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How Credit Card Issuers Calculate Your Minimum Payment 05/07/2024 08:00pm • If your credit card balance tends to fluctuate, you may not know how much to set aside for your minimum payment each month. The minimum is the lowest amount you can pay each billing cycle to keep your account in good standing. Credit card issuers have two main ways of setting minimum payments. To ge The Latest | Stormy Daniels to return to witness stand on Thursday as court adjourns 05/07/2024 05:11pm • NEW YORK (AP) — As the third week of witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial takes place, all eyes are on Stormy Daniels, who took the stand Tuesday morning and recounted for jurors the lead-up to meeting Trump and a 2006 sexual encounter she has said the two engaged in. Trump denies Ocular Therapeutix: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 05/07/2024 04:41pm • BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — Ocular Therapeutix Inc. (OCUL) on Tuesday reported a loss of $64.8 million in its first quarter. On a per-share basis, the Bedford, Massachusetts-based company said it had a loss of 49 cents. Losses, adjusted to extinguish debt and for non-recurring co Maradona's World Cup Golden Ball trophy had mysteriously disappeared. It will be auctioned in Paris 05/07/2024 01:43pm • Diego Maradona’s Golden Ball trophy from the 1986 World Cup has resurfaced. The award, which had been missing for decades, will be auctioned in Paris next month, the Aguttes house said Tuesday. Maradona, who died in 2020 at age 60, was awarded the trophy for his scintillating play at the tournamen Scrutiny of Everton's prospective buyer intensifies after airline collapse and New York fraud case 05/07/2024 12:09pm • GENEVA (AP) — A grounded airline in Australia. A lawsuit in a New York federal court alleging fraud in connection to a $600 million loan. And angry soccer fans in England resisting a takeover of Premier League club Everton. These are troubled times for Miami-based 777 Partners, the investment grou Money isn't enough to smooth the path for Republican candidates hoping to retake the Senate 05/07/2024 11:01am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Frustrated by the seemingly endless cash flowing to Democrats, Republicans aiming to retake the Senate have rallied around candidates with plenty of their own money. The goal is to neutralize Democrats' roughly 2-to-1 financial advantage, among the few bright spots for a party de Hallador Energy: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 05/07/2024 05:01am • TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Hallador Energy Co. (HNRG) on Monday reported a loss of $1.7 million in its first quarter. On a per-share basis, the Terre Haute, Indiana-based company said it had a loss of 5 cents. Losses, adjusted to extinguish debt, were 3 cents per share. Th Inspired by the Met, 'sleeping baddies' tackle medical debt at the Debt Gala's pajama party 05/06/2024 11:04pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A plush octopus by Jellycat. A neck pillow by XpresSpa. Graphic sleeping masks by Geyoga. The accessories weren't designer. But these cozy, low-budget pieces stood out Sunday at the second Debt Gala, where some 200 pajama-clad revelers dressed for its “Sleeping Baddies” theme r 9 of the Best Bond ETFs to Buy Now 05/06/2024 08:00pm • Bill Gross, often referred to as the "Bond King," issued a cautionary view on the state of bond funds recently. As a pioneering fixed-income manager and co-founder of Pimco, where he ran the influential Pimco Total Return Fund (ticker: PTTRX), Gross once set a high standard for active bond investing Talos Energy: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 05/06/2024 05:34pm • HOUSTON (AP) — HOUSTON (AP) — Talos Energy, Inc. (TALO) on Monday reported a loss of $112.4 million in its first quarter. On a per-share basis, the Houston-based company said it had a loss of 71 cents. Losses, adjusted to extinguish debt and for non-recurring costs, were 13 cents per share. The Medicare and Social Security go-broke dates are pushed back in a 'measure of good news' 05/06/2024 05:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security have been pushed back as an improving economy has contributed to changed projected depletion dates, according to the annual Social Security and Medicare trustees report Monday. Still, officials warn that policy changes are neede PRA Group: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 05/06/2024 04:23pm • NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — PRA Group Inc. (PRAA) on Monday reported first-quarter earnings of $3.5 million. On a per-share basis, the Norfolk, Virginia-based company said it had net income of 9 cents. The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analy Kim Godwin out as ABC News president after 3 years as first Black woman as network news chief 05/05/2024 11:53pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Kim Godwin is out after three tumultuous years as ABC News president, a move presaged earlier this year when network parent Walt Disney Co. installed one of its executives, Debra O'Connell, to oversee the news division. Godwin, the first Black woman to lead a network news division, Last-minute candidate José Raúl Mulino wins Panama's presidential election 05/05/2024 10:51pm • PANAMA CITY (AP) — José Raúl Mulino, the stand-in for former President Ricardo Martinelli in Panama's presidential election, was set to become the new leader of the Central American nation as authorities unofficially called the race Sunday night after his three nearest rivals conceded. The 64-y How Race Affects Your Credit Score 05/05/2024 08:00pm • When looking at the numbers, you can't ignore the racial disparity in credit scores. Rates of subprime credit scores in majority-Black, Hispanic and Native American communities are at least 1.5 times higher than in majority-white communities, according to a 2022 report from the Urban Institute, a no