If you are planning to retire next year, do you feel ready? If you answered yes, do you feel financially prepared to do so? If you answered maybe or no to the second question, you're likely in the majority.
That was the finding of a survey by **** et Preservation Wealth & Tax of 1,000 Americans who are over 55 and planning to retire in 2026.
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An AI approval in minutes means nothing if you retire before closing. Lenders must re-verify employment within 10 business days of the note date.
Retirement income like Social Security can replace a salary for qualifying purposes, and an SSA award letter alone may be enough to close.
A rate lock protects only the interest rate, so disclose your retirement date early and build the loan file around income that survives closing day.
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Mortgage lenders are racing to make refinancing feel almost instantaneous. Better.com says an initial approval can take as little as two minutes. For a borrower nearing retirement, that speed creates a strange new trap.

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Silver (SI=F) December futures opened at $67.94 per ounce on Thursday, September 10, 2026, down 1.0% from Wednesday's closing price. Silver prices are backing off this morning, reaching $66.62 as of 6.58 a.m. ET.
Even though the opening silver price was down 1% from the previous session's closing price, silver's $67.94 was the precious metal's strongest opening price so far this week. However, silver prices do seem to be backing off this morning in early trading.
Investors are awaiting the Producer Price Index (PPI) and Consumer Price Index (CPI) data due today and tomorrow, respectively, for one final look at prior inflation data before the Fed meets for its two-day rate-setting meeting starting on Tuesday.
Currently, there's a 62.2% expectation that the Fed will raise rates next week, which could further limit silver price growth in the short term.

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Catering is a big opportunity for Denny's.
CEO Chris Bode notes that two of the company's largest competitors generate roughly $150 million in combined annual catering sales. Denny's earned $1.5 million last year.
"It's a huge channel that we've opened up for our franchisees because we see it as an opportunity for incremental revenue pretty quickly," Bode says.
To capture these dollars, the breakfast giant recently launched a revamped national platform via ezCater. Currently, over 400 restaurants are live on the platform. Denny's anticipates reaching about 1,000 by the end of September. The goal right now is to reach $50,000 in catering sales per unit by the end of 2026, and $100,000 per unit in year two.

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Bernstein's Gautam Chhugani carries a $330 Street-high target on COIN, implying 77% upside despite three consecutive earnings misses and a 38% one-year decline.
HOOD is down just 4% YTD and CRCL is up 11%, making COIN's 18% year-to-date slide the clearest dislocation signal among crypto-adjacent peers.
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Coinbase Global (NASDAQ:COIN) currently trades at $186.49, while Bernstein ****** yst Gautam Chhugani carries a Street-high price target of $330 on the stock. That implies roughly 77% upside if his call plays out.
Coinbase runs the largest US crypto exchange plus subscription products, stablecoin revenue tied to USDC, the Base blockchain, and a fast-expanding derivatives and prediction markets business. The company is reinventing itself as a "everything exchange" just as core trading fees shrink.

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A brutal summer stretch for the U.S. Treasury market risks getting worse come September, right as many of the world's largest companies plan to unleash a new wave of bond issuance.
Yields this week on the long 30-year Treasury bond BX:TMUBMUSD30Y reached their highest level since 2007 amid a global selloff.
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Treasury's buyback blitz may end up driving bond yields higher, warns JPMorgan. Here's its advice for investors.
The bond market is going to burst the stock-market bubble

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Shares of silicon carbide power module-maker Wolfspeed (NYSE: WOLF) tumbled 15.2% through 11:40 a.m. ET Thursday after missing badly on its earnings report last night.
Heading into its fiscal Q4 2026 report, **** ysts already weren't optimistic, expecting Wolfspeed to lose $0.52 per share on sales of $223.6 million, but the news was actually much worse. Wolfspeed lost $2.26 per share -- four times as bad as expected -- and its sales were only $149.6 million.
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Revenue plunged 24% year over year, with negative gross profit margins "earned" on those sales. (In fact, the negativity of the margin increased to 25%, meaning for every $1 in sales Wolfspeed booked, it lost $1.25 --before subtracting operating costs).
The good news is that this was a better result than Wolfspeed booked a year ago. The bad news is that it still left Wolfspeed with a big net loss -- actually $2.81 per share when calculated under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), worse than the pro forma loss of $2.26.

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The national parcel carriers that once set retail delivery economics have spent a decade shedding their least profitable packages. What filled the gap is a deeper bench: regional carriers, 3PL cross-dock networks, gig courier platforms and private fleets. As it turns out, almost none of them talk to each other.
Burq, a last-mile delivery technology company, wagers that last-mile orchestration — the decision layer sitting above that bench — is the product enterprise retailers will actually pay for.
The shift is already underway. FreightWaves reported in July that carrier diversification is eroding the last-mile delivery duopoly: 55% of retailers now use carriers outside FedEx, UPS and the U.S. Postal Service, and more than a third are actively moving volume away from the two national giants. The payoff is measurable. In one example, home goods brand Caraway cut total parcel costs 20% after its 3PL began shopping every order across a network of regional and national carriers. Capturing that value requires knowing which provider performs in which ZIP code on which day. Most retailers do not know, because the systems that pick a carrier stop watching the moment the order leaves.
Jake Stein joined Burq four months ago to run growth for its retail sector, after four and a half years at Uber launching ship-from-store, same-day and on-demand programs on Uber Direct. The limitations of using a single network are what pushed him out.
"It still came down to that Uber couldn't be the single source for everything," Stein told FreightWaves. "Mostly gig, reasonably shorter distances, some batching but not large scale, no big and bulky. And they can't be 100% of every possible location."

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Today's investors seem to want upside, upside, and more upside. I get it.
After a generation of pathetically low interest rates and negligible returns on bonds, who can blame investors for ignoring the ****** et class that is actually much bigger than the stock market?
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