Americans’ credit scores continue to improve. But credit scores don’t tell the whole story of how consumers are faring financially. A new report from Experian EXPN, +1.15% found that the average FICO Score in the U.S. reached an all-time high in 2019 of 703, up from 701 a year earlier and 14 points higher than […]
Some industries appear more conducive to women leaders than others. Companies in the apparel industry boasted the highest rate of CEO replacements who are women (53.8%, or seven out of 13) last year, while companies in the government and nonprofit sector had the highest number of women CEO replacements (114 out of 263, or 43.3%). […]
During tax filing season, which will start any day now, it’s not unusual to learn that you botched a previously filed return. Been there, done that. Say you just figured out that you missed some tax-saving deductions and credits on your 2018 Form 1040, which you filed only a little while ago. You discover the […]
Trump REUTERS/Tom Brenner Trump reportedly picked his impeachment defense team based partly on their ability to defend him on television. CNN reports that Trump has told those close to him that he wants a “high profile” legal team that will perform well in televised appearances. Trump on Friday announced a legal team including long-time TV […]
A body found in a submerged car in the Salem River Thursday has been identified as Vanessa Smallwood, a Maple Shade woman reported missing in January 2014. SALEM, N.J. – A body found in a submerged car here Thursday was a New Jersey woman reported missing almost six years ago. Vanessa Smallwood, who was 46 […]
Matthew Albence, right, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, speaks during a news conference, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020, in New York. The country’s top immigration official blamed the “sanctuary policies” of New York City on Friday for the sexual assault and killing of a 92-year-old woman, while the mayor’s office decried such […]
Apparently, the land of the free and the home of the brave is not the best place to start a family. In fact, the United States barely cracked the top 20 Best Countries for Raising Kids, which is part of the Best Countries report released by U.S. News & World Report this week. The rankings […]
Earnings are the single best guide in the stock market in the long term. In the short term, sentiment rules. Only 8% of the strong move up in the stock market last year was attributable to earnings. The rest was triggered by the Federal Reserve reversing its policy of raising interest rates, which boosted sentiment, […]
Whip your finances into shape. When money writer Lindsay Goldwert began interviewing dominatrixes for her new book, “Bow Down: Lessons From Dominatrixes on How to Get Everything You Want,” she “thought it would be a fun idea, ‘dominatrixes whip me into shape,’” she tells MarketWatch. (A professional dominatrix, according to the book, is someone “educated […]
Getty Images/iStockphoto The IRS Free File program is now open ahead of tax season. People who want to submit their taxes for free can start preparing Friday with this season’s launch of the IRS Free File program. The program lets taxpayers with 2019 adjusted gross incomes below $69,000 per year file their federal and state […]