This article is an excerpt from “Here Are Barron’s 10 Top Stocks for the New Year,” published on Dec. 16, 2022. To see the full list, click here. Warren Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway remains th...
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These 4 Insurance Stocks Keep Hitting New Highs
Insurance, Tesla, dividends getty While you were watching Tesla keep sliding to lower and lower yearly lows, you may have missed it that some big insurance companies kept going higher. It’s not as exc...
Warren Buffett jumps into local politics to fight Omaha streetcar project
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...
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-...
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...
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...
10 Biggest Insurance Companies
Insurance companies provide risk management to individuals, businesses, and institutional clients. Although there is a multitude of different types of insurance companies, the protection guarantees pa...
The Top 4 Dow Stock Winners of 2022
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^INDU) began 2022 at its most robust ever. The blue chip index reached its all-time closing high at 36,799.65 points on Jan. 4, 2022. But from there, things got sha...
Stocks Limp Toward 2023 as the Data Show Few Signs of a Clear Direction
Stocks limped on the low volumes of the pre-Christmas week, battered by conflicting data and leaving investors with a muddled outlook going into 2023. It’s a dynamic in which good news and bad news te...
Even Republicans Are Embracing Medicaid Expansion. That’s A Costly Mistake.
“Expanding Medicaid enrollment will only perpetuate the waste that has taken root in the program and … [+] further strain scarce taxpayer resources,” writes Sally Pipes. getty Republ...
Binance Replies Delisted Mithril Request for BNB Insurance Sum Refund, Claims Entitlement to Partial or Whole Sum
Binance recently explained to delisted project Mithril that a clause in their contract entitles it to Mithril’s initial insurance deposit. Recently delisted Binance social network project Mithril (MIT...
Opinion: Five easy, but consequential, actions to take before 2023 to boost your finances
Forget about New Year’s resolutions. Keep it simple with these “one and done” steps now. Best of all, they will improve your financial situation for the whole of 2023. Here are five things to do today...
Moving into a retirement community, how to know when you have enough saved, the best RMD strategies and more retirement news
From MarketWatch Retirement: How much should you have saved for retirement? Aim for these age-related benchmarks as you save for retirement. These are the top 10 mistakes people make when planning fo...
How much should you have saved for retirement?
When I was in my 20s, I was lucky to work for a company that offered a pension plan—and that put me on the road to retirement. Today, unfortunately, company pensions are rare. How can you ensure a com...
Here’s how health insurance is helping to cool inflation
Natalia Gdovskaia | Moment | Getty Images In an environment of high inflation, health insurance costs are doing the opposite: They’ve begun to deflate, and are poised to continue dropping each m...
Italy Will Use Algorand For Banking And Insurance Guarantees
Algorand has been selected as the blockchain to support an innovative digital guarantee platform for Italy’s banking and insurance markets. Cryptocurrencies are now gaining more popularity and adoptio...
Italy onboards Algorand for bank and insurance guarantees
Blockchain layer-1 platform The Italian banking and insurance industries will adopt an “innovative digital guarantees platform,” which will be supported by the public blockchain Algorand. Early 2023 i...
Algorand to support bank and insurance guarantees platform in Italy
Layer-1 blockchain platform Algorand has been chosen as the public blockchain to support an “innovative digital guarantees platform” to be used in Italy’s banking and insurance markets. The Algo...
Chinese Company Launches Digital Currency Insurance Product – Featured Bitcoin News
The Suzhou branch of the Chinese insurance company China Pacific Insurance, together with the Bank of Communications, recently announced the launch of a digital currency account insurance product. The...
Crypto insurance firm Evertas raises $14 million from Polychain Capital: CoinDesk
Crypto insurance firm Evertas secured $14 million in funding in a Series A round, according to a report from CoinDesk. The round was led by Polychain Capital and saw participation from investors...
What Happens If I Don’t Name a Life Insurance Beneficiary?
estate as life insurance beneficiary When a loved one dies, there are a lot of questions you have to deal with, not the least of which is how to pay for a funeral and other death expenses. A life insu...
The First Insurance for Individual Crypto Investors against Scams
Place/Date: – December 9th, 2022 at 1:00 pm UTC · 3 min read Source: HealthPotion Over the last 4 years, the top issue across all crypto-asset complaints was “Fraud or scam”. The value of these ...
CVS Wants to Be a Healthcare Provider. So Why Doesn’t It Have Any Doctors?
Late last year, CVS Health CEO Karen Lynch unveiled a new strategy: Rather than remain simply a pit stop for toilet paper and flu shots, CVS stores would become a place that Americans—particularly old...
Can you still retire on $1 million? That’s what today’s millionaires want to know.
OK, so a million dollars isn’t what it used to be. That’s the worry among a surprising number of America’s millionaires. So, at least, reports money-management giant Natixis, which owns bond shop Loom...
Democrats release six years of Trump’s tax returns, and CPAs have questions: ‘The personal tax return is just the tip of the iceberg.’
The nonpartisan committee’s findings also raised several red flags related to the filings, namely Trump’s carryover losses, loans to his children that may or may not also be considered taxable gifts, ...