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65 pieces in the last 30 days
The memory chip maker's first day on the Shanghai Stock Exchange turned into a spectacle of AI-era capital, erasing nearly every comparable debut from recent memory.
A quiet shift in the New York rental market means the best apartments may never hit the public listings — and the people finding them have brokers on speed dial.
Brent crude fell below $88 a barrel Monday after Washington halted military strikes on Iran, driving traders to bet the Strait of Hormuz would stay open.
After the death of his only heir, Grady-White Boats owner Eddie Smith turned down a nine-figure buyout and handed the North Carolina boatmaker to charity — taking a page from Patagonia.
Rising yields on the public debt of the United States carry a message as old as public credit itself — that a sovereign's promises are only as good as the actions that follow them.
A water supply failure at Gatwick Airport on Sunday morning knocked out every operational toilet across both terminals while bars and restaurants were unable to serve a single drink.
The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage just hit its highest mark of 2026, and the Treasury market is signaling it has further to climb — a fact that lands hardest on buyers who have been waiting since 2022.
A laid-off professional with a textbook emergency fund is moving back into the childhood bedroom — and the question they're asking is the one a lot of Americans are quietly sitting with.
Eddie Smith, owner of Grady-White Boats, declined a nine-figure acquisition offer after his only heir died, opting to reroute future company profits to charitable causes in a move modeled on Patagonia's ownership structure.
A mid-career professional lost their job, watched their emergency fund drain to nothing, and is now packing boxes for their childhood bedroom — and asking what went wrong.
The administration rolled out fresh duties targeting countries whose exports rely on forced labor, moving immediately as a prior 10 percent baseline tariff expired Thursday.
A Wall Street analyst says Alphabet's quadrupled profits are largely illusory, inflated by unrealized investment gains in SpaceX and Anthropic that have nothing to do with running a search engine.
Andy Burnham has welcomed a planned business rates discount for English pubs as progress, but hospitality leaders say hotels and restaurants are being left behind in the cold.
Collectible popcorn containers — themed, limited-edition, and increasingly elaborate — have quietly become a nine-figure revenue line for at least one major theater chain.
England's new two-pound ceiling on the single bus journey will disburse more than five hundred million pounds from the public purse, and the moral philosopher must enquire whether the nation receives a fair return.
Global oil prices hit a six-week high Wednesday after the U.S. struck Iran for the eleventh consecutive night and President Trump threatened to bomb Tehran's power grid and bridges.
A MarketWatch reader with eight figures in tax-deferred retirement accounts wants to know if liquidating a chunk of it to buy a house outright beats paying mortgage interest.
A family with $1.2 million saved is weighing whether to spend a quarter of it on a top-tier college for their daughter, a competitive softball pitcher with a school she has set her heart on.
A driver who dutifully reported a cracked windshield on a Hertz rental — one they say they never heard strike anything — is now staring down a $2,000 deductible and no clear answer on whether the charge is legal.
European natural gas has reached a four-month zenith as the prospect of war between the United States and Persia reminds the continent that warmth in winter is not a natural right but a commercial arrangement.
A retired pair sitting on eight figures in tax-deferred savings asked a financial columnist whether liquidating a chunk of it to buy a home outright beats paying mortgage interest — and the numbers are not simple.
A reader stares down $35,000 in credit-card balances and asks whether to file for bankruptcy — a question the industry spent forty years making shameful so you would not ask it.
A concept called the “Zone of Genius” has been circulating since the nineties, but the AI jobs panic has sent a new wave of workers straight to it.
Polymarket's Shayne Coplan and Kalshi's Tarek Mansour have turned a niche financial sector into a personal rivalry that sources describe as something well beyond competitive.
A new wave of workplace automation is landing hardest on employees in their late fifties and early sixties — the same group already bracing for projected Social Security shortfalls.
The Aspen Institute has put dollar figures on financial security at every age, and the numbers are not flattering for most U.S. households.
A new analysis finds that corporations across industries have been walking back, reframing, or simply abandoning the net-zero commitments they announced with fanfare just a few years ago.
The 30-year fixed rate climbed to its steepest level in twelve months this week, extending a punishing stretch for would-be homeowners already squeezed by elevated prices and thin inventory.
A brief abatement in the cost of refined petroleum has animated household expenditure across the republic, yet the respite, as respites tend to do, shows signs of concluding itself.
Britain's Competition and Markets Authority is investigating whether private parking operators issued unlawful penalty notices to motorists waiting in fuel-station queues — fines that can reach £100 per ticket.
Wage growth edged ahead of prices in June for the first time in months, but economists and kitchen-table budgeters agree: the numbers and the feeling are living on different planets.
A reported joint takeover approach from rival Stripe and private-equity firm Advent International sent PayPal shares to their single best day on record Wednesday.
Shares of IBM collapsed after the company's preliminary earnings release showed profit and revenue well below Wall Street expectations, rattling investors and triggering the stock's worst session in roughly 40 years.
The new steward of the Federal Reserve has pledged, with admirable sincerity, to reduce the price of all things — while declining, with equal sincerity, to specify how.
A bartender-yoga-teacher-consultant hybrid asks the question every gig worker eventually faces: how do you build a financial floor when your income arrives in unpredictable waves?
A savings account named after the sitting president, with eligibility tiers, mystery deadlines, and fine print so fine it doubles as an eye exam — what could possibly go wrong for the child?
The Derril Water solar project, largest of its communal kind in these islands, has been ordered to cease generation through the very months in which the sun condescends to shine upon us — costing its members an estimated two million pounds.
As Q2 earnings season opens, analysts are tallying whether the AI spending boom has produced anything resembling revenue — or whether the market is running on narrative fumes.
A borrower says her student-loan servicer tracked down a friend's phone number and left two voicemails — raising questions about whether the contact violated federal debt-collection law.
A grandchild's inheritance was quietly reduced after a parent's intervention, raising questions about family loyalty, property dreams, and who really controls the money.
Parliament has granted the Bank of England direct supervisory power over the great commercial technologists whose infrastructures now underpin the financial order — a transfer of regulatory authority as consequential as any since the Bank's founding.
A homeowner whose house “shook violently from the wind” was told the damage was minor — until an independent loss adjuster walked the roof and came back with a $10,000 estimate.
Renewed fighting near the Strait of Hormuz cut vessel transits by roughly half on Wednesday, keeping crude benchmarks elevated and rattling markets that depend on the passage for roughly a fifth of global oil supply.
With the tournament on American soil for the first time in 32 years, the world's two biggest sportswear giants are locked in a sponsorship arms race that could reshape who owns the U.S. athletic market.
Pre-IPO equity from AI's biggest names is showing up on Bay Area term sheets, turning ordinary home sales into venture-capital negotiations.
Having briefly constrained what a bank may collect from a depositor who falls momentarily short, the legislature has seen fit to remove that constraint entirely, and the revenue lines of those institutions climb accordingly.
UK policymakers are preparing to loosen financial buffers for major lenders — at the same moment they're raising alarms about AI-driven speculation and debt-fuelled investment threatening stability.
A pair of dutiful guests itemized their 2024 wedding season spend for MarketWatch, arriving at $7,000 after what they describe as deliberate cost-cutting measures.
A reader's grandmother rewrote her estate plan at a father's urging, leaving a grown child out of a windfall that could have covered a first home.
When the first magistrate of the republic descends upon the exchange to christen investment accounts bearing his own name, the student of political economy finds much to consider — and more to record.
The financiers who turned six AI companies into a tropical acronym are now worried the acronym is losing momentum — a sentence that contains no nouns anyone would have recognized thirty years ago.
A federal price-fixing complaint against major American egg producers ends in settlement, closing a case built around years of retail egg prices that climbed well above any supply-chain explanation.
A former server at the Metropolitan Mayfair on Park Lane is pursuing legal action against the casino, alleging management took a cut of tips that should have gone to floor staff.
As public censure of water-company remuneration grows louder, Severn Trent has seen fit to enlarge its new chief executive's long-term incentive plan to a sum that would have astonished even the most ambitious projector of the previous century.
The electric carmaker blew past analyst forecasts in its latest quarter, shipping nearly half a million vehicles and signaling that 2025's brutal sales slump may finally be in the rearview.
The Boise-based semiconductor maker becomes the first named corporate donor to the administration's newly created personal investment account program, announced Tuesday by President Trump.
A septuagenarian Walmart worker's question about payroll taxes on top of a reduced Social Security check is landing with older Americans who never fully stepped away from the workforce.
The new 530A savings vehicle promises $1,000 per eligible child at birth, yet enrollment figures suggest most families haven't heard of it — or aren't interested.
The 171-year-old British newspaper group changed hands on 30 June 2026, ending three years of ownership chaos that ran from a Abu Dhabi-backed holding company to a parliamentary intervention to a German buyer.
Kevin Warsh assumes the chair of the Federal Reserve with stern pronouncements against the rise in prices, yet those who lend and borrow for a living remain, as yet, unconvinced.
A retired worker who took early benefits nearly fifteen years ago is still on the Walmart floor — and still writing checks to the IRS every quarter.
The Long Beach–based launch company is buying Iridium Communications in a deal that hands it an operational 66-satellite constellation and a direct line at SpaceX's Starlink business.
Multiple survivors of alleged abuse by the late Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed have submitted formal complaints to the Independent Office for Police Conduct over how the Metropolitan Police managed their allegations.
A single QR code, freely distributed, reduces a $618 generic prescription to $15 at an American apothecary — and the market, apparently, considers both prices correct at once.
A gallbladder surgery patient, still recovering at home, received a hospital fundraising letter asking for a gift in honor of a favorite caregiver — raising questions about how hospitals identify and time donor solicitations.
