Small-dollar loans offer a new and more affordable alternative to payday loans. 

New data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia adds to earlier reports of record-smashing credit-card balances.

Friday’s top personal finance stories.

The bill, which would go into effect on Jan. 1, 2024, prohibits the use of TikTok on all personal devices and bars app stores from offering TikTok for downloads in the state.

Lending by banks rose for the first time in three weeks, the Federal Reserve said Friday.

Anheuser-Busch’s chief executive on Friday appeared to respond to the conservative-media backlash to Bud Light’s partnership with a trans influencer.

Democrats are closing ranks behind President Biden, but he isn’t without challengers for his party’s 2024 nomination. Here’s a Q&A with Marianne Williamson.

Some soft commodities have rallied so far this year, with sugar prices this week trading at their highest price in 11 years and orange-juice futures touching their highest prices on record.

Shocks that kept inflation percolating in the 1970s, dubbed ‘second-round’ effects’ seem absent in this inflation surge, a top economist said Friday.

Heightened geopolitical tensions and cybersecurity concerns may be propelling ETFs in those those areas toward potential ‘breakouts.”