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She’s one of the youngest billionaires in the world, but still practices this thrifty savings habit ‘all the time’ — and so should you
Particularly as concerns of a recession loom, experts say that saving is essential — even if you don’t have millions. Getty Images At 26 years old, Norwegian heiress Alexandra Andresen is worth an est...
REIT Store Capital agrees to be acquired by GIC and Oak Street in all-cash deal valued at $14 billion
Store Capital Corp. STOR, +19.99%, a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based real estate investment trust, said Thursday it has agreed to be acquired by Singaporean sovereign fund GIC and Oak Street in an all-cash de...
What will people do after getting $10,000 or $20,000 in student debt forgiven? MarketWatch asked readers — here’s the No. 1 answer.
Americans’ student debt loads are poised to lighten up and people are making plans on what’s next for their freed-up cash. Borrowers appear to have two prime targets in mind: getting current on their ...
Tesla spent 864 days as Wall Street’s biggest short bet. Now it’s Apple.
A previous version of this piece incorrectly reported Apple’s and Tesla’s market caps. Apple Inc. is now Wall Street’s biggest short bet, displacing Tesla Inc., which had held the title nonstop since ...
Verizon is ‘not going to throw away money’ to woo consumers with cheaper phones, CEO says
In a competitive market for wireless deals, Verizon Communications Inc.’s chief executive says the company is “not going to throw away money” on promotions. The company recently rolled out its deals f...
Philip Morris raises dividend to boost implied yield to 5.4%
Shares of Philip Morris International Inc. PM, -0.34% tacked on 0.9% in premarket trading Wednesday, after the cigarette and heated-tobacco products company raised its quarterly dividend by 1.6%, to $...
AMTD Digital stock more than triples on no news, and has been halted 11 times for volatility
Shares of AMTD Digital Inc. HKD, +311.78% blasted 241.4% higher in very volatile afternoon trading Wednesday, putting them on track to snap an eight-day losing streak, even as the Hong Kong-based didn...
‘This is never factored into the equation.’ One big thing people forget to consider when thinking about how much they need to retire
I’m sure you’ve pictured it: on the beach mid-weekday, gently lapping waves falling on white sand, sipping an umbrella drink — and you no longer have to check your email, other than to confirm your di...
The next financial crisis may already be brewing, but not where many expect
A growing number of traders, academics, and bond-market gurus are worried that the $24 trillion market for U.S. Treasury debt could be headed for a crisis as the Federal Reserve kicks its “quantitativ...
Even after the market meltdown, investors are still making two implausible assumptions about the next six months, this economist says
Not for the first time, inflation numbers caught the market by surprise. The bad news was the S&P 500 SPX, +0.43% saw the largest one-day decline in two years, slumping 4.2%. The good news if you’...
Walmart and Target among 1,600 merchants calling for credit-card fee law, says WSJ
Merchants such as Target Corp. [s] and Walmart Inc. WMT, +0.09% signed on to a letter asking Congress to pass a law that would require options for the routing of credit-card transactions over alternat...
I have $950,000 invested with a large financial firm, but they are charging me $1,100 a month in management fees. Is this reasonable?
Is your financial planner charging you too much? Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: I am currently a customer with a large bank and have about $950,000 invested in the markets through them. I am being...
IBM transfers $16 billion in pension obligation to Prudential, MetLife
International Business Machines Corp. IBM, -2.61% said late Tuesday it will book a charge of about $5.9 billion in the third quarter to offload pension risk. The Armonk, NY-based tech company said in ...
PayPal is ‘clearly now at a turning point,’ its CEO says
“It’s an uncertain macroeconomic environment, but I think we finally got the guidance right, and we’re executing against that.” — PayPal CEO Dan Schulman Pandemic darling PayPal Holdings Inc. PYPL, -2...
These five stocks in the S&P 500 lost almost half a trillion dollars in value in one day amid widespread wipeout
A decline in gasoline prices couldn’t mask the problem that spooked investors on Sept. 13: Core consumer prices resumed their rapid increase during August. Fear of the Federal Reserve’s ongoing tighte...
The biggest Fed rate hike in 40 years? It could be coming next week.
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and times are, arguably, increasingly desperate. The persistence of high inflation might force the Federal Reserve to resort to the biggest increase in a k...
U.S. inflation roars back in August, CPI shows, despite falling gas prices
The numbers: Falling gas price delivered a second low U.S. inflation reading in a row as the consumer price index rose by just 0.1% in August. But the report also showed inflation has spread more broa...
Any doubt Fed will raise rates by 75 basis points next week is gone after hot U.S. inflation data
Any doubt that the Federal Reserve will raise its its benchmark interest rate by 0.75 percentage point next week is gone, economists said, following the hot U.S. consumer price inflation data for Augu...
Gen Z trusts this man more than Warren Buffett for financial advice — and he says this is the single best habit to adopt if you want to save money
Humphrey Yang Uncredited When asked which social media financial influencers they follow and trust, more Baby Boomers and Gen Xers chose Warren Buffett than anyone else. But for Gen Z, he only came in...
This superbull at JPMorgan who called the summer rally sees a soft landing ahead. Here’s his advice on stocks and oil.
A fifth-straight win was taken off the table after August CPI numbers surprised on the upside. And it looks like there’s nothing to sway the Fed from a 75-basis-point hike this month. Still, when it d...
Lumen Technologies CEO Jeff Storey to step down, to be succeeded by Kate Johnson from Microsoft
This replaces an earlier item that incorrectly spelled the CEO name in the headling. It has been corrected Lumen Technologies Inc. LUMN, +1.00% said Tuesday Chief Executive Jeff Storey will step down ...
AT&T CEO says Wall Street critics are wrong about the company’s promotions
““We are actually gaining customers in a lot of different places and a lot of different ways, and there isn’t any single answer to it. And I know folks want to continue to go back and say, well, it’s...
Most investors think the next big move for the S&P 500 will involve a near 20% drop, says Deutsche Bank survey
Last week’s first gain in four for stocks has likely emboldened some bulls out there, but investor wariness remains, according to a new survey from Deutsche Bank. Observe the chart below that shows ho...
Rivian’s Mercedes partnership an important international win for the EV maker, say analysts
Rivian Automotive’s recently announced partnership with Mercedes-Benz Group spells good news for the electric vehicle maker, according to analysts. Last week Rivian Automotive Inc. RIVN, +0.89% and Me...
Another sign of a looming recession? Americans’ ‘financial health’ fell for the first time in five years
Are you late paying for your utilities? Do you have enough set aside for a rainy day? Less than one-third (31%) of Americans are “financially healthy” in 2022, down 3% from a year ago, according to th...
When can I apply for student loan cancellation? How much will I get? Here are answers to some of the big questions.
President Biden’s highly anticipated federal student loan cancellation announcement last month created as many questions as it answered, prompting at least one major loan servicer’s website to crash a...
These 20 stocks have short interest of 19% or more, and AMC and GameStop are not even in the top half
Short selling is a trading technique that gets especially popular during bear markets in stocks. Short selling — or betting on a decline in prices — can come to the fore if investors suspect a company...