UK's Healey preparing to cut household gas bills by £50, Telegraph reports

Jean Chatzky’s new book lays out several strategies for creating steady retirement income.

A new bill introduced by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) aims to make homeownership a reality for more Americans by allowing them to receive up to $50,000 from the federal government for a first-time home purchase. The Homeownership Promise Act, cosponsored by Sen. Ron Wyden, a fellow Oregon Democrat, would allow Americans to open Homeownership Promise…

Key takeaway: The Securities and Exchange Commission’s temporary “innovation exemption” allows tokenized securities venues, or TSVs, to facilitate secondary trading of tokenized stocks using blockchain-based systems.  Expert quote: “This exemption is a principled, structured grant of relief designed to resolve genuine legal uncertainty that has driven innovation away from the United States.” —Securities and Exchange…

Key Points Ford lost $8.2 billion in 2025, its deepest annual loss since 2008, even as revenue hit a record $187.3 billion. The stock was higher two years later after five of the seven other loss years since 2001. The strongest recoveries followed the final loss of a losing stretch — and that is only…

Billionaire Peter Thiel’s hedge fund, Thiel Macro, disclosed its latest portfolio in a regulatory filing last month, and the fund’s largest reported position (a stake worth about $118 million as of June 30) is e-commerce and cloud computing giant Amazon (AMZN -0.15%). But I’d argue the filing itself is less notable than the track record…

The Solitude Pipeline System has gotten the green light. You probably haven’t heard of it, but the project will help connect natural gas production in the Permian Basin to demand on the Gulf Coast. Given the current global demand for natural gas, this could be a valuable capital investment project. But what’s most interesting here…