'Conventional Wisdom Isn't Wise': Ramsey Tells Retirees to Dump Bonds, The Numbers Back Him Up
Dave Ramsey told retirees to ditch bonds on live radio, and a close look at the actual Treasury yields and withdrawal math reveals whether that advice is reckless or overdue.
A $2.6 Million 401(k) at 74 Produces a $102,000 RMD That Lands a Retiree in the 24% Bracket
A seven-figure 401(k) sounds like a retirement victory until the IRS forces a six-figure withdrawal that collides with Social Security, Medicare surcharges, and a bracket wall that swallows nearly 40 cents of every top dollar.
Macy's reports at 6:55 AM ET, the first read on how a $5.7 billion department store chain is stocking up for a holiday season forecast to top $1 trillion in spending. Same-store sales, gross margin and inventory levels set the tone for the whole mall-anchor group.
NVIDIA and Palantir Bring Sovereign Intelligence to Critical Supply Chains
Nvidia is running the Palantir-Nemotron stack on its own supply chain first, the one coordinating 1.3 million parts in every Vera Rubin rack, which turns the deployment into a live reference sale for every manufacturer, government and pharma buyer that follows. The stack ships as a sovereign reference architecture on Dell and Cisco hardware or Rackspace and Nebius cloud, widening the surface for enterprise AI spend.
- 🇭🇰 Hang Seng-1.20%
- 🇨🇳 SSE Composite-0.43%
Hong Kong took the brunt of the selling, with the Hang Seng ending down 1.20% while mainland shares slipped less than half a percent. Southbound money has been thinning out, so the gap is worth tracking.
- 🇬🇧 FTSE 100+0.13%
- 🇩🇪 DAX+0.06%
- 🇫🇷 CAC 40+0.30%
London opened higher for a third straight leg toward record territory, but Paris is doing the heavy lifting with the CAC 40 up 0.30%. Continental momentum is where the money is moving this morning.
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Tokyo opened 0.18% lower, a quiet start that masks the real driver: a firmer yen squeezing Japan's exporters ahead of the Bank of Japan's rate decision. Anyone holding Japanese equities gets their answer this month.
NVIDIA Expands AI Infrastructure Capacity in Partnership With Australia’s Data Center Ecosystem
Eight Australian operators, including Firmus, IREN, NEXTDC and AirTrunk, are committing land and power to a buildout of up to 2 gigawatts by 2027, all of it hosting DSX AI factories. Sharon AI alone plans to deploy up to 68,000 GPUs. Sovereign AI demand keeps converting into multi-year orders far from the US hyperscalers.
Fidelity Just Counted a Record 769,000 401(k) Millionaires. Most of Them Are Sitting on a Tax Bill That Comes Due at 73 or 75
Fidelity’s record crop of 401(k) millionaires may not own as much as they think, and a clock is already ticking on a tax obligation they cannot negotiate, defer, or skip.
SCHD Has an International Twin. It Returned 28% in a Year, Yields 3.7%, and Charges 0.08%
SCHD dominates domestic dividend portfolios, but roughly half the world’s quality payers never appear in a U.S. screen. Schwab built a companion fund applying the same rigorous filters to international markets, and the performance and yield numbers may surprise you.
A 66-Year-Old Couple With $1.8 Million Discovered Their 401(k) Was Running Their Retirement in Reverse
Their advisor said the retirement plan was working. Their CPA said it was slowly detonating. Both were correct, and the collision between a growing 401(k) and the tax code is what this couple never saw coming.
Opendoor just hit a fresh 52-week low at $3.00, 1.32% under the low it set on September 1. That is a second new floor in nine days, with the $2.9 billion market cap now roughly a third of where the stock traded a year ago.



