U.S.-listed shares of Chinese internet and electric-vehicle stocks are enjoying a sharp rally yet again in premarket trading Monday amid reports that officials in the country were easing pandemic rest...
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This long-time bear warns of a ‘trapdoor’ situation looming for the stock market.
Uncertainty is lingering for investors following a recent mixed batch of data — softer-than-expected inflation, stronger-than-anticipated jobs and wages — as we kick off the third week before Christma...
Psst: You can earn 5% on your checking or savings account right now — and multiple banks are offering it
As competition escalates for new savings customers, many financial institutions are promising high yields simply for becoming a customer and following various transaction requirements. And if done cor...
1 in 4 Americans made this money move this year, and it has Suze Orman “worried” — but for some of you, it’s actually a lucrative move
Suze Orman Getty Images Finance guru Suze Orman isn’t shy about sharing her distaste for credit cards. In a blog post earlier this year, she wrote that more than a quarter of Americans surveyed said t...
‘I feel like a fool.’ I’m 65 and recently met a ‘gorgeous’ 70-year-old millionaire who ‘started acting as my financial adviser.’ But he ghosted me, and left me with less than $20 in my account. What’s my move now?
Question: After meeting a nice guy and dating a bit, he started acting as my financial advisor, which I appreciated as I am clueless about this stuff. He’s a millionaire, gorgeous and at 70, five year...
Tax deadlines for retirees: do this before the year ends
It’s the most wonderful time of the year for holiday cheer – and last-minute tax tips. Retirement Tip of the Week: As we approach the new year, look for tax-advantageous strategies to cut your tax bi...
Why is portfolio balancing important? Because it’s not different this time.
Asset allocation is about dividing your portfolio among various investment asset classes like stocks, bonds and cash, and sub-asset classes like small, large and midcap stocks. Bonds and international...
The U.S. job market is strong, but layoffs are on the rise. Is this a good — or bad — time to ask for a raise? Experts weigh in.
Is this an opportune time to ask for a raise? Or, given the recent spate of tech layoffs, is it better to lie low for a while? The good news: Employers are giving pay raises. The increase in wages ov...
T. Rowe Price Has Had a Rough Time of Late. Negativity in the Money Manager’s Stock Could Be Overdone.
Money manager T. Rowe Price Group has fallen way out of favor on Wall Street. There are 15 analysts covering the stock, according to FactSet. None say to buy. More say to sell than hold. That’s approa...
Amazon, Walmart, and Kroger Could Have the Solution to Grocery Deliveries
Shoppers returning to stores in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, venture-capital money drying up, and higher labor costs mean the first golden age of food delivery looks to be over. But customers ha...
Moving is not fun. When you’re older, it’s even worse.
Almost everyone who completes a move and settles into their new place sighs and says, “That’s the last time I’m moving.” There’s no research to prove that. But who doesn’t dread moving? It’s stressful...
These money and investing tips can help you know when the bull market has come back to stay
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 There’s a strong possibility t...
Apple Is Looking to Move Production Out of China, Report Says
Apple has hastened plans to move part of its production out of China, home to the world’s largest iPhone factory, according to a The Wall Street Journal report citing anonymous sources. The world’s mo...
Sam Bankman-Fried ‘Wasn’t Even Trying’ to Manage Risk at FTX, He Says
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried said he made no effort to manage risk at the digital-asset exchange that filed for bankruptcy in November, part of a blitz of public statements about major oversight fail...
Here’s why the smart money is betting on value stocks to outperform growth
You should be skeptical of the growth story that periodically captures stock investors’ attention. That’s because the companies that Wall Street believes will grow the fastest in the future rarely liv...
Is the Housing Market Headed for a Big Crash? What’s Ahead for Real Estate.
Todd Clark and his wife, Jocelynn Wilde-Clark, have lived through the ups and downs of the housing market in the time of pandemic. In the summer of 2021, as Covid produced frenzied home buying, the co...
Apple Makes Plans to Move Production Out of China
In recent weeks, Apple Inc. has accelerated plans to shift some of its production outside China, long the dominant country in the supply chain that built the world’s most valuable company, say people ...
Opinion: 4 numbers retirement savers need to know heading into 2023
The past couple of years have been challenging for almost everyone invested in stocks or bonds, including anyone saving for retirement through employer-sponsored plans. With markets down across the bo...
This is the No. 1 expense, by far, for retirement-age Americans — and pros say it shouldn’t be
Americans 65 and older spent nearly $1,000 more per month last year than they did just five years prior, according to government data. Getty Images/iStockphoto Average monthly expenditures for those 6...
‘Cash-stuffing’ has 700 million+ views on TikTok. How it can help you save more
What is cash stuffing? Getty Images/iStockphoto Thanks to a mild obsession with so-called “cash stuffing” — which has racked up more than 700 million views on TikTok — Gen Z has made an old-school mon...
‘It has been a nearly continuous plunge.’ My accounts are down 13% this year, but my financial adviser hasn’t made a single adjustment — and is still taking his 1%. Do I even need him anymore?
Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: I have heard it a thousand times: “People make more money with a financial advisor, don’t lock in your losses, stay invested,” etc. So I started with a financial adv...
Where BlackRock sees ‘tremendous’ market opportunities for ETF investors in 2023 after damage to stocks, bonds
Hello! In this week’s ETF Wrap, BlackRock’s Gargi Chaudhuri, head of iShares investment strategy for the Americas, discusses ways for investors to play a world of higher rates and elevated inflation i...
‘I wish someone had warned me not to take my current job.’ 1 in 5 employees now reports being ‘miserable’ at work. Sound familiar? If so, this may be the No. 1 money move to make now
Workers are miserable these days Getty Images/iStockphoto Nearly 1 in 5 workers reports being miserable at work, according to Gallup’s recent “State of the Global Workplace: 2022.” And a global study ...
This trader sees a 43% drop for the S&P 500 and says to take shelter in these ETFs instead.
A day after the Dow DJIA, -0.11% climbed out of bear territory on hopeful comments by Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, stocks look ready to rethink on that optimsim, even after fresh inflation data showed ...
‘Somehow we live check to check.’ We make over $200K a year, but owe $100K on HELOC loans, never learned to save money and feel like we’ll never be able to retire. Do we need professional help?
Do you need a financial adviser? Getty Images Question: My wife and I are looking for help. We have never really learned how to save money, and we are really terrible at it. We both come from poor fam...
Cloud software is a ‘fight for a knife in the mud,’ and Wall Street is souring on the one sector that was winning
The cloud-software business has come to resemble a “fight for a knife in the mud,” as one popular TV character would put it, with vendors scrambling for the crumbs of declining business spending and h...