My mother, 80, owes $400,000 due to a failed family business and my late father’s unpaid taxes. What could be seized?

Got a question about taxes or investing? You can write me at beth.pinsker@marketwatch.com.   Dear MarketWatch,  I’d appreciate some help understanding which of my mother’s assets are protected and which are not. My father passed away a few years ago and, while we understood some of what had been going on, we have more information now […]

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Grayscale files plans for ‘mini’ bitcoin fund, two months after GBTC’s conversion to ETF

Grayscale Investments is planning a second exchange-traded fund tracking spot bitcoin prices, just two months after the firm’s flagship Grayscale Bitcoin Trust converted to an ETF, according to a regulatory filing.  The Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust will trade under the ticker “BTC,” according to a filing Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm […]

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Oracle finally becomes a cloud company, helped by ‘enormous’ AI demand

Oracle Corp. has reached an important milestone in its decade-long shift to becoming a cloud-computing company — revenue from the cloud surpassed its traditional software licensing revenue for the first time. Oracle Chief Executive Safra Catz touted that fact on the company’s conference call with analysts Monday while discussing its better-than-expected fiscal third-quarter earnings. Oracle […]

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Companies in the Dow made bigger-than-normal adjustments to their profits in Q4, analysis shows

When public companies tell the world how much money they made over a quarter, they have to follow accounting guidelines intended to keep those financial figures honest and consistent. However, for better or worse, alongside the profit figures that comply with those standards, many companies also report more forgiving, “adjusted” versions of those figures. Those […]

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Here’s what Gen Z wants employers to know about how they work

“An increased expectation that work should have positive impact and meaning.” The majority of Generation Z have little to no memory of what office culture was like before the COVID-19 pandemic. They’ve not had much opportunity to socialize or acclimatize, given dramatically shifting norms and an increase in remote work. Social activism, political polarization and […]

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