Capital One Job Cuts Signal Trouble for IT Labor Market

IT positions have largely been seen as insulated from the job cuts that have hit workers at major technology firms like Alphabet Inc. and Microsoft Corp., but the Capital One layoffs affecting 1,100 e...

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...

House prices slumped by 10% in San Francisco, Redfin says — and prices are also falling in these cities

Even as mortgage rates come off of recent highs, buyer demand remains constrained. And that’s affecting home-list prices, according to a new report. The report by Redfin RDFN, +8.45%, which tracked ho...

Apple CEO Tim Cook asked for — and got — a major pay cut this year. Is there ever a time when some of us should accept one too? The answer is ‘yes.’

In an SEC filing, Apple announced that CEO Tim Cook will receive a big pay cut in 2023, and the filing noted that he requested the cut. mandel ngan/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The new year is ba...

I ruined my family’s finances by withdrawing from my 401(k) to buy a house – I regret it

I recently made a panic decision to withdraw all my money from one retirement account and I am now closing on a house in February (about $200,000). I am 36 years old, married and have a 1-year-old. Ha...

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...

Coinbase Stock Is Soaring. It Might Be a Haven in a Wild Crypto Market.

Coinbase Global stock continued its winning streak on Tuesday, rising alongside the price of Bitcoin and on the back of a strong analyst endorsement. Coinbase (ticker: COIN) has already had a busy sta...

JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo earnings show the good, the bad and the ugly of people’s finances. So how are they holding up?

Friday’s wave of big-bank earnings gives an important glimpse into Americans’ finances amid high prices, rising interest rates and recession worries. At first glance, most consumers appear to be keepi...

IRS says ‘Tax Day’ will be different this year — put these important tax dates on your calendar

It’s not too early to start thinking about your 2022 income-tax return, if you can bear the thought. That’s because the tax-filing season is scheduled to start on Monday, Jan. 23, the Internal Revenue...

AMD poaches Marvell’s Jean Hu for CFO slot as Devinder Kumar retires

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said late Wednesday that financial chief Devinder Kumar was retiring and that Marvell Technology Inc.’s Jean Hu would take his place. Marvell MRVL, +3.81% announced that Hu...

The ‘best job in America’ pays over $120,000 a year — and offers a low-stress, healthy work-life balance

We’ve had the great resignation, quiet quitting, resistance to going back to the office — and now? It turns out people are looking for happiness, stability, flexibility and a good salary. In 2023, in ...

IRS wraps up paying people this lucrative pandemic-era tax break. Here’s how much money they can expect — and why they’re getting it.

Nearly two years after lawmakers temporarily changed tax rules in the middle of the filing season in order to exclude a major chunk of jobless benefits from federal income tax, the Internal Revenue Se...

Novavax’s stock rallies after the company names new CEO

Shares of Novavax Inc. NVAX, +11.25% were up about 9% in trading on Monday after the company said John Jacobs will take over as president and CEO on Jan. 23. Jacobs, the former president and CEO of Ha...

Tech’s Bill Is Coming Due. Investors Aren’t the Only Ones Who Will Pay.

For two years now, tech companies have spent massive amounts of money building the capacity to serve what they believed would be a higher level of postpandemic demand. If you build it, they will come....

Elon Musk says he can’t get fair trial in California in Tesla shareholder suit, wants Texas

WASHINGTON — Elon Musk has urged a federal judge to shift a trial in a shareholder lawsuit out of San Francisco because he says negative local media coverage has biased potential jurors against him. I...

Noncompete agreements will be a thing of the past for workers — from hairstylists to executives — if federal regulators have their way

Employers would be banned from making staff sign noncompete clauses, according to proposed rules that federal regulators say would boost worker pay and end a major drag on people who wish to change jo...

Why a stock market obsessed with the Fed’s inflation fight should focus on Main Street jobs in 2023

Fortunes on Wall Street this year could hinge less on what’s happening to high-paid workers in San Francisco’s reeling technology sector and more on a familiar part of American life: the working class...

Cisco layoffs begin with hundreds of job cuts in California and more expected

Cisco Systems Inc. has begun previously announced layoffs, cutting nearly 700 jobs in Silicon Valley last month, according to filings with the state of California this week. Cisco executives announced...

Turning 72 or 73 this year? Here’s what to do about your required minimum distributions

Anyone turning 72 years old in 2023 is getting a birthday present from Congress – one more year to push back their required minimum distributions from their retirement accounts.  As part of the Secure...

Fate Therapeutics stocks heads for record selloff after Janssen collaboration terminated and job cuts

Shares of Fate Therapeutics Inc. FATE, -61.18% plunged 56.8% in premarket trading, putting them on track for a record one-day selloff, after the biopharmaceutical company announced the termination of ...

Why Pfizer Is Pulling Back on Research Into Rare Disease, Gene Therapy

Pfizer is planning to pull back on early-stage research into treatments for rare diseases, including the development of new viral-based gene therapies, the company told employees on Thursday afternoon...

‘I can no longer be an executive at a high level’: Workers with disabilities, including long COVID, are finding their place as companies become more flexible

Dana Pollard started a new job at the end of 2022, after spending three years recovering from a 2019 stroke. Pollard, 56, lives in Fort Worth, Texas, with his wife. After the stroke, he could not reco...

‘A friend advised me to find a husband’: I’m nearly 50 and close to retiring. Would it be a mistake to marry and commingle my finances?

I’m a single female in my late 40s with no children. At 50 years old, my federal agency will allow me to retire with a full pension. I’m planning to, as I have a significant amount saved in my thrift ...

‘Am I crazy?’ I’ve paid my fiancée rent for 9 years and spent $10,000 improving her home. She’s also listed on my health insurance. What would you do?

I have a situation that is causing a lot of issues in my relationship. We have been dating for 17 years, have lived together for close to nine years and have been engaged for six.  When I moved into h...

Why this Japanese idea can lead to a more fulfilling retirement

Typical New Year’s resolutions, financially speaking, tend to be things like:” I’ll save more,” “I’ll reduce debt” or “I’ll become smarter about investing.” I’d like to offer a different one for 2023,...

‘2022 has been the scariest year of my adult and professional life’: One mortgage broker reveals how the housing slowdown upended financial security.

When mortgage rates hit 7% in the fall, Austin-based mortgage broker Aaron Kovac was a little spooked.  After a stunning rise in home sales amid ultra-low interest rates, “the market just went absolut...

Workers in California and Washington State will get more pay transparency

Do you know how much your job is worth? Millions of Americans are finally getting the answer.  Starting Jan. 1, California and Washington state will require employers to include pay ranges with their ...

Will 2023 finally be a good year to buy a home? Read this before making a decision.

The housing market is nothing if not unpredictable. Mortgage rates have skyrocketed, and the market has taken a beating. But don’t expect 2023 to turn into a buyer’s market just yet, housing experts s...

Your Coworkers Are Less Ambitious; Bosses Adjust to the New Order

Listen to article (2 minutes) Where have all the go-getters gone?  At law firm Nixon Peabody LLP, associates have started saying no to working weekends, prompting partners to ask more people to help c...

Tesla told employees not to complain to managers about pay, labor director alleges

Electric-vehicle maker Tesla Inc. ran afoul of the law when the company told employees at an office in Florida not to complain to higher-ups about pay or discuss things like hiring, a U.S. labor board...

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, ...