These tips for investing in mutual funds and ETFs can make 2025 a happy new year

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Here’s what the first two trading days of January predict for stocks in 2025

The market can still deliver gifts even when the ‘Santa Claus rally’ fails.
Hindenburg shorts Carvana, calls turnaround a ‘mirage’

CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images Noted short seller Hindenburg Research disclosed a bet against Carvana on Thursday, claiming the online used-car retailer’s recent turnaround is a “mirage” that is being propped up by unstable loans and accounting manipulation. The report centers on Carvana’s practice of loan sales as well as the business relationship […]
New Orleans attack and Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion put car-rental app Turo in the spotlight

The peer-to-peer service was used to rent vehicles used in the incidents on New Orleans’ storied Bourbon Street and at a Trump Organization–operated hotel in Las Vegas, leading investigators to probe whether the attacks were connected.
These airlines were the most on time in 2024

Travelers view the arrival and departure boards at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021. Elijah Nouvelage | Bloomberg | Getty Images Air travel demand continued to surge in 2024, led by a bounce back in international trips. From January through October alone, revenue-passenger miles worldwide, a […]
What to expect in 2025 if economist forecasts are as bad as usual

Nobody has a crystal ball, and that’s demonstrated every year when Wall Street’s professionals hazard a guess on what to expect for the following year.
These are the most popular Moneyist columns of 2024

Divorce, student debt, airline travel, house purchase and inheritance comprised the top 5 most read columns of the year.
Tesla Cybertruck explosion at Trump hotel in Las Vegas kills one and injures at least seven

Tesla CEO Elon Musk suggests fireworks or a bomb placed in the pickup truck’s bed caused the blast.
I’m the executor of my 90-year-old aunt’s estate. A neighbor threatened me and wants to buy her house. What should I do?

“I believe she doesn’t have that much time left.”
These ideal investments for retirees have almost never been this attractive heading into 2025

“Real” yields aren’t often this high.



