My in-laws, 95, are leaving us $250K. What's the smart way to invest this money?

My in-laws are 95. They have a low income and do not file taxes, and they plan to die at home. They want to give their son, ...

Smart Investor: Best Tech Stocks, Small Cap Winners, and the Fed’s Difficult Situation

On that subject, Ivanna Hampton spoke with Morningstar’s senior US economist Preston Caldwell about the latest Fed meeting, ...

Dynatrace’s Causal, Predictive, and Generative AI-Observability Solutions Impress Largest Customers

Dynatrace’s observability solution deploys agents that discover causal relationships across an enterprise’s technology systems and then displays telemetry in a useful dashboard that acts as a single ...

Datadog’s Growing Developer Network Reinforces Switching Costs

Datadog’s observability solution deploys agents that run correlations across an enterprise’s technology platforms and then displays this telemetry in a single dashboard that surveys its entire ...

Social Security's dead people and Medicare's fraudsters are real. But stopping them won't rescue the federal budget.

It's yet more grim evidence that while there is money to be saved in the federal government, it won't rescue the budget. Trying to balance the budget by cutting "waste, fraud and abuse" would be like ...

I'm 88 and leaving my $450,000 estate to my son because he has children. Is that wrong?

My other children have relationships, but they are unmarried and have no children. My daughter is the named beneficiary of my small IRA, valued at around $40,000. My middle son is well-to-do and is in ...

'Am I the biggest loser with the Fed rate cut?' I'm 68, retired and live off IRAs and Social Security

"I live a comfortable life, but the Fed's decision won't make a blind bit of difference to me." (Photo subject is a model.) I don't want to sound ungrateful, but I have what you may regard as a ...

Social Security is on track to be insolvent in less than 10 years - but its commissioner says there's 'plenty of time' to find a solution

Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano says there's "plenty of time" to fix the program's funding woes - even though its trustees have warned insolvency is less than 10 years away.

What Trump's bitcoin binge really says to Americans about their money

Most Americans hold the majority of their wealth in dollar-denominated assets.

Should we drain our $200,000 savings for Roth conversions on $2.3 million in our 60s?

My wife and I are contemplating doing Roth conversions with part of our IRAs. We were thinking of doing monthly conversions, but don't know if we should take the taxes due out of the conversions ...

People are complaining that Apple's new iPhone 17 scratches easily - but these Wall Street analysts say it won't hurt sales

But no sooner did the products go on sale Friday than complaints emerged about them being easily scratched - on the back of the phones, though not the screens. The phones carry a base price of $799 to ...

Why the bull market for stocks may now hinge on the 10-year Treasury yield

The sustainability of the bull-market rally may hinge on the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield. U.S. stocks ended the week at fresh record highs Friday, but the sustainability of the rally now likely ...