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The massive cargo ship that has been blocking the Suez Canal for nearly a week has been partially freed, according to reports late Sunday. Maritime services provider Inchcape Shipping tweeted that “The MV Ever Given was successfully re-floated” early Monday, local time. “She is being secured at the moment. More information about next steps will […]

News Corp is nearing an agreement to purchase the consumer arm of educational publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co., according to people familiar with the matter, which would mark the media company’s second deal in less than a week. The deal, which the people said could be announced as early as Monday, would add a portfolio of high-profile novels […]

NFTs have officially gone mainstream. Non-fungible tokens are the hottest thing in the crypto-asset community these days, generating headlines and social-media buzz even though many people still have no idea what they are or how they work. But it might have taken a sketch on this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” to answer the big question: […]

Dear Quentin, My dad recently passed away. My stepmother and he signed a prenup where she gets nothing. Because she has nothing, she has asked me, the only child, for some financial assistance. She asked for me to purchase a house for her to live comfortably. I would like to help her because I know […]

MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE Wall Street’s calendar trading patterns aren’t worth planning your days around. See full story. We want to retire in a place with a low cost of living, no humidity and no colder than 50 degrees — I freeze easily! Where should we go? The house budget is broad: $ 250,000 to $ […]

MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE Wall Street’s calendar trading patterns aren’t worth planning your days around. See full story. We want to retire in a place with a low cost of living, no humidity and no colder than 50 degrees — I freeze easily! Where should we go? The house budget is broad: $ 250,000 to $ […]

MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE Wall Street’s calendar trading patterns aren’t worth planning your days around. See full story. We want to retire in a place with a low cost of living, no humidity and no colder than 50 degrees — I freeze easily! Where should we go? The house budget is broad: $ 250,000 to $ […]

Netflix Inc. is releasing a slew of new stuff in April, including the return of a reality hit and a much-anticipated new fantasy series. That would be “Shadow and Bone” (April 23), the series adaptation of the hugely popular YA novels from Leigh Bardugo. Jessie Mei Li stars as Alina, an orphan in a war-torn […]

The Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday again overhauled its upcoming movie-release plans, postponing many of its biggest films and announcing “Black Widow” will stream on Disney+ the same day it hits theaters. “Black Widow,” the highly anticipated Marvel superhero movie starring Scarlett Johansson that had its release postponed last year due to the pandemic, had […]

Amazon Prime Video doesn’t have a whole lot of new offerings coming in April, but its two highest-profile debuts should at least bring the thrills. The biggest of the bunch looks to be “Without Remorse” (April 30), an action thriller movie based on the Tom Clancy book. Michael B. Jordan stars as John Kelly, a […]

Updated with the price changed taking effect. It’ll now cost you $ 1 more a month to watch your favorite Marvel, Pixar and “Star Wars” stuff. Disney+ raised its monthly price from $ 6.99 a month to $ 7.99 a month in the U.S. starting Friday, March 26. The annual subscription price rose too, from […]

Sports-media outlet the Athletic is in merger talks with news startup Axios, according to people familiar with the matter, part of a plan to build a larger online-publishing company that could include going public through a blank-check firm. Alex Mather, chief executive of the Athletic, approached Axios CEO Jim VandeHei about a week ago with […]

It was deja vu all over again. The chief executives of Google parent Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, -0.38% GOOG, -0.43%, Facebook Inc. FB, +1.54%, and Twitter Inc. TWTR, +0.10% alternately were filleted, grilled and otherwise pummeled before the House Committee on Energy & Commerce on Thursday. “It is now painfully clear that neither the market nor […]

Bitcoin prices were under pressure on Thursday, and the world’s No. 1 crypto could see further bearish pain in the near term if stocks continue to buckle, according to an analyst. At last check, bitcoin BTCUSD, +1.45% was changing hands at $ 51.743 on CoinDesk, with the asset briefly touching a low at $ 50,458.10 […]

President Joe Biden is pledging to reopen the majority of K-8 schools within his first 100 days in office — if he’s able to achieve that goal, students could benefit from an educational standpoint but also from a mental health standpoint.  School-aged children have experienced unprecedented rates of anxiety, stress and depression during the pandemic. That’s […]

The worry about hunger and homelessness across the country has become very real for the first time, according to a new poll underscoring how deeply one year of the pandemic has shaken Americans’ economic security. Some 55% of people told Gallup pollsters said they worried “a great deal” about hunger and homelessness in the nation, […]

The money from the expanded Child Tax Credit, coupled with other benefits in the $ 1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, might cut child poverty in half according to some estimates — but a family needs to access the cash first. A tax return may be one major way to help families, and the effort is […]

Have you received your COVID-19 vaccine shots? That’s what the overwhelming majority of companies are going to be asking their employees, according to a new survey of CEOs in the U.S. 91% of the 140 polled CEOs said their companies will be asking workers to inform them once the workers have been vaccinated, according to […]

Good Friday is next week and markets will be closed as per usual. However, what will be unusual is that the closure of financial exchanges in the U.S., and some other parts of the world, comes as the government is slated to release a key report on employment in the middle of a pandemic. Why […]

Crude-oil futures finished higher Friday as a 220,000 ton cargo ship blocked the Suez Canal for a fourth straight day and efforts to dislodge one of the world’s largest container vessels from the critical trade waterway proved unsuccessful. The narrow canal is a crucial chokepoint for Persian Gulf oil and uncertainty about how long it […]