Canadian Dollar is regaining lost ground after upbeat Canadian GDP data. US Dollar looks weak despite good US Jobless claims, upward revision of Q4 GDP. The focus is now on Friday’s PCE Prices Index and Fed Powell’s speech. The Canadian Dollar (CAD) is trading higher for the fourth consecutive…

The cryptocurrency market saw a mixed performance early Wednesday, with Bitcoin and Ethereum remaining largely flat and all coins in the top 10 moving less than 3%—except for the resurgent Dogecoin. Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, has been trading sideways for the third day in a row after gaining a…

Every day, millions of online shoppers face substantial risk of unwittingly giving too much away – money, information, privacy. To some retailers, this might be gold, but when the gold comes from dark patterns, we need to start applying new rules. “Dark patterns” is the term for the online use…

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The Department of Education recently made major changes to simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as the FAFSA, but the rollout has been bumpy. The form wasn’t widely made available until January, about three months later than usual. Since then, families have experienced many glitches, and the government didn’t start sending students’ financial aid information to colleges until mid-March. Now, many students are in limbo, waiting to receive financial aid award letters from colleges before deciding where to enroll next fall and whether they can afford it.

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Cocoa prices are surging so high, the Easter Bunny might want to hoard its chocolate. Consumers hunting for Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies this year can expect sticker shock similar to Valentine’s Day. Retail chocolate prices rose 11.6% across all of 2023, according to Circana data shared with CNN, outpacing…