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Hello and welcome to Financial Face-off, a MarketWatch column where we help you weigh a financial decision. Our columnist will give her verdict. Tell us whether you think she’s right in the comments. And please share your suggestions for future Financial Face-off columns by emailing our columnist at lalbrecht@marketwatch.com.  The face-off Wedding season is upon […]

Financial Literacy Month puts a spotlight on the financial knowledge Americans are supposed to know and often don’t. But what about financial knowledge that we think we know, but should reconsider? When it comes to money, we pick up lessons from a mish-mash of sources ranging from parents to TikTok videos to high school classes. […]

Entry-level hiring is slowing.  Hiring for entry-level positions in the U.S is down 32% on the year in April for jobs that require a college degree and down 22% in April for jobs that do not require a college degree, according to a LinkedIn report released Monday. Hiring slowed across all industries in April. It […]

More than 199,000 global tech-sector employees have been laid off since the start of 2023, according to data compiled by the website Layoffs.fyi, and the number of global tech layoffs has risen almost eightfold since mid-January. So where did those workers end up? Former tech and media workers have landed new jobs in the same sector, […]

Traveling this Memorial Day Weekend? Put some deep breaths on your checklist. Americans should brace for jammed highways and long airport lines with more people projected to drive and fly this holiday weekend compared to last year, experts say. Gas is $ 1 cheaper than it was at the same point last year and airline […]

“‘Icahn’s favorite Wall Street saying: “If you want a friend, get a dog.” Over his storied career, Icahn has made many enemies. I don’t know that he has any real friends. He could use one here.’” — Bill Ackman, Pershing Square Capital Management That was billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman, founder and chief executive of […]

Banks increased lending last week and deposits rose for the first time in a month, showing little evidence of an emerging credit crunch in the U.S. banking system. Total bank lending climbed by $ 10.4 billion to $ 12.13 trillion in the seven days ending May 17, the Federal Reserve reported Friday. Most of the […]

First-quarter earnings season is just about over for the S&P 500. Then again, with about 20% of the companies having fiscal quarters that don’t match the calendar, it seems the flow of earnings reports never ends. It might seem from media reports that the economy is always facing some sort of crisis, but you may […]

If you’re getting more forgetful as you age—and who among us isn’t—there are two things you can do about it this Memorial Day weekend. Take a multivitamin. And go for a 30-minute walk. Oh — and then keep both of them up. So report peer-reviewed scientific studies out this week, which have found that regular […]

U.S. shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. rode the wind behind Nvidia Corp.’s record revenue forecast to their best week in nearly a year and a half. TSM TSM, +2.24% shares rose 12% Thursday as Nvidia Corp.’s stock NVDA, +2.54% soared in response to news of a wave on expected sales of chips used for […]

“‘I would say 70% of the time being president is a hoot.’ ” Former President Barack Obama, speaking with trailblazing public-radio host Ira Glass during a LinkedIn event focused on finding purpose at work, says he loved being president about 70% of the time. The other 30% he didn’t enjoy quite so much. “This, I […]

If the jam-packed Memorial Day travel conditions have you thinking there must be an investment play in all the chaos, you are right. Post-pandemic wanderlust is real. It is only going to pick up from here. And the trend is not yet fully priced in to travel-related stocks. Here’s more detail on three key business […]

Stocks and short term Treasury bills rallied Friday as U.S. debt-ceiling talks in Congress showed promise of reaching an agreement on the government’s borrowing limit during the Memorial Day holiday weekend. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +1.00% snapped a five-day losing streak, but still was down about 0.2% on the year, according to FactSet. […]

Gold prices finished higher on Friday, after the most-active contract settled at its lowest level in about nine weeks a day earlier, but still tally a third-straight weekly loss. Investors weighed prospects for a deal on the U.S. debt-ceiling in the coming days and also eyed strength in the U.S. dollar to gauge haven demand […]

A mind-blowing Thursday surge by shares of chip maker Nvidia Corp. that fed a frenzy for artificial-intelligence stock market plays reinforces a cardinal rule for traders, said a technician at a top Wall Street research firm. “Yesterday’s move in NVDA was one for the record books,” said Kevin Dempter, analyst at Renaissance Macro Research, in […]

Amazon.com Inc. could post the lowest growth rate this year for its North American retail business in over two decades, but where some might see a worrisome slowdown, Evercore ISI analyst Mark Mahaney sees opportunity. The ability for Amazon AMZN, -1.50% to reignite revenue momentum across its business is one pillar of Mahaney’s bullish view […]

Treasury yields eased Friday ahead of the release of key inflation data. What’s happening The yield on the 2-year Treasury TMUBMUSD02Y, 4.493% was 4.51%, down 3.6 basis points. Yields move in the opposite direction to prices. The yield on the 10-year Treasury TMUBMUSD10Y, 3.786% was 3.8%, down 2.5 basis points. The yield on the 30-year […]

Kneel to your king Wall Street. After forecasting record revenue backed by a “killer AI app,” Nvidia helped deliver a powerful performance for the Nasdaq COMP, +1.71% on Thursday. Indeed, thanks to that chip maker and a few other generals — Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, etc.— tech is seemingly unstoppable: Top contributors to S&P 500 year-to-date […]

By Kwanwoo Jun Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution plan to build a $ 4.3 billion electric-vehicle battery factory in the U.S., strengthening their tie-up overseas to meet growing demand for EVs. Executives from both sides signed an agreement in Seoul on Friday to construct a 50-50 EV battery cell joint venture in Savannah, […]

Elon Musk’s Neuralink said Thursday it has received regulatory approval to start the first in-human clinical study for its brain implant. “We are excited to share that we have received the FDA’s approval to launch our first-in-human clinical study!” the company tweeted Thursday. “This is the result of incredible work by the Neuralink team in […]