Dear MarketWatch, My husband and I are in our mid-50s and plan to retire in about 10 years. We live in northern New Jersey and want to move somewhere that has less extreme weather and lower taxes. We will have around $ 6,500-$ 7,500 a month in retirement, inclusive of …
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Facebook Inc.’s first action to limit political advertising in the U.S. with a ban of news ads in the week preceding the Nov. 3 elections announced Thursday comes amid unrelenting criticism that its platform fuels misinformation and is a haven for far-right groups. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, who in particular …
Read More »The Wall Street Journal: Drugmakers to issue joint pledge on safety, standards to bolster confidence in COVID-19 vaccine
Several drugmakers developing COVID-19 vaccines plan to issue a public pledge not to seek government approval until the shots have proven to be safe and effective, an unusual joint move among rivals that comes as they work to address concerns over a rush to mass vaccination. A draft of the …
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A Bank of England official said Friday that he thought it “quite likely that additional monetary stimulus will be appropriate” in order for the British central bank to reach its official 2% annual inflation target. Michael Saunders, a member of the BoE’s rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee, said in a speech …
Read More »: Sweden adopted a controversial approach to tackling the coronavirus. Here’s how it plans to save Christmas
Sweden’s strategy to tackle the pandemic is singular: avoid lockdowns to keep the economy going and encourage herd immunity from the virus. Pontus Lundahl/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images If Anders Tegnell is right, with a bit of holiday magic Swedes may be able to swap strict social distancing for a slightly more …
Read More »Market Extra: Stock-market selloff: Why it’s too early to call tech rout the start of a correction
Big rallies often come to an ugly end — and that was certainly the case Thursday for tech stocks and other high-flying sectors that have benefited from momentum-driven waves of buying. But that doesn’t mean a full-fledged correction for the most popular stocks — or the broader market — is …
Read More »Should Black and Latino people get priority access to a COVID-19 vaccine?
As the U.S. government prepares to deploy a COVID-19 vaccine once it becomes available, public-health experts are mulling which groups of people should get early doses. And some, including philanthropist Melinda Gates, have weighed a controversial idea: moving people of color, whose communities have been disproportionately stricken by the disease, …
Read More »Thinking of moving from the city to the suburbs amid the pandemic? 5 financial factors you should consider first
Sick of being cramped inside a small apartment where you now not only live, but work and teach your kids, too? You’re far from alone these days. But buying a home and moving to the suburbs is far from a fool-proof decision from a financial perspective, even in an era …
Read More »Earnings Results: CrowdStrike stock retreats following coronavirus-fueled earnings beat
MARKETWATCH PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/ISTOCKPHOTO|, CROWDSTRIKE CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. shares retreated from 2020’s meteoric rise in the extended session Wednesday after the cloud-based cybersecurity company topped Wall Street estimates, with more businesses seeking to protect their systems as employees work from home. On a conference call, CrowdStrike CRWD, -1.12% co-founder and Chief …
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