MarketWatchAug 8, 2:48 PMQuentin Fottrell
‘My wife and I are both retired’: Do we dip into our $2.3 million fund to pay off our $300,000 mortgage at 2.9%?
“Right now, we’re withdrawing about $100,000 a year from our investments.”
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“Right now, we’re withdrawing about $100,000 a year from our investments.”
Read at sourceBerkshire Hathaway booked a near $13 billion gain on investments in the latest quarter, and has put $32 billion of its cash pile to work.
Read at sourceTiming is everything when balancing retirement distributions and moving across state lines.
Read at sourceWendy’s new CEO is embarking on a turnaround initiative, while acknowledging that issues around food quality and service have turned customers away.
Read at sourceNvidia could bump SpaceX to “the front of the line” when it comes to its limited supply of chips, according to Bernstein.
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Read at sourceThe chip maker recorded its largest-ever weekly increase in market capitalization.
Read at sourceTwo months after he was blocked by the Supreme Court, President Donald Trump has resumed his effort to oust Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook as part of an effort to stack the central bank’s board with more allies.
Read at sourceBooming demand for Palantir’s AI solutions is restoring confidence in the company.
Read at sourceThe chances of a hike remain, with upcoming inflation reports a key focus for Fed officials.
Read at sourceThe share of Americans who are working or looking for a job hasn’t been this low since the pandemic, according to a July jobs report full of gut punches.
Read at sourceStarlink versus fiber, cable and 5G: The smart spender’s guide to 2026 internet options.
Read at sourceSometimes stocks come under pressure once insiders are able to unload shares, but in the case of SpaceX. that risk may have been already priced in.
Read at source“My father placed his $600,000 Wisconsin home into a revocable trust, naming my brother as beneficiary.”
Read at sourceWhile one analyst thinks Doximity has a compelling AI opportunity, another worries that the company could cannibalize its core business of medical networking.
Read at sourceThe popular default investments may need to be more aggressive in order to fund decades of retirement.
Read at sourceThe state, which has been at the center of the biggest cyclospora outbreak in the U.S., said this week that the number new cases of cyclosporiasis has fallen.
Read at source“I was approached by one company who wants to use AI to dispatch ambulances.”
Read at sourceBeijing controls a chokepoint that Washington’s own crackdown can’t address.
Read at sourceWhat Kevin O’Leary learned from Steve Jobs: You only need to get three things done every day. Just three.
Read at sourceBullish derivative bets mesh with the buy-the-dip mentality, says IBKR’s Sosnick
Read at sourceInvestors are demanding higher rates when they buy long-duration bonds because there is less demand, higher supply and a hot mess of policy uncertainty, strategist explains
Read at source“I imagine scenarios like this happen more often than people realize.”
Read at sourceThe salad chain’s shares tumbled after hours, but it said it doesn’t use iceberg lettuce and only uses jalapenos in two dressings.
Read at sourceTrade Desk’s growth struggles deepened in the second quarter, as the company posted an earnings and revenue miss combined with disappointing guidance.
Read at sourceGold miners’ stocks can offer a high-quality play for investors worried about inflation and the Fed.
Read at sourceLet’s all agree that, going forward, we’ll stop saying that Social Security will “run out of money” in 2032.
Read at sourceWhat volatility measures are saying about the S&P 500’s rally to record highs.
Read at sourceValue is leaving growth behind at a pace rarely seen outside major market downturns. The twist: This is a bull market.
Read at sourceAlphabet is utilizing its balance sheet with a fresh debt issuance as heavy AI investments eat into its free cash flow.
Read at sourceWhile Sandisk and Western Digital shares were down, Micron erased its intraday losses.
Read at source“History has repeatedly shown that the sales impact of foodborne illness tends to be fleeting for restaurants,” one analyst noted.
Read at sourceThe software company also came up short on expectations for revenue in the latest quarter.
Read at sourceThe newly minted Honeywell Aerospace stunned Wall Street only weeks into its life as a standalone company.
Read at sourcePresident Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent chalked up last week’s historic joint intervention to support the yen as a friendly gesture in support of an ally.
Read at sourceDon’t compare your nest-egg balance to a number that doesn’t actually mean anything. Instead, do this calculation to see if you’re on track for retirement.
Read at source“She left behind a 30-year-old son and 32-year-old daughter.”
Read at source“I don’t want to spend a bunch of money and have a bad time.”
Read at sourceRising sales and a labor shortage are deterring job cuts. Jobless claims haven’t been this low since 1969.
Read at sourceYour own evolving goals might point the way to a different type of exchange-traded fund.
Read at sourceThe cloud-monitoring company faced a high bar due to its strong stock performance this year and ended up beating expectations by less than it did in the prior quarter.
Read at sourceInherited IRAs can create a tax liability for heirs, but this should not be your first concern.
Read at sourceThe financial-services company cut its full-year outlook and acknowledged that organic revenue growth could be negative for 2026.
Read at sourceStudents and parents are breaking their back-to-school budgets thanks to inflation and social-media trends.
Read at sourceSurprisingly, many foreign markets are way ahead of the U.S. in year-to-date performance.
Read at sourceJPMorgan strategists say some big hedge fund groups took heavy hits from the July tech selloff, and they may be buying far less of those stocks going forward.
Read at sourceThe Japanese company’s investment in Intel paid off.
Read at sourceThe U.S. jobs market isn’t getting much better for people looking for work — but it’s not getting any worse, either.
Read at sourceSK Hynix stock dived 30% in premarket trade in Seoul before recovering much of the lost value.
Read at sourceSandisk stock slumped 9% in premarket trade on Thursday after the maker of NAND flash chips issued guidance that disappointed investors. Here’s what analysts are saying.
Read at sourceBuy 10-year Treasury gilts over U.S. Treasurys and other international bonds, advises TS Lombard.
Read at source“I was shocked to learn that his monthly Social Security benefit will be only $700.”
Read at sourceUp to 911.5 million SpaceX shares will become available for sale Thursday, but a separate tranche of up to 455.8 million shares will stay locked up due to the stock’s weak performance.
Read at sourceActor Bill Cosby has again removed his New York City townhouse from the market—weeks after canceling a deposition in an ongoing $60 million rape case because of his ill health.
Read at source“We can ship higher-quality products much, much more quickly,” an executive said in the wake of the company’s better-than-expected earnings report
Read at sourceThe midpoint of the company’s revenue forecast was below what analysts had been modeling.
Read at sourceThe S&P 500 has enjoyed an epic rally over the past five days — but the advance may be more mechanical and driven by options positioning, rather than by an improvement in investors’ fundamental outlook.
Read at sourceFigma’s AI monetization strategy is showing promise as customers grow their AI credit consumption on the platform
Read at sourceYoung families are striving to do better but struggling with costs of living, including expensive childcare.
Read at sourceThe hospice industry argues that the current payment system allows for providers to create individual care plans that meet patients’ specific needs.
Read at sourceMissouri voters rejected a bid to ditch the state’s income tax Tuesday, while big votes loom in Florida and California this fall.
Read at sourceHere’s how the Protect College Sports Act could impact the economics of college sports.
Read at sourceSpaceX thinks it will be able to build wireless capabilities without massive network investments.
Read at sourceThe company faces challenges in Europe, which led to a weaker-than-expected revenue forecast.
Read at sourceRetail investors were doing what they do best on Wednesday: Buying the dip in SpaceX shares aggressively, even as the company’s stock sank after it released its first earnings report.
Read at sourceThe Danish company developed the most lucrative new drug the world had ever seen. Then America’s Eli Lilly outmaneuvered it and took control of the diet-drug market.
Read at sourceJeff Dean, Google’s chief scientist and one of its company’s first employees, is leaving to launch his own company.
Read at sourceWhat a difference a week makes. The S&P 500 has surged more than 6% over the past five days, its biggest gain since last year’s tariff tantrum.
Read at sourceMorgan Stanley expects $64 billion in capital spending from SpaceX this year. The company is dramatically ramping up AI investments.
Read at sourceSpaceX CEO Elon Musk said his company will only use Nvidia’s chips to build its AI.
Read at sourceThe company is keeping costs in check while signaling upbeat growth trends, analysts say.
Read at sourceResearchers at Andromeda Capital Management are worried about the uncertain return on investment for investors who are financing the AI capex bonanza.
Read at sourceThe largest part of the economy grew in July at a robust pace, but scattered shortages of key supplies and dogged inflation raised the cost of business and companies responded by keeping a lid on hiring.
Read at sourceAnalysts noted that the company delivered muted upside with its results, underwhelmed some investors with its margin outlook and was simply up against high expectations.
Read at sourceRecent deals to have the U.S. take a stake in companies mark something new: Government ownership used as a standing industrial-policy tool rather than an emergency backstop.
Read at sourceADP said U.S. businesses created just 44,000 new jobs in July — the smallest increase in six months — in another sign of a sluggish labor market in which hiring is unusually soft.
Read at sourceUber Technologies shares fell early Wednesday, despite the ride-hailing company registering earnings a tad above Wall Street estimates in the second quarter as a jump in passengers and deliveries boosted revenue.
Read at sourceWalt Disney’s stock, which has been struggling all year, rallied on Wednesday as the entertainment giant reported surprisingly strong earnings.
Read at sourceThe balanced stock-bond portfolio is defying the widespread argument that it is no longer an appropriate approach.
Read at sourceIts sales were driven by higher-than-expected demand for Mounjaro and Zepbound, its GLP-1 drugs for Type 2 diabetes and weight loss.
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