This is the fourth and final installment for my series on the Health Affairs Council on Health Care Spending and Value’s February 2023 report, “A Road Map for Action.” Each piece details one of the fo...
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GE stock jumps toward near 2-year high after affirming 2023 outlook at investor gathering
Shares of General Electric Co. GE, +7.55% rallied 2.6% toward a near two-year high in premarket trading Thursday, after the aerospace, power and renewable energy company affirmed its full-year guidanc...
‘When we retire, we lose a lot.’ How to avoid retirement shock.
When I found myself unexpectedly packaged off by the bank, I was initially very happy. I was planning to leave anyway because the stress was getting to me. When the bank gave me a severance check at a...
Part III – Spending Growth Targets
This is the third in a four-part series on the Health Affairs Council on Health Care Spending and Value’s newly released report, “A Road Map for Action.” Each piece details one of the four priority ar...
How can I save my long-term care insurance after a premium hike?
I am 78 years old and have been a long-term care policyholder for approximately 20 years. My premiums started around $1,500 per year. The annual rate was scheduled to increase every five years. By the...
At 55 years old, I will have worked for 30 years — what are the pros and cons of retiring at that age?
Dear MarketWatch, I currently own one home, no mortgage with rental income. I own another home that will be paid off the year I turn 55. Both valued at $750,000. I have a 401(k) and other stocks and...
Part I – Administrative Waste And Inefficiencies
This is the first in a four-part series on the Health Affairs Council on Health Care Spending and Value’s newly released report, “A Road Map for Action.” Each piece will detail one of the four priorit...
The hunt for stocks with rising dividends: These fund managers have a strategy to keep your payouts growing
The broad stock-market rally so far in 2023 might make it easy to forget what a rough ride investors faced last year. It was a time when some active strategies focused on dividends, good cash-flow tre...
Washington’s Public Option Is Nothing To Cheer About
“Washington’s failures should rid them of the notion that a government-run health insurance option … [+] could work on a national scale,” writes Sally Pipes. getty When Washing...
AI is dominating the action in the stock market right now
OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, is receiving billions of dollars in funding from Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -0.20%. The rollout of this new technology has been followed by similar efforts by Alphabet Inc...
Older workers are fooling themselves when it comes to work, money and caregiving
Denial runs deep when it comes to money and retirement. Older adults are working longer, but at first blush they contend they are working because they want to. Only when pressed do they admit they nee...
Cigna stock bounces after profit tops expectations, while revenue comes up shy
Shares of Cigna Corp. CI, -3.75% bounced 1.1% in premarket trading Friday, after closing the previous session at a 3 1/2-month low, after the health insurer reported fourth-quarter profit that topped ...
Cathie Wood Watch: Ark Snaps Up Teladoc and Roku
Famed money manager Cathie Wood over the past few weeks has been buying and selling some of her favorite names in a stream of trading. And the Ark Investment Management chief executive was at it again...
‘My stepmother has been less than ethical’: I suspect my stepmom removed me as beneficiary from my late father’s life-insurance policy. What can I do?
Dear Quentin, My dad passed away in March 2019. My stepmom told me I had an inheritance from my dad. She ceased communication with me after my dad passed away. I reached out to the Department of Fina...
These 2 dividend-stock ETFs are more like growth funds in disguise. Can either still work in your income portfolio?
Quality-stock and dividend-focused strategies shined during the market declines of 2022, rebounding from what investors may have found to be disappointing performance during the previous long bull mar...
GE HealthCare stock rises after reporting first results after GE spinoff, with revenue rising 8% but profit slipping
Shares of GE HealthCare GEHC, rose 1.3% in premarket trading Monday, reversing an earlier loss, after the medical technology and pharmaceutical diagnostics company reported its first results as a publ...
This 72-year-old is hoping to fund her retirement on GoFundMe
GoFundMe campaigns have been raising piles of cash for older Walmart workers who want to retire — but the heartwarming stories about sudden windfalls mask a dark reality about economic security and gr...
Cathie Wood: Ark Continues Exact Sciences Dump
Famed investor Cathie Wood, chief executive of Ark Investment Management, keeps unloading what was the No. 1 holding in Ark’s flagship fund. Ark funds sold 683,698 shares of Exact Sciences (EXAS) ...
Cathie Wood Watch: Ark Unloads Some of a Favorite
Famed investor Cathie Wood, chief executive of Ark Investment Management, unloaded one of her favorite stocks Jan. 23, perhaps trying to take advantage of its recent rebound. Ark funds dumped 175,491 ...
GE stock falls after earnings, FCF beat expectations but outlook was downbeat
Shares of General Electric Co. GE, +2.69% fell 2.2% in premarket trading Friday, after the industrial conglomerate reported fourth-quarter profit, revenue and free cash flow (FCF) that beat expectatio...
Popular Coca-Cola Brand May Have Toxic Chemicals
Nothing will ruin a company’s positive marketing flow like allegations of toxic chemicals or other health hazards. Iit happened, most recently, when an environmental health watchdog group sent a...
Retirement may be bad for your brain. Is working longer the solution?
When we retire from our jobs we may be giving up more than staff meetings, desk lunches and a paycheck. The social interaction and mental challenges found through work can be good for our mental healt...
The 1980s was the blueprint for the upcoming disinflation cycle and these are the stocks for it, strategists say
Stocks logged a third-straight losing session on Thursday as investors continue to deal with a mixed bag of economic data. That followed Wednesday’s session and extremely weak industrial production th...
SmileDirectClub stock rallies on cost cuts, workforce ‘realignment’
Shares of SmileDirectClub Inc. rallied after hours on Tuesday after the oral-care company said it planned a round of cost cuts and a “realignment” of its workforce — even as its sales forecasts came u...
GE HealthCare, in first deal after spinoff, set to buy French company
GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. GEHC, -1.44% late Monday said it has agreed to buy French tomography company IMACTIS for an undisclosed amount. IMACTIS’s system is designed to increase the procedure’s...
CVS eyes next-generation health clinics after Amazon’s move for One Medical
CVS Health Corp. is investing in a young chain of health clinics, and may be looking to acquire another. CVS CVS, -0.12% invested $100 million in a Carbon Health Inc., a San Francisco-based chain of u...
‘I’m not at rock bottom yet’: I have a serious gambling addiction. I’ve maxed out my credit cards and racked up $100K in debt. Can you help?
I’ve gotten to a point where I need serious help for my gambling addiction, though I’m not at rock bottom yet. I am a journeyman-level employee with about 20 years’ experience at my current job. I am ...