‘The Big Move’ is a new MarketWatch column looking at real estate and work-life balance. Do you have a question about buying or selling a home? Do you know where your next move should be? Email Jacob Passy at jpassy@marketwatch.com. Dear MarketWatch, I’m a tech worker in Silicon Valley, and …
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The stock market continues to buck the steady flow of troubling headlines and gloomy metrics in a stark disconnect with the economy that’s been hotly debated on Wall Street. Read:Jim Cramer urges investors not to be fooled by new highs in the stock market And while it might feel rather …
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Mortgage rates have dropped to record lows on eight separate occasions in 2020 so far, as the coronavirus pandemic has roiled the global economy. But could they eventually drop to 0%? Well, if past precedent is any indication, there’s indeed a chance. Freddie Mac FMCC, +0.70% deputy chief economist Len …
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You may know by now that I sometimes start projects and then see something shiny and switch gears in the middle of it. Our mud/laundry combo is a good example of this. I quite literally stopped painting in the middle of a wall: I have zero shame in doing this…it …
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Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images A mural dedicated to all Italian medical workers depicting a nurse cradling Italy and reading ‘To All Of You… Thank You!’, on a wall of Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo, Italy. Bergamo is the epicenter of Italy’s hardest-hit region, Lombardy. The Italian government continues to enforce …
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Only hours after deploying one crisis-era funding facility, the Federal Reserve on Tuesday unleashed another, potentially more powerful weapon that gives primary dealers on Wall Street cheap loans to snap up a broad array of bonds and stocks. It has an aim of freeing up space on dealer’s balance sheets …
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After years of providing as little insight into the performance of its different businesses as it could, Alphabet Inc. executives finally divulged financial results from two of its most prominent segments Monday. The reason? They had to. Revenue-recognition rules that were approved in 2014 and went into effect at the …
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