Finance
Loyalists may miss the old Southwest. Wall Street loves the new one.
The airline is ‘getting on with the times,’ one fund manager says
Many boomers are desperate to move but can’t afford to
Older homeowners may have more space than they need or want.
3 Wall Street strategists on the question every investor is asking: Is the worst over for the stock market?
Wall Street just limped through its roughest stretch in months, and every investor is asking the same nervous question: Is the worst over in the stock market, or is the selloff just getting started?
The Iran war sent investors into fertilizer stocks — but here’s the China risk everyone’s missing
The fertilizer trade as it relates to the Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz is really three trades pointed in different directions.

‘Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops
Growers in dismay after scorching weather and lack of rain affect yields, sending wholesale prices rocketing Pubs, restaurants and supermarkets are having to buy lettuce and broccoli from Spain at what should be the…

In the battle of Elon Musk v the press, we can’t let truth be the loser | Jane Martinson
The trillionaire Tesla owner has called the editor of the Economist a ‘traitor to the west’ after a clash-filled interview. How should the media respond? Elon Musk’s long interview with the editor of the Economist is as…
Is the government lying to us about inflation?
The concern is understandable, since the consumer-price index affects everything from Social Security’s annual cost-of-living adjustment to the interest rate earned by investors in Treasury Inflation-Protected…
OPEC+ may keep lifting its oil output quotas as the Iran war broadens. Why that won’t help lower prices.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies may decide Sunday to lift their oil production quotas for a sixth straight month — but finding ways to export those extra barrels will be the real…
‘We have always been civil’: My sister refuses to replace me as executor. Can I step down before she dies?
“I haven’t seen my sister since our mother’s funeral more than 20 years ago.”
The equal-weighted S&P 500 just smoked the Nasdaq-100 in July — outperforming amid the violent chip-stock unwind
Tech stocks struggled in July. Will the volatility around the AI trade continue in August?
My ex-husband’s sister died — so why is Fidelity asking me for her death certificate?
“Part of me jokes that paying for a death certificate would be like buying a lottery ticket.”

Knickers in a twist: why M&S selling crotchless panties isn’t as outrageous as it seems
Some have called it ‘S&M’, but partnership with Ann Summers is less a scandal than another step in a century of evolving underwear trends, experts say The news that Marks & Spencer is selling Ann Summers crotchless…