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Friday's top personal finance stories

Six ways to overhaul Social Security (and eliminate these four quirks) without cutting benefits for current retirees or denying future retirees average benefits higher than current retirees get.

Sprint Corp. shares fell in the extended session Friday following reports the telecom is close to announcing plans to merge with T-Mobile US Inc. Sprint shares fell 7.9% after hours, following an 8.3% rise to close at $6.50 in the regular session. T-Mobile plans to offer $6.50 a share for Sprint, or about $26 billion, as soon as Sunday, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal and CNBC. Shares of T-Mobile were up 0.8% after hours. A tie-up between the two telecoms has been making the... Читать дальше...

Long-dated Treasury yields retreated for a second session on Friday, extending a run of buying in government paper, after rates early in the week touched multiyear peaks.

U.S. stock benchmarks close out Friday little changed as investors express muted enthusiasm following strong corporate results, even from some of the market’s biggest and most influential companies.

The U.S. dollar retraces its gains that earlier put it at a fresh three-month high as Friday’s session drew to a close. Still the buck is on track for its best weekly gain in 11 weeks.

Investors can now look up the audit partner’s name when a company announces a financial restatement or other negative accounting-related event and that may increase their willingness to blame that partner for the problem and shift investments away from other companies where the same partner signs the opinion, according to new research.

Chipotle has raised prices and named a new CEO, Brian Niccol, which has sparked a turnaround, analysts say.

Starbucks is focused on the afternoon, with digital efforts and menu items geared toward driving business during that part of the day.

The number of speculative bets on falling 10-year Treasury futures exceeded bets for rising futures by 462,133 contracts for the week ending April 24, an all-time record, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Bond prices rise when yields fall. This week saw the 10-year Treasury yield hit a more than four-year high of 3.035% on Wednesday, before pulling back to 2.959% on Friday. Investors have attributed the bearish sentiment to concerns over higher inflation, an overheated economy and a hawkish Federal Reserve. Читать дальше...

Oil prices edge down Friday but remain underpinned by uncertainty over the fate of the Iran nuclear deal.

Trading on the TMX Group’s Canadian exchanges was shut down early due to technical issues that couldn’t immediately be resolved, according to its website

Stocks posted a mixed finish Friday, with the Nasdaq trimming gains as an early tech rally fizzled. The S&P 500 ended 0.1% lower, while the Dow shed around 12 points to close near 24,310, according to preliminary figures. The Nasdaq Composite ended around 1 point higher, a gain of less than 0.1%, after rising by 1.1% in early action following a round of upbeat earnings from tech heavyweights. For the week, the S&P 500 was virtually flat, while the Dow was off 0.6% and the Nasdaq declined... Читать дальше...

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The market for wellness, which includes everything from the real to extravagant, now exceeds the total U.S. health expenditure for sickness.

Shares of Nutanix Inc. are down 5% in Friday trading after a Bloomberg report said that the company may be postponing the launch of its Xi public-cloud offering meant to rival Amazon.com Inc.'s Amazon Web Services. "We have extended the timeline and have added the teams to do it right," a Nutanix spokeswoman told Bloomberg in an email. "We are taking the truer but longer path to Xi." Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc. also compete in the market. Nutanix's stock is up 218% over the past 12 months, while the S&P 500 has gained 12%. Читать дальше...

TMX Group Ltd., on Friday afternoon said trading on its Canadian exchanges has closed early due to technical issues that couldn't immediately be resolved, according to its website. TMX, which operates the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Montreal Exchange, didn't immediately respond to request for comments. The exchange operator earlier in the day reported that their systems were down and no trades could be executed. At about 2:20 p.m. Eastern Time, TMX Group tweeted that it was "experiencing issues... Читать дальше...

High equity allocations translate into surprisingly modest increases in retirement income

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