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...

Barron’s 10 Favorite Stocks for 2023

The stock market is coming off its worst year since 2008, but it was finally a good year for value investing—and it was a good year for Barron’s favorite picks, as well.  Every December for the past 1...

Mortgage demand inches higher as interest rates move lower

A For Sale sign appears in front of a house on Oak Street in Patchogue, New York, on May 17, 2022. Steve Pfost | Newsday | Getty Images After a month of declines, mortgage application volume is rising...

Moderna, Tesla, Lennar, and More Stock Market Movers Wednesday

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Mortgage rates drop after CPI inflation report

A prospective home buyer, left, is shown a home by a real estate agent in Coral Gables, Florida. Getty Images The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage dropped to 6.28% Tuesday, according to Mort...

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...

FTX executives spent $256 million on Bahamas real estate

The Bahamas has more than 700 islands and cays; remote workers and students can live on 16 of them, including Eleuthera (shown here). Sylvain Sonnet | The Image Bank | Getty Images Bahhamian lawyers s...

A home energy upgrade that’s becoming a climate and financial winner

Heat pumps are becoming more popular for residential housing with energy prices increasing and the need to reduce use of fossil fuel heating systems. Andrew Aitchison | In Pictures | Getty Images Thin...

Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Buys Up More Howard Hughes Stock

These disclosures are from 13Ds filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 13Ds are filed within 10 days of an entity’s attaining more than 5% in any class of a company’s securities. Subsequen...

The Lesson of Blackstone’s Retail Real Estate Fund: Liquidity Matters.

The recent move by Blackstone giant retail real estate fund to limit redemptions after outsize withdrawal requests is a wake-up call for investors in a once-hot sector that may now face more regulator...

I sold my late mother’s home for $250,000. I make $80,000 and have $220,000 in student debt. I want to buy a house. Should I use all my inheritance for a down payment?

My mom passed away, and left me her house, which I just sold and will net $250,000. I’m 41 years old with no real retirement savings. I make $80,000 a year, and I am maxing out contributions to my emp...

Is The Housing Market Slowing Down: Redfin 2023 Predictions

Getty Images Key takeaways As mortgage rates rise and inflation remains stubborn, there are signs that the housing market is slowing down Real estate brokerage Redfin predicts that housing sales will ...

Mortgage demand falls again even as interest rates sink further

A “For Sale” sign in front of a home in Sacramento, California, on Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Lower mortgage rates are pulling some current homeowne...

Can you live on a cruise ship? Yes, and here’s how much it costs

Austin Wells loves to travel the world. But he doesn’t like long flights, jet lag or an unsettled routine. And that’s why, Wells, who is 28 and lives in San Diego, leased a residence on bo...

How To Find The Best Sector Mutual Funds 4Q22

Close-up of a Calculator and Pen on a Financial Newspaper. Blue-toned. getty With an ever-growing list of similar-sounding mutual funds to choose from, finding the best is an increasingly difficult ta...

S&P 500, Nasdaq post worst day in month after strong data fuels worry about Fed rate hikes

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite indexes recorded their worst day in almost a month on Monday, after a hotter-than-expected U.S. services-sector reading fueled concerns that the Federal Reserve ma...

10 Dividend Aristocrat stocks expected by analysts to rise up to 54% in 2023

Stocks of companies that raise dividends consistently have outperformed during this year’s bear market. Below is a screen showing which stocks are analysts’ favorites for next year among an expanded l...

China Relaxes Covid Curbs. But Is Now The Time To Buy Stocks?

Healthcare workers exit a locked down neighborhood in Shanghai’s Huangpu district after spraying disinfectant. STR/AFP via Getty Images China is finally shifting away from some of its strictest ...

Starwood REIT, Like BREIT, Limits Investor Redemptions From Real Estate Fund

Another big nontraded real estate fund is limiting investor redemptions.        Starwood Real Estate Income Trust, a nontraded real estate investment trust, is curbing redemptions after investor withd...

The Housing Boom Is Over. But Housing Stocks Could Still Be Winners.

Plunging orders. Widespread price discounting. Shrinking profits. These are just some of the factors weighing on home builders after surging mortgage rates burst the pandemic-era real estate boom. Hom...

Buy Zillow stock now to profit from ‘brighter environment’ next year, UBS says

Investors should buy Zillow Group Inc. now, UBS says, even if they have to wait a year before the U.S. housing market starts improving. Analyst Lloyd Walmsley initiated research coverage of the online...

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...

McCormick, PulteGroup, and Merck Boost Dividends

McCormick PulteGroup and Merck Merck were among the large U.S. companies that declared dividend increases this week. McCormick (ticker:MKC) will boost its quarterly disbursement to 39 cents a share fr...

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...

Las Vegas Strip Leader Sells Key Casino

Liquidity is the name of the game in the current economic environment, and Wynn Resorts  (WYNN) – Get Free Report is being proactive with its properties.  The Las Vegas-based casino operator ann...

Dear Tax Guy: ‘I’ve accumulated a lot of junk.’ I plan to make $6,000 selling stuff on eBay. Can I put it into an IRA instead of paying income tax?

I am retired with Social Security and a state pension. Over the last 30 years I’ve accumulated a lot of “junk” from eBay EBAY, +0.17%. Now, I’m also trying to clean out my house, and sell it at cost o...

What’s next for lumber as it looks to be 2022’s worst-performing commodity

Lumber has the dubious honor of being among the biggest commodity price decliners this year, and the outlook for the market doesn’t look to improve anytime soon. Random-length lumber for January deliv...

Two Huge Las Vegas Strip Casinos Changing Ownership

When people think of the players that dominate the Las Vegas Strip, their thoughts generally turn to Caesars Entertainment (CZR) – Get Free Report and MGM Resorts International (MGM) – Get...

Zscaler stock drops 10% on conservative guidance, as it’s taking longer to close deals

Zscaler Inc. stock fell in the extended session Thursday after the cybersecurity company said longer sales cycles and other headwinds contributed to its conservative guidance, one slightly above the W...

Dow ends nearly 200 points lower as investors weigh ISM manufacturing and inflation data, await jobs report

U.S. stocks finished a choppy session mostly lower on Thursday after the ISM manufacturing index showed American factory activities contracted to a 30-month low in November. Stocks had opened mostly h...

Home Buyers Could Soon Get $1 Million Mortgage With 3% Down Payment

To qualify for a $1 million mortgage, Americans typically have to make a down payment of at least 20% of the home’s price. Starting next year, some buyers could put as little as 3% down. The cap for h...