President Donald Trump onstage at the Treasury Department’s Trump Accounts Summit, in Washington, Jan. 28, 2026. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters The U.S. Department of the Treasury said Monday that Bank of New York Mellon will be the designated financial agent for Trump accounts. BNY will officially manage the initial accounts and has partnered with Robinhood to…
Insta_photos | Istock | Getty Images The financial capability of artificial intelligence platforms is improving to the extent that it will likely be able to replace human financial advisors in the future, according to finance experts. However, AI has a major drawback relative to human advisors: a lack of fiduciary duty, they said. And a…
Chuck Savage | The Image Bank | Getty Images Read more CNBC personal finance coverage “For young people early in their career, unemployment can be particularly harsh,” said Michele Evermore, a senior fellow at the National Academy of Social Insurance, a nonprofit that focuses on the country’s safety net. “They have had less time to pull…
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is calling for a broad recommitment to American ideals as his bank navigates geopolitical uncertainty, a teetering economy and the revolutionary impact of artificial intelligence. Dimon in his annual letter to shareholders, published Monday, noted the country’s 250th anniversary as “the perfect time to rededicate ourselves to the values that…
Alistair Berg | Digitalvision | Getty Images Older Americans stand to benefit from tax changes in President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill,” which went into effect for 2025. “What is the one group of people who are going to be benefiting most from tax changes in the past year? It’s almost certainly going to be…
M Swiet Productions | Getty Images Gregory Hutchison, 72, is living most people’s retirement dream. After a nearly 44-year career as an expert in information technology at IBM, Hutchison retired in 2021 with close to $1 million in his 401(k). He and his wife sold their home and downsized to a smaller house by the…
Posters of films are on display at a cinema in Shanghai, Aug. 31, 2025. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Hollywood has lost one of its most lucrative theatrical markets. It’s unclear if it will ever win it back. The Chinese box office was once a coveted space for American-made movies, so much…
A year after President Donald Trump declared his “liberation day” and imposed sweeping tariffs on imports, kicking off a wave of economic and political uncertainty, some companies are still feeling the effects. While some industries have emerged largely unscathed — having weathered twists and turns of several tariff iterations — others, such as retail, automotive,…
United Airlines new Polaris seat on one of its Boeing 787 Dreamliners Leslie Josephs/CNBC Does it matter where you sit if you’re sipping Champagne in first class? United Airlines is betting that for some travelers looking for luxury at a discount, it doesn’t. The carrier is launching new, cheaper tiers for its top-end Polaris and…
Ulysses Fitzgerald, a high school senior in Smyrna, Tennessee, said he thought sports betting would be an easy way to make money. He said he’d seen ads and influencers promoting big wins. “This guy won like $5,000 because he predicted that this player wouldn’t get this many points,” Fitzgerald said of one influencer’s post. “I…