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As the 100-day mark nears for President Trump’s second term, here’s the status of key efforts that affect markets and your wallet.

Airline passengers around the globe spend $33 billion on baggage fees — and now Southwest plans to start charging for the first time.

A new Gallup survey finds more than 50% of pet owners have put off or decided against veterinary treatment — which in worst-case scenarios can lead to “economic euthanasia.”

What you might have thought you could afford for college may have changed in the last few months. What now?

Google’s cloud business has big opportunity ahead once it adds capacity. Meanwhile the stock is cheap relative to historical levels.

More marketing, new menu items and easier comparisons could help Chipotle this year. But tariffs raise concerns about equipment availability and building costs.

Shares of International Business Machines Corp. fell 6.6% on Thursday following quarterly results a day earlier, making the IT giant the biggest loser on the Dow Jones Industrial Average for the day. But some analysts are saying it’s not time to freak out yet.

Easy money was never meant to last forever. Expect a 4% return on cash, 5% on bonds and 6% from stocks.

Credit-card giant Capital One Financial Services Inc. says consumers are hanging in there as the U.S. braces for the fallout from a global trade war, but that there appears to be a bit of a “pull forward” in auto purchases, as consumers try to get ahead of potential price increases.

Chinese advertisers have been a major source of growth for Meta — but analysts say a sizable amount of revenue is at risk from Trump’s trade policies.

Bernstein says AMD’s AI chips remain uncompetitive. That’s nothing new, but in the PC business, AMD now must cope with a potentially ‘more aggressive’ Intel.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday ratcheted down his rhetoric toward Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, saying he didn’t plan to try to remove the chief of the nation’s central bank.

Travel and tourism is a huge part of the U.S. services economy, supporting some 9.5 million American jobs.