A record number of Americans have voted early in the race between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden, and many will still head to the polls on Election Day. Some companies want to make sure they have plenty of time to do so. Major companies including Walmart WMT, -0.83% and Twitter TWTR, -21.11% […]
Dear Moneyist, Last week, my parents surprised my three siblings and I, by giving us an in-life inheritance of $8 million U.S. dollars in stocks, bonds, ETFs etc. in a shared account (25% for each). As my brothers and I were discussing that we’d re-invest almost all of the profit, I told them I’d like […]
For more than a decade, housing-finance giants Fannie Mae FNMA, -2.59% and Freddie Mac FMCC, -1.09% have remained in conservatorship after being bailed out amid the Great Recession. Fannie and Freddie’s shareholders have been kept in limbo throughout those years — they’ve watched as the enterprises’ profits were swept to the Treasury Department to repay […]
Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican from Ohio, signaled his openness to expanding the child-tax credit as a way to help families that are trying to juggle work responsibilities and child-care obligations in the new normal. “I think in the context of COVID, that might be an area for some bipartisanship because of the loss of […]
A Louisville, Ky., police sergeant who was shot and injured by Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, during the botched raid that left Taylor dead is suing Walker on allegations of assault, battery and intentional emotional distress. In the lawsuit filed Thursday in Jefferson Circuit Court in Louisville, Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly alleges Walker acted recklessly when […]
Of the world’s major economies, India’s banking sector warrants the most concern because it entered the pandemic in poor shape and the scale of damage to private balance sheets suggest it will be hit hard by rising defaults, according to consultancy Capital Economics “[India’s banking] sector is entering a slow-burning crisis, where bad debts will […]
In a photo courtesy Rosalie Sanz, Marry Scott. (Courtesy Rosalie Sanz via The New York Times) Rosalie Sanz was a teenager in 1969 when she looked out the window of her family’s San Diego home on a dark November night and saw two men in suits. She remembers her mother listening quietly to the detectives […]
A man’s reflection is shown in Apple’s flagship store in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol on Oct. 26, 2020. It remains closed due to the pandemic. MarketWatch/Kollmeyer European and U.S. equity futures pointed to losses for markets on Friday, with investors reacting to some disappointment over Apple and Amazon.com earnings, as COVID-19 tensions and pre-election jitters […]
I don’t know what went wrongI don’t know if it was your faultOr the usual scratch of some human touch Poisoned sneezes all around my canalsOver the old pompous marble of my cityThen down to the endless slums of the planet How did we get HERE? You ask,Surrounded by this victorious solitudeIn the streets of […]
MarketWatch photo illustration/Getty Images|, John Stous|, Gabriel Martini|, Fanta Traore|, Elizabeth Meyer|, Jack Claypool|, Holly Davis A Florida day trader who’s watching the pandemic ravage finances for friends and family. A Kansas rancher who dislikes the country’s divisions and worries about tax hikes aimed at the rich and corporations. A Connecticut student who sees a […]