MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE Our call of the day from wealth manager Ross Gerber takes a look at a home-run stock-pick in 2019 and some possibilities for the coming year. See full story. I’m 56 and unemployed, but have $100,000 to live off until I find a job. Where should I put this money? How to […]
Aviation Gin, the liquor brand owned by the actor Ryan Reynolds, has mocked Peloton’s widely criticized holiday commercial with help from the same actress who appeared in a controversial ad for the exercise bike. Peloton’s advertisement went viral for all the wrong reasons. People have been obsessed with the stationary-bike advertisement showing a woman receiving […]
Dear Moneyist, Last year, at the age of 71, I discovered through an Ancestry.com DNA test that my biological father was a Mr. D. T. Trotta, who was born in 1913 and passed away in 1980 when I was 33. The secret was never revealed to me either by him or by my mother. She […]
Dear Moneyist, My friend’s father was a widower who had roughly $5 million in stocks. He was 84 when he met and soon married his younger bride (a nurse who was 60 at the time, divorced with grown children). She signed a prenuptial agreement when they married. A few years later he told his children […]
Dear Moneyist, I very much enjoy your column, and you are much kinder than I am. It may be my age, but my parents weren’t expected to pay for college when I came of age. I am, yes, a baby boomer. From reading your column it seems like lots of people of varying ages seem […]
A TV reporter said she was left “violated” and “embarrassed” after being smacked on the bottom during a live broadcast. Alex Bozarjian, of WSAV News, was reporting roadside from a 10km race in Savannah, Georgia, when a male participant ran up behind and struck her. Ms Bozarjian appeared visibly shocked in footage of the incident […]
iStockphoto Here are some thoughts about the timing of the shift in market conditions. How should investors think about the possible end of the decade long bull market? With the U.S. economic expansion now into a record eleventh year, it’s a fair question. A new analysis from BCA Research is somewhat reassuring: “Stocks can still […]
Saudi Aramco’s initial public offering is set to begin trading Wednesday, and expect the financial media industrial complex to go into overdrive. It’s the world’s biggest IPO! It‘s oil! Wow! What does it mean to you? It means very little, thank you very much. Now, the argument that Aramco’s IPO means little is not the […]
U.S. stocks closed sharply higher Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average having its best day in two months, after the employment report from the Labor Department beat economists’ consensus expectations, showing an estimated 266,000 new jobs created in November, the most since January, while the unemployment rate fell to a 50-year low. Investors also […]
MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE A hotter-than-expected jobs report for November has Wall Street waxing extremely bullish. See full story. I’m 56 and unemployed, but have $100,000 to live off until I find a job. Where should I put this money? How to get back on your feet — and protect yourself. See full story. We get […]