Investment bank Jefferies Group downgraded its rating for Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital Holdings Marathon Digital shares surged by more than 3% at $4.23 in pre-market trading in line with the broade...
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‘It feels like I’m holding two full-time jobs:’ I’m 65, retired and have a $2K pension. I own rental properties, but they’re stressful to maintain. Should I keep them or sell?
Dear MarketWatch, I’m a 65-year-old married man in Southern California. I retired about 5 years ago, and have very little in pension payments of about $2,000 from my old job, without any medical benef...
Why a stock market obsessed with the Fed’s inflation fight should focus on Main Street jobs in 2023
Fortunes on Wall Street this year could hinge less on what’s happening to high-paid workers in San Francisco’s reeling technology sector and more on a familiar part of American life: the working class...
REITs May Feel Sting from Bed Bath & Beyond’s Woes
Bed Bath & Beyond ‘s problems may cause a headache for its landlords. Earlier this week the big box retailer warned there is “substantial doubt” it can continue. That was enough to send Bed Bath &...
6 value stock picks for 2023 from successful money managers
Following a down year for the stock market, there is no shortage of recession predictions for 2023, especially as the Federal Reserve has signaled it will continue to raise interest rates to fight inf...
Cisco layoffs begin with hundreds of job cuts in California and more expected
Cisco Systems Inc. has begun previously announced layoffs, cutting nearly 700 jobs in Silicon Valley last month, according to filings with the state of California this week. Cisco executives announced...
Dow ends down nearly 350 points after jobs data, hawkish Fed comments hammer stocks
U.S. stock indexes ended another choppy session in the red on Thursday as investors digested a fresh batch of labor-market data and hawkish commentary from Federal Reserve officials, while looking ahe...
Investors who did this one thing survived the markets in 2022
Forget inflation. Forget oil prices. Forget Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Forget layoffs in the tech sector. Forget the yield curve. When I sat down to write about what worked for investors in...
This analyst who forecast a double-digit drop in stocks for 2022 now says Jeff Bezos may return to helm Amazon
If Tuesday was any indication of how the market will behave this year, then buckle up, it looks like it will be a wild one. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.21% had a 537-point trading range,...
‘2022 has been the scariest year of my adult and professional life’: One mortgage broker reveals how the housing slowdown upended financial security.
When mortgage rates hit 7% in the fall, Austin-based mortgage broker Aaron Kovac was a little spooked. After a stunning rise in home sales amid ultra-low interest rates, “the market just went absolut...
AMD Stock Should Benefit From Next-Generation Computer Chips
These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the views or rec...
Democrats release six years of Trump’s tax returns, and CPAs have questions: ‘The personal tax return is just the tip of the iceberg.’
The nonpartisan committee’s findings also raised several red flags related to the filings, namely Trump’s carryover losses, loans to his children that may or may not also be considered taxable gifts, ...
Dow up over 350 points, stocks rebound after jobless claims data deemed ‘welcome news for the Fed’
U.S. stocks advanced on Thursday afternoon, erasing losses from earlier in the week during the second-to-last trading session of the year. The main indexes built on premarket gains after U.S. weekly j...
GE Healthcare will join S&P 500 as soon as it begins trading
GE Healthcare Technologies Inc. will be an S&P 500 stock as soon as it officially exists. General Electric Co. GE, -1.05% expects to spin off its healthcare arm into a separately traded company on...
National Storage Sees Big Insider Stock Buys
Shares of self-storage firm National Storage Affiliates Trust have tumbled in 2022, and are now trading near a two-year low. Two insiders, including a company founder, purchased large amounts of stock...
10 ways American finances actually improved in 2022, despite high interest rates and a slump in stocks
Many Americans are ending the year feeling gloomy about their finances, and you don’t need to be a psychiatrist to figure out why. Runaway inflation gnawed through household budgets as prices soared o...
Mining Industry Boosts Third Quarter Economic Growth In Several States
Two workers with helmet and protective suit using drill-machines in an underground enviroment getty Many economists are predicting a recession in 2023 due to the Fed’s rate hikes to slow inflation, le...
These 15 Dividend Aristocrat stocks have been the best income builders
The S&P Dividend Aristocrats deserve more coverage. Those are companies that have raised their dividend payouts consistently over the years — they’re dividend royalty, as it were. As a group, they...