Amex sees strong travel and luxury spending as affluent customers open their wallets

Amex sees spending rise, as its cardholders are ‘enjoying life’ and getting ready to travel.

Why Visa and Mastercard are seeing their sharpest stock drops in half a year

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Ray Dalio is the latest billionaire to give money to Trump Accounts for kids

Hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio is the latest in a slew of deep-pocketed contributors and companies ready…

Why Visa’s stock is pacing Dow gainers en route to its best day in eight months

The Fed’s interest-rate cut could help turn around a market laggard. BofA sees “a great business…

How to play payments stocks after essentially their worst run in 15 years

Emily Bary Emily Bary is MarketWatch’s assistant managing editor, tech. She is based in New York.