In March, Rohit Chopra was invited to give a virtual speech at the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school known for churning out finance-minded graduates who fill the rosters of Wall Street ...
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45Q Tax Credit Boosts Values Of Carbon Sequestration Projects, Yet Most Still In Development
Approximately half of the Inflation Reduction Act’s budget ($369 billion) has been authorized for spending on energy and climate change. One of the components buried in that act was the supercharging ...
Sell These 3 Tech Stocks Because PC Demand Is Tumbling, Morgan Stanley Says
Falling demand for computers and electronics has made a Morgan Stanley analyst more pessimistic on three PC-related stocks. On Friday, Morgan Stanley analyst Erik Woodring reiterated his Underweight/S...
Higher Rates Hammer Home Buyers—and Make Mortgage REITs Lucrative for Investors
It’s instructive and often amusing to see how the popular media cover economic and financial news. You can get a handle on the public’s sentiment from how they treat those topics, which usually varies...
These are the $30,000 questions you need to ask yourself if you want to get richer, says personal finance guru Ramit Sethi (and psst: pros say he’s got a point)
When it comes to building wealth, entrepreneur Ramit Sethi says it’s important to focus on the bigger picture. Getty Images No, it’s not about the latte — well, at least according to Ramit Sethi, entr...
PayPal earnings forecast heads higher, but revenue outlook sends the stock lower yet again
PayPal Holdings Inc.’s cost-savings story began to play out in the latest quarter, but that wasn’t enough to satisfy investors as the digital payments giant also cut its revenue forecast for the full ...
How your credit score affects the cost to finance a car
Tim Boyle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Although prices for new cars are moderating a bit, financing a vehicle purchase hasn’t been getting any cheaper. With the Federal Reserve’s latest inte...
‘This has gone on too long’: The bank paid itself $18,000 in fees. My late father’s trust has not been distributed. What recourse do I have?
My father’s father set up a trust at a major bank with my father and the bank’s trust department as co-trustees. My father died at the end of last year; upon his death, the trust was supposed to be di...
More than 1 in 4 workers making $200K or more now say they live paycheck to paycheck. So even rich people are struggling to save, and pros offer 3 solutions
As many as 93% of rural and 92% of urban consumers say they’re noticing higher prices due to rising inflation, according to a report. Getty Images/iStockphoto Making bank doesn’t mean you have loot sa...
After her accountants pulled her aside, supermodel Tyra Banks — worth an estimated $90 million — realized she was doing this money move ‘to a fault.’ Ironically, some pros say it’s a mistake you should make too
Tyra Banks Getty Images for TIME Tyra Banks is worth an estimated $90 million, according to CelebrityNetWorth.com, but the supermodel and businesswoman, who grew up pinching pennies, admitted to Money...
PayPal Reports Earnings Today. What to Expect.
PayPal may be in the midst of a turnaround but Wall Street still expects the payments company to post a sharp drop in earnings when it reports third-quarter financial results after the bell Thursday. ...
Fed approves another jumbo interest-rate hike but also signals go-slower strategy
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday approved the fourth straight jumbo increase in a key U.S. interest rate and signaled rates are likely to go higher than previously forecast. Yet the central bank also ...
‘Am I being ripped off?’ I moved into my husband’s home. I pay for groceries. The rental income from my apartment goes into our joint savings.
I read one of your previous columns regarding the boyfriend who wants the letter writer to move in. My case is similar, but we have already made a decision on how to structure our finances as they rel...
SoFi Stock Leaps on Narrower-Than-Expected Loss and Revenue Beat
SoFi Technologies was surging after posting a narrower-than-expected third-quarter loss and revenue that exceeded forecasts. SoFi (ticker: SOFI), the financial-technology company, reported third-quar...
Suze Orman says there is ‘no substitute’ for making this simple money move — and it’s now more lucrative than it has been in over a decade
Suze Orman Anna Webber/Getty Images For financial guru and best-selling author Suze Orman, savings is not only essential, it can help you “sleep better” and “live a better life.” (And thankfully, some...
PayPal’s ‘once beloved story’ is ‘back in vogue’ despite some noise
Headed into PayPal’s third-quarter earnings report, there’s a lot of noise. The company faced backlash in early October for a policy change stating that users could be fined up to $2,500 for spreading...
U.S. Treasury sweetens the pot on I-bonds by adding a fixed rate
After record-breaking sales of I-bonds in October, the U.S. Treasury is dangling another good deal in front of savers for the next six months. Starting Nov. 2, when I-bonds will be available again af...
Opinion: Oil companies can’t just ‘drill baby drill’ at will. Here’s what it really takes to ramp up energy production.
As energy prices rage, President Biden and Republicans have urged companies to increase drilling to lower oil and gasoline prices from 14-year highs. But it’s not that simple. Even after permits are a...
SoFi stock rockets as earnings deemed ‘outstanding’
Shares of SoFi Technologies Inc. were flying higher in premarket trading Tuesday after the financial-technology company posted results that were dubbed “outstanding” by one analyst. Though the company...
Americans are running towards the safety of cash — but here are 3 ways they could screw that all up, pros say
Mistakes Americans may be making with their savings Getty Images With markets down and a potential recession looming, investors are running for the safety of cold, hard cash. Indeed, they’ve sidelined...
Mortgage Giant Rocket Plunges Back to Earth, Hit by Rising Rates
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Credit Card Loans Back To 2019
Credit cards, the common purchasing tool getty Per The Wall Street Journal (Oct. 29-30): “Credit-card debt recently reached a new milestone: It returned to where it was before the pandemic.̶...
40% of households will pay no federal income tax this year. Why that’s good news.
Millions of workers are bouncing back — and making enough money to pay Uncle Sam. Some 72.5 million households or 40% of households will pay no federal income tax this year, down from the pre-pandemic...
When retirement is a month away, here’s what you need to do
When retirement is coming up close—and you have that exciting date in mind—make sure you have everything organized to make it a seamless, enjoyable transition. Retirement Tip of the Week: Before you ...
If I sell my rental I can pay off my primary mortgage and be debt-free. Is that a good idea in this housing market?
Dear MarketWatch, I have a rental property that’s worth $175,000, and I owe $53,000. My primary home is worth $265,000 and has $108,000 left on the mortgage. My question is this: Should I sell my ren...