Dear Quentin, I am in my 60s — a widow with no kids, but a big extended family. I own my own house and car. I have a couple of investment accounts, a savings account and a pension. I have listed one of my brothers as beneficiary for all of my assets. What can I …
Dear Moneyist, I’m 35 and have been dating a man 20 years older than me; he is 55. I have a 5-year-old child. Things were going well until we started having conversations about the relationship being serious and possibly merging our assets. He shared his home with his ex-wife after being married for 20 years. …
I’m 53 years old and my husband is 59, and we have three children. I make $160,000 a year at my one job, which I hate, and I bring in between $22,000 and $27,000 from my secondary job, which I love. My husband is self-employed and makes between $150,000 and $250,000 a year. We have …
Ever since the collapse of cryptocurrencies last year, lawsuits have been flying. But a series of class-action suits targeting celebrity endorsers of crypto exchanges like FTX and Binance have been piling up in federal court in Miami, all filed by the same group of South Florida lawyers. The latest suit names global soccer superstar Cristiano …
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Options traders piled into bullish bets on the Russell 2000 on Tuesday, after the October consumer-price-index report sent the battered small-cap index surging to its best day in more than a year. A team of options strategists at Goldman Sachs Group said that 1.44 million call options tied to an exchange-traded fund tracking the Russell …
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Exchange-traded funds that buy bank stocks surged Tuesday after a reading on inflation was softer than Wall Street analysts expected. Shares of the SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF KRE closed 7.4 % higher, booking their largest percentage increase since May, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The Invesco KBW Bank ETF KBWB, which holds major …
The Dow Jones Industrial Average notched its first “death cross” since March 2022 on Monday, in what some have described as the latest ominous development for stocks as the market looks to extend its November rebound rally. This time around, two straight sessions in the green weren’t enough to keep the Dow out of death-cross …
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Inflation data, a Fed speech and a government-shutdown deadline are on the calendar this week. MarketWatch photo illustration/iStock U.S. inflation data for October is clearly the economic highlight for markets, economists and policymakers this coming week. That’s because if price pressures continue their cooling trend from the summer, the Fed might be able to refrain …
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We are both 70. We retired at age 62, but my husband immediately went back to work with two part-time jobs. He constantly worries about money. We own a home worth $550,000 and still owe $128,000 on it. We have a 2.2% interest rate. My husband says it makes no sense to take out money …
U.S. stocks ended sharply higher Friday, more than shaking off weakness seen the previous session in the aftermath of a poor Treasury bond auction and fresh signs that interest rates may stay higher for longer. Technology stocks drove the bounce, with the Nasdaq Composite leading major indexes to the upside as it and the S&P …
