Finance News
How 401k Matching Works and What Changes in 2026
Matching turns every dollar you contribute up to the formula into an immediate return — and the SECURE 2.0 era changed enrollment, catch-ups, and starter plans.
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Tomás Ferreira
Tomás Ferreira covers crypto markets and digital assets. He came to crypto through payments infrastructure and still finds the plumbing more interesting than the price — his reporting spans consensus, settlement and custody, the fintech layer above banking, index flows and single-company results, and the cash reserves and savings timelines on the household side.
Articles by Tomás Ferreira
Stocks
How to Use a Stock Screener Without Fooling Yourself
A screener turns the market into a filter stack — powerful for narrowing five thousand names to twenty, useless for deciding which twenty deserve money.
Finance News
Crypto Market Rules Came Into Focus in Spring 2026
A March SEC interpretation on staking and airdrops, a Senate markup in April, and Chairman Atkins' agenda moved digital assets toward a real framework.
Stocks
How Share Buybacks Affect Ordinary Shareholders
A buyback shrinks the share count, enlarging each remaining owner's slice — mathematically simple, economically honest only when the price paid is below value.
Investing
How Dividend Reinvestment Compounds Over Decades
Roughly a third of the broad market's long-run total return has come from dividends — but only for investors who reinvested them, and only visibly over decades.