Category: United States

It’s getting to be time to break open the bubbly. Yes, New Year’s Eve is upon us. And that means people will be looking to toast the new year with a sip of Champagne or another sparkling wine. Americans certainly have a taste for the fizzy stuff. The U.S. is the top export market for […]

Oil futures ended slightly lower Friday on the final trading day of 2023, capping crude’s first losing year since 2020 as concerns about the demand outlook outweighed potential supply disruptions and efforts by OPEC and its allies to limit production. Price action West Texas Intermediate crude for February delivery CL00, -0.61% CL.1, -0.61% CLG24, -0.61% […]

Shares of Uber Technologies Inc. and the ride-hailing giant’s smaller rival, Lyft Inc., have sprinted higher this year. But analysts on Friday suggested there might not be much left in the tank for either stock heading into 2024. Nomura analysts Anindya Das and Masataka Kunugimoto on Friday downgraded Uber UBER, -2.49% to a neutral rating […]

Don’t miss these top mutual fund- and ETF-related features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS These ETF strategies won big in 2023. How one analyst sees them doing next year. ETFs linked to technology and options-based strategies did well this year. How […]

(Updated with Friday’s closing prices.) The 2023 rally for stocks in the U.S. accelerated as more investors bought the idea that the Federal Reserve succeeded in its effort to bring inflation to heel. The S&P 500 SPX ended Friday with a 24.2% gain for 2023, following a 19.4% decline in 2022. (All price changes in […]

We often avoid difficult financial conversations until they become unavoidable, which is always too late. This also tends to hold true for discussions about our health and the health of our loved ones, particularly when it comes to diseases like Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia. Despite the widespread impact of Alzheimer’s, which currently affects one […]

The U.S. stock market staged a remarkable rally in 2023, but 173 stocks in the S&P 500 were still down for the year. Here’s a roundup of how well the 11 sectors of the S&P 500 fared through 10 a.m. Eastern time on Friday: Sector or index 2023 price change 2022 price change Price change […]

The new year can offer the hope of a fresh start — and a fresh slate for credit cards. While only 10% of Americans aged 65 years and older made and kept financial New Year’s resolutions in 2023, 71% have made such resolutions for the quickly approaching new year, according to research from Edward Jones. […]

Pros Driving nirvana Wide range of choices Affordable, for a Porsche Cons Android Auto not available What’s new? Style Edition 718 Spyder RS T Model discontinued The 2024 Porsche 718 Boxster is the company’s most affordable soft-top, yet it still has plenty of great Porsche POAHY, -0.97% qualities. Pricing starts at $ 70,400. Porsche makes cars […]

The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday sued education-services company Grand Canyon Education Inc., which does much of its work with Phoenix-based Grand Canyon University, accusing the two entities of deceiving prospective students about program costs and “deceptively” marketing the school as a nonprofit. The FTC also named the university and its president, Brian Mueller, who […]

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has agreed to settle a consumer-privacy lawsuit that alleged the company secretly tracked millions of people who thought they were browsing the internet privately, according to a Reuters report Thursday. The lawsuit sought at least $ 5 billion. Settlement terms were not disclosed, but the lawyers said they expected to present a […]

Hello! This is MarketWatch reporter Isabel Wang bringing you this week’s ETF Wrap. In this week’s edition, we look at ETF strategies that have exploded in popularity in 2023, and whether they will continue to gain momentum in the year ahead. Please send tips or feedback to isabel.wang@marketwatch.com or to christine.idzelis@marketwatch.com. You can also follow […]

U.S. stocks finished mostly higher on Thursday with the S&P 500 closing just shy of record territory as the large-cap index heads for its best December since 2010. How stocks traded The S&P 500 SPX gained 1.77 points, or less than 0.1%, to close at 4,783.35. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA rose by 53.58 […]

Treasury yields moved higher Thursday, extending their rise after a weakly received sale of 7-year notes in the final full trading session of 2023. Sifma, the finance-industry trade group, has recommended that U.S. bond trading close an hour early at 2 p.m. Eastern time on Friday. Financial markets in the U.S. and much of the […]

Franklin Wireless Corp.’s stock was up by 8.7% on Thursday after 3.2% shareholder Sinnet Capital Partners requested a special dividend and a stock buyback. Sinnet Capital said Franklin Wireless FKWL, +10.03% should pay a special dividend of $ 1 a share, execute a $ 10 million Dutch tender buyback and hire an investor-relations company to […]

Quick, name the best-performing stock of 2023 so far. No, it isn’t related to artificial intelligence — although shares of AI-linked chip maker Nvidia Corp. NVDA, +0.28% have surged more than 200% thus far on the year. The so-called Magnificent Seven group of stocks, which includes Nvidia, have produced illustrious year-to-date returns. Both collectively and […]

Quick facts on saving money on a vehicle:  One of the best ways to save thousands of dollars is to pay for your car in cash. You’ll save on interest if you pay upfront for your vehicle. If you need to get a loan on a vehicle, look for monthly deals on financing or other incentives. You might […]

The latest Apple Watches are available again after the company scored a legal victory Wednesday. “We are thrilled to return the full Apple Watch lineup to customers in time for the new year,” Apple AAPL, +0.05% said in a statement to MarketWatch. “Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2, including the blood-oxygen feature, will […]

BaTeLab’s shares fell in their trading debut in Hong Kong, sliding below their initial offering price in a lackluster start for the Chinese semiconductor company backed by electric-vehicle giant BYD 1211, +3.12%. Shares of the Chinese integrated-circuit provider declined as much as 14% early on Thursday before paring losses. It was last down 2.8% at […]

Subscribers of Amazon’s Prime Video have one more month before they start seeing commercials — or have to pay more to avoid them. In an email to subscribers this week, Amazon AMZN, -0.05% said “limited advertisements” will air with movies and TV shows on Prime Video starting Jan. 29. “This will allow us to continue […]