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-...

AMC Entertainment Stock Fell Again. 2022 Has Been Rough for Meme Stocks.

AMC Entertainment Holdings stock tumbled this week after the theater chain announced plans to sell stock to a private investment firm. The move extended pain amid what has been a brutal year for meme ...

This Giant Oil ETF Is Seeing Phenomenal Returns. Why It’s Far Outpacing the Price of Oil.

Shares of the United States Oil Fund surged last week, capping a phenomenal run in recent weeks that far outpaced meager gains in the price of oil. USO (ticker: USO), which holds over $2 billion in as...

U.S. stock futures rise ahead of last trading week of 2022

U.S. stock futures rose Monday night, ahead of the final trading week of 2022. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, +0.49% gained nearly 200 points, or 0.6%, as of 9:45 p.m. Eastern. S&P 500...

National Storage Sees Big Insider Stock Buys

Shares of self-storage firm National Storage Affiliates Trust have tumbled in 2022, and are now trading near a two-year low. Two insiders, including a company founder, purchased large amounts of stock...

AllianceBernstein Executive Helps Chart Firm’s Course Overseeing Finances and Operations

AllianceBernstein Holding LP’s Kate Burke is part of a growing group of executives who lead not only their companies’ finances, but also operations, a trend that comes as firms look to retain top tale...

If You Own Bonds, Consider Tax-Loss Harvesting This Year

In a year where nothing seemed to work on Wall Street, investors still have a rare opportunity to make the best of a bad situation by tax-loss harvesting their bond portfolio.  Bond holders don’t do m...

Opinion: Opinion: FTX was a warning. We must plug the other holes in the Swiss cheese.

FTX’s unraveling should not have come as any great surprise. When an unregulated market like crypto is opened to financial novices, mistakes are bound to be made and fraudsters are sure to take advant...

Look Overseas for Stock Market Investments in 2023, Strategists Say

With the brutal returns of 2022 almost behind investors, those looking to make up lost ground might do better to look abroad next year. Some strategists see a better set-up for foreign stocks than the...

These money and investing tips can help give your portfolio a holiday makeover

Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS A stock-market indicator with ...

The 2022 IPO Market: A Dearth of Volumes and Names

Investment bankers had a brutal year. One big reason: a dearth of initial public offerings. Thirty-seven companies went public in 2022 and raised a mere $7 billion, the lowest amount of IPO proceeds s...

A Reckoning for Crypto and FTX

To the Editor:I’ve been hoping for some sort of catalyst that would implode the crypto market, and it has finally happened (“The Crypto Ice Age Is Here. What’s Ahead for Bitcoin and the Stocks,” Dec. ...

Meme Token Dogecoin Edges Past Coinbase. It’s Been That Kind of Year in Crypto.

Coinbase Global went public in 2021, with a debut valuation of a snappy $85 billion. This year hasn’t been exactly bountiful for the U.S.-based online crypto broker, with rising interest rates hitting...

U.S. stocks end higher, but S&P 500 logs 3rd straight weekly decline ahead of Christmas

U.S. stocks ended higher in a choppy, preholiday session Friday as an inflation report and a raft of other data did little to change expectations that the Federal Reserve would likely continue hiking ...

Equity funds suffer largest ever weekly outflows: BofA Global

Investors withdrew billions of dollars from equity funds at a record pace in the days after the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and European Central bank raised interest rates in mid-December and...

A stock market gauge with one of the best track records is cheering investors

It’s bullish for the stock market that the average household’s equity allocation has declined as much as it has. I’m referring to an indicator that its creator, the anonymous author of the Philosophic...

Opinion: Couples with strong relationships have these money issues in common

Start the New Year with a stronger and more stable relationship with improved money habits with your partner. Many couples feel stress around their differences. When money gets involved, many prefer n...

Big institutional investors ​are buying ​while retail investors are dumping stock funds and ETFs. That’s bullish for the market.

The stock market’s longer-term prospects are looking up, according to flow data for U.S. equity mutual funds and ETFs. That’s because institutional investors over the past 12 months have poured signif...

Tesla, AMC, Energy Stocks, and More Stock Market Movers Friday

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How a Santa Claus rally, or lack thereof, sets the stage for the stock market in first quarter

It’s the time of the year when the traditional seasonal lift for U.S. stocks known as the “Santa Claus rally” usually takes place. But unlike past holiday seasons, this one may get bogged down by the ...

Carnival stock is suffering its worst year on record, but looks ‘overly compelling’ to this analyst

Shares of Carnival Corp. have had a really bad year, even worse than the pandemic year of 2020. And that’s what makes Stifel Nicolaus analyst Steven Wieczynski believe the stock is now “overly compell...

What to expect for the stock market in 2023 after the biggest drop in 14 years

Investors have had a rough 2022 — the worst year since the financial crisis in 2008. There’s been a perfect storm of falling stock and bond prices as the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates to b...

Caroline Ellison says she’s ‘truly sorry for what I did,’ as she pleads guilty

Caroline Ellison has apologized for stealing billions in customer deposits at crypto exchange platform FTX to make bets at Alameda Research, the hedge fund she ran. “‘I am truly sorry for what I did.’...

Caroline Ellison Apologizes for Misconduct in FTX Collapse

Caroline Ellison, a close associate of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, apologized in court this week as she pleaded guilty to fraud and other offenses, telling a judge that she and others conspired to ...

AMC stock extends slide in active trading, while APEs keep soaring

Shares of AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. AMC, -10.59% slumped 5.3% in premarket trading Friday, to extend their selloff in the wake of the movie theater operator’s announcement the previous session o...

The Secure Act Will Change Retirement Policy. 6 Big Changes That Will Soon Become Law.

Now that the Senate has passed a sweeping spending bill to fund the federal government into next year and avert a shutdown, advisors are cheering a major overhaul of the rules around retirement saving...

6 Big Changes to Your Retirement That Are Coming

Now that the Senate has passed a sweeping spending bill to fund the federal government into next year and avert a shutdown, advisors are cheering a major overhaul of the rules around retirement saving...

Coinbase plunges 86% in 2022, amid FTX-inspired slump. But one analyst says ‘you have to have a multiyear time frame.’

Hello there and seasons greetings! This is Mark DeCambre, Editor in Chief at MarketWatch. The hottest story in crypto land remains FTX, even as we hurtle toward 2023. It is a fast-evolving situation. ...

Sam Bankman-Fried to be released on $250 million bond after first U.S. hearing

Accused crypto crook Sam Bankman-Fried was released from custody Thursday on a $250 million bond, following the FTX founder’s first appearance in a U.S, court on fraud charges. Bankman-Fried walked ou...

Dow ends nearly 350 points lower after strong economic data, bearish comments by David Tepper fuel worry about rate hikes

U.S. stocks ended well off session lows but still fell sharply, after a round of upbeat economic data and a warning from hedge-fund titan David Tepper that he was “leaning short” against both stocks a...

Opinion: If you think a Santa Claus rally is coming to the stock market, this is how to play it

The benchmark S&P 500 Index has finally fallen below the 3900- to 4100-point trading range. The move prompted an immediate reaction down to 3800, the next support level. (To see my suggestion for ...