Gold futures headed higher Friday morning as weakness in the U.S. dollar helped to prop up the yellow metal ahead of a policy update from the Federal Reserve due in the middle of the week and a U.K. general election that could roil markets. February gold GCG20, +0.23% on Comex picked up $3.70, or 0.3%, […]
MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE You might think the hard-money, recession-at-every-corner crowd would be predicting an imminent reversal in the stock market given the 20% gain for the Dow Jones Industrial Average this year. Not necessarily. See full story. Sanofi to acquire Synthorx for $2.5 billion The French pharmaceutical company said it plans to take control of […]
Key Point: We’ll probably never know what happened. Russian diesel subs chased a British nuclear sub off the Syrian coast, according to British media. The incident reportedly involved one or two Russian Kilo-class diesel-powered submarines, which have been dubbed the “Black Hole” by Western navies because they are remarkably quiet. Their prey was a British Astute-class […]
By Tim McLaughlin BOSTON (Reuters) – This city’s deepest wound – the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings that killed three and injured hundreds more – will be re-examined Thursday when lawyers for bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev seek to have his death sentence lifted because the jury pool was too traumatized to render a fair verdict. The then-19-year […]
1 / 6 Police personnel and ambulances line up to aid victims of the deadly blaze that ripped through a four-storey bag factory in New Delhi Police personnel and ambulances line up to aid victims of the deadly blaze that ripped through a four-storey bag factory in New Delhi (AFP Photo/Sajjad HUSSAIN) At least 43 […]
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., on Sunday said it would play to the “president’s advantage” to have his top administration officials, in an “out-of-the-box strategy,” testify in the upcoming impeachment hearings. “[Do] you believe that Rudy Giuliani, Mick Mulvaney, Mike Pompeo should all come testify now?” asked ABC’s “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos. “I believe that […]
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 […]
