Money guide for Millennials It’s a frightening statistic that 47% of Americans would struggle to come up with $400 to cover an unplanned expense. Yet nearly half of today’s workers are living paycheck-to-paycheck, with no financial cushion whatsoever, and a big part of the reason boils down to living beyond our means. Now you might → Read More

The world’s affordable pharmacy is… Walgreens has finally figured out a way to buy Rite Aid — or about half of it, at least. The pharmacy giant said Tuesday that federal regulators have accepted its $4.4 billion deal to buy 1,932 Rite Aid stores. That will leave Rite Aid with about 2,600 stores once the → Read More

Britain puts animal fat in its cash Swiss authorities are investigating a series of bizarre deposits. Investigators in Geneva are trying to understand why two Spanish women flushed roughly €100,000 ($120,000) down toilets at a UBS bank branch and three nearby restaurants. Vincent Derouand of the Geneva Prosecutors’ Office said the first incident involving cut-up → Read More

iPhone 8: What’s new? Apple has put its new iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus in a tight spot. As with pretty much every Apple upgrade, they will be the best iPhones available when they hit store shelves this Friday. But they exist in the shadow of the possibly superior iPhone X, in all its → Read More

Is OPEC still relevant? Norway’s giant pension fund is now worth over $1 trillion. Yes, 1 followed by 12 zeros. The fund’s managers announced Tuesday that currency shifts had helped push its value above $1 trillion for the first time. Read More

An activist investor has built up a 15% stake in Swiss chemicals group Clariant and is vowing to fight its planned $20 billion merger with Huntsman. White Tale Holdings, an investment partnership created by hedge funds Corvex and 40 North, has written to Clariant’s (CLZNY) board, urging them to rethink the deal. Read More

Click chart for in-depth premarket data. 1. Waning momentum?: Stock markets are looking flat after a record setting run in recent days. The Dow Jones industrial average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq all hit record high levels on Monday. But U.S. stock futures were holding steady ahead of the open, and trading in European markets was → Read More

Toys ‘R’ Us is filing for bankruptcy protection. The toy retailer has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States, it said in a statement on Monday. Meanwhile, it said its Canadian subsidiary will “seek protection in parallel proceedings” in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Read More

Unlock your door, look through the peephole, with your phone If you’re not getting a push alert every time someone opens your front door, you’re living in the past. Smart-home technology company August just announced new versions of its connected locks and doorbell camera. The company’s newest locks have a sensor that can tell when → Read More