With the economy slowing and President Donald Trump’s tariffs likely to stoke inflation, investors face various risks. Building a portfolio that has at least some less risky assets in it can be useful to help you ride out volatility in the market.

The trade-off, of course, is that in lowering risk exposure, investors are likely to earn lower ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A lawsuit filed against the Sphere in October which says the company violated county noise ordinances will be allowed to continue in Clark County District Court.

District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus last week denied a motion to dismiss the lawsuit from Sphere, The Venetian and Clark County, meaning the case will continue.

James ...Read more

ATLANTA — Block, the financial technology company that operates Cash App, Tidal and Afterpay, is laying off about 10% of its Atlanta-area workforce.

According to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice sent to the state, 49 employees out of 474 assigned to the company’s Atlanta office on North Avenue will be let go by mid...Read more

In a quarter marred by tariff uncertainty, U.S. government spending cuts and the threat of recession, it is fears about a bubble brewing in artificial intelligence that have dealt the latest blow to the Nasdaq 100.

The tech-heavy benchmark posted its worst quarter in nearly three years, down 8.3%, after a pair of warnings last week fanned ...Read more

SEATTLE — In 2014, new owners purchased Panorama House, an 18-story building on First Hill, and to renovate the decades-old apartments, they kicked out 200 tenants, many of them elderly and retired.

Explicitly or not, they were making room for a deluge of younger renters moving to a city unequipped to fit newcomers. Many transplants had an ...Read more

When Satya Nadella entered Microsoft’s C-suite in 2014, the company wasn’t one of the tech darlings dazzling Wall Street.

After founder Bill Gates turned the CEO role over to Steve Ballmer in 2000 and until Ballmer stepped away in 2014, Microsoft’s stock price basically followed the market. The company was still printing money thanks to ...Read more

Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline could soon be sold to a Canadian asset management firm, according to a Reuters report.

The news agency reported Monday that Brookfield Asset Management was “putting the final touches on a deal to acquire Colonial Pipeline” for more than $9 billion including debt, citing people familiar with the matter who ...Read more

The Trump administration’s mixed messaging on what new tariffs will be unveiled Wednesday and how they’ll announce them have equities traders flustered as they try to position around the biggest risk confronting the market in years.

“The best way to summarize this trading environment is frustration and fatigue,” said Joe Gilbert, ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — In what consumer advocates say is a win for homebuyers and sellers, the National Association of Realtors, the major trade association representing the real estate industry, has largely rebuffed a push by the largest U.S. brokerage to end a policy requiring agents to publicly list properties for sale on local online databases...Read more

DETROIT — Maybe it's the eye of the storm or maybe it's another false alarm, but sales and customer traffic were brisk early Saturday afternoon at Ray Laethem Buick GMC dealership in Detroit.

General sales manager Che Shaydak knew the reason for the uptick: "It's the potential tariffs. People are scared. They don't know if in the very near ...Read more

Coming into the new presidency the playbook for traders was obvious. Bet it all on a core of America First-linked champions, from Tesla Inc. and crypto to smaller companies.

Turns out, amid spiraling policy shifts and worsening economic data, whittling yourself down to just a few bold calls has been one of the worst things to do in the era of ...Read more

Key takeaways

— Day trading and one-off investment picks may not pan out and could derail your investing progress.

— Permanent life insurance and other investments with “guaranteed returns” aren’t clear-cut winners. Contrary to what some finfluencers may claim, no return is 100 percent guaranteed.

— Over-investing in precious ...Read more

The odds of a recession are rising, according to economists. A tumbling stock market, escalating trade tensions with China, a disappointing jobs report, tariffs and worsening consumer sentiment have made for a turbulent first quarter of 2025.

While President Donald Trump says he doesn’t see a U.S. recession on the horizon, according to ...Read more

A 401(k) retirement plan is one of the most popular ways to save money for retirement and score some tax breaks for doing so. But often these plans don’t provide a lot of guidance on how to manage them, and participants end up with wildly aggressive portfolios, or, what experts often see, a portfolio so conservative that it barely budges year ...Read more

San Diego County’s population grew by 0.4% last year, bringing the total to 3,298,799, said the latest U.S. Census Bureau data.

While the county’s natural growth from more babies being born yielded a net 12,600 new residents, it wasn’t nearly enough to make up for the almost 24,000 more people who left the county than moved in between ...Read more

Q: I'm confused about applying dielectric grease to battery terminals. Since it is non-conductive I thought it should only be applied to the outside of the assembled terminal and clamp. Your recent answer doesn't make that clear.

E.S., Northbrook, Illinois

A: You are absolutely right. I should have made it clear that the grease (including ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Jimmy Lodge saw an immediate response to President Donald Trump’s auto tariff plan.

Lodge, owner of My Auto Service at 6104 W. Cheyenne Ave., said his suppliers are already bracing for impact, with them saying “this is the world we live in today.”

On Wednesday, President Trump announced a 25 percent tariff on automobiles ...Read more

Elon Musk said his xAI artificial intelligence startup has acquired the X platform, which he also controls, at a valuation of $33 billion, marking a surprise twist for the social network formerly known as Twitter.

“The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion,” the billionaire wrote Friday in a post on X. The value of X ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — The Boeing Co.'s $20 billion contract to build the next generation of fighter planes could bring thousands of jobs to the region and secure the future of the defense industry here.

But it hinges on details that are, so far, unclear. How much of the work will happen in St. Louis? Will Boeing hire for the project or shift jobs? How...Read more