Mavia joins Machinations’ Health Monitoring Service 

Blockchain-based P2E MMO strategy game Heroes of Mavia, developed by Skrice Studios, joined Machinations’ Game Economy Health Monitoring Service to help create a sustainable and healthy in-game econom...

What to Know About the Boeing 737 Crash in China

Text size Rescuers head to the site of a plane crash in southern China on March 22, 2022. STR/AFP via Getty Images A Boeing 737-800 carrying 132 passengers and crew members crashed in southern China o...

Catherine Faddis reveals her top health technology stock

Looming recession and the Ukraine war; there’s sufficient at present that could scare investors out of the stock market. Still, Grace Capital’s Catherine Faddis remains bullish on U.S. equ...

Philips Is Betting Big On Digital Health

Earlier this month at the famous Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) health conference, global technology leader Philips highlighted its continued commitment to healthcare in...

The New Nootropic Gummy Sparking Joy And Changing The Conversation Around Mental Health

Trina Chan, cofounder of No. 8, Photo Credit: Anna-Alexia Basile Photo Credit: Anna-Alexia Basile No. 8 is not your typical vitamin — in fact, it stands in a category all its own. An entirely new cate...

Maverick Ventures’ Ambar Bhattacharyya on the future of health care

Ambar Bhattacharyya, managing director at Maverick Ventures Maverick Ventures Ambar Bhattacharyya is managing director at Maverick Ventures, a $400 million venture capital fund based in San Francisco ...

Dow ends 200 points lower after Fed’s Powell leaves door open to larger rate hikes

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell Samuel Corum/Getty Images Stocks fell Monday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell left the door open to the prospect of bigger rate hikes to bring down i...

Equifax, TransUnion and Experian will soon stop counting medical debt in credit reports — now, for the bad news

The nation’s three major credit bureaus say they are overhauling how they include medical debt in a consumer’s credit history. The agencies said the removal will result in nearly 70% of the medical de...

Investors see growth opportunity in Femtech devoted to women’s health

To Dr. Connie Lehman, a breast cancer scan is like a fingerprint that provides clues for developing personalized medical care.     “There is so much information in every digital image of a woman...

Mainland China Reports First Coronavirus Deaths in More Than a Year as Omicron Spreads

HONG KONG—China reported its first deaths from Covid-19 in the mainland in more than a year as the country battles a surge of Omicron infections across the country. Two patients died of Covid-19 in th...

Older Americans, Flush With Housing and Stock Portfolio Wealth, Poised to Revive Spending This Year

Covid-19 kept many older Americans on the sidelines of the recovery in consumer spending as they held back from in-person services like dining and travel. But their spending is picking up as the Omicr...

Health experts predict uptick in U.S. Covid cases due to new BA.2 variant

Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Chief Medical Advisor and Director of the NIAID, responds to questions from Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) at a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on...

Will the Fed rate increase mean higher interest on your savings and not using your travel card rewards may not be such a bad thing

Hi, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories. Weekend reads: There’s a recession warning as the Federal Reserve fights inflation Also, value stocks, the wild market for crude oil and a U.S. compan...

China Made Pro-Market Promises. Here’s What Analysts Are Saying.

Text size Workers at a construction site in Hong Kong on March 18, 2022. Isaac Lawrence/AFP via Getty Images Headwinds had battered Chinese markets for months—Covid-19 outbreaks, U.S. delisting concer...

The S&P Experienced a Death Cross. Here’s the Bright Side.

Illustration by Elias Stein Text size The S&P 500 has performed poorly this year, down about 6.4%. This past Monday, it got scary in a Harry Potter sort of way: The benchmark experienced a death c...

France is considering raising its retirement age to 65

French workers may see their legal retirement age jump from 62 to 65 if President Emmanuel Macron gets his way.  Macron, who is running for reelection, said the move is a natural progression. “We are ...

Real health benefits will come when medicine and the Metaverse collide

The world is becoming more connected as cryptocurrency, blockchain, nonfungible token projects, the Metaverse and other online communities gain popularity. However, we’re also seeing rates of depressi...

Hims & Hers Health is not a buy

Hims & Hers Health Inc: “Hims & Hers lose money … I’m not recommending stocks that are losing a lot of money.” DraftKings Inc: “[Kynikos Associates founder] Jim C...

My wife and I are in our 50s with $300,000 in a 401(k) and $700,000 in a pension. I can’t work much longer and am ‘embarrassed’ we didn’t prepare better. Will we be able to ‘live a simple life’ in retirement?

I’m 53 years old, a registered nurse and planning to retire at 58. I am married, my wife is two years older than I am and she plans to retire at 62. We have a good marriage and friendship. We have thr...

Chris Cuomo Demands at Least $125 Million in Arbitration With CNN

Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo is seeking at least $125 million from his old employer, claiming the network wrongfully terminated him and smeared his journalistic integrity in the process. Mr. Cuomo co...

Why U.S. bridges are in such bad shape

America’s bridges are in rough shape. More than a third of the nation’s bridges are in need of repair, and over 43,000 are in poor condition and classified as “structurally deficient...

Chopra Foundation releases token to support mental health

The Chopra Foundation’s project NeverAlone, which aims to supporting mental and emotional health and wellbeing worldwide, is launching an eponymous token in partnership with EarthFund, Invezz learned ...

Remember the stock market before the war in Ukraine? JP Morgan says negativity is overblown, offers 4 hedges

“Markets appear to have been trafficking in an odd mix of hope, fear and uncertainty.” That was Mizuho Bank, summing up the state of play for markets since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nearly three we...

Tesla Plant Halted by Covid. The Stock Rises Because There Also Is Good News.

Text size An aerial view of Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory. Xiaolu Chu/Getty Images Tesla is halting production at its Shanghai plant for a couple of days. It isn’t because of parts shortages. Tes...

Bausch Health is a buy

SoFi Technologies Inc: “[CEO] Anthony Noto is not a loser, he is a winner and he will get this thing going. It is very low at $8 and yet I like it.” Zim Integrated Shipping: “It̵...

Oil suffers ‘spectacular’ collapse, falls into bear market territory just 5 days after settling at nearly 14-year highs

U.S. and global benchmark crude oil entered bear market territory on Tuesday, just five trading days after they settled at their highest prices since 2008. “The collapse has been spectacular,” Fawad R...

Alibaba Stock Is Really Hurting. Why It Might Not Bounce Back Any Time Soon.

Text size Shares of Alibaba have notched massive declines. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Investors in Alibaba are used to pain. But the stock is really hurting this time, with it on track for a 27% ...

S&P 500 marks 1st death cross in 2 years as investors assess Russia-Ukraine ahead of Fed decision

Dow industrials barely gained on Monday, while the S&P 500 logged its first death cross in two years and the Nasdaq Composite slumped to its lowest since December 2020, as investors monitored Russ...

Portfolio manager with 50 years of experience shares 1970s bear-market lesson, and three stocks to buy now

A previous version of this column gave the incorrect date for the Fed policy decision. The story has been corrected. Investors looking at their screens this morning might feel a bit of relief, with oi...

Hang Seng slumps 3% over COVID lockdown worries, oil falls as Russian attacks in Ukraine intensify

BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks were mixed in Asia and oil prices fell Monday as uncertainty over the war in Ukraine and persistently high inflation kept investors guessing about what lies ahead. Tokyo and Sydn...

30-year-old female founder’s billion-dollar bet on CRISPR gene editing

Janice Chen (C) and her Mammoth Biosciences co-founders Trevor Martin (L) and Lucas Harrington (R). CRISPR gene editing pioneer and Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna is also a co-founder. Along Highw...

Covid declared a pandemic two years ago. Health experts warn it’s still not over

Medical staff treat a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Providence Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, California, January 25, 2022. Shannon Stapleton | Reu...