Marriages in which wives outearn their husbands are not only more common, but less likely to end in divorce than in the past.

Couples married in the late 1960s and 1970s were 70% more likely to divorce when wives earned the same or slightly more than their husbands compared with couples where the husband earned more, according to research from Christine Schwartz and Pilar Gonalons-Pons, sociologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively. For couples married in the 1990s, however, the divorce rate for those with female breadwinners had fallen to 4% higher than male breadwinners.

Shares of large U.S. technology companies are powering the broader market higher again, vindicating many individual investors who bet big on growth stocks.

Together, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Google parent Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Meta Platforms Inc., Microsoft Corp., Netflix Inc., Nvidia Corp. and Tesla Inc. comprise roughly a quarter of the S&P 500’s market cap, according to FactSet. That means they have an outsize influence on the direction of the major stock index.

Corporate insiders raced to buy shares of their own companies after last month’s banking crisis, signaling a vote of confidence in this year’s market rebound.

More than 1,000 officers and directors at more than 600 companies bought their own stock in March. That is the highest number on an individual and company basis since last May, according to the Washington Service, an insider-trading data analytics provider. The ratio of insider buying to selling last month swelled to the highest level since September, the firm found.

Apple Inc. hasn’t replaced your wallet yet, but it hasn’t given up trying. Its latest moves could put it much closer to success.

Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook once proclaimed that his company would “forever change the way all of us buy things.” His boast was made in 2014, alongside the company’s biggest product launch in years—the iPhone 6. More than eight years later, most of us are still fishing plastic cards out of our wallets or typing numbers into a form when we shop.

Most Americans equate tax season with the hope of getting a big refund. Yet one in four taxpayers typically owes money at the time of filing, according to the Internal Revenue Service.

A tax bill can come as a costly surprise, so it pays to know your payment options. Last year, the average balance due was nearly $8,000, compared with an average of $5,273 from 2010 through 2019. Given that average refunds for those who have filed their taxes are smaller this year so far, balances due could be larger, said Erica York, a senior economist at the Tax Foundation in Washington, D.C. 

As phones take on more of the work of wallets, people are rethinking how much they still need to carry in cash, cards and identification.

Four in 10 Americans say none of their purchases in a typical week are paid for using cash, according to a 2022 survey from the Pew Research Center. That is up from 29% in 2018 and 24% in 2015, reflecting a trend accelerated by the pandemic. Plastic is getting displaced, too: 59% of Americans said they increased their use of digital payment methods last year, according to Mastercard’s Payment Index.