Author: Money Mechanics

’Sell in May and Go Away’ might turn out to be bad advice this year Which stocks are best positioned to buck the seasonal trend? Discover 9 handpicked opportunities to outperform in the coming months. May has arrived, and with it comes a well-known Wall Street idea: Sell in May and go away. The thinking is simple. Investors sell stocks in May, stay in cash during the summer, and return to the market around October.Historically, this pattern has some backing. Since 1945, the has gained about 2% on average from May to October, compared to around 7% from November to…

(Image credit: Getty Images)Do you wonder how you can save on taxes while giving more to charity? As you reflect on your 2025 tax bill, it’s an ideal time to consider your charitable, financial and tax planning for 2026.To help start your planning, we’ll answer three questions:What tax rules affect charitable giving in 2026?What are some charitable giving strategies that can be used to reduce taxes?Why is a donor-advised fund (DAF) a tax-smart way to give to charity?You’ll walk away with ideas on how to pay less in taxes and have more money to give to charity, whether you choose…

(Image credit: Getty Images)Refinancing student loans is often treated as a milestone: Your income goes up, your rate goes down, and you move on.For high earners, especially physicians and other professionals early in their careers, that moment tends to come quickly. And that’s exactly where the mistake happens. Most borrowers don’t refinance at the wrong rate.They refinance at the wrong time. From just $107.88 $24.99 for Kiplinger Personal Finance Become a smarter, better informed investor. Subscribe from just $107.88 $24.99, plus get up to 4 Special Issues CLICK FOR FREE ISSUE Sign up for Kiplinger’s Free Newsletters Profit and prosper…

“Keeping Up With the Kardashians” matriarch Kris Jenner appears to have had a very brief change of heart about selling the family’s iconic Los Angeles mansion—delisting the property for a matter of hours, before putting it back on the market for the same asking price of $13.5 million. Jenner, 70, originally listed the home in February 2025, having used the residence as her family’s primary dwelling for more than a decade, throughout which it featured prominently in the Kardashians’ popular E! reality series. However, on May 2, records show that the dwelling was briefly removed from the market—after more than…

Concerned about an AI bubble? Sign up for The Daily Upside for smart and actionable market news, built for investors. India has a $1.3 billion high-frequency trading firm competing on a global scale with the likes of Jane Street and Citadel, Bloomberg reported. It’s called Graviton, not to be confused with the “Gravitron” rides at the state fair or Amazon’s AI chips of the same name. The 11-year-old company quickly grabbed the majority of market share in block trades involving more than 0.5% of a company’s equity, maintaining its dominance on India’s NSE through last year. Graviton was primed and…

are trading higher Monday, with the front-month Nymex contract last printing at $2.853 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) — up 2.6% on the session as the dual catalysts of seasonal weather pattern shifts and global LNG supply disruption combine to lift the U.S. benchmark off recent range lows. The move comes as rally to nearly €49 per megawatt hour following fresh Iranian missile strikes against UAE infrastructure that shattered the tenuous ceasefire that had loosely held since early April. The contrast between domestic U.S. natural gas pricing and European pricing has rarely been wider, creating arbitrage incentives that ripple…

USAA, the military mutual insurer, has now successfully priced its largest catastrophe bond sponsorship ever at attractive spreads, with the Residential Reinsurance 2026 Limited (Series 2026-1) cat bond now set to provide the company a meaningful $825 million in additional catastrophe reinsurance limit, Artemis can report.It’s particularly notable when such a long-standing sponsor of catastrophe bonds opts to secure its largest issuance to-date and is indicative of currently attractive market conditions for sponsors that is helping to fuel cat bond market activity levels. USAA sponsored its first catastrophe bond way back in 1997, with that first Residential Re deal becoming…

Jada Jones/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.If you have Bluetooth speakers, you may think their use cases end with wireless pairing to one source device. The truth is, you can squeeze additional utility from your speakers around your house and in your home entertainment system, as long as you’re willing to get creative. Also: I traded my Sonos Era 300 for Denon’s new home speaker – and see no reason to go backWhether you connect a Bluetooth speaker directly to your TV to create a makeshift center audio channel, or you buy a small audio receiver to turn your…

(Oil & Gas 360) – The United Arab Emirates’ decision to exit OPEC after roughly six decades is one of the most consequential developments in the modern oil market, not because it alters global supply overnight, but because it exposes the structural limits of cartel governance in a world of diverging producer incentives. The move comes amid wider global fragmentation. Multilateral institutions are under strain, trade is increasingly bilateral, and energy is once again being treated as a strategic asset rather than a neutral commodity. That backdrop matters. But it is not sufficient to explain the UAE’s decision. The drivers are…

In the first quarter, there seemed to be one thing after another to create further uncertainty for markets.The artificial intelligence (AI)-related selloff that began late last year spilled into early 2026, as investors worried about spending on AI and the businesses it could disrupt.We also saw a(nother) partial government shutdown, impacting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which needs to review initial public offering (IPO) filings.Then came the Supreme Court decision to undo the International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs, upending trade policy.And after all that, the Iran conflict has roiled markets.Iran conflict boosts energy commodities, but hurts bonds, stocks and goldFrom a macro and markets perspective, the biggest impact of the conflict has been on energy, which has rallied significantly from the start of the conflict through the end of March (the relevant period for our…