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Jan 22, 2022
Money and investing stories popular with MarketWatch readers over the past week.
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Jan 22, 2022
Get ready for the action drama 'Reacher,' a new season of 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' and much more
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Jan 22, 2022
Many offset programs are based on dubious assumptions and can actually worsen the climate problem. MIT Sloan's John Sterman outlines a more effective strategy.
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Jan 22, 2022
The Fed should be held to account for how badly it is doing on the basic task of protecting the financial system.
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Jan 22, 2022
Americans are wondering what's amiss with Wall Street after steep declines in stocks and a surge in bond yields in recent weeks. Here's how to think about it.
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Jan 22, 2022
The symbolic measure known as the Doomsday Clock continues to hover at 100 seconds to midnight, unmoved from last year and 2020, when COVID-19 first spread.
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Jan 22, 2022
The president faces a number of challenges, including high inflation and an upheaval in investing markets, before midterm elections later this year.
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Jan 22, 2022
'There's going to be plenty of people I talk to who are going to be very upset,' one tax preparer said.
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Jan 22, 2022
The current retirement system doesn't work, Michael Doran argues in 'The Great Retirement Fraud'
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Jan 22, 2022
Home buyers today can expect to pay nearly $3,000 more a year to own a home than they would have a year ago.
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Jan 22, 2022
‘She has a taste for finer things in life.'
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Jan 22, 2022
Bitcoin prices slumped further Saturday to levels not seen since last August, as a selloff of riskier assets like stocks spread to cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin has now shed more than 50% from its record high in November.
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Jan 22, 2022
The spike in omicron cases is likely to reduce nonfarm payrolls when the January numbers are released.
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Jan 22, 2022
Cops were called after hotel staff found hundreds of unemployment debit cards abandoned in a room after checkout, prosecutors said.
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Jan 22, 2022
A weekly look at the most important moves and news in crypto and what's on the horizon in digital assets.
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Jan 22, 2022
6 strategies to help you delay claiming
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Jan 22, 2022
'We are not yet at any stage where we could predict endemicity,' said Dr. Gregory Poland, a vaccinologist at the Mayo Clinic.
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Jan 22, 2022
‘My younger brother has drug-related dementia, so I see no point in giving him money.'
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Jan 22, 2022
Have a dram of Bruichladdich's Octomore, known for its intense peaty flavor, to honor the January 25 birthday of Scottish poet Robert Burns
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Jan 22, 2022
I received a jolt when my life-insurance policy expired --- the annual premium rose to $80,000 from $5,000 --- as I crossed the senior divide.
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Jan 22, 2022
Cryptocurrency prices tumbled Friday night, with bitcoin hitting its lowest price since last August.
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Jan 22, 2022
Johnson & Johnson has long been viewed as a bellwether stock for other health care companies.
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Jan 22, 2022
Dean Rainer finds it hard to believe that anyone would think gig workers can save for retirement.
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Jan 22, 2022
Besides concerns about antitrust scrutiny and a record $68.7 billion price tag, Microsoft Corp.'s planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. also raises a key question: How will it deal with the videogame company's notorious workplace culture?
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Jan 22, 2022
Shonda Rhimes' 'Inventing Anna,' the spinoff series 'Vikings: Valhalla' and the dating show 'Love Is Blind' are February's highlights, as prices are set to rise for subscribers.
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Jan 22, 2022
'You could easily live here on $2,500 to $3,000 a month' --- much less than in either Provence or Paris.
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Jan 22, 2022
Most inflation forecasters do little more than extrapolate the recent past into the future.
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Jan 22, 2022
'I need to lower the principal to help me stay in my home, because the cost of living is increasing every year.'
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Jan 22, 2022
This is when you should pay off those liabilities in your old age
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Jan 22, 2022
Tax Guy has some tips on TIPS
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Jan 22, 2022
Stocks perform better when U.S. presidents are unpopular.
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Jan 22, 2022
Most of the things we worry about make little difference
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Jan 22, 2022
Prominent market technician Ralph Acampora says the recent bout of market volatility has him uneasy and now he's forecasting a deeper drop in the market.
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Jan 22, 2022
To say it has been a rough start for the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index may be the understatement of the young year.
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Jan 21, 2022
Reported offer of roughly $9 billion would represent a 37% premium to Friday's closing price for Kohl's shares.
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Jan 21, 2022
Investigators say Perry Santillo led the scheme that bilked more than 1,000 people out of their life savings.
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Jan 21, 2022
Intel Corp. had a rough 2021, and it looks like the chip maker will still face Wall Street criticism in 2022 for its ambitious capital investment plan and the success of competitors amid continuing delayed releases.
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Jan 21, 2022
Mike Clevinger, pitcher for the San Diego Padres, has settled into his new town.
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Jan 21, 2022
The comedian David Spade doesn't joke around when it comes to real estate.
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Jan 21, 2022
McConnell said "African-American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans."
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Jan 21, 2022
McConnell said "African-American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans."
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Jan 21, 2022
Many people have an outdated perception of Colombia.
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Jan 21, 2022
Tensions over Ukraine aren't rattling financial markets so far, but investors still appear likely to snap up traditional safe-haven assets should Russia invade, market watchers said.
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Jan 21, 2022
Netflix Inc. brought in more than 8 million new subscribers in the holiday quarter, but executives predicted that growth would suffer much more than expected at the beginning of 2022, sending shares screaming lower in after-hours trading.
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Jan 21, 2022
U.S. equity gauges on Friday end sharply lower, capping a withering week for investors, highlighted by a 5.7% weekly slide for the S&P 500 and the technology-laden Nasdaq Composite since March of 2020.
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Jan 21, 2022
Investors have taken things to a whole new level and many still haven't learned their lesson.
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Jan 21, 2022
Treasury yields remain up sharply in 2022, but the 10-year rate posts a weekly fall on Friday as investors react to a tech-led equity selloff and prepare for next week's Federal Reserve policy meeting.
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Jan 21, 2022
The global semiconductor shortage, sparked by pandemic-influenced demand spikes, reportedly led to a near-sellout of 2022 chip supply before the year even started, but investors and analysts are concerned the end of the party is already within sight.
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Jan 21, 2022
Oil futures fall on Friday, down a second session in a row from the more than seven-year highs set earlier in the week, after a rise in U.S. crude inventories and a continued selloff in stocks that weighed on overall sentiment.
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Jan 21, 2022
Amazon, DHL and others who know they'll need electric vehicles in 5 years want an open charging network, sedans as well as trucks, and more, they tell automakers.
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Jan 21, 2022
'The repairs were much more than I anticipated and, in 2019, I told my brother I would need to file for bankruptcy.'
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Jan 21, 2022
The crypto community is having mixed feelings about Twitter's move to allow some users to use non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, as their profile pictures.
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Jan 21, 2022
Tensions over Ukraine aren't rattling financial markets so far, but investors still appear likely to snap up traditional safe-haven assets should Russia invade, market watchers said.
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Jan 21, 2022
Watch for rising competition from Apple, Amazon and others as well as no improvement in profitability.
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Jan 21, 2022
Steep declines in the shares of Netflix Inc. and Peloton Interactive Inc. this week highlighted how far many former pandemic beneficiaries have fallen in recent months, even as COVID-19-related hospitalizations keep rising to daily records and daily deaths top 2,000.
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Jan 21, 2022
What the World Economic Forum in Davos can teach us about retirement financial security
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Jan 21, 2022
Retirement news and analysis
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Jan 21, 2022
William Sadleir's Aviron Films distributed movies with Halle Berry, Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway.
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Jan 21, 2022
Despite an improved content slate, Netflix expects a more challenged outlook for subscribers.
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Jan 21, 2022
Even as union membership declines, union members are getting better pay than their non-unionized counterparts.
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Jan 21, 2022
The powerful body at the Federal Reserve that controls U.S. interest rates appears ready to raise the cost of borrowing in March for the first time in four years and bring to an end an extraordinary period of economic stimulus.
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Jan 21, 2022
U.S. equity gauges wobble Friday afternoon, with the action in the first half of the session marked by big intraday swings.
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Jan 21, 2022
Also, Peloton, Netflix, TIPS, retirement advice and a look at investors' move to value stocks.
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Jan 21, 2022
Fluctuations in the prices of building supplies are complicating construction of new homes.
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Jan 21, 2022
‘Weekends With Adele' residency will be rescheduled after COVID-19 setbacks. 'We're on it right now,' singer says
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Jan 21, 2022
In its latest effort to persuade Americans to get their vaccine shots, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated data on COVID booster shots, warning that unvaccinated adults aged 65 and older are almost 50 times more likely to require hospitalization with the virus than people the same age who are fully inoculated.
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Jan 21, 2022
Your 2021 Form 1040 will include questions about cryptocurrency.
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Jan 21, 2022
Amazon.com with its subsidiaries and Facebook's parent company set records in their spending on Washington lobbying last year, according to new disclosures.
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Jan 21, 2022
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. will formally address the Kremlin's claims that Western powers threaten Russian security.
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Jan 21, 2022
Rallies get squashed and nearly no lead seems to be safe for the stock market in recent trade.
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Jan 21, 2022
Oil futures fall Friday, down a second session in a row from the more than seven-year highs set earlier in the week, after a rise in U.S. crude inventories and a continued selloff in stocks that weighed on overall sentiment.
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Jan 21, 2022
International Business Machines Corp. will sell assets from its Watson Health business to an investment firm as it continues to refocus its business.
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Jan 21, 2022
The Dry January movement and dire health warnings about alcohol could be cutting into sales, and the COVID surge is already hurting bars and restaurants
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Jan 21, 2022
Gold futures trade lower Friday, heading for its second straight decline but that belies the weekly updraft that has taken bullion toward a strong week.
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Jan 21, 2022
U.S. stock futures point south on Friday, following a whipsaw session that saw the Nasdaq push further into correction territory.
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Jan 21, 2022
Tesla Inc. is scheduled to report fourth-quarter earnings next Wednesday, as investors expect a return of Chief Executive Elon Musk to the post-results call and brace for what could be worrying news for the Cybertruck and supply-chain snags.
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Jan 21, 2022
Morgan Stanley shares are up for their second straight day after the company beat profit targets and issued guidance on client asset growth and ROTCE
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Jan 21, 2022
Oil futures fell Friday, pulling back from seven-year highs set earlier in the week after a rise in U.S. crude inventories and a continued selloff in stocks that weighed on overall sentiment.
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Jan 21, 2022
Microsoft Corp.'s head of Xbox addressed fears late Thursday that the company will shut out competing consoles from Activision Blizzard Inc.'s flagship "Call of Duty" franchise.
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Jan 21, 2022
Thanks to explosive EV demand, and constrained supplies, lithium prices are surging.
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Jan 21, 2022
U.S. stock futures point south on Friday, following a whipsaw session that saw the Nasdaq push further into correction territory.
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Jan 21, 2022
Intel Corp. announced on Friday plans to invest more than $20 billion to build the world's largest chip-manufacturing site in Ohio as part of is effort to reduce supply-chain problems and boost critical American industry.
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Jan 21, 2022
Have a question about your own retirement savings? Email us at HelpMeRetire@marketwatch.com
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Jan 21, 2022
Cryptocurrency prices tumbled Thursday night, with bitcoin hitting its lowest price since last August.
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Jan 21, 2022
People can use telematics for good or bad. But where your teen driver is concerned, it can be a valuable tool for monitoring driving habits and behavior.
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Jan 21, 2022
We compared several hotel rewards programs to find the ones that offer the best — and worst—value.
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Jan 21, 2022
Everyone who sets out to start their own business will experience those times when success does not look possible—here's how to keep your grit.
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Jan 21, 2022
Investors tracked losses across Asia and Wall Street, which suffered a late selloff, led by tech.
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Jan 21, 2022
The regulator's move followed several earlier tightening measures targeting the ride-hailing and cargo-delivery market, including rules to cap commission rates and strengthen driver welfare.
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Jan 21, 2022
Time on Thursday night reported the chip maker plans to commit $20 billion to build at least two chip fabrication plants at a 1,000-acre site in New Albany, Ohio, outside Columbus.
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Jan 21, 2022
‘He thinks that because he is the working spouse, and has made all the money over the years, he should own 100% of his share of the business.'
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Jan 21, 2022
Cryptocurrency prices tumbled Thursday night, with bitcoin hitting its lowest price since last August.
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Jan 20, 2022
In a reversal from previous comments, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she was open to banning stock trades by members of Congress.
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Jan 20, 2022
'He only lived in the house for the first four years.'
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Jan 20, 2022
The streaming giant Netflix Inc. is maturing, and the company appears to be finally recognizing that fact.
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Jan 20, 2022
Peloton Interactive Inc. shares bounced back in after-hours trading Thursday, after Chief Executive John Foley combatted media reports claiming a production halt and layoffs.
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Jan 20, 2022
British consumers turned more pessimistic in January as the spread of the COVID-19 omicron variant and high inflation weighed on households' outlook of the economy and spending plans, according to a survey by the research firm GfK.
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Jan 20, 2022
The U.S. is approaching the end of a 'superbubble,' potentially leading to the largest markdown of wealth in its history when pessimism returns to rule markets, according to legendary investor Jeremy Grantham.
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Jan 20, 2022
There's good debt and bad debt, and calculations to make before retiring with either
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