Market sentiment changes awfully fast these days. Rising concerns about the impact of interest-rate hikes pushed the S&P 500 down more than 5% in January (with the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Inde...
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Uber Says Ebitda Could Hit $5 Billion. Stock Drops After Halt Is Lifted.
Text size Uber’s latest forecast was in line with what Wall Street had expected/ Alastair Pike / AFP via Getty Images Uber expects to expand its gross bookings by between 22% and 25% a year thro...
Opinion: How to profit from your losses on those ‘Cathie Wood’ stocks
Americans have lost billions of dollars from their retirement funds in the past year as some of the most popular recent investments have come crashing down to earth. As our chart above shows, many of ...
‘I don’t know if it’s worth dealing with tenants’: Should I convert my home into a rental, or sell it?
I have enough money to put down on a second home — I need a slightly bigger place and another bedroom. I currently live in Portland, Ore., but I am planning to move outside of Portland. However, I’m c...
Tesla Finally Gets a Mention as Biden Talks Up Electric Vehicles
Text size President Joe Biden spoke in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images President Joe Biden just publicly said the T-word— Tesla —seeming to extend an olive branch to ...
I took out student loans for my now-imprisoned son. I owe $50K. Please help.
From student loan forgiveness to refinancing, some options to consider. Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: I just turned 60 and will probably have to work 20 more years. I currently owe about $50,000 ...
5 popular financial rules you might want to ditch
Traditional financial advice like the kind you got from your parents is often true but even experienced investors might rely on maxims that are outdated and no longer serving your financial well-being...
These end-of-life planning forms will save your family a lot of heartache, the trouble with Alaska’s oil fund and more retirement news
From MarketWatch: Opinion: Big money trouble with Alaska’s $80 billion oil fund: A major political row has broken out at Alaska’s Permanent Fund, the state’s giant $82 billion oil fund, where the firi...
Opinion: Should you add residential real estate to your retirement portfolio?
Is there a way to invest in residential real estate as an asset class? It’s a timely question since, as I pointed out last week, residential real estate can play an important role in reducing the prob...
Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities: What Investors Should Know About TIPS
TIPS have suddenly moved to center stage for investors, as the surge in inflation has drawn new interest in Treasury inflation-protected securities. But how much do investors really know about these s...
The next ‘pain trade’ could be on the horizon as investors crowd into bets pegged to Fed monetary policy
Investors may be set up for the next so-called “pain” trade, with market participants increasingly coalescing around expectations that Federal Reserve needs to act aggressively to combat persistent U....
Nearly two years into the pandemic, Uber and Lyft still looking for a consistent lane
Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the ride-hailing industry is still seeking stability. Uber Technologies Inc. UBER, +7.27% and Lyft Inc. LYFT, +3.63% are scheduled to release fourth-quarte...
Tax season: does the IRS know if you trade crypto? Is your NFT sale or mining income taxable?
Hello! Welcome back to Distributed Ledger, our weekly crypto newsletter that reaches your inbox every Thursday. I’m Frances Yue, crypto reporter at MarketWatch. It is tax season in the U.S., and I’ll ...
Wells Fargo Won an Investor Dispute. Judge Says It Gamed the System.
In 2017, Brian Leggett, a Wells Fargo customer, filed an arbitration claim against the bank and one of its financial advisors, accusing them of negligence and breach of fiduciary duty in how they hand...
Forget About Inflation. Contrarians Expect a Recession and a Drop in Bond Yields.
“Something that everyone knows isn’t worth knowing,” as the famed financier Bernard Baruch once observed. And so I was reminded by a long discourse in the New York Times this past week on why bond yie...
‘My husband refuses to pay my student loans.’ Is there some loophole to get him to pay?
How can you get out of student loan debt faster? Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: I am married but unemployed, and my husband refuses to pay my student loans, which I had before we were dating. Do I...
Opinion: Amid a global chip shortage, Intel is making less money — how did that happen?
Intel INTC, -2.48% was the world’s largest chipmaker until 2021, when it was dethroned by Samsung. Though Samsung’s main business is memory chips, which is a different segment of the market to Intel’s...
Apple, Not Amazon, Should Buy Peloton. One Analyst Explains Why.
Text size (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images) It’s been reported that Amazon.com and Nike are weighing bids for Peloton Interactive . One analyst said he’s be surprised if Apple also wasn’t in t...