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Intuit boosts forecast after big tax season and AI advances. Shares are rallying

By MarketWatch.com | Bill Peters | 5/22/2025 8:14 PM

Tax-preparation and financial-technology platform Intuit Inc. raised its full-year outlook on Thursday, following a solid third quarter marked by a big tax-filing season, gains among small and mid-sized businesses and moves to incorporate artificial intelligence into its software. ... Read full Story

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Longer-term tariff predictions have proven too tough for these footwear and clothing companies. It’s derailing their stocks.

By MarketWatch.com | Bill Peters | 5/22/2025 8:13 PM

Executives at Ross Stores and Deckers say they will not provide full-year guidance ... Read full Story

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What’s in the GOP tax bill? An $815 tax cut for middle-class households — and $44,000 for millionaires

By MarketWatch.com | Andrew Keshner | 5/22/2025 7:54 PM

Households in the top 0.1% would reap more than $390,000 in tax savings, according to one analysis of the tax and spending bill that’s now headed to the Senate for a vote. ... Read full Story

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Steve Madden says Trump tariffs are ‘destroying’ the economy that brands like his created

By MarketWatch.com | Nicole Lyn Pesce | 5/22/2025 5:58 PM

In a recent podcast, the founder of the Steve Madden shoe brand also criticized arguments that the U.S. has been losing jobs to China ... Read full Story

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Why this stock-market strategist expects no recession and zero rate cuts in 2025

By MarketWatch.com | Jonathan Burton | 5/22/2025 5:35 PM

Keith McCullough: “The two primary factors that lead me to make decisions in the U.S. bond market and for U.S. currency are both going up.” ... Read full Story

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‘Medicaid and food stamps are easy targets’: House bill makes unprecedented cuts to Medicaid and SNAP

By MarketWatch.com | Jessica Hall | 5/22/2025 5:15 PM

Major changes may come when the bill goes to the Senate ... Read full Story

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The dollar is struggling to rebound since ‘liberation day.’ Why it may keep falling.

By MarketWatch.com | Christine Idzelis | 5/22/2025 5:02 PM

The U.S. dollar has struggled to rebound since President Donald Trump announced his “liberation day” tariffs in early April, with some analysts expecting that the greenback’s decline isn’t over even if its status as the world’s reserve currency appears safe for now. ... Read full Story

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After 25 years, I finally asked for separate checks — and my friends iced me out. Did I do something terrible?

By MarketWatch.com | Quentin Fottrell | 5/22/2025 5:01 PM

“With each year I got angrier and angrier, so it was time to move on.” ... Read full Story

finance

This special trade deal can help American farmers — without government subsidies

By MarketWatch.com | Paul Rice | 5/22/2025 2:18 PM

Fair Trade certification offers farmers a financial lifeline and business stability. ... Read full Story

finance

Trump’s tax bill is missing Elon Musk’s ‘$1 trillion’ in savings

By MarketWatch.com | Brett Arends | 5/22/2025 1:49 PM

President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the ruling Republican party promised us all $1 trillion a year in free budget savings by cutting out the “waste, fraud and abuse” that were supposedly rampant across the federal bureaucracy. ... Read full Story

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The IPO market looks healthy as Hinge Health and MNTN rally after pricing at the high end of their ranges

By MarketWatch.com | Steve Gelsi | 5/22/2025 1:41 PM

The market for initial public offerings continues to gear up after an absence of deals in recent weeks. ... Read full Story

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Home sales poised to slump even more as mortgage rates hit three-month high

By MarketWatch.com | Aarthi Swaminathan | 5/22/2025 1:37 PM

Mortgage rates inched higher over the last week, delivering yet another blow to a lackluster spring housing market. ... Read full Story

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Thanks to cheap gas, Americans may travel in record numbers for Memorial Day — and hit pause on other economic worries

By MarketWatch.com | Myra P. Saefong | 5/22/2025 12:44 PM

U.S. consumer sentiment stands near a record low, but that isn’t expected to dampen plans for the Memorial Day weekend, which will see gasoline prices at their lowest for the holiday in years, while the number of American travelers is expected to reach a record high. ... Read full Story

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A 5-star fund manager is capitalizing on Trump’s global market shake-up. Here’s how.

By MarketWatch.com | Philip van Doorn | 5/22/2025 12:34 PM

Matt Burdett of Thornburg Investment Management outlines his team’s stock-selection methodology, which has beaten international indexes’ good performance this year. ... Read full Story

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Investors are rattled by rising U.S. bond yield. They should be more worried about Japan.

By MarketWatch.com | Vivien Lou Chen | 5/22/2025 11:54 AM

A soaring 30-year Treasury yield is grabbing the lion’s share of attention right now when it comes to signaling how the U.S. fiscal outlook is rattling investors. Yet there’s another less-talked-about factor weighing on sentiment that is coming from overseas: the tumultuous rise in the bond yields of Japan. ... Read full Story

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How young traders are getting rich betting on things like Rotten Tomatoes scores and the pope

By MarketWatch.com | Gordon Gottsegen | 5/22/2025 11:52 AM

Prediction markets are breeding a new generation of market makers. ... Read full Story

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BJ’s Wholesale’s stock rises as outlook maintained, despite a sales miss and tariffs

By MarketWatch.com | James Rogers | 5/22/2025 8:14 AM

BJ’s maintained its guidance while the broader retail sector is wrestling with the fallout from the Trump administration’s sweeping wave of tariffs. ... Read full Story

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Here come the price hikes: Nike is increasing prices by up to 7%.

By MarketWatch.com | Steve Goldstein | 5/22/2025 8:09 AM

Nike reportedly is hiking prices by as much as 7%, according to various media reports, though the apparel maker is not tying the cost increases directly to tariffs. ... Read full Story

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Advance Auto Parts’ stock rockets as tariffs didn’t change the earnings outlook

By MarketWatch.com | Steve Gelsi | 5/22/2025 8:08 AM

On Thursday, the company said it’ll handle the extra costs tied to the current tariff regime and still deliver its full-year earnings targets. ... Read full Story

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This investor banks on Munger’s advice to ride out volatility in markets and Tesla

By MarketWatch.com | Barbara Kollmeyer | 5/22/2025 8:06 AM

Money manager Christopher Tsai says he pays scant attention to daily market ups and downs, except to look for stock opportunities. ... Read full Story

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beauty

13 Major Hair Transformations Celebrities Still Regret

by The List | Mar 03 2025

fashion

I’m a dermatologist — these easily overlooked signs on your skin may indicate cancer

by NY Post | May 23 2025

finance

Ships are canceling crossings to U.S., and Trump’s new 50% E.U. tariff threat isn’t likely to help

by MarketWatch.com | May 23 2025

knowledge

13 Common Abbreviations and What They Mean

by Reader's Digest | May 23 2025

long_island

Tiny 600-square-foot West Islip home hits market for half a million

by greaterlongisland.com | May 23 2025

metro

Brute sucker-slaps 9-year-old girl on NYC street, bites NYPD sergeant’s fingertip off: DA

by New York Post | May 24 2025

nation

Boeing reaches $1.1 billion settlement with DOJ to avoid prosecution

by upi.com | May 23 2025

nutrition

I Drank a “Cortisol Cocktail” Every Day for a Week—Here’s What Happened

by thehealthy.com | May 13 2025

people

Aubrey Plaza shows off bravery with first major appearance since ex-husband's suicide: "One strong lady"

by marca.com | May 24 2025

real_estate

Mohamed Hadid’s controversial hilltop ‘Starship Enterprise’ mansion site is up for auction — again

by NY Post | May 23 2025

religion

What do we know about the brothers and sisters of Jesus?

by Christian Post | Oct 20 2024

retirement

Retirement planning: The differences between a traditional and Roth IRA

by Fox News | Mar 30 2025

travel

10 amazing trips that make a difference to local communities and wildlife

by Wanderlust | May 23 2025

wellness

6 Bad Gut Habits GI Docs Wish You’d Break

by Self.com | May 23 2025

world

18 injured in attack at Hamburg train station; woman arrested

by United Press International, Inc. | May 23 2025

Word of the Day

limn

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 24, 2025 is:

limn • \LIM\ • verb

Limn is a formal verb most often used especially in literary contexts to mean "to describe or portray," as in "a novel that limns the life of 1930s coastal Louisiana." It can also mean "to outline in clear sharp detail," as in "a tree limned by moonlight," and "to draw or paint on a surface," as in "limning a portrait."

// The documentary limns the community's decades-long transformation.

// We admired every detail of the portrait, gracefully limned by the artist's brush.

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Examples:

"... the story of Ronald Reagan's jelly beans is not simply about his love of a cute candy. It speaks to how he weaned himself from tobacco, judged people's character, and deflected scrutiny. It limns the role of the sugar industry and food marketing. And it demonstrates how food can be a powerful communications tool. Reagan's jelly beans sent a message to voters: 'I like the same food you do, so vote for me.'" — Alex Prud’homme, Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House, 2023

Did you know?

Limn is a word with lustrous origins, tracing ultimately to the Latin verb illuminare, meaning "to illuminate." Its use in English dates back to the Middle Ages, when it was used for the action of illuminating (that is, decorating) medieval manuscripts with gold, silver, or brilliant colors. William Shakespeare extended the term to painting in his poem "Venus and Adonis": "Look when a painter would surpass the life / In limning out a well-proportioned steed …" Over time, limn gained a sense synonymous with delineate meaning "to outline in clear sharp detail" before broadening further to mean "to describe or portray." Such limning is often accomplished by words, but not always: actors are often said to limn their characters through their portrayals, while musicians (or their instruments) may limn emotions with the sounds they make.

Intuit boosts forecast after big tax season and AI advances. Shares are rallying

Longer-term tariff predictions have proven too tough for these footwear and clothing companies. It’s derailing their stocks.

What’s in the GOP tax bill? An $815 tax cut for middle-class households — and $44,000 for millionaires

Steve Madden says Trump tariffs are ‘destroying’ the economy that brands like his created

Why this stock-market strategist expects no recession and zero rate cuts in 2025

‘Medicaid and food stamps are easy targets’: House bill makes unprecedented cuts to Medicaid and SNAP

The dollar is struggling to rebound since ‘liberation day.’ Why it may keep falling.

After 25 years, I finally asked for separate checks — and my friends iced me out. Did I do something terrible?

This special trade deal can help American farmers — without government subsidies

Trump’s tax bill is missing Elon Musk’s ‘$1 trillion’ in savings

The IPO market looks healthy as Hinge Health and MNTN rally after pricing at the high end of their ranges

Home sales poised to slump even more as mortgage rates hit three-month high

Thanks to cheap gas, Americans may travel in record numbers for Memorial Day — and hit pause on other economic worries

A 5-star fund manager is capitalizing on Trump’s global market shake-up. Here’s how.

Investors are rattled by rising U.S. bond yield. They should be more worried about Japan.

How young traders are getting rich betting on things like Rotten Tomatoes scores and the pope

BJ’s Wholesale’s stock rises as outlook maintained, despite a sales miss and tariffs

Here come the price hikes: Nike is increasing prices by up to 7%.

Advance Auto Parts’ stock rockets as tariffs didn’t change the earnings outlook

This investor banks on Munger’s advice to ride out volatility in markets and Tesla

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13 Major Hair Transformations Celebrities Still Regret

I’m a dermatologist — these easily overlooked signs on your skin may indicate cancer

Ships are canceling crossings to U.S., and Trump’s new 50% E.U. tariff threat isn’t likely to help

13 Common Abbreviations and What They Mean

Tiny 600-square-foot West Islip home hits market for half a million

Brute sucker-slaps 9-year-old girl on NYC street, bites NYPD sergeant’s fingertip off: DA

Boeing reaches $1.1 billion settlement with DOJ to avoid prosecution

I Drank a “Cortisol Cocktail” Every Day for a Week—Here’s What Happened

Aubrey Plaza shows off bravery with first major appearance since ex-husband's suicide: "One strong lady"

Mohamed Hadid’s controversial hilltop ‘Starship Enterprise’ mansion site is up for auction — again

What do we know about the brothers and sisters of Jesus?

Retirement planning: The differences between a traditional and Roth IRA

10 amazing trips that make a difference to local communities and wildlife

6 Bad Gut Habits GI Docs Wish You’d Break

18 injured in attack at Hamburg train station; woman arrested

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3.Cargo ship crashes into a man's front garden

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