MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE It is going to get worse before it gets better for the stock market, says prominent technical analyst Ralph Acampora. See full story. ‘My daughter has been chiding me for frivolously spending her inheritance. Now she won’t speak to me’ ‘My financial adviser assures me that if I live within my current […]
Looking for a six-figure job that makes you happy in 2020, but is also increasing in demand? Front-end engineers had an average overall job satisfaction score of 3.9 out of 5 on Glassdoor, making theirs the No. 1 profession for 2020 in terms of job satisfaction, salary and job openings, according to a new ranking, […]
Finland was No. 1 out of 156 countries on the 2019 “World Happiness Report,” followed by Denmark, Norway, Iceland, the Netherlands and Switzerland. The U.S. trailed at No. 19. The top countries ranked highly on all the main factors found to support happiness: caring, freedom, generosity, honesty, health, income and good governance. Finland was No. […]
Weston Blasi Earl Freeman, right, and his partner Patrick Donnelly, left, won tickets to Super 54 in Miami. Kansas City Chiefs superfan Earl Freeman has been a season ticket holder for 52 years. He’s one of the only people on Earth who went to the last Chiefs Super Bowl in 1970 and who will also […]
President Trump seems to have former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on his mind at the moment. And Bloomberg’s campaign isn’t holding back in its response. In three tweets early Sunday morning, Trump repeatedly mocked the Democratic presidential candidate’s height. And in a Fox News interview set to be released ahead of the Super […]
By Ryan Woo and Enrico Dela Cruz BEIJING/MANILA (Reuters) – The first death from the coronavirus outside of China was reported on Sunday and the Beijing government took steps to shore up an economy hit by travel curbs and business shut-downs because of the epidemic. A 44-year-old Chinese man from the city of Wuhan in […]
CULIACAN, Feb 1 (Reuters) – The daughter of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman married another offspring of a drug empire in a lavish ceremony held in the cathedral of Sinaloa’s state capital Culiacan, Mexican media reported, in a new display of her family’s prominence. Alejandrina Gisselle Guzman married Edgar Cazares, the nephew of […]
Here’s the dirt on the most controversial book of the year so far — and no, we’re not talking about John Bolton’s upcoming tome that has rattled the impeachment trial. It’s “American Dirt,” a novel written by Jeanine Cummins that hit shelves last week. The story follows a Mexican mother named Lydia and her son […]
MarketWatch photo illustration/iStockphoto Uncle Sam isn’t bringing nachos to you Super Bowl party, he’s bring a tax break. Here’s the sad fact for the 26 million Americans expected to bet billions on Sunday’s Super Bowl — some of you will be losing your money. But this could cheer you up a bit: Uncle Sam might […]
As public health authorities work to halt the spread of coronavirus in the U.S., they’ll face two major obstacles: eroding trust in the media and medical system, and fake news. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Thursday the first instance of person-to-person transmission of the coronavirus in the U.S. after the husband of […]