OMAHA, Neb. — Billionaire investor Warren Buffett broke with his practice of staying out of local politics to urge his hometown of Omaha to abandon its planned streetcar project because he says it’s t...
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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...
The White House embraced debt forgiveness in 2022. Here’s what student-loan borrowers can expect in 2023.
This was the year the White House embraced the idea of mass student-loan forgiveness, but 2023 will likely be the year when borrowers will find out whether the policy will actually impact their wallet...
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...
Lucid Stock Fell to New Low Despite $1 Billion Saudi Investment
Lucid Group stock continued to slide this week, despite a recent additional investment in the embattled electric-vehicle maker by Public Investment Fund, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign-wealth fund, of nearl...
Bitcoin Price Targets for 2023 Are in—and They Are Grim. Brace for a 50% Fall.
How low will Bitcoin go? After an abysmal year, analysts are making their best guesses for where the largest cryptocurrency is headed in 2023—and the price targets are mostly grim. Digital assets have...
Workers and retirees are getting some year-end goodies from Washington
America’s workers and retirees are getting some nice year-end gifts from Washington. As part of a bigger bill to keep the government running, Congress has passed, and President Biden has signed, somet...
5 things not to buy in 2023
It’s been a year of contradictions. The recession drum beats on, interest rates are rising, and the stock market has taken a tumble, and yet retail sales have risen 6.5% in the last 12 months, trailin...
With this simple year-end change to your retirement accounts, you can reap significant tax rewards
If you are a middle-income earner, you may be in a much better position tax-wise than you realize. That’s good news: You may be able to take advantage of that better position to strengthen your retire...
3 Bitcoin Predictions for 2023 From a Crypto Executive Who Called the Market Top
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are limping out of a historically bad year, but it’s not all doom and gloom for 2023, according to one crypto executive who pretty much called the late-2021 market t...
Car repos are on the rise, thanks to record-high monthly payments, recession warnings
Car repossessions have grown less common in the past two years, but those days may be over. Credit rating agency Fitch Ratings says repossession rates have nearly returned to pre-pandemic levels. Some...
Here’s What a $1 Million Retirement Looks Like in America
Once a symbol of extravagant wealth, $1 million is now the retirement-savings goal for millions of Americans. For retirees able to accumulate $1 million in savings, the funds translate into inflation-...
This Giant Oil ETF Is Seeing Phenomenal Returns. Why It’s Far Outpacing the Price of Oil.
Shares of the United States Oil Fund surged last week, capping a phenomenal run in recent weeks that far outpaced meager gains in the price of oil. USO (ticker: USO), which holds over $2 billion in as...
U.S. stock futures rise ahead of last trading week of 2022
U.S. stock futures rose Monday night, ahead of the final trading week of 2022. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, +0.49% gained nearly 200 points, or 0.6%, as of 9:45 p.m. Eastern. S&P 500...
Are high-deductible health plans worth it? Here’s who can benefit the most.
Hello and welcome to Financial Face-off, a MarketWatch column where we help you weigh financial decisions. Our columnist will give her verdict. Tell us whether you think she’s right in the comments. A...
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...
AllianceBernstein Executive Helps Chart Firm’s Course Overseeing Finances and Operations
AllianceBernstein Holding LP’s Kate Burke is part of a growing group of executives who lead not only their companies’ finances, but also operations, a trend that comes as firms look to retain top tale...
If You Own Bonds, Consider Tax-Loss Harvesting This Year
In a year where nothing seemed to work on Wall Street, investors still have a rare opportunity to make the best of a bad situation by tax-loss harvesting their bond portfolio. Bond holders don’t do m...
Opinion: Opinion: FTX was a warning. We must plug the other holes in the Swiss cheese.
FTX’s unraveling should not have come as any great surprise. When an unregulated market like crypto is opened to financial novices, mistakes are bound to be made and fraudsters are sure to take advant...
These money and investing tips can help give your portfolio a holiday makeover
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D.C. spending deal sets way for employers to help workers build cash savings
As people watch their savings sink under inflation’s pressure, one provision in the congressional year-end spending deal aims to make it easier for workers to save money for life’s unexpected expenses...
Stock Selloff Hits Life Insurers’ Fastest-Growing Product
Listen to article (2 minutes) The hottest thing in life insurance for more than a decade might be cooling off. A long-running stock-market rally and low interest rates combined to create the perfect c...
Buy now pay later vs. credit cards — which one is better for you?
Hello and welcome to Financial Face-off, a MarketWatch column where we help you weigh financial decisions. Our columnist will give her verdict. Tell us whether you think she’s right in the comments. A...
Opinion: The stock market is range-bound over the short term. Don’t expect that to last long.
The U.S. stock market, as measured by the S&P 500 Index SPX, +1.75%, has struggled this week overall, during what is typically a seasonally bullish period. That is what Yale Hirsch termed “the San...