Elon Musk told employees at Tesla not to worry too much about the company’s stock market dive over the past few days. “Don’t be too bothered by stock market craziness,” Musk wrote in an email to staff...
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The White House embraced debt forgiveness in 2022. Here’s what student-loan borrowers can expect in 2023.
This was the year the White House embraced the idea of mass student-loan forgiveness, but 2023 will likely be the year when borrowers will find out whether the policy will actually impact their wallet...
How Southwest Airlines Melted Down
When Southwest Airlines Co. reassigns crews after flight disruptions, it typically relies on a system called SkySolver. This Christmas, SkySolver not only didn’t solve much, it also helped create the ...
With this simple year-end change to your retirement accounts, you can reap significant tax rewards
If you are a middle-income earner, you may be in a much better position tax-wise than you realize. That’s good news: You may be able to take advantage of that better position to strengthen your retire...
Christmas Stock Market Closing, Housing and Labor Data, and More for Investors to Watch This Week
Stock and bond markets will be closed on Monday for the Christmas holiday. It will be a quiet holiday week once Wall Street reopens. It’s the stretch between Christmas and New Years, and the corporate...
D.C. spending deal sets way for employers to help workers build cash savings
As people watch their savings sink under inflation’s pressure, one provision in the congressional year-end spending deal aims to make it easier for workers to save money for life’s unexpected expenses...
IRS pauses rule requiring people to report PayPal, Venmo transactions over $600. Here’s what went wrong.
To avert taxpayer confusion in the upcoming tax season, the IRS is delaying a rule that would have required e-commerce sites and payment platforms like eBay EBAY, +0.12%, Etsy ETSY, -0.32% and PayPal ...
A Chick-fil-A that paid workers with sandwiches instead of actual money was just fined by the Department of Labor
A Chick-fil-A restaurant in North Carolina sparked outrage this summer by paying “volunteers” with sandwiches instead of money. Now, it’s been ordered by a federal agency to issue those workers payche...
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...
Micron Sees Late ’23 Memory Rebound. But It’s Cutting Staff And Trimming CapEx.
Micron Technology posted soft results for its fiscal first quarter ended Dec. 1, but the chip maker projected a sharp improvement in conditions for the memory market in the second half of the company’...
Micron sales could dive more than 50%, and more belt-tightening is expected before outlook improves
Micron Technology Inc.’s revenue declines could worsen to more than 50% before inventory-saturated customers work though that product and boost sales in the second half of 2023, but before then the me...
If You’re Jobless, Here’s Where You Might Want to Move
Much has been made of the labor shortage plaguing American businesses. You may have seen it yourself, say, in a restaurant where your meatloaf got cold because not enough waitstaff was working. Person...
Jimmie Johnson Book A “Labor Of Love” And A “Passion Project” For 7-Time NASCAR Champion
The cover of “ONE MORE LAP. Jimmie Johnson and the #48” Rizzoli Photo In the festive days leading into Christmas, Hannukah and the holiday season, one gift idea for both Nascar and IndyCar...
Struggling to Find Accountants, Businesses Boost Salary Offers, Hire Temporary Workers
A deepening shortage of accountants is driving a growing number of companies to raise salaries or seek temporary help to strengthen their finance teams amid a slowing economy. Many employers over the...
New tax rule for eBay and Venmo will cause ‘significant confusion,’ CPAs say
As Congress concludes 2022 with a sprint to pass laws and a spending deal, tax accountants are joining a chorus of e-commerce companies and pay platforms who say a revamped tax form is about to cause ...
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...
Bank of Russia Warns on Wartime Labor Shortages, Holds Rates
(Bloomberg) — Russia’s central bank delivered its strongest warning yet that the Kremlin’s call-up of men to fight in Ukraine is leaving the economy deprived of workers and could put pressure on...
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...
Vanguard sees a recession in 2023 — and one ‘silver lining’ for investors
The last 12 months was a year of fast-rising inflation, fast-rising interest rates and fast-rising questions about a future recession. Prices went up while stock markets and savings account balances w...
Elon Musk should prepare for ‘hundreds or even thousands’ of arbitration cases, labor lawyer says
Chief Executive Elon Musk has been intent on completely overhauling Twitter since buying the company in October, prompting a number of lawsuits. (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press) Powerhouse labor attor...
More Economic Signs Point to a Recession and Higher Interest Rates
The Federal Reserve’s heavily telegraphed move to slow its pace of monetary-policy tightening next week risks sending a message to markets that the central bank is well on its way to reining in inflat...
Here’s what resolves the big mystery on why older Americans have left the workforce
One of the many challenges facing the Federal Reserve is that the labor force participation rate is still lower than it was before the pandemic. The fewer workers in the jobs market, the more wages wi...
How MLB’s Business And Labor Perfect Storm Created $1.77 Billion Of Player Contracts In Less Than A Week
MLB contract agreements during the 2022 Baseball Winter Meetings approached $2 billion. getty It won’t happen every year. It may not happen again for some time. But a confluence of factors created a r...
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...