Category: United States

Labor Day marked the waning days of summer, ushering in school calendars and, this year, the time when management would really start having staff returning to the office more frequently. For example, half (51%) of companies polled in August said they expected workers to use the physical offices more often, according to a survey from […]

Credit-card debt has surged 13% this past year — the largest increase in 20 years. If you find yourself with a growing amount of debt, you need to get yourself back on solid footing before it snowballs out of control. As I’ve learned from coaching thousands of people on how to shed credit-card debt and […]

Dear MarketWatch, We are a couple in our 80s who have been retired since 1996. We have two children who are residing in two of our houses. We would like to know when we should initiate a transfer of the titles to the children that would be tax-advantageous to them. Thank you. The parents Dear […]

Google CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly grew agitated during a “heated” all-hands meeting in which an employee asked why the search engine was nickel-and-diming workers by taking away perks and benefits. Pichai, who has ratcheted up the pressure on Googlers to boost productivity, held court at a meeting in New York this week during which he […]

New York, maybe the people don’t quite love you anymore. According to a new report by moveBuddha, a site where people can calculate their moving costs, New York lost more residents than any other state between April 1, 2020 and July 1, 2021, according to the U.S. Census Bureau population estimates. Over that period, the […]

For the first time since November 2021, U.S. median monthly rents failed to notch a new record high and even fell a little compared to the previous month — by $ 10, to $ 1,771, according to a report on August rental conditions from Realtor.com. But renters, don’t go breathing a sigh of relief quite […]

Wall Street icon Carl Icahn has a warning for his fellow investors: “The worst is yet to come.” Speaking on Wednesday at MarketWatch’s Best New Ideas in Money Festival via a remote feed, the 86-year-old Icahn delivered that grim assessment of the economy, but also spoke of areas of opportunity for investors. It’s not hard […]

Another difficult week for U.S. stocks ended with shares of oil producers sliding and Ford Motor Co. tumbling further on concerns over supply shortages. The S&P 500 SPX, -1.72% fell 1.7% on Friday for a one-week decline of 4.6%, as investors continued to fret about the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate increases to temper inflation. Among components […]

Dear Quentin, My dad passed away and his wife — my stepmother — has been ignoring all the family. I have made numerous attempts to ask questions, but I have been blocked. And her son is accusing us of just wanting our dad’s stuff. I have no money to seek advice. I don’t work because […]

Micron Technology Inc. investors are hoping the memory-chip maker’s forecast will provide more color into the unprecedented supply-and-demand dynamics created by two years of COVID-19-related disruption. Micron MU, +0.89% is scheduled to report its fiscal fourth-quarter results after the market’s close on Thursday. In case there was any question last quarter on whether the two-year […]

Nike Inc. is slated to report fiscal first-quarter results on Thursday after the bell, with Wall Street looking at an ever-expanding list of issues to work through with the athletic gear-maker. A stronger dollar, inflation, Nike’s NKE, -1.55% cultural relevance amid competition, the impact of China’s COVID-19 lockdowns and the state of Nike’s supply chain […]

The crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, and a top Ukrainian negotiator played key roles in months of talks that led to the release of more than 250 prisoners by Russia and Ukraine this week in a broader deal involving Turkey, according to U.S., Ukrainian and Saudi officials and others familiar with the negotiations. Context: […]

It might seem arbitrary to take investing advice from old market adages, but there is one market strategy commonly mentioned ahead of the Jewish holidays – “Sell Rosh Hashanah, Buy Yom Kippur.”  This year, Rosh Hashanah, which is the beginning of the year according to the traditional Jewish calendar, begins at sunset on Sunday, Sept. […]

U.S. stock-market losses deepened Friday afternoon, with the S&P 500 index trading below its 2022 closing low reached in June, as major benchmarks head for weekly losses after bond yields and the dollar rose in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hike on Wednesday. How stock indexes are trading The Dow Jones Industrial […]

Talk about a truly strange real-estate listing: You can now buy the home featured in the hit Netflix NFLX, -3.38% series “Stranger Things” for $ 300,000. The property, which sits on six acres of land, is located in Fayetteville, Ga. — so not quite the Indiana setting depicted in the show. The 1,846-square-foot house has […]

Netflix has a ton of returning fan-favorite series coming in October, including the long-awaited final season of “Derry Girls,” along with a slew of buzzy original movies and documentaries. After a three-year layoff, the endearing teen comedy “Derry Girls” (Oct. 7) returns for its third and final season, which aired earlier this year in the […]

Bond yields spiked on Friday as the U.K. government cut a host of taxes and for the first time quantified the cost of capping energy bills, saying it will cost £60 billion over the next six months. The so-called mini-budget speech from Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng outlined a plan to scrap corporate tax hikes, cut the […]

By Clarence Leong Holders of an onshore bond issued by China Evergrande Group have agreed to extend the interest repayment date by six months as the embattled property developer struggles to meet its debt obligations. A motion for the interest repayment extension of the 2020 bond has been passed in a bondholder meeting, Evergrande said […]

The Fed is ready to bring the pain. Are you prepared? Weeks ago, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell cautioned there would be “some pain to households and businesses” as the central bank jacks up interest rates to fight inflation that’s higher than it’s been in four decades. Powell and other members of the Fed’s Federal […]

Dear Quentin, I am a mother of one child and have a busy career. How much should I tip my cleaning lady? My husband says that we should not tip her that much, probably around 10% to 15%, as we use an app and don’t get the same lady every time. She also doesn’t do […]