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CEO Pay Packages Rose to Median $14.7 Million in 2021, a New High
The median pay package for chief executives of the biggest U.S. companies reached $14.7 million in 2021, setting a sixth-straight annual record as strong profits and robust markets boosted performance...
Empty-Nesters Aren’t Saving for Retirement Like They Promised. That’s a Problem.
Currently, a person 50 or older can stash as much as $27,000 a year into a 401(k) and $7,000 into an IRA or Roth IRA. Photo illustration by Barron’s staff; (reference) Dreamstime (4) Text size ...
3 economists predict when competition in the housing market will decline
When will you see competition decrease in the housing market? Getty Images Mortgage rates on 30-year fixed rate loans have climbed from about 3.5% earlier this year to upwards of 5.6%, and pros say th...
Soros fund doubles down on Rivian bet, buys stakes in Lucid, Nio
Billionaire George Soros’s investment fund has doubled down on its bet on Rivian Automotive Inc. and taken new positions on EV makers Nio Inc. and Lucid Motors Inc., according to a filing late Friday....
This portfolio manager’s strategy uses just one ETF and his own ‘crash indicator’ to beat the market by 530%
Markets are off to a stronger start on Friday, but it’s been a rough few days, with the S&P 500 facing a six-week losing streak, its longest in a decade. With a war raging in Europe, surging price...
The beginning of the end of the stock market’s correction could be near
The end of the U.S. stock market’s correction is looking a lot closer. That’s the conclusion of a contrarian analysis of market timer sentiment. It’s encouraging, from a contrarian perspective, that t...
‘It’s unlikely home prices will plummet.’ 5 pros predict home prices in 2022
Will home prices fall? Getty Images Gone are the uber-low mortgage rates of 2021. Indeed, average 30-year-fixed mortgage rates have risen from roughly 3.5% to about 5.6% this year, and pros say they e...
‘Rebalancing during this pullback is a great idea’: 6 questions to ask your financial adviser right now as stocks continue to tumble
First, consider this general guide on investing: it’s about playing the long game instead of hyperventilating over headlines and doing something drastic, financial advisers say. Now file that statemen...
Feeling seasick? These simple, low-cost retirement portfolios are holding up well
Not everyone is having a terrible year. While stocks and bonds have all plummeted since Jan. 1, a few simple, low-cost, all-weather portfolios are doing a much better job of preserving their owners’ r...
Opinion: Our student-loan system needs fixing — and this change would be smarter than just forgiving debt
Most of the recent discussion of student debt has focused on the prospect of forgiving that debt—telling borrowers that they don’t have to repay the funds the federal government provided to help them ...
Out of 100 housing markets in America, this is the least overpriced, study finds
Baltimore is the least overvalued housing market, new study reveals. Getty Images Housing prices have risen rapidly in the past year, even as mortgage rates are on the rise with pros saying they will ...
We want to retire in a few years, and have about $1 million saved. Should I move my money to a Roth, and pay off my $200,000 mortgage while I’m at it?
Dear MarketWatch, I’m 64 and my husband is 62. We plan to work until he is at least 65, so three or four more years. We have about $1 million total in various accounts, but my own IRA has $400,000 in...
No, the markets are not panicking about inflation
If you’ve turned on a TV, listened to the radio, or surfed internet news sites recently you’ve almost certainly heard that there is a crisis, and a panic, about inflation. You’ve been told it’s the re...
I borrowed $50K for culinary school, but now owe $90K. How do I get out of debt?
How to get out of student loan debt Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: I went to culinary school where I received a bachelor’s degree in culinary management. At the time in 2007, I didn’t know it woul...
Russia Is Likely to Default on Its Debt Soon. What That Means for Markets.
Text size Spires of St Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow’s Red Square. Cameron Spencer/Getty Images About the author: David Beers is a senior fellow at the Center for Financial Stability, a NY-b...
GoodRx Beat Quartely Estimates. Here’s Why the Stock Is Falling.
Text size GoodRx had a strong first quarter but effectively removed 2022 guidance. Piksel/Dreamstime News that a large grocer is no longer accepting GoodRx’s pharmacy discount cards has wrecked the st...
We have $5 million in savings and earn nearly $7,000 a month. Should we spend over $2.1 million to build our dream home?
We are thinking about building a modern home on 26 acres in the Texas Hill Country. We would pay cash; the estimated costs to build excluding the land is $2.1 million. Including land, it would be clos...
Stocks are falling fast but that doesn’t mean the worst will be over soon
Bear markets that begin with big losses in their first four months last about as long as those that do not. That’s worth pointing out because, after hitting all-time highs on the first trading day of ...
Novavax posts first quarterly profit, but misses expectations
Shares of Novavax Inc. dropped more than 6% in the extended session Monday after the biotech company reported its first profitable quarter, but not by as much as Wall Street expected, and its sales we...
‘We do not plan on getting married’: I’m moving into my boyfriend’s home. He bought it a year ago and paid off 25% of his mortgage. How do I get a stake in his home that’s fair to both of us?
My boyfriend and I would like to move in together in the next year or so. He bought his house about a year ago, and he has paid off about 25% of it. We both would like for me to gradually become a par...
Mark Cuban: ‘Crypto is going through the lull that the internet went through’
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban thinks that cryptocurrency is on the same downswing that tech and internet companies hit in the early 2000s. Bitcoin hit a 10-month low as U,S. stocks continued to ...
This idiot-proof portfolio has beaten traditional stocks and bonds over 50 years
Do you have the right portfolio for your retirement savings? When it comes to long-term investing, the biggest issue — by far — is overall asset allocation: How much to stocks, sectors, assets and so ...