to calm things down — raising questions about whether the central bank might need to do more.

(Image credit: Getty Images)Stocks opened higher to start the final full trading week of 2025, but were in the red by mid-morning amid pressure from several artificial intelligence (AI) names.Market participants also took a cautious stance ahead of this week’s jam-packed economic calendar, which kicks off in earnest tomorrow with the release of the November jobs report.At the close, the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.09% at 48,416, the broader S&P 500 was off 0.2% at 6,816, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was 0.6% lower at 23,057. From just $107.88 $24.99 for Kiplinger Personal Finance Become a smarter,…

In This Article When I bought my first property, hosting felt simple. Guests booked far in advance, competition was manageable, regulatory scrutiny hadn’t hit full stride yet, and if you furnished your place decently, you could almost count on it performing.  But after six years of hosting, analyzing hundreds of properties across multiple states, and running a portfolio that now grosses more than $1 million annually, one truth stands above the rest: The game has changed, and it’s simply not as easy as it used to be. As BiggerPockets’ resident short-term rental expert and a full-time investor based in Houston,…

Last Updated: Dec. 15, 2025 at 4:02 p.m. ETFirst Published: Dec. 15, 2025 at 5:15 a.m. ETWhatever that was, it wasn’t boring. The year started with a bang, with President Donald Trump taking office and launching tariffs that caused shockwaves in the stock market, leading investors to sell, sell, sell, then buy, buy, buy. Supply-chain issues have pumped up the cost of everything from groceries to clothing to cars. We’ve had one hell of a year.