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Among businesses with two to 99 employees, 30% had an active retirement plan in 2025—a 50% increase from 2020, according to analysis from payroll solutions provider Gusto Inc. Measuring anonymized administrative payroll data from 2019 to 2025, Gusto found that an estimated 5.6 million workers gained access to retirement savings plans. The 20 states and…

Key Points Enterprise Products Partners is an ideal energy stock to own when you don’t know what’s going to happen next. The midstream energy leader’s revenue stream is insulated from the volatility of oil and gas prices. Enterprise also offers an attractive distribution that has grown steadily for 27 consecutive years. Uncertainty is the operative…

Key Points Upstream oil producers will undoubtedly benefit if oil prices reach $150. ConocoPhillips and Diamondback Energy are two such beneficiaries. Both return a lot of cash to shareholders and can be a hedge for your portfolio. Oil has rapidly turned into a front-page concern for the global economy. The price of oil trended downward…

Berkshire Hathaway closed 0.11% lower at $475.66 on March 26, extending a losing streak to seven consecutive sessions. Shares have declined more than 3.33% over that stretch, underperforming the S&P 500 over the same period. The slide comes at a sensitive moment. Greg Abel took over as CEO at the start of 2026, with Warren…

SALT LAKE CITY — The Federal Reserve manages monetary policy, influences interest rates and keeps cash flowing to and from commercial banks and ultimately to the public. Rarely do people get a look at the inner workings of how the money moves, but on Tuesday, KSL got a tour inside the highly secure Salt Lake…

The US treasury department demanded on Friday that the Financial Times (FT) retract a report on treasury secretary Scott Bessent’s views on the Federal Reserve, accusing the newspaper of publishing “false claims” in a formal complaint that was escalated to the news outlet’s parent company, Nikkei Inc. The email from treasury officials, addressed to senior…

When Jeff Bezos said that one breakthrough technology would shape Amazon’s destiny, even Wall Street’s biggest analysts were caught off guard. Fast forward a year and Amazon’s new CEO Andy Jassy described generative AI as a “once-in-a-lifetime” technology that is already being used across Amazon to reinvent customer experiences. At the 8th Future Investment Initiative…

Key Points The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is set to speed up the pivot toward nuclear energy. Nuclear energy is a long-term investment as it takes years to build a new plant. NextEra offers a solid dividend yield and a partnership with Alphabet to help it build out more nuclear plants. There were…

The S&P 500 (^GSPC 1.67%) is a highly diversified American stock market index featuring 500 companies from 11 different sectors of the economy, and it’s coming off a strong year in 2025 with a return of 16.4%. However, had you invested in the S&P 500 Growth index instead, you would have earned an even higher…

Retirement planning today goes beyond conserving a financial amount, it needs a plan that is growth-focused, secures a good retirement and can be flexible enough. Amid the many choices that can be made, Ulip Plans have attracted the attention of being able to combine investment and insurance in a single product. Though they guarantee to…