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The Department of Justice's 2025 healthcare fraud takedown charged 324 defendants with $14.6 billion in losses — more than double the $6 billion record set one year earlier. For Medicare beneficiaries, it is increasingly a line item: a copay for a service the patient never received, a denied PET scan because records show one was ... The DOJ just charged 324 defendants in the largest Medicare fraud takedown ever — $14.6 billion that's now reaching retirees' statements...

Live Updates The analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocksThis analyst's 2025 picks are up 106% on average. He just named his top 10 stocks to buy in 2026. Get them here FREE. Shares of Navitas Semiconductor Are Rallying Before Q1 Earnings 5 minutes ago Live Shares of Navitas ... Live: Navitas Semiconductor Q1 Earnings Tonight. Can the 676% Surge Survive the Print?...

Live Updates The analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocksThis analyst's 2025 picks are up 106% on average. He just named his top 10 stocks to buy in 2026. Get them here FREE. BigBear Shares Rebounding - But Still Down 1.3% Today Before Q1 Earnings 12 minutes ago Live ... Live: Will BigBear Beat Earnings Tonight?...

The average retired worker collects about $2,071 a month from Social Security 2026, or roughly $24,852 a year. That sets the benchmark. The real question is how much capital, invested at what yield, can replace or modestly exceed that income. With $360,000 invested at the right blended yield, you can beat that monthly check while ... A $360,000 Portfolio That Quietly Pays You More Than the Average Social Security Check...

Shares of Target (NYSE:TGT) are changing hands near $129 in midday trading Tuesday, up 1% on the session and sitting on a year-to-date gain of 32%. That run has turned the longtime laggard into the surprise leader of the big-box pack in 2026. By comparison, Walmart (NASDAQ:WMT) stock is up 18% year to date and ... Which Big-Box Store Chain Has Dominated 2026: Walmart, Target, or Costco?...

Live Updates The analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocksThis analyst's 2025 picks are up 106% on average. He just named his top 10 stocks to buy in 2026. Get them here FREE. 3 Numbers Will Decide if Lumentum Shares Rally After Tonight's Q3 Earnings 13 minutes ago Live ... Live: Lumentum Q3 Earnings Tonight. Can the 15x Surge Continue?...

Live Updates The analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocksThis analyst's 2025 picks are up 106% on average. He just named his top 10 stocks to buy in 2026. Get them here FREE. Supermicro's Q3 Earnings Come Down to One Thing 1 minute ago Live This Quarter Decides the ... Live: Supermicro Reports Q3 Earnings Tonight. Can Strong Results Spark a Rebound?...

Jim Cramer's well-documented skepticism on Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) traces back to the company's January earnings, when a strong headline beat triggered one of the worst single-day reactions the stock has seen in years. The question for investors now is whether the skepticism still holds after another quarter of results. The Quarter That Sparked the Skepticism On ... Jim Cramer Isn't a Fan of Microsoft After Rough Quarter. Is He Right to Be Skeptical?...

Live Updates The analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocksThis analyst's 2025 picks are up 106% on average. He just named his top 10 stocks to buy in 2026. Get them here FREE. Polymarket Prices 96% Odds of Q1 Earnings Beat Tonight for AMD 1 minute ago Live From ... Live: AMD Reports Q1 Earnings Tonight. Will the Stock Continue Its 255% 1-Year Explosion?...

XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) is trading at $1.41, up 1.2% on the day, while Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is up 2.4% above $81,600. BTC just cleared $80K for the first time since January 31, but XRP—which should be among the biggest beneficiaries of capital rotation—only captured about half of Bitcoin's daily gain. This isn't just about today. ... Bitcoin Breaks $80K but Ripple (XRP) Is Lagging Again: Why Isn't Capital Rotation Happening?...

Live Updates The analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocksThis analyst's 2025 picks are up 106% on average. He just named his top 10 stocks to buy in 2026. Get them here FREE. Eyes Will Be on Margins and AI Bookings in $ANET's Q1 Earnings 4 minutes ago Live ... Live: Arista Networks Is Reporting Q1 Earnings. Can $ANET Continue Its 32% YTD Rally?...

The question for retirement-focused investors right now is simple: own Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) or NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)? Google's decision to sell its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) directly to enterprise customers reframes the AI compute race, and it changes the risk math on the most crowded trade in the market. One of these stocks belongs in a retirement ... Google Moves to Sell TPUs Directly: A Major Shift That Might Pressure NVIDIA's AI Compute Dominance...

Two industrial bellwethers are putting up tech-like returns in 2026, and the catalyst is hiding in plain sight: power for the AI buildout. Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) stock is up 53% year to date through the May 4 close, while GE Vernova (NYSE:GEV) stock has surged 65%, with both sitting near record highs. The two industrials-sector stocks ... Industrial-Strength Rally: Why Caterpillar Is Up 53% and GE Vernova Is Up 65% in 2026...

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) and Ford (NYSE: F) just reported first quarter results that crystallize the EV split. Tesla leaned into autonomy, AI compute, and humanoid robots while squeezing more margin from its existing fleet. Ford leaned on F-Series trucks, commercial fleets, and software subscriptions to bankroll a costly EV reset. Same industry, very different playbooks. ... Tesla vs Ford: One Is a Disrupter While One Is Quietly Building Legacy...

Tax planning rarely produces outcomes this clean, but the Section 121 home-sale exclusion is one of the few provisions in the tax code that rewards deliberate lifestyle decisions with genuinely outsized results. A married couple who understands the mechanics well enough to use it twice in 8 years can legally exclude up to $1,000,000 in ... The Section 121 Home-Sale Exclusion a Couple Used Twice in 8 Years to Skip $800,000 in Capital Gains...

Morningstar's Investing Insights podcast recently spotlighted four S&P 500 stocks that have already declared dividend increases of 10% or more, effectively locking in their place on next year's Dividend Growers screen, which requires companies to grow dividends at least 10% annually. The host's framing was simple: “Dividends are paid out from earnings. So companies that ... These 4 Dividend Growers Have Already Declared 10% Dividend Increases...

MicroStrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR), now operating as Strategy, currently trades at $171.02 against an average analyst price target of $372.50, implying analysts see roughly 118% upside. Strategy is the world's largest corporate bitcoin treasury, holding roughly 713,502 BTC as of early February and approximately 762,099 BTC by late March after a $2.54 billion, 34,164 BTC purchase. Wall ... Analysts See 118% Upside for Strategy After Bitcoin Crashed 27% in 6 Months...

XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) dipped 27% in value in the first quarter, but has started Q2 on a positive note, with a modest 2% in April. XRP is hovering around $1.41 right now, and with two months left in Q2, XRP holders are wondering where the coin will trade by the end of June. Historically, XRP ... We Asked Claude AI Where XRP Will Be at the End of Q2 2026...

Maybe the hundreds of billions that some of the big tech titans are investing in CapEx will prove too little. At least, that's what the latest quarter of Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) seems to say, with an incredible 63% in Google Cloud growth numbers and a CapEx forecast now in the $180-190 billion range. With compute constraints ... A Bigger 2027 Capex Wave May Be Coming — and Google's Hint Could Be the First Real Tell From the Hyperscalers...

The Charles Schwab Modern Wealth Survey 2025 found that 27% of American investors own ETFs, yet those funds account for only 6% of the average portfolio. Individual stocks: 25%; mutual funds: 13%; cryptocurrency: 10%. The mismatch matters most for pre-retirees, because dividend-focused ETFs package the income-producing equity asset class into a single low-cost holding that ... 27% of Americans Own ETFs but Allocate Just 6%, Here's Why That Costs Them Retirement Income...