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Elon Musk wants to back the technology that could save the world from itself, and he’s not talking about luxury electric vehicles. On Earth Day, the latest round of winners in the Musk-backed competition, which focuses on the most promising ways to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide by grabbing the gas right out of the air, […]

Dear MarketWatch, My husband and I own a home in New York City, located in Staten Island. We’d like to sell it, but we have to give the current tenants until about the end of June to move. It’s a single-family, fully-detached home with a small fenced-in yard. What should we do first? Should we […]

Dear MarketWatch,  I’m a single 54-year-old female looking to retire in the next 10 years, but looking to move to my future retirement spot during the next two years. I love dry summer weather, hiking, biking, water sports, year-round outdoor living. I don’t like cold, snowy winters, unless I’m driving there to ski! I like […]

Takeovers are usually friendly affairs. Corporate executives engage in top-secret talks, with one company or group of investors making a bid for another business. After some negotiating, the companies engaged in the merger or acquisition announce a deal has been struck. But other takeovers are more hostile in nature. Not every company wants to be taken […]

The prices of commodities including oil CL00, -0.31%, wheat W00, -0.28% and palladium PA00, -0.56% have surged this year as much of the global economy shakes off COVID restrictions and as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to a key commodity-exporting region to be cut off from the the rest of the world. This volatility […]

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 4 Earth Day ETFs targeting clean water, wind, the smart grid — and one that has them all For some investment advisers, so-called green investing is far from […]

Investors will watch for another gauge of U.S. inflation in the week ahead after the stock market was rattled by the Federal Reserve ramping up its hawkish tone and suggesting large interest rate hikes are coming to get an overheating economy under control.  “We’re probably seeing peak hawkishness right now,” said James Solloway, chief market […]

Hulu has another loaded lineup in May, including a highly anticipated Sally Rooney drama, a “Letterkenny” spinoff and the Sex Pistols. Following the success of the steamy romantic drama “Normal People” in 2020, Rooney returns to Hulu with an adaptation of her first novel, “Conversations With Friends” (May 15). Alison Oliver stars as an Irish […]

Investors already know the obvious industries set to rise and fall with renewable energy. Global investment in oil and gas is expected to grow only 2% a year in the coming decade — though there will be a short-term burst due to the Ukraine conflict — then stagnate or plunge, according to proprietary L.E.K. research. […]

Spring metaphorically means a season of positive change and new opportunity. How appropriate given the changes emerging for plan sponsors as regards to offering retirement income options in their defined-contribution (DC) plans A recent paper by the Institutional Retirement Income Council tackles the topic of how plan sponsors can best integrate guaranteed income options into DC plans to […]

Saving for retirement is a good thing and apparently one of the few issues that can garner bipartisan support in a fractured Congress. Most recently, the House passed the “Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2022” – affectionately known as SECURE 2.0 because it builds on SECURE legislation enacted in 2019. Even though a CNN […]

The stock market ended a volatile week on a gloomy note Friday, with the three major U.S. indexes plunging as investors got tripped up in worries like inflation, the Fed’s fight against it and fears of a hard-landing recession. As confidence got pummeled as well, financial experts recommended that investors not panic, but think about […]

For some investment advisers and stock-pickers, so-called green investing is far from just a feel-good move. There are population demographics, a private-public mandate to meet international greenhouse gas emissions goals and infrastructure spending that shape a longer-term bullish picture. And a mix of new technology for highly-regulated, decades-old industries will shape climate-minded investing for many […]

Dear Moneyist, I took out loans for professional/graduate school during the years 1993 to 1996. I took out about $ 54,000 in loans. In 2002, I consolidated all my federal loans. The balance is approximately $ 167,000. I have been paying between $ 350 and $ 1,100 per month for the last 20 years.  I […]

Do you remember all the times Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was quoted as saying inflation in the U.S. was “transitory”? With the Fed now ready to fight inflation, the bond market has quickly priced in a period of tighter monetary policy by nearly doubling the yield on 10-year U.S. Treasury notes TMUBMUSD10Y, 2.895% to […]

Changing Square’s name to Block Inc. was apparently just a first move for Jack Dorsey. Friday afternoon, Block SQ, -4.68% disclosed to the Securities and Exchange Commission that Dorsey has changed his title at the financial-technology company from chief executive, president and chairperson to “Block Head and Chairperson.” While he will no longer be labeled […]

U.S. stocks fell sharply Friday, as investors continued to weigh hawkish comments on interest rates by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell a day earlier, as well as a fresh batch of corporate earnings that largely disappointed. How are stocks trading? The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -2.06% was down 701 points, or 2%, at 34,092, […]

“‘Hate wins when people like me stand by and let it happen. I won’t.’” That was Mallory McMorrow, a Democratic state lawmaker in Michigan, responding to comments from a fellow state senator from the Republican side of the aisle who had suggested in a fundraising email that McMorrow supports sexualizing children. Republican Lana Theis, from […]

The Value Gap is a MarketWatch Q&A series with business leaders, academics, authors, policymakers and activists on reducing racial and social inequalities. Historically Black neighborhoods, and streets and commercial strips populated by other people of color, too often share zip codes with industrial polluters. In fact, Black communities are exposed to climate and environmental injustice at […]

The Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity unit has recently warned of a new malware toolkit called Pipedream that targets industrial control systems and could be used to cause physical damage or destruction. The hackers’ toolkit, which was discovered by security firm Dragos, is reportedly designed to target Schneider Electric SE SU, -3.37% SBGSY, +1.10% and […]