Category: United States

Dear Quentin, My friend invited me to Cape Cod over the July 4 weekend. He booked an Airbnb for 10 days and said he was inviting friends to come stay. I suggested that I stay from Thursday to Tuesday, but he said Thursday to Monday would be best, as he may have other people staying […]

Published: July 1, 2024 at 8:36 p.m. ET By Amanda Lee Chinese electric-vehicle maker BYD sold 341,658 vehicles in June, up 3% from May and 35% higher from a year ago. About Dow Jones Newswires Dow Jones Newswires is a market-moving financial and business news source, used by wealth managers, institutional investors and fintech platforms […]

GSK’s London-listed shares fell even more swiftly than their ADRs to news that advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shifted their recommendations for who should be vaccinated against respiratory syncytial virus. GSK’s London-listed shares GSK, -5.13% were trading at £14.91 in early action Thursday, a decline of 7%, and worse than the £15.44 […]

The Biden-Trump rematch in the 2024 White House race has sparked all sorts of commentary — including references to the 1892 presidential election. “This is the first election since 1892 that you’ve had back-to-back presidents facing off,” said Charlie Cook, founder and contributor at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, in remarks at an economics conference […]

Dear Quentin, I’m in my early 40s, and I have worked myself into a sad state of health with the stress of running my own business for 15 years. In April, I pulled off the Band-Aid and sold my shares for about $ 130,000. Coincidentally, the remaining balance on my student loan was forgiven.  I […]

Dear Quentin, What are options for an elderly person to leave money to an adult child in her 50s, let’s call her “Mary,” who has been completely financially irresponsible (including being homeless at times)? Would an annuity purchased upon our death make sense? Or a trust? Who should be the executor of the trust? She […]

Influential trader Keith Gill, also known as Roaring Kitty, appears to be holding his position in GameStop Corp. as shares of the video game retailer and original meme stock slide. GameStop’s GME, -12.01% stock was down 1.2% in premarket trades Tuesday after ending Monday’s session down 12%. The company’s shares closed down 39.4% Friday, registering […]

Zoox, the self-driving-vehicle unit of Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +1.08%, will soon expand street testing to Austin, Texas, and Miami, Fla. In a blog post Wednesday, Zoox said the expansion “marks a significant step forward.” Zoox vehicles first started testing on the streets of San Francisco in 2018, and have since expanded to Las Vegas and […]

Whenever I walk into a McDonald’s, I engage in a game of food arithmetic, counting the calories of the various items I might consider consuming. I’ll order a double cheeseburger instead of a Big Mac, saving myself about 150 calories in the process (even more if I ask them to hold the cheese). I’ll opt […]

Dear MarketWatch,  My husband is 70 and I am 63. We are both retired and have a combined monthly income of $ 4,000. We are considering purchasing a $ 200,000 annuity that would cover both of us, and I would like to know what our monthly disbursement would be, and how long it would take to […]

With hurricane season about to start, key stocks in the home-improvement and consumer-staples industries could present opportunities, according to investing-information website Trading.biz. Hurricane season in the U.S. normally begins June 1 and runs through Nov. 30. There are no tropical Atlantic cyclones at this time, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. However, researchers at Colorado State […]

Ilaria Tripp amassed $ 8,000 in credit-card bills and a personal loan just over $ 6,000 before finally feeling pinned by her debt. So the 28-year-old confined her expenses to the bare minimum and applied the rest of her money to paying down the debt. She also started posting TikTok videos about her path to […]

Cisco Systems Inc. shares were gaining in Wednesday’s extended session after the networking and software company said customer demand was stabilizing and issued an upbeat revenue outlook for the ongoing quarter. The company CSCO, +1.47% on Wednesday posted fiscal third-quarter net income of $ 1.89 billion, or 46 cents a share, compared with $ 3.21 […]

Housing costs may have gotten out of control, but there’s another expense that now poses an even greater burden to many American families: child care.  Jessica Norwood, a working mother of two in North Carolina and host of the financial-literacy show “The Sugar Daddy Podcast,” said daycare costs when her two children were ages 3 […]

Shares of Progyny Inc. tumbled Friday after the fertility-services company said the Supreme Court of Alabama’s February ruling regarding in vitro fertilization seemed to scare off some potential customers. The increased customer caution led to lower-than-expected first-quarter revenue and prompted the company to provide a downbeat outlook for the current quarter and cut its full-year […]

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. on Tuesday named former Dallas Federal Reserve president Rob Kaplan as vice chairman and management committee member. Goldman Sachs GS, +0.13% said Kaplan will rejoin the firm after he worked there for more than 20 years before retiring in 2006 to teach at Harvard University. “Rob will also draw on his […]

In the battle against short sellers, Donald Trump is winning for now. The former president’s social-media company, Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. DJT, -1.54%, has battled its way back on the stock market after blaming its earlier share price woes on naked short selling. Since the company behind conservative social-media platform Truth Social declared […]

Dreaming of buying a house in today’s challenging real-estate market? In this economy, you’ll need to make at least six figures — in most markets. But there are still some parts of the U.S. where aspiring homeowners can comfortably afford to buy even if they make less than $ 100,000, according to a new report […]

Dear Quentin, I have an 86-year-old mother who is living with early- to mid-stage dementia. She has had a partner for 30 years. They live in Oregon and I live in Idaho; there is no common-law marriage in Oregon. In 2000, my mother put her partner on the deed of her house, while I, her […]

“ The U.S. Treasury is now rolling over maturing debt at a steeper cost.” A controversial new book by psychologist Jonathan Haidt laments The Anxious Generation. The number of sleep-deprived high schoolers has climbed 13% in the United States, and young people do indeed have reasons to be jittery. While Haidt blames social media, members of Gen Z […]