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Aging takes its toll, even among the healthiest elders. We love our self-sufficiency. We don’t want to give it up. Nearly everyone asked says they want to stay at home for as long as possible. But staying at home without any help can be very dangerous. Safety Issues Here’s an example of an elder who is fiercely independent and wants to remain in her own home for life. But, she is taking serious safety risks every day. She has already had a few falls, luckily not sustaining any broken bones. Retired Executive (RE), age 78, lives alone in her large…

The Biden administration is preparing a new aid package for Ukraine that is expected to be worth around $1 billion, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN, and is set to be approved by President Joe Biden after the Senate passes a new foreign aid funding bill as soon as Tuesday afternoon. In briefings to Congress in recent weeks, administration officials have indicated that the US will likely send Ukraine long-range ATACMS, or Army Tactical Missile Systems, for the first time as part of the new aid package, three of the sources said. Last fall the US first sent Ukraine the midrange variant of the ATACMS missile system, which can reach about 100 miles, while the longer-range version can reach…

Tesla: The electric-car maker is expected to report a decline in profits, while its shares have declined almost 40 per cent so far this year to 44 cents a share and it continues to cut prices in an effort to stimulate waning demand for electric vehicles. Investors will be keen to learn more about its plans for its self-driving “robotaxis” and its progress on a cheaper electric car known as Model 2. Other companies: PepsiCo, Freeport McMoran, Halliburton, GE Aerospace, RTX, Lockheed Martin, NextEra Energy, UPS, Philip Morris, Spotify, General Motors and Kimberly-Clark are reporting earnings before the bell. Visa, Texas…

Shares in Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA), maker of the breakthrough mRNA shot against Covid-19, jumped to a three-month high this month [April 2024] after its cancer vaccine showed promising results in an early-stage clinical trial for patients with head and neck cancer.[1] This bright spot might buoy the stock for a while. But it ignores the legal cloud hanging over the company — one that could hammer Moderna with a massive judgment. Just days before the cancer vaccine news, Moderna’s stock fell 4% after a U.S. judge ruled against the company on several claims in a patent dispute.[2] At issue is Moderna’s…

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Google has fired an additional 20 workers that it says were involved in protests last week over the company’s cloud-computing contract with the Israeli government, bringing the total number of workers fired to 50, according to the group organizing the demonstrations. No Tech for Apartheid, the organizers of the protest at Google offices last Tuesday, said in a statement Monday evening that Google had fired an additional 20 workers, on top of the 30 workers terminated last week. No Tech for Apartheid claims that some of the workers fired were “non-participating bystanders” during last Tuesday’s sit-in protests at Google’s offices…

Apple stock has had a lackluster 2024 so far — dropping over 13% since the start of the year. Even Jim Cramer said Tuesday that the Club’s “own it, don’t trade it” name is “hard to defend” nowadays. However, he argued that the market is getting Apple all wrong. Investor concerns about weakening iPhone sales in China are valid, but “people can’t look through the valley of the shadow of death” when it comes to the stock. The tech giant has time and time again proved the naysayers and bears wrong. Apple received another bout of negative press on Tuesday.…

Tesla is eliminating around 12% of its workforce at a factory in Austin, Texas, as part of a broader restructuring the company announced last week.According to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act letter on Tuesday, the layoffs affect 2,688 employees at the facility in Travis County. In 2021, Tesla CEO Elon Musk moved the company’s corporate headquarters to Austin from Palo Alto, California.Musk said in an internal memo last week that Tesla was cutting more than 10% of its global headcount as the electric vehicle maker reckons with flagging sales and increased competition. He didn’t say which departments…

A growing number of consumers who use buy now, pay later (BNPL) services and are attracted to their ease of access, but they are at risk of becoming overextended, according to a recent survey.  Over a third (34%) of respondents said they liked BNPL services because they allowed them to pay for purchases over time without paying interest, while 22% liked the option because it was easier to access than credit cards, according to the Achieve survey. Additionally, 76% said BNPL helped them improve their overall financial situation.BNPL providers partner with retailers to allow shoppers to split the cost of their…

Our goal here at Credible Operations, Inc., NMLS Number 1681276, referred to as “Credible” below, is to give you the tools and confidence you need to improve your finances. Although we do promote products from our partner lenders who compensate us for our services, all opinions are our own. During the week of Apr. 8, 2024, average private student loan rates fell for borrowers with credit scores of 720 or higher who used the Credible marketplace to take out 10-year fixed-rate loans and increased for 5-year variable-rate loans. 10-year fixed rate: 9.40%, up from 7.37% the week before, +2.035-year variable…