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You might be able to fix a medical bill that doesn’t make sense or looks like it will break your budget with a simple phone call to the billing office. That’s what a new study released in JAMA Health Forum on Friday says. A study from the University of Southern California found that more than three out of four people who complained about an expensive bill to a billing office said they got some kind of financial help, such as a price cut, a payment plan, or even the bill being canceled. The study also found that almost three quarters…

Democrats’ presidential candidate Kamala Harris is back in the spotlight with a CNN interview that will air at 9 p.m. Eastern, one week after her prime-time speech at her party’s convention. As the vice presidential nominee for her party, Harris has not had a big interview with a news organization since the back-and-forth with CNN anchor Dana Bash. Harris’s running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, is likely to join her. In a news release early Thursday morning, Make America Great Again Inc., a super PAC that backs Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, said that Harris has been “hiding from reporters…

They are out: Nvidia’s numbers and guidance. They are still being analyzed as of early Thursday morning. With only a few companies still to report, the second quarter earnings season is almost over. This should make it possible to pay even more attention to global market drivers, especially how fast the Federal Reserve is likely to cut interest rates. U.K. fund manager M&G Investments says this brings up a very important question for investors: “If recent rate hikes have not really slowed the economy down, how can we assume that traditional rate cuts will really boost it?” How low do…

Retail buyers, which are sarcastically called “dumb money” on Wall Street, bought a lot of Nvidia stock before the company’s disappointing earnings report. JPMorgan and Vanda Research both found that small- and medium-sized buyers put a lot of money into exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that have a lot of Nvidia in them, as well as leveraged ETFs that are linked to Nvidia. On the bright side, Nvidia NVDA -6.38% beat analyst expectations on both earnings and sales in its quarterly report. However, it also raised enough concerns about the future that shares of the AI revolution leader fell 4% to $120…

Market experts predict that while Friday’s July personal consumption expenditure inflation report would likely comfort investors that the Federal Reserve will likely decrease interest rates initially next month, the stock market will not likely rejoice. The preferred inflation indicator used by the Fed is predicted to indicate that consumer prices in the United States increased somewhat in July, which would complicate the central bank’s plan to lower policy rates the following month. Investors are concerned that the most recent report might not give the financial markets enough information about how quickly and how far the Fed will easing policy. The…

With its most recent results released on Thursday, Dell Technologies Inc. exceeded analyst estimates and kept up its rapid server business growth. In the fiscal second quarter, revenue for the infrastructure solutions group—which includes servers—grew by 38% to $11.64 billion, compared to analysts’ projections of $10.79 billion, as tracked by FactSet. Revenue from servers and networking in that category increased by 80% to $7.67 billion, a record for the corporation. The demand for artificial intelligence servers in the second quarter reached $3.2 billion, a sequential increase of 23%. According to Dell DELL -0.74%, the company’s backlog was $3.8 billion, and…

Experts at the Federal Reserve’s summer vacation in Wyoming at the base of the Grand Teton Mountains say they don’t think the U.S. economy will go into recession. “The economy seems to be in good shape.” Karen Dynan, an economics professor at Harvard University, said, “In a broad sense, things look pretty solid.” “Usually, there is some weakness going on underneath when we go into a recession.” She also said, “It just doesn’t feel that way now.” Since early August, when weak July jobs data showed that demand in the job market had slowed down, people are more worried about…

The amounts: This month, the consumer confidence measure went up to 103.3 from 101.9 in July, which was changed, the Conference Board said Tuesday. That number is the best since February. The Wall Street Journal polled economists and found that most of them thought the index would rise from its original reading of 100.3 in July to 101 in August. Important facts: This number shows how consumers feel about the current state of the business. It went up from 133.1 to 134.4 in August. A measure of confidence that looks ahead six months also went up, from 81.1 to 82.5.…

In his newest set of nonfungible tokens, Donald Trump includes a picture of himself holding a bitcoin BTCUSD 0.45% logo. This is the latest sign that he’s using cryptocurrency to appeal to voters as he runs for president again in November. A big issue in the 2024 election is how to handle cryptocurrencies. Trump is now supporting a business he used to call a “scam.” According to the chief policy officer of cryptocurrency platform Coinbase, Vice President Kamala Harris’s team has recently talked with some people in the business. This comes at a time when people think Democrats are against…

The US Open is going on right now in Queens. This year’s prize pool of $75 million is the largest ever for a tennis event. That’s 15% more than the $65 million that was offered at last year’s US Open, and 2024 will be the 51st year in a row that the prize money for men and women will be the same. The prize money is based on the round you reach until the final, where the winner gets twice as much as the loser. The singles players can expect to make the following amount of money over the next…