As of 2024, the average American had a net worth of $620,654, according to a report on global wealth by UBS (1). But if that number sounds surprisingly high and disconnected from yours, there’s a ...

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Average 401(k) balances for Americans are on the low side. Median balances are even lower, and are more representative of people's savings. Most of us will need to build bigger nest eggs. The number ...

When it comes to our retirement nest eggs, most of us want to know where we stand compared to our friends and co-workers. The good news is that 401(k) contribution rates have reached a record high, ...

Fourteen million — that’s how many digital checkouts the Toronto Public Library logged last year. It’s a record number for the library, whose e-readership has been steadily increasing year after year.

The average price for a new car reached a record high of $50,326 in December 2025. A consumer preference for luxury models and high-end pickups contributed to the record prices. Tata Motors had the ...

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Springer Nature is a signatory of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). Because small numbers of highly cited articles can have outsized influence on certain citation measures ...