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'The whole thing feels predatory': My grandma, 97, pays $170 a month for a $10,000 life-insurance policy. Should we stop payments?
A guaranteed whole-life policy, as its name suggests, has a fixed premium. But given the payout and your grandmother's $170 monthly premiums, this does not seem like a lot of bang for her buck. The ...
Google parent Alphabet dealt another antitrust blow - but investors shouldn't sweat it
BMO Capital Markets analyst Brian Pitz noted in a report that Google Network "is a lower-margin business relative to Search and YouTube," and that the company pays out to partners most of the ad ...
Trump is furious that Fed won't cut interest rates like ECB. Here's why Powell won't budge.
The European Central Bank on Thursday delivered an interest-rate cut and made clear more are likely on the way - a day after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell signaled U.S. policymakers are in no ...