Category: United States

Scott Peng, the founder and chief investment officer of New York investment manager Advocate Capital Management, made at the beginning of the year what seemed to be a prescient call — that the yield on the 10-year Treasury would spike. And it did, for a while, surging as much as 83 basis points in the […]

U.S. stock futures declined on Monday, as weaker-than-forecast Chinese economic data cast a pall on market sentiment. What’s happening Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average YM00, -0.32% declined 77 points; Futures on the S&P 500 ES00, -0.30% declined 0.2%; Futures on the Nasdaq Composite NQ00, -0.20% slipped 0.1%. Last week, the S&P 500 SPX, […]

Hyatt Hotels Corp. plans to buy resort company Apple Leisure Group from its private-equity owners for $ 2.7 billion. The deal for the company, which is owned by KKR & Co. KKR, +0.13% and travel-and-leisure specialist KSL Capital Partners LLC, was announced Sunday after The Wall Street Journal reported it was imminent. The transaction is the latest sign of […]

After 20 years in the shadows, the Taliban have returned to power in Afghanistan, raising questions about stability in the Middle East and stoking some potential unrest in U.S. financial markets, amid a weekend that was rife with political developments. However, the impact to the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.04%, […]

T-Mobile US Inc. confirmed Sunday that it is investigating claims that a hacker is attempting to sell the personal data of more than 100 million customers. Vice’s Motherboard first reported the incident, in which a hacker on an online forum claimed to be selling private data that includes names, Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers […]

MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE Company insiders and professional investors are buying shares of Alibaba, Chegg and Activision Blizzard, among others. See full story. 20 stocks for maximum growth as the world switches to clean energy A landmark U.N. climate report is urging policy makers to reduce carbon output. These companies operate in industries aiming to do […]

Dear Quentin, I’ve been married for 27 years now, and my husband and I have been estranged for the last six years. He is a serial cheater and has only held a job for six consecutive years. He’s done small gigs here and there, but mostly does construction as his side hustle.  We live in […]

MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE Company insiders and professional investors are buying shares of Alibaba, Chegg and Activision Blizzard, among others. See full story. 20 stocks for maximum growth as the world switches to clean energy A landmark U.N. climate report is urging policy makers to reduce carbon output. These companies operate in industries aiming to do […]

MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE Company insiders and professional investors are buying shares of Alibaba, Chegg and Activision Blizzard, among others. See full story. 20 stocks for maximum growth as the world switches to clean energy A landmark U.N. climate report is urging policy makers to reduce carbon output. These companies operate in industries aiming to do […]

Facebook, according to a July 28 earnings call, plans to “transition from the social network to a metaverse company.” Say what? Let’s start with a definition for that new buzzword, metaverse: A confluence of physical, augmented and virtual reality. In the metaverse, those media formats come together to form a persistent digital presence in which […]

Over the past two centuries, federal, state and municipal governments across the U.S. have launched wave after wave of infrastructure projects. They built canals to move freight in the 1830s and 1840s. Governments subsidized railroads in the mid- and late 19th century. They created local sewage and water systems in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and […]

A decision in a landmark antitrust legal case could come by the end of the month, but that is far from the only concern bearing down on Apple Inc. Legal experts anticipate federal Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers will side with Apple AAPL, +0.14% in its legal fight with Epic Games Inc., denying the “Fortnite” maker’s […]

This article is reprinted by permission from NextAvenue.org. According to a 2020 Edward Jones/Age Wave study, one in three new retirees struggles with finding purpose after leaving their job. In many ways, that’s not surprising. Like author and motivational speaker Wayne Dyer used to say, “If you are what you do, then when you don’t, you […]

MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE Company insiders and professional investors are buying shares of Alibaba, Chegg and Activision Blizzard, among others. See full story. If we take these five steps now, we can ward off a climate disaster The sobering IPCC report was alarming yet offered potential ways to offset greenhouse gases. See full story. 20 stocks […]

These days, Americans are going beyond the norm on a daily basis. They feast upon plant-based Beyond Meat BYND, -2.57% products. They wear Beyond Yoga athletic clothes. They tackle home-improvement projects with Beyond Paint products. They even feed their dogs and cats Beyond brand natural pet food. In a word, “beyond” has become a buzzword. […]

The housing market is supposed to be on fire right now, but this might be a little too literal. Offers are pouring in — and above listing price — for an $ 850,000 burnt-out house in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Sure, many homebuyers are looking for a place that they can really put their […]

Is IBM a Democratic or a Republican stock? I ask because it is one of the largest holdings in the Democratic Large-Cap Core ETF DEMZ, which “only purchases securities of companies that are supportive, through their political contributions, of Democratic candidates and political action committees.” The ETF invests in companies “that, along…

U.S. consumers’ dashed hopes for an end to the pandemic are at risk of morphing more broadly into higher inflation expectations over the next year. And that’s the biggest risk facing financial markets through mid-2022, according to Jefferies LLC economist Thomas Simons. “The longer the economy and society remain distorted or abnormal relative to what we […]

Dear Quentin, I have (or, I should say, “had”) a wealthy benefactress who gave me money six years ago as a gift. Now her financial situation has changed (she’s down to her last several million) and she texted me last week that she would like the money she “provided” (her words) back — adding that […]

Dear Quentin, Four years ago, my husband and I divorced. It became a volatile situation in the end, so I moved my daughter and myself into a house with a friend of a friend, who had rooms to rent in his home.  My husband stayed in my house (which I owned pre-marriage) while looking for […]