Valentine’s Day, early tax refunds and Presidents Day sales all offer hints about how U.S. consumers are feeling about their finances.

The shutdown went into effect early Saturday and could lead to longer wait times for travelers at airports.

The Presidents Day holiday weekend marks the first big sales event of the year so NBC’s Vicky Nguyen joins TODAY to share where to find the deepest discounts and breaks down what you should wait to buy.

The Iowa Electronic Markets paved the way for prediction market companies, like Kalshi and Polymarket, that have ballooned into a multibillion-dollar industry

The U.S. added 130,000 jobs last month, nearly all from eldercare. Now immigration policy and Medicaid cuts are limiting who is willing or able to do this job.

A decline in the rate of price increases is good news for Americans who have grappled for years with rising costs of living.

Amazon has dropped plans to partner its Ring doorbell cameras with the police surveillance tech company Flock Safety, the companies said Thursday, days after Amazon aired a controversial ad for Ring that some viewed as depicting the technology as a threat to privacy

The top lawyer at Goldman Sachs, Kathy Ruemmler, said she would leave the Wall Street firm amid controversy over her email correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein.

The head of the DOJ’s antitrust unit, Gail Slater, is leaving the role at a key moment for mergers, as Netflix and Paramount Skydance battle for Warner Bros.

TEL AVIV — Two Israelis have been charged in connection with the suspected use of classified information to place bets on the prediction platform Polymarket, authorities said Thursday