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5 min readThe first quarter earnings season is delivering a mixed picture for American businesses, with United Airlines slashing its full-year profit forecast due to surging jet fuel prices linked to the Iran War, even as its first-quarter revenue held up. Meanwhile, a new survey finds that about a third of Americans now doubt they will have enough saved for retirement — the highest level of anxiety recorded since 2017. And in Texas, home prices are falling across all major markets, a reversal from the state's long-running boom.
The retirement confidence crisis
The annual retirement confidence survey from the Employee Benefit Research Institute and Greenwald Research shows that roughly one in three Americans do not believe they will have enough saved to retire. That is the highest level of pessimism the survey has recorded since 2017, and the reasons are structural rather than cyclical.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:24) **Earnings Season Begins; United & Tesla in Focus** - A broad look at how American businesses are reporting first-quarter results, with specific previews for United Airlines and Tesla.
- 2 (02:48) **Record Retirement Anxiety Among Americans** - A third of Americans doubt they will have enough saved for retirement, the highest level of worry since 2017, according to a new survey.
- 3 (05:28) **AI Startup Anthropic Commits $100 Billion to Amazon Web Services** - Anthropic will spend $100 billion on AWS cloud services over the next decade, using Amazon chips to train its Claude chatbot.
- 4 (07:21) **Texas Home Prices Falling Across Major Markets** - A new Redfin analysis shows year-over-year home price declines in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio.
- 5 Standout Quotes
- 6 (03:35) "People know that they're going to live longer than their parents and grandparents, but they also realize they have less security than their parents and grandparents." — Dave Deming, founder of Deming Financial Services Corp.
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Show Notes
New research shows more than a third of workers and retirees don’t think they will have enough money for their retirement years — that’s the highest proportion since 2017. Lower savings rates, higher bills, and concerns over Social Security all constitute a perfect recipe for lower confidence. Also on this morning's program: a preview of Tesla's quarterly earnings and a look at why home prices are falling in Texas.
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