Richard Drury/ Getty Images; Illustration by Austin Courregé/Bankrate HELOC rates again came in lower this week, with the the $30,000 home equity line of credit dropping to an average of 8.36 percent — closing out…

People looked up a slew of financial topics on Investopedia over the course of the year, with searches for some emerging as particularly popular. Ten topics stood out as the ones that Investopedia readers searched for the most in 2024, the finance-focused site reported earlier in the month. Investopedia editor-in-chief Caleb…

If you’re new to investing and don’t know where to start, the good news is that you have a ton of resources when it comes to learning how to invest. The bad news is that not all of those resources are helpful or accurate. In fact, some of that information…

In case you haven’t heard, the Mint budgeting app is shutting down. And their users are being asked to move to . . . Credit Karma. But if you’re a Mint user who thinks you’ll be able to keep budgeting the same way, you’re going to be pretty disappointed. Because,…

The shelves and prices at your local grocery store could look a little different soon. The Colorado River, which provides water for about 15% of our country’s agriculture, is shrinking, and the current agreement that divvies up the water usage ends in 2026. The Imperial Valley in Southern California relies 100% on the Colorado River for…