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Sep 16, 2019
Stories resonating with MarketWatch readers this past week.
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Sep 16, 2019
Value-added industrial output in China rose 4.4% in August from a year earlier, slower than the 4.8% increase in July, the National Bureau of Statistics said Monday.
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Sep 16, 2019
Austria semiconductor group says an extraordinary shareholder meeting at the end of October is expected to vote on the approval of a 1.5 billion-euro ($1.66 billion) equity issuance.
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Sep 16, 2019
The boss of L'Oréal, the world's largest beauty company, admitted in an interview with MarketWatch that pollution is good for business. He also insisted that a trend among millennials to digitally enhance their looks on social media does not make beauty products redundant but actually boosts business.
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Sep 16, 2019
BHP, a major producer of commodities such as iron ore and steelmaking coal, has a substantial oil-and-gas division that sets it apart from most of its peers and accounted for roughly 15% of the company's underlying earnings in fiscal 2019.
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Sep 15, 2019
Asian markets mostly fell in early trading Monday as global crude futures soared following the weekend attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.
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Sep 15, 2019
Oil futures surged in electronic trade on Sunday, with West Texas Intermediate set to jump more than 10% after a weekend drone attack on a major crude facilities in Saudi Arabia threatened to create a supply crunch that could ripple through global markets.
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Sep 15, 2019
Dividend-paying ‘inclusive ownership fund' offers employees a leg up as the pay gap widens.
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Sep 15, 2019
Dividend-paying ‘inclusive ownership fund' offers employees a leg up as the pay gap widens.
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Sep 15, 2019
Ric Ocasek, the lead singer of iconic new-wave rock band The Cars, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Sunday, law enforcement sources told The Post. He was 70 years old.
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Sep 15, 2019
Crude oil prices surged more than 10% late Sunday and U.S. stock futures retreated following weekend attacks against Saudi Arabian oil facilities.
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Sep 15, 2019
An intensifying Middle East conflict is threatening to throw the world's energy market into disarray after a weekend drone attack destroyed parts of Saudi Aramco's Abqaiq plant — one of the world's largest processors of oil.
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Sep 15, 2019
Saudi Arabia's national oil company expects to restore roughly a third of crude output disrupted due to a weekend attack by day's end on Monday, Saudi officials said, a step back from earlier hopes that it could quickly resume full production by the start of the week.
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Sep 15, 2019
The Minnesota Democrat talked with "Face the Nation" about the criticism she received from a family member of a 9/11 victim on the anniversary of the attacks earlier this week.
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Sep 15, 2019
The types of funds that investors are favoring and pulling money out of shows a desire to hedge against volatility and to pick up some income.
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Sep 15, 2019
An intensifying Middle East conflict is threatening to throw the world's energy market into disarray after a weekend drone attack destroyed parts of Saudi Aramco's Abqaiq plant — one of the world's largest processors of oil.
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Sep 15, 2019
One ETF that purports to offer access to better run private sector companies in China that are better run may make things more confusing for investors, not less.
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Sep 15, 2019
What's left for the Federal Reserve to do at its rate-setting gathering next week now the U.S.'s main stock indexes are on the cusp of records again ?
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Sep 15, 2019
New research explores various retirement spending strategies
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Sep 15, 2019
Life is about meaning, not money.
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Sep 15, 2019
Contributions must ramp up to make a difference
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Sep 15, 2019
Proposed solutions are unpopular
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Sep 15, 2019
What message would that send about the value of the U.S. dollar?
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Sep 15, 2019
Caring for retirees is a problem all over the world — here are some solutions
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Sep 15, 2019
Investors are shunning higher-priced, sturdier stocks in favor of those that may have missed out on the love earlier in the year.
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Sep 15, 2019
This analysis is based on median salary, overall job satisfaction and the number of job openings.
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Sep 15, 2019
Those jonesing for a smaller iPhone may be out of luck, experts say.
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Sep 15, 2019
Over a third of the multifamily loans the two firms purchase must now be directed toward affordable housing.
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Sep 15, 2019
The score provided by FICO, named for the Fair Isaac Corporation, is widely used as a measure of a person's creditworthiness.
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Sep 14, 2019
‘We have separate finances because I don't trust her to act prudently financially.'
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Sep 14, 2019
Home buyers in their 20s and 30s are ‘having to be very creative' to come up with down payment money.
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Sep 14, 2019
How to get to financial independence.
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Sep 14, 2019
Critics are likening the advert to a death threat against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. .
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Sep 14, 2019
The White House says the U.S. is winning the trade war with China, but Beijing is unlikely to sue for peace anytime soon, writes Peter Morici.
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Sep 14, 2019
We can't tell the difference between needs and wants and are unable to delay gratification.
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Sep 14, 2019
Paper bank notes are being upgraded for a digital future around the world.
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Sep 14, 2019
Today's economy looks a lot like the one that Donald Trump disparaged in 2016, except this time the president set out to make the economy slow down.
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Sep 14, 2019
This millennial claims he was FIRE before FIRE became popular.
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Sep 14, 2019
But Canada and Australia both have three cities in the top 10 on the Economist Intelligence Unit's new list
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Sep 14, 2019
Your kids really do drive you to drink.
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Sep 14, 2019
After losing her job as a journalist, Janet Blaser left Santa Cruz for Mazatlán, where she started her own magazine. Here are the pros and cons of her life abroad.
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Sep 14, 2019
U.S. market's historically worst month may not live up to its reputation, writes Mark Hulbert.
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Sep 14, 2019
August is typically a weak month for stock market performance, and September is the only month that, on average, is worse for equity-market prices
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Sep 14, 2019
You can live on about $2,000 a month, experts says, and Panama has a generous ‘pensionado program.' But there are drawbacks.
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Sep 14, 2019
Traditional money managers are scouring the world for information to gain an edge as indexing takes over.
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Sep 14, 2019
Soda sales have declined as consumers reach more frequently for bottled water and seltzers.
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Sep 14, 2019
The Franklin Rising Dividends Fund is defensively positioned.
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Sep 14, 2019
Earlier this year, Sam Zell, the billionaire chairman of Equity Group Investments, said President Donald Trump's continued push for interest-rate cuts could end in "disaster" for the U.S. economy. He didn't sound much more bullish on Wednesday.
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Sep 14, 2019
She moved to a beautiful, laid-back island in Belize in 2013. Here's the surprising reason she's returning to North America.
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Sep 14, 2019
The FIRE movement focuses on finances, but not so much on emotional well-being
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Sep 14, 2019
Netflix Inc. is ushering in the fall with plenty of screen favorites and binge-friendly originals.
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Sep 14, 2019
The British patient developed a nutritional deficiency that's rare in developed countries.
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Sep 14, 2019
Fabio Paolini of Pictet Asset Management says a stock's dividend offers no indication of its value.
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Sep 14, 2019
In the 2010s, it was all about low taxes, inequality and bonuses. Over the next decade, look for the script to flip to high taxes, redistribution and universal basic income. Those are just some of the shifting themes that Bank of America, in a note led by top strategist Michael Hartnett, laid out this week as to why investors should be cautious heading in to the end of the year.
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Sep 14, 2019
Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, MIT, Yale are among the top schools in U.S. News' new ranking.
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Sep 14, 2019
Apple Inc. reclaimed its status as a trillion-dollar company Wednesday, hitting that level for the first time since early November of last year on the day after it showed off its next iPhones.
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Sep 14, 2019
A higher percentage of people nationwide tested positive for a controlled substance in 2018 than in previous years.
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Sep 14, 2019
Budget Bytes founder Beth Moncel swears by a carefully calibrated ratio of cheap ingredients to expensive ones.
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Sep 14, 2019
The numbers show that the large states and big cities don't pick the winner.
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Sep 14, 2019
If investors have flocked to your town, keep a close eye on home prices.
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Sep 14, 2019
Analysts at Citi say gold prices will "trade stronger for longer" and see them possibly topping $2,000 an ounce and posting new highs in the next year or two.
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Sep 14, 2019
Apple iPhone items like blue light screens, camera lenses, tripods and portable chargers — all for less than $25
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Sep 14, 2019
Some states are getting hit harder than others by Trump's tariffs.
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Sep 14, 2019
Saudi Arabia is shutting down about half of its oil output after apparently coordinated drone strikes hit Saudi production facilities, people familiar with the matter said, in what Yemen's Houthi rebels described as one of their largest-ever attacks inside the kingdom.
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Sep 14, 2019
Lou Crandall, chief economist at Wrightson ICAP and the winner of MarketWatch's Forecaster of the Month contest, says the economy is OK, but political risks could cause a recession by the end of next year.
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Sep 14, 2019
President Donald Trump's tweets cost you money, but the effect thankfully is only temporary.
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Sep 14, 2019
Teigen called out the president's "9th meltdown of the day" in a pair of obscenity-laced tweets.
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Sep 14, 2019
Home buying is expected to ‘move further out of reach' as new home construction still hasn't returned to pre-recession levels.
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Sep 14, 2019
Microsoft's key businesses are growing, and Apple has an innovation problem, writes Daniel Newman.
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Sep 14, 2019
Saudi Arabia is shutting down about half of its oil output after apparently coordinated drone strikes hit Saudi production facilities, people familiar with the matter said, in what Yemen's Houthi rebels described as one of their largest-ever attacks inside the kingdom.
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Sep 14, 2019
President Donald Trump's call for the Fed to push its benchmark interest rates into negative territory shows he doesn't understand that ultra-low rates are a sign of trouble, economists say.
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Sep 14, 2019
Most Americans would probably have a hard time wrapping their heads around a $350,000 salary. The thing is, that kind of income, while relatively huge, is barely enough, according to Financial Samurai blogger Sam Dogen, for a family to lead a comfortable life in coastal counties — where almost half of the nation's population calls home.
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Sep 14, 2019
Start with the Federal Reserve, then move to Trump and his trade war.
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Sep 14, 2019
Last month, President Trump, in a tweet blasting Fox News' Shep Smith for not showering him with the right amount of praise, said that, "whenever possible, I turn to @OANN!" in reference to the San Diego-based One America News outlet. He probably appreciates them even more now.
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Sep 14, 2019
Think 2019 has been hectic? You ain't seen nothing yet. According to our call of the day from John Mauldin of Mauldin Economics, 2020 will raise the volatility bar to historic proportions.
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Sep 14, 2019
Beware — the IRS is on the prowl for cryptocurrency tax scofflaws.
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Sep 14, 2019
Holders of an Irish passport would have the freedom to work anywhere within the 28-member union.
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Sep 14, 2019
Wendy's announced that it would introduce breakfast nationwide in 2020 and analysts are cautious after a number of previous failed attempts to do so.
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Sep 14, 2019
L Brands hosted its investor day, with a focus on the effort to revitalize the Victoria's Secret brand.
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Sep 14, 2019
Kristin Morrison started a business doing what she loves.
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Sep 14, 2019
A UBS survey shows that many members of the key demographics for hard seltzer consumption intend to take a month off for Sober September
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Sep 14, 2019
AT&T may be a lumbering giant, but in tough times investors may flock to the stock.
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Sep 14, 2019
Many voters have come around to the idea that the loans are an unsustainable burden
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Sep 14, 2019
Here are 3 things to watch at next week's Fed interest-rate committee meeting.
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Sep 14, 2019
"When you get off the desk and talk to executives, they're more fearful of her winning," Cramer said.
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Sep 14, 2019
The U.S. and China are trying to tone down trade tensions, the Federal Reserve is ready to cut interest rates and Americans are still spending plenty of money. So all is well again with the U.S. economy, right? Not so fast.
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Sep 14, 2019
Aurora Cannabis Inc. is expected to report fiscal fourth-quarter earnings Wednesday after the closing bell. The company says it will host a conference call Thursday at 9 a.m. Eastern time.
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Sep 14, 2019
The market's been looking fairly strong lately, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rallying for the sixth session in a row. But with each uptick, there seems to be an increasing call for caution. TD Ameritrade's Oliver Renick just joined the chorus.
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Sep 14, 2019
Shock was in short supply when Politico, citing dozens of sources, published a deep-dive into the antics of Jerry Falwell Jr.
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Sep 14, 2019
Growth has outperformed value for a decade, but the next blowup may change that.
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Sep 14, 2019
The bill is good news for drivers, but may cost passengers.
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Sep 14, 2019
Larry Culp took over General Electric a year ago. .
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Sep 14, 2019
Nineteen chief executive officers of S&P 500 companies so far have given their own money to 2020 Democratic White House hopefuls.
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Sep 14, 2019
Andrew Sheets, chief cross-asset strategist at Morgan Stanley, who says the global economy may be about to surprise the world and investors are not ready for it.
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Sep 14, 2019
Creating competitors to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and loosening mortgage regulations are among the proposed reform.
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Sep 13, 2019
The ‘Desperate Housewives' actress was sentenced Friday to 14 days in prison for paying to improve her daughter's SAT scores.
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Sep 13, 2019
Walt Disney Co.'s Chief Executive Robert Iger resigned from Apple Inc.'s board of directors, the tech giant said on Friday, severing a yearslong connection between the two companies as they prepare to launch competing video-streaming services.
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Sep 13, 2019
Friday's top personal finance stories
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Sep 13, 2019
Many on social media compared her case to people locked up for years after stealing socks or a loaf of bread.
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Sep 13, 2019
Critics are likening the advert to a death threat against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. .
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