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Most advisory firms’ $500,000 or $1 million thresholds are actually just branding tools. Here’s how to tell if you’re actually a good fit for their services.

One flier told MarketWatch that a fellow passenger sprayed them with perfume. She contacted the airline’s CEO.

Bitcoin’s relative strength on Friday may offer a bullish clue for battered software shares — that is, if a past relationship still holds.

Chinese vehicles may not be for sale in the U.S. yet, but they’re already getting positive reviews. “Other automakers should be paying attention,” said a vehicle-test editor at Edmunds.

The economic toll of the Iran conflict is starting to show up at home.

Airlines are now making over $100 billion a year from add-on fees.

Nike’s chief innovation officer is leaving, just as analysts worry whether the execution of the company’s turnaround needs an outside perspective.

Ahead of U.S.-Iranian talks in Pakistan over the weekend, Iran’s de facto control of the Strait of Hormuz remains a thorny issue, with traffic through the waterway still severely limited.

The Iran war has jolted oil prices and stocks over the past six weeks, leaving investors on edge over negotiations slated for this weekend.

The narrative around Marvell is refocusing around the company’s optical business.

“Inflation is almost eating up the entirety of Americans’ wage gains already,” one economist says.

Stubbornly high car prices are pushing more buyers to expand their search radius beyond state lines to find a deal.

Retiring to a college community can be great — if you can afford it.

Investors need proof that Tesla’s driverless technology is improving in order to justify the stock price, Morgan Stanley says.

OpenAI is doubling down on ads as a core pillar of its business, reportedly targeting $100 billion in advertising revenue by 2030.

Intel stands to benefit from a CPU boom and a growing array of partnerships, but an analyst notes it’s “not out of the woods yet.”

Consumer prices surged in March, thanks to the conflict with Iran.

Nvidia shares are up for the eighth session in a row.

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Investors seem increasingly spooked by Mythos, a forthcoming Anthropic model that the company has said is so powerful it could penetrate existing cyber defenses if it’s misused by bad actors.

Views sour on business conditions, personal finance and inflation expectations soar

Saving for your future can be this simple.

The deal follows an expanded arrangement with Meta that was announced on Thursday.

Companies and investors can expect a painful monthslong transformation that makes even the most efficient firms look like slackers.

“I doubt he would pass anything on to them.”

The falling VIX is a third sign that the bottom for stocks is in says Fundstrat’s Tom Lee

A U.S. delegation is set for talks with Iran on Saturday as part of the cease-fire, however Israel has continued to attack Lebanon, endangering the agreement

Sterling sales figures for the first three months will provide much-need reassurance to investors that demand for high-end chips for use in AI compute is still robust

The Strait of Hormuz crisis is not an aberration from the new geopolitical order — it is an expression of it and investors need to adjust to this fast, says a Nuveen strategist.

“Right now, we only see our kids (ages 5 and 2) awake for about 90 minutes a day.”

Hollywood actor and former “Friends” star Tate Donovan is selling the beautiful Texas property he has owned for the last decade, listing it for just a hair under $1.7 million.

“My son is 33 years old, married, with an 18-month-old baby and another baby due in September.”

“Sawtooth” volatility pattern in options prices suggests a strong postearnings move for Netflix.

Here’s what a handful of investing professionals say about the market’s rapid recovery — and the fragile Middle East truce.

All U.S. taxpayers have until tax day — Wednesday, April 15 — to take advantage of the Roth IRA tax break for 2025, even if they think they earn too much.

Iran doesn’t stand to make much money with traffic through the Strait of Hormuz nearly at a standstill, but it can rake in billions in Chinese yuan, or hundreds of millions in U.S. dollars per month, once the transit of tankers through the crucial waterway is restored to normal.

Nvidia’s stock trades meaningfully below its 52-week high, suggesting to one analyst that it could see sustained gains if the AI trade comes back alive.

Shares of Brown-Forman had their best day in years on Thursday, after the U.S.-based spirits seller Sazerac reportedly expressed interest in doing a deal of some kind with the maker of Jack Daniel’s.

As baby boomers retire, they will go from buyers of stocks to sellers.

A strategist notes that the sector is once again testing a technical support level, which increases the likelihood that it will break that support.

For many bitcoin miners, it has cost more in recent months to produce a bitcoin than the coin can be sold for, leading them to stop operating some machines and to sell more bitcoin holdings to raise cash.

Market timers are too bullish about the outcome of the war — and May marks the start of the worst six-month stretch for markets historically.

Social Security needs modest revenue increases and benefit cuts — not extreme borrowing.

The GLP-1 market is growing fast. Here’s how much the most popular medications will cost you.

A small electric SUV is reportedly in the early stages of development at Tesla, after years without a new product launch.

“I would like to stop working in about five years to spend more time with our child and support my wife.”

While institutional investors drove Wednesday’s rally, retail investors took it as an opportunity to cash out.

The Strait of Hormuz remains essentially closed, with more than 800 ships still stranded in the Persian Gulf and only eight vessels, mostly dry-bulk vessels, passing through since the tenuous cease-fire between the U.S., Israel and Iran was announced earlier this week.

A Bernstein analyst sees major upside potential as he assesses the prospects of a sustained boom in memory prices.

The spring home-buying season may have just gotten a boost of confidence.